Input: The world’s oldest person, Susannah Mushatt Jones, a woman from New York City, has passed away at the age of 116 years and 311 days, according to NBC 4 New York. Robert Young, a senior consultant for the Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group, a group that verifies and tracks the most elderly people in the world, said that Jones passed away at 8:26 p.m. Thursday at her senior home in Brooklyn where she had lived for more than three decades. He further added she had been ill for the past 10 days. As the world’s oldest person, Susannah had lived in three different centuries, through two world wars and had seen 20 U.S. presidencies.

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Input: Over 60 civilians have been killed and at least 200 injured during three days of US-led coalition airstrikes on residential areas in Mosul, the Russian military reported. “There were numerous attacks of the US-led coalition targeting residential areas, schools, and other civilian objects both in Mosul and in other parts of the Iraqi Nineveh Governorate,” Gen. Sergey Rudskoy, head of Operations in the Russian General Staff, told journalists on Tuesday. “We are closely monitoring the situation around Mosul.

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Input: The crash has called into question Egypt's drive to eradicate Islamist militancy and hurt its tourism industry, a cornerstone of the economy. Islamic State's Egypt affiliate is waging an insurgency in parts of the Sinai, although mostly far from the tourist resorts along its Red Sea coast. Russia and Western countries have long said that they believe the flight was brought down by a bomb smuggled on board. Egypt however has so far publicly said it has not found any evidence of foul play. Any formal charges or official Egyptian confirmation that a bomb brought down the Airbus A321 could potentially expose Egypt to compensation payments to the families of the victims.

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Input: It was a self-consciously noble act, refusing to lay off beloved colleagues, but also one that carried a hint of grandstanding. Luckily for Baquet, his decision to go out with guns blazing did n’t deter Sulzberger — Baquet rejoined his former paper as Washington bureau chief just two months later. When asked to cut his own newsroom at the Globe, which his previous employer, the Times Company, had acquired in 1993, Baron chose a different path. He told colleagues he considered it more honorable to stay and manage the downsizing, preserving the paper’s reporting firepower to whatever extent possible, than to quit on principle. He eliminated the paper’s foreign bureaus, consolidated the print edition into four sections during the week, and trimmed judiciously from most of the other departments, while preserving the Globe’s investigative clout and salvaging some staff positions.

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Input: Nusra has called for redoubled attacks. Moscow and Damascus say they will continue to fight them, and other rebels say they fear this stance may be used to justify attacks against them too. The truce is the culmination of new diplomatic efforts that reflect a battlefield dramatically changed since Russia joined the war in September with air strikes to prop up Assad. Moscow's intervention effectively destroyed the hope his enemies have maintained for five years -- encouraged by Arab and Western states -- to topple him by force. REPORTS OF VIOLENCE

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Input: "The Soyuz rocket took off successfully," the Russian space agency Roskosmos announced in a statement on Friday, adding that the ship would dock with the ISS after a six hour flight on Saturday. Among the crew are the cosmonauts Oleg Skriprochka and Alexey Ovchinin and the American Jeff Williams, who NASA says is expected to "become the American with the most cumulative days in space – 534" after the six month trip is finished. They replace a crew that ended a nearly year-long flight earlier this month.

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Input: For example, Clinton's closest aides approved security clearance for Stanley Roth, a high-ranking executive at Boeing, to join diplomats on a presidential delegation to Mongolia in June 2009. Clinton met personally with the CEO of Boeing at the State Department headquarters in February 2012, according to a schedule made public by the State Department among her private emails. An email sent to Clinton six months later indicated Boeing executives were invited to South Africa with the Export-Import Bank to ink taxpayer-backed deals in Africa. Morgan Stanley An executive at Morgan Stanley enjoyed a warm welcome from Clinton in July 2009 when he reached out to schedule a meeting with her.

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Input: The “virtual agent,” which answers questions and carries out basic tasks, is expected to debut at the company's annual developers’ conference. (New York Times) Columbia University is opening a First Amendment War Room, teaming up with the Knight Foundation in a $ 60 million initiative dedicated to expanding the freedom of speech in in the digital age. (New York Times) Republican Senate candidate Jon Keyser submitted the forged signature of a deceased person to get on the ballot, the Colorado Secretary of State announced yesterday, referring the matter to Denver's district attorney. Keyser blames all the forged signatures on an employee hired by a canvassing firm. (Aurora Sentinel) Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. (R-Tenn.) announced that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer.

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Input: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Xavier and Laura Justo. Photograph: Javier Justo for the Guardian Between September 2010 and May 2011, 1MDB agreed to lend an additional $ 830 m to the joint venture with PetroSaudi – bringing 1MDB’s total investment to $ 1.83bn. Of these new payments, US officials allege, $ 330 m was paid into the Swiss account they say was controlled by Low, on the basis of a request by Obaid – who is identified in the US legal complaint as “PetroSaudi CEO”. Emails and bank records seen by the Guardian suggest that in the nine months from September 2010, Obaid transferred $ 77 m from his Swiss JP Morgan account to his PetroSaudi co-founder, Prince Turki bin Abdullah.

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Input: ADVERTISEMENT John Podesta emailed Clinton a list of 39 names to consider for vetting as her eventual running mate, according to a hacked email posted on WikiLeaks on Tuesday morning. The list includes expected names like Rep. Xavier Becerra Xavier BecerraCalifornia’s newest rep. promises ' hard stance ' against Trump agenda Dem AGs, green groups sue Trump over paused energy efficiency rules California must end its war on the constitutional rights of nonprofits MORE (D-Calif.), Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack Thomas J. VilsackUSDA: Farm-to-school programs help schools serve healthier meals OVERNIGHT MONEY: House poised to pass debt-ceiling bill MORE, as well as Sen. Tim Kaine Tim KaineLive coverage: Senate Dems hold talkathon to protest GOP health plan Trump supporter who lost tight Va. governor primary weighs Senate run Northam defeats Sanders-backed candidate in Va. gov primary MORE (D-Va.), who ended up joining Clinton's ticket in July. The list appeared to divide options into categories. Hispanic people, women, white lawmakers and black lawmakers were each listed in groups, as well as military figures and people from the business world.

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Input: The pair-Yevgeny Yerofeyev and Alexander Alexandrov-were captured in eastern Ukraine last May. Russia denies sending troops to the region and has said the men were volunteers who had left active service. A fragile ceasefire is in place in eastern Ukraine between the army and pro-Russian rebels. The court in Kiev found Yerofeyev and Alexandrov guilty of waging an "aggressive war" against Ukraine, committing a terrorist act and using weapons to provoke an armed conflict, the Interfax news agency reported. The two men had denied the charges.

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Input: NTV also showed what it said were images from a police station in Istanbul, showing military officers allegedly detained by police. Meanwhile, the commander of Turkey's military special forces, Gen. Zekai Aksakalli, said "those who are attempting a coup will not succeed." He told NTV television by telephone:" Our people should know that we will overcome this ... We are in control of the situation." He said some deaths and injuries were reported during the coup attempt, without providing any details. _ _ _

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Input: “The assumption is that we have to beat him which we are trying to do,” Podesta replied. The October 2015 email from Tony Carkk contains a list of the Clinton campaign’s “hits” on Sanders. A conversation between the campaign and the pollsters in February 2016, after Sanders won New Hampshire discusses “new possible negatives” to test in the poll, “since most of our attacks haven't been working.” One of the ideas is to condemn Sanders for “socialism” and say he wants to “gut America’s national security.” In February 2016, after the Sanders campaign broadcast a TV ad against fracking, the Clinton camp drafted a response painting his proposal as“extreme, unfeasible and ignores the contribution natural gas has made to our economy and our efforts to reduce carbon pollution.” Also included is an email chain from February 15, 2016 titled ‘Pushback on immigration,’ which shows a request for Ken Salazar, who was the US secretary of the interior from 2009 to 2013, to write an op-ed to smear Bernie Sanders'"professed support for immigration."

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Input: "If they could come from other planets, I think they would." The presence of all these people has become a downright nuisance to his community, he says. Given the roadblocks, residents of Cannon Ball are often forced to go more than 40 miles out of their way. Native Americans march to the site of a sacred burial ground that was disturbed by bulldozers building the Dakota Access Pipeline on September 4, 2016 near Cannon Ball, North Dakota. Not long ago, he found three teenage girls from Ontario, Canada, camped out inside his storage shed.

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Input: Speaker Paul Ryan Paul RyanRepublicans and the lost promise of local control in education Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax push Overnight Finance: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays MORE on Thursday formally requested Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to deny Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham ClintonGOP fires opening attack on Dem reportedly running for Heller's Senate seat Trump seeks tech's help for government IT overhaul What do Democrats stand for? MORE access to classified information “for the duration of her candidacy for president.” The Wisconsin Republican’s letter to Clapper comes just hours before FBI Director James Comey is scheduled to testify on Capitol Hill about the findings of his yearlong investigation into the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee's handling of classified material while she was serving as secretary of State.

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Input: Yet while the Obama Administration has declined to place direct blame for the infiltrations, Hillary Clinton has been less subtle in attributing the hacks to both the Russian state and Putin's intelligence services." We know that Russian intelligence services, which are part of the Russian government, which is under the firm control of Vladimir Putin, hacked into the DNC. We know that they arranged for a lot of those emails to be released," Clinton said in an interview aired on 31 July. Officials close to the Kremlin continue to deny any role in the hacks.

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Input: Only five states — Delaware, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, and New Jersey — use “direct recording electronic” (DRE) machines exclusively. But lots of other states use electronic machines in some capacity. Verified Voting also has a handy map of who votes using what equipment, which lets you drill down both to specific counties and machine brands, so you can see what's in use at your polling station. More than half of the states conduct post-election auditing, by checking vote totals against paper records, to ensure that the votes are accurate. Both Smith and Norden agree that this sort of auditing is the single best way to guarantee confidence in election results, as does MIT computer scientist Ronald Rivest, who has written extensively [PDF] on voting machine issues.

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Input: Clinton said North Korea’s test of a nuclear warhead “requires a rethinking of the strategy.” This includes an “urgent effort to convince neighbors, particularly China, that this is just not a U.S. issue.” “I think we have an opening here that we have n’t had,” given the recent activity, said Clinton. “We are not going to let anyone who is an ally and treaty partner of ours to be threatened,” she said. “China has not yet made the decision that it needs to make — that North Korea poses a threat to the region.”. Clinton also outlined her approach to dealing with the Islamic State, which she said would include intensifying the current air campaign and boosting cooperation with local Arab and Kurdish forces.

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Input: “The public has a right to know this information.” It was unclear what Mr. Reid was referring to. A spokesman said in a telephone interview Sunday that Mr. Reid did not believe it was his place to disclose national security information, which had been told to him in confidential briefings with senior intelligence and law enforcement officials. Advertisement Continue reading the main story “The exact information is at the discretion of the national security community, but it is Senator Reid’s view that there is much more that can be said publicly than has been so far,” said the spokesman, Adam Jentleson.

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Input: Wolfowitz made a different and stronger point about Iraq’s nuclear capabilities. He cited a March 2002 New Yorker article that included an interview with August Hanning, the BND chief." It is our estimate that Iraq will have an atomic bomb in three years," Hanning said. But about a year later, Hanning’s views seemed to have shifted. In February 2003, according to an article in Der Spiegel at that time, Hanning and one of his analysts briefed the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Bundestag, Germany’s parliament.

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Input: Assange remains holed up at the Ecuadorian embassy in London after claiming asylum, where he’s been for four years. Two women in Sweden have accused him of rape and other sexual offences, which he denies, citing a wider conspiracy. Assange has expressed fears that, if extradited to Sweden, he would be in danger of being sent to the US, where he thinks he could face the death penalty. A former associate of Assange, who did not wish to be named, noted that there will be presidential elections in Ecuador in 2017 and the current leader, Rafael Correa, has stated that he will stand aside after 10 years in office. This could make Assange feel uncertain about his future protection.

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Input: “Ca n’t we just drone this guy?” Clinton openly inquired, offering a simple remedy to silence Assange and smother Wikileaks via a planned military drone strike, according to State Department sources. The statement drew laughter from the room which quickly died off when the Secretary kept talking in a terse manner, sources said. Clinton said Assange, after all, was a relatively soft target, “walking around” freely and thumbing his nose without any fear of reprisals from the United States. Clinton was upset about Assange’s previous 2010 records releases, divulging secret U.S. documents about the war in Afghanistan in July and the war in Iraq just a month earlier in October, sources said. At that time in 2010, Assange was relatively free and not living cloistered in in the embassy of Ecuador in London.

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Input: According to the Rand Corp., the United States provided $ 441 million in security funding to the Philippines from 2002 to 2013. That security relationship has benefited both countries, but whether it will continue under Duterte is at least an open question. 6) Duterte has demanded that the United States apologize for the Bud Dajo “massacre” in 1906, which his spokesman has ludicrously likened to the Holocaust. The Battle of Bud Dajo was part of the larger American war against Moro extremists, as Philippine Muslims were then known. Hundreds of Moros, including women and children, died in this extinct volcano.

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Input: Clinton and the Democratic Party platform recognize climate change as an “urgent threat” and commit to addressing it. Clinton says she will “install half a billion solar panels by the end of her first term, cut tax subsidies to oil and gas companies,” and “deliver on the pledge President Obama made at the Paris climate conference — without relying on climate deniers in Congress to pass new legislation.” She will “reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 30 percent in 2025 relative to 2005 levels ….” The words “up to” are disturbing, but compare them with Trump, who considers climate change a hoax, or with the Republican platform which proposes “to shift responsibility for environmental regulation from the federal bureaucracy to the states” and “to transform the EPA into an independent bipartisan commission.” They reject “both the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement,” and refer to the “illusion of an environmental crisis.” They want to revive the Keystone pipeline. Some ask why it matters whether we are killed immediately or more slowly. What matters is that the longer timeline offered by the Clinton policies gives us time to build a movement able to win the environmental policies we really need.

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Input: "Nineteen states and the District of Columbia have banned the death penalty. Thirty-one states, including Ohio, still have the death penalty. According to the National Coalition To Abolish The Death Penalty, since 1973, 156 people have been executed on death row and later set free. Since 1976, 1,414 people have been executed in the US. That's 11% of Americans who were sentenced to die, but later exonerated and freed.

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Input: And polls suggest the American public has never been as skeptical of democracy or as open to authoritarian alternatives like military rule as it is right now. If a President Trump really blew down the walls of our system, a worryingly wide swath of the public would likely stand behind him. This might not matter this year; Trump is behind in the polls, and it’s unlikely that he’ll get to test his promises from anywhere more powerful than a cable news studio. But there’s now no question that a future populist of his ilk, with more discipline and less personal baggage, could take an even more serious run at the White House. And what Trump is exposing is just how fragile our system might be if that happens.

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Input: Take, for example, this Washington Post column on the Republican Party’s national platform, which Team Trump largely ignored – except for the part about Russia. The Trump campaign worked behind the scenes last week to make sure the new Republican platform wo n’t call for giving weapons to Ukraine to fight Russian and rebel forces, contradicting the view of almost all Republican foreign policy leaders in Washington. […] Republican delegates at last week’s national security committee platform meeting in Cleveland were surprised when the Trump campaign orchestrated a set of events to make sure that the GOP would not pledge to give Ukraine the weapons it has been asking for from the United States. These details have not been independently confirmed by NBC News, though the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza, reporting today from the Republican convention, said he’d spoken to a GOP congressman who believes the “most under-covered story of convention” is Team Trump’s efforts to change the party platform “to be more pro-Putin.” In his much-discussed convention speech last night, New Jersey Gov.

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Input: And it would stop the flow of refugees that is reaching crisis proportions in Europe." The URL of that press release now redirects to her Syria issues page, but the release is still available via the Internet Archive. Stein's issues page includes a more toned-down call for "principled collaboration in bringing a weapons embargo to the region, freezing the bank accounts of countries that continue to fund terrorist groups, promoting a ceasefire, and supporting inclusive peace talks." Updated 1:22 p.m.: Stein spokeswoman Meleiza Figueroa says the statement, which appeared on Stein's website for 11 months, was posted in error and doesn't reflect her views." Dr. Stein has never taken that position and had not seen or approved that statement, which was mistakenly posted on the website in November 2015."

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Input: With the inmate kneeling at his feet, head facing the floor, the soldier grabbed a sharp weapon and started hacking at the base of his skull, severing the spinal cord from the head. Then he ordered another patient to drag the body to the bathroom. The U.N. report says of Hospital 601, “Many patients have been tortured to death in this facility.” The soldier called himself Azrael, after the archangel of death; other survivors recall him murdering patients in similarly horrifying ways. “When I saw this, I swear — that’s when I thought this was my fate,” Hamada told me. “I would die here.” On the second day, he begged a doctor to send him back to the Air Force-intelligence branch.

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Input: Such linguistic gymnastics are unfortunately necessary. Since an enforceable southern border no longer exists, there can be no immigration law to break in the first place. Today’s open-borders agenda has its roots not only in economic factors — the need for low-wage workers who will do the work that native-born Americans or Europeans supposedly will not — but also in several decades of intellectual ferment, in which Western academics have created a trendy field of “borders discourse.” What we might call post-borderism argues that boundaries even between distinct nations are mere artificial constructs, methods of marginalization designed by those in power, mostly to stigmatize and oppress the “other”—usually the poorer and less Western — who arbitrarily ended up on the wrong side of the divide. “Where borders are drawn, power is exercised,” as one European scholar put it. This view assumes that where borders are not drawn, power is not exercised — as if a million Middle Eastern immigrants pouring into Germany do not wield considerable power by their sheer numbers and adroit manipulation of Western notions of victimization and grievance politics.

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Input: He or she continued:" It's not a report in one file, it's a big folder of docs devoted to Hillary Clinton that I found on the DNC server. The DNC collected all info about the attacks on Hillary Clinton and prepared the ways of her defence, memos, etc., including the most sensitive issues like email hacks." Upon inspection, the documents do indeed cover a wide range of topics. They include so-called "cheat sheets" on policies going back years, official positions on everything from Boko Haram to Assad, Snowden, taxes and, of course, the leak of emails from Clinton's home server. Additional documents, viewed by IBTimes UK, includes ' defence ' reports compiled on topics such as the Islamic State (Isis), the economy, Russia and the Clinton Foundation.

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Input: Shen Dingli, the deputy head of Fudan University’s institute of international affairs, described Trump as a “foolish” man who was taking advantage of a “naive America”. But he said he was a foolish man Beijing should welcome in the White House. George W Bush had done huge damage to America’s standing in the world by invading Iraq, Shen argued. A Trump administration would continue that trend. “Everybody knows that American aggression has made China rise more rapidly.

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Input: In order to close the gap, IS has raised taxes on local populations in territories it controls. It has made significant cuts in salaries for its fighters and officials — from approximately $ 300 per month to between $ 50 and $ 150, depending on the rank of the “soldier.” It is investing less in civilian infrastructure such as electricity, water, waste removal and courts, and is forced to funnel nearly all its resources to its military efforts. The jihadist group has also lost many of its top personnel in recent months, with the killing in late August of Abu Mohammad al-Adnani, its spokesman, thought to be the most devastating of these losses. Al-Adnani was not only Islamic State’s spokesman but also its highest-ranking field commander. He was responsible for the planning and execution of terror attacks abroad since the group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, spends much of his time hiding from American attacks.

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Input: But Trump would not need to take any of those steps to have an abrupt effect on the economy. His belief in the power of the threat, which he has used in private business, takes on another meaning if he is the leader of a country with national-debt obligations. In May, Trump, whose businesses have declared bankruptcy four times, said, “I’ve borrowed knowing that you can pay back with discounts,” and “if the economy crashed you could make a deal.” The notion that he might try to make creditors accept less than full payment on U.S. government debt caused an outcry. Under criticism, he clarified, to the Wall Street Journal, that U.S. “bonds are absolutely sacred,” but the incident left an enduring impression on the financial community. Anthony Karydakis, the chief economic strategist at Miller Tabak, an asset manager, told me that a Trump victory is now generally regarded as “a major destabilizing development for financial markets.” He went on, “If he ever even alludes to renegotiating the debt, we will have a downgrade of U.S. debt, and that event will cause a massive exodus of foreign investors from the U.S. Treasury market.” In 2011, when feuding in Congress delayed raising the debt limit, the stock market fell seventeen per cent.

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Input: “New ads will support Gov. Maggie Hassan in the New Hampshire Senate race against Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte and Katie McGinty in the Pennsylvania Senate race against Sen. Patrick J. Toomey,” Abby Phillip writes. “The super PAC also plans a new seven-figure television ad buy in Georgia in addition to new radio ads targeted at African American voters. The state has not been won by the Democratic presidential nominee since 1992.” -- DNC officials issued an apology after one of its campaign buses was recorded illegally dumping sewage into a Georgia storm drain, calling the leak an “honest” but “unacceptable” mistake.

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Input: In 2014, the State Department barred Kalashnikov from doing business with American firms due to its involvement in Russia's annexation of Crimea that year. Along with Kalashnikov, Russian defense firm Almaz-Antey was also banned from conducting business with U.S. companies. At the time of the sanctions, U.S. markets accounted for nearly 70 percent of the company's small-arms exports, including the famed AK-47 and its variants. The assault rifle remains one of the most popular small arms in the world, being the weapon of choice for a large number of foreign militaries as well as various extremist groups across the globe.

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Input: "On the contrary they are detrimental." Turkey's Foreign Ministry said the Russian SU-34 crossed into Turkish airspace on Friday, ignoring several warnings in Russian and in English by Turkish radar units. It said Ankara summoned the Russian ambassador to the ministry Friday evening to "strongly protest" the violation. It was not clear where exactly the new infringement had occurred. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg also called on Russia "to act responsibly and to fully respect NATO airspace" but also urged "calm and de-escalation" of tensions between Moscow and Ankara.

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Input: Bernie Sanders is not an internationalist. He is an American nationalist. He is a consistent advocate of economic nationalism and protectionism, which seek to place the onus for layoffs and unemployment in the US on the workers of other countries. By virtue of his “America First” politics, he seeks to line up American workers behind “their” American exploiters and in opposition to their class brothers and sisters in other countries. He has long agitated, in particular, against China, opposing trade deals from a chauvinist standpoint.

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Input: When someone comes and takes your family member in the night?” “We feel like we survived a plague, and now we are seeing people with boils on their skin.” Interviews with more than a dozen immigrants from the former Soviet Union in the Bay Area suggest that some in the community are recoiling from Bernie Sanders and his leftist ideals. One hundred years after the Bolshevik Revolution swept Communists into power, some Russians in America say they ca n’t believe a serious candidate in the United States is calling himself a socialist. As another Russian émigré, Tatiana Menaker, put it, “We feel like we survived a plague, and now we are seeing people with boils on their skin.” Most of those who’ve immigrated from the former Soviet Union to the United States over the past few decades have been Jewish. Estimates of America’s Russian-speaking Jewish population range from 350,000 to 750,000, and about 40,000 of them settled in the Bay Area. Jews born in the Soviet Union now account for about 5 percent of the American Jewish population.

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Input: Some retired generals and admirals formally backing Clinton have long been in the Democratic firmament, like Wesley Clark, who ran for the nomination in 2004, former West Point superintendent Dan Christman and air force brigadier general John Douglass, who in 2012 ran unsuccessfully for a Virginia congressional seat. Others are familiar for joining public efforts against torture and to close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility, such as retired navy rear admiral Don Hutson and army brigadier general Stephen Xenakis. Also endorsing Clinton are retired marine lieutenant general Walter Gaskin, a senior commander in volatile western Iraq during the surge who wrote an op-ed backing Clinton for the Military Times; army general Johnnie Wilson; air force major general Margaret Woodward, who led an effort at reducing sexual assault in the service; the former head of the Indiana national guard, George Buskirk; marine lieutenant general John Castellaw; army major general Donna Barbisch; air force brigadier generals Larry Gillespie and Dan Woodward; navy vice-admiral Kevin Green; air force lieutenant general Dirk Jameson, a senior officer with responsibility for nuclear weapons; navy rear admirals Dave Oliver, Harold Robinson, Jamie Barnett, Mike Smith and Steven Glass; and army brigadier general Loree Sutton, currently veterans services commissioner for New York City. “Hillary Clinton has been honored by the breadth of support she’s seen from the military and national security communities across the board,” said campaign spokesman Jesse Lehrich, “from young veterans who know she has their back, to career flag officers and public servants who have never entered the political sphere, like General Allen and Michael Morell. “It speaks to the deep relationships she’s built to earn these communities’ support and her preparedness for the job, but also to the astonishing disrespect Trump has shown them and the unique threat he would pose as commander-in-chief.”

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Input: We’re still investigating. But it was a massive DDoS attack, and it took place in the early evening just as prominent cable news programs were discussing Kurt Eichenwald’s explosive investigation into how Donald Trump’s company broke the law by breaking the United States embargo against Cuba. A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack came, the newsmagazine suggests, in response to its cover story, “How Donald Trump’s company violated the United States embargo against Cuba.” Details about the volume of the attack or what made it sophisticated were not immediately available. On Friday, Eichenwald described it as “a major attack on Newsweek.” Later in the afternoon, Eichenwald tweeted, “Lots of IP addresses involved.

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Input: Russian experts say the hot summer led to the frozen infection being “unlocked by the thawing of a diseased carcass from a long time ago”, reported the news website. If correct, there is real concern of centuries-old infections reappearing in permafrost regions like Siberia. The Sakha Republic, east of this region, has some 200 burial grounds of animals that succumbed to anthrax in the past. Will Stewart 9 Tarko Sale Faktoriya, the focus of the outbreak at Yamal Peninsula

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Input: MOSCOW — Excited by Donald Trump’s pledge to promote “easing of tensions and improved relations with Russia,” the Kremlin establishment earlier this month invited Trump adviser Carter Page to speak before graduating students of Russian School of Economics. Page did not disappoint. In his remarks, Page condemned current American policy for its “often-hypocritical focus on democratization, inequality, corruption and regime change.” When a Russian student asked Page whether he really believed that American society was liberal and democratic, Trump’s adviser grinned and delivered a line that might have come from Vladimir Putin himself.

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Input: ! » turns out to have been more the start of a US defeat in an unprovoked invasion, than the start of a US victory against any authentic provocation by ‘the enemy’. Obama’s current plan to turn his defeat into victory there has no more reason to succeed than his predecessor, George W Bush’s plan to do likewise in Iraq did after he had, on 1 May 2003, declared victory there, aboard the warship USS Abraham Lincoln. Then, his famous 2007 « troop surge in Iraq » utterly failed to produce peace and to end the sectarian war the US and its allies had generated by their thoroughly counter-productive and shameful invasion against a nation that (like Libya) had n’t invaded nor threatened to invade the United States – nor its allies. There, as in Syria, too, America’s aggression produced only mass death and misery – and trillions of dollars in US federal debt, which has n’t yet resulted from America’s invasions of Libya and Syria, but might. And, of course, millions of refugees.

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Input: The whirlwind trek comes as Ryan, 46 … has defied even his own prediction that he would not be the same type of voracious fundraiser as his predecessor, [John Boehner]. “Ryan’s political prowess has come in part from being his party’s 2012 vice presidential nominee, introducing him to a vast array of wealthy conservative donors … In addition, he’s benefited from many of those big donors abstaining from financially supporting Trump this year and instead focusing on protecting the House as well as the Senate majority.” Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and John Kerry arrive on Air Force One Friday at Andrews Air Force Base as they return from attending the funeral of former Israeli President Shimon Peres in Jerusalem. (AP Photo / Carolyn Kaster) -- Obama chose five moments from the last eight years of his presidency that he believes will have an outsized historical impact.

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Input: But eventually, the Bush administration had to lift that sanction, partly under pressure from allies. On Wednesday, American allies engaged in a now-familiar set of rituals. Ms. Park convened an urgent meeting of her top national security aides in Seoul. Video Japan’s ambassador to the United Nations, Motohide Yoshikawa, told reporters after the Security Council meeting that his government expected the Council to adopt a robust resolution to check North Korea’s nuclear weapons ambitions.

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Input: After Ambassador Kennedy's unpleasant meeting with President Roosevelt in Washington after his recall from London for daring to circulate what Chamberlain had told him about Talmudists, his ambition in life was to see one of his sons in the White House as president of the United States. The story of how President Lyndon Baines Johnson lied the United States into the desperate predicament in which the United States today finds itself in the Middle East is not a long story. It commences with a telephone call to this author in New York from Congressman Ed Gosset in Washington to come there at once. Congressman Gosset represented Amarillo, Texas, in the House of Representatives. Congressman Gosset was alarmed that the Senate Armed Services Committee the day before confirmed the appointment of Anna M. Rosenberg as Assistant Secretary of Defense without a public hearing.

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Input: A. As I said, it is not only about Syria, it’s about the rest of the world. First of all, Europe should lift the embargo on the Syrian people; they do n’t have an embargo on the Syrian government, it is against the Syrian people. Second, Turkey should stop sending terrorists to Syria. Third, as a government, we have to fight the terrorists, definitely, and we have to keep the living moving forward by any means in order to allow the Syrians to stay in their country.

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Input: When Katrina hit New Orleans it was a category 4 to 5 storm. Next, the canal walls that broke down were not being maintained. “But with the help of complex computer models and stark visual evidence, scientists and engineers at Louisiana State University's Hurricane Center have concluded that Katrina's surges did not come close to overtopping those barriers. That would make faulty design, inadequate construction or some combination of the two the likely cause of the breaching of the floodwalls along the 17th Street and London Avenue canals -- and the flooding of most of New Orleans.” The Washington PostFinally, the human toll was a result of people who did not evacuate when they were supposed to and poor planning by individuals who were responsible for evacuating people under their care. Al then talks about how the insurance industry pays out more money to flood and storm victims. This may be true but is because more people are building expensive beach houses right where the storms hit. Al continues by showing that there were large flood events in 2005. He also shows that there were more droughts in 2005 in areas not too far from the flooding.

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Input: The DNC breach occurred around the same time as breaches of US government systems at the State Department and the White House. Analysts from the NSA and FBI investigators found signatures in those breaches that led them to other intrusions outside the government, including at the DNC. Investigators have tracked the IP addresses and other data from the DNC hack and found they matched attacks around the same time at other federal agencies. Evidence points to at least one group of hackers that is familiar to US counterintelligence, officials said. This same group was involved in hacking into non-classified systems email systems at State, White House and other federal agencies.

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Input: "We kept coming across dead chicks," Ruxton recalls of Howe Island." We opened 10 of their stomachs which were so full of plastic they were swollen ... These birds were dying of starvation with their stomachs bulging full." But the most disturbing find was on the South Pacific island of Tuvalu. Health impact

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Input: At the top of his rally in the critical Wisconsin county of Waukesha on Wednesday night, Donald Trump accused the search giant Google of both impeding and bolstering his candidacy. Speaking in Waukesha, Wis., Sept. 28, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump accused Google of concealing "bad news" about his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton. (The Washington Post)" A new post-debate poll, the Google poll, has us leading Hillary Clinton by two points nationwide," he said," and that's despite the fact that Google search engine was suppressing the bad news about Hillary Clinton.

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Input: Image copyright EPA Image caption Demonstrators held placards saying "our children are in danger" outside the chancellor's office on Saturday The alleged rape of a 13-year -old Russian-speaking girl in Berlin, supposedly by asylum-seekers, has fuelled anti-migrant protests from Germany's large Russian community. But the outrage was sparked by Russia's media propaganda machine. And now the Kremlin is stepping in.

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Input: Yet Hillary will ruthlessly eliminate abortion restrictions. She indicated that her limit is “up until the third trimester,” but Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser believes this rhetoric signals that Clinton would allow abortion right up until birth. Not only will Hillary defend abortion, but she wants these deaths fully reimbursed by taxpayers. Instead of “safe, legal and rare,” the killing of unborn children will be convenient, widespread and free. The Democratic platform demands the repeal of the Hyde Amendment.

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Input: “You ca n’t be gay.” She was on top of me. It was n’t a command — it was a challenge. You so obviously can not be gay, was her implication, because this is good sex. It was 2006, a full five years before Lady Gaga would set the Born This Way argument atop its unassailable cultural perch, but even then the popular understanding of orientation was that it was something you were born with, something you could n’t change.

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Input: "Probably, it's going to end up helping Romney. I'm probably going to take more Democrat votes -- the whole civil liberties side of this." This helps explain why Johnson’s campaign has overwhelmingly emphasized pot-legalization and drone-crusading, while clamming up tight about the laundry list of Republican dream-policies in Gary Johnson’s platform, such as ending corporate taxes and regulations on banks and pharmaceutical firms, and abolishing the minimum wage as well as child labor laws, treating those core ideas of his as if they’re classified state secrets, lest some wobbly Romney voters hear about them and switch their vote to Gary Johnson. Which brings me to the final figure in this sordid GOP dirty tricks operation using Gary Johnson as the "patsy": Joe Hunter, the thin, salt-and-pepper bearded energy stick who stuck close to Gary Johnson that night in Chicago. It turns out that Joe Hunter is a longtime GOP communications strategist who got his start with a Missouri Republican who represented Rush Limbaugh’s home district, later moving to the Bush-Quayle team where folks like Roger Stone, Jim Lacy and Floyd Brown were busy cooking up smears, while his former boss, the Missouri Republican Bill Emerson, checked himself into the Betty Ford Clinic.

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Input: Protesters were later joined on the West Lawn by a group of House lawmakers, including John Lewis. (Victoria St. Martin and Karoun Demirjian) -- Mayor Muriel E. Bowser released body camera footage from a fatal D.C. police shooting last week, showing a confrontation between officers and a 63-year -old man holding what was later revealed to be a pellet gun. (Peter Hermann) -- A bald eagle that was hit by a car in Maryland has been released back into the wild, after being carefully nursed back to health for months at a nearby rehabilitation center.

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Input: Brussels (AFP) -NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday demanded that Russia withdraw its forces and military hardware from Ukraine, and halt its support for pro-Moscow separatists battling Kiev." Russia needs to stop supporting the militants and withdraw its forces and military equipment from Ukrainian territory," Stoltenberg said after a meeting of NATO defence ministers with their Ukrainian counterpart in Brussels. He said the US-led alliance would continue to stand by the government in Kiev and would never recognise Russia's "illegal and illegitimate annexation of Crimea" two years ago." In response to Russia's actions, NATO has stepped up its support for Ukraine.

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Input: He fought hard through some of the most difficult days in Operation Iraqi Freedom, and he paid the ultimate sacrifice to defend our freedom and secure that nation. And that nation was secured in 2009. But because Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama failed to provide a status of forces agreement and leave sufficient troops in there, we are back at war. The president just ordered more troops on the ground. We are back at war in Iraq.

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Input: You people reflect the evil character of your god. You should be ashamed, but you have no shame left. You all deserve to be defeated and annihilated. You disgust me in cheering him on. He disgusts me.

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Input: “Why would FBI reopen Hillary investigation unless there is evidence of more than ‘extreme carelessness’ in handling classified information?” California senator Dianne Feinstein, a Clinton ally and the senior Democrat on the intelligence committee, proclaimed herself “shocked” by Comey’s behavior. Feinstein had praised Comey in July for a “thorough, objective review”, after the FBI director declined to recommend an indictment over Clinton’s private email service. Comey had “played right into the political campaign of Donald Trump,” Feinstein said, adding that his departure from the FBI’s “history of extreme caution near Election Day” was “appalling”. Democrats also complained in private that Comey’s letter was vague and raised more questions than it answered.

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Input: Washington has sold weapons and provided training, targeting information, and aerial refueling support to the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen. It has also sold Riyadh millions of dollars’ worth of cluster bombs in recent years. Asked about the hold on the shipments, a senior U.S. official cited reports that the Saudi-led coalition used cluster bombs “in areas in which civilians are alleged to have been present or in the vicinity.” “We take such concerns seriously and are seeking additional information,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The hold applies to CBU-105 cluster bombs manufactured by the U.S .- based firm Textron Systems, a subsidiary of Textron.

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Input: A former top Palestinian official cited the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a forged text produced in Russia at the turn of the last century that purports to outline Jewish plans to take over the world, as proof that the world economy is controlled by Jews. “Global Judaism, which controls the world’s financial markets, constitutes a virus and a plague which strikes at the entire world,” said Dr. Fouad Bseiso, the former governor of the Palestinian Monetary Authority, according to a translation of his comments in a TV interview provided Thursday by the Middle East Media Research Institute. “What was written in the 4th protocol of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion [titled ‘The destruction of religion by materialism’] is now being implemented on the world’s economy through the global Jewish hegemony over the world’s financial markets, he said.

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Input: A top destination for European tourists, the country was more European in its outlook than North African. After Hillary: After Clinton’s 2011 “Jasmine Revolution,” a textbook themed revolution crafted by Clinton’s friend George Soros, Tunisia descended into Islamist rule and violence. Today, Tunisia is the top country for recruits to the Islamic State. 23. Turkey

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Input: According to the agreement, the Russian Air Force is considered to be on Syrian territory at the request of the Syrian government, and it shall be allowed to utilize the air base at Hmeimim (Latakia province) and the surrounding infrastructure as necessary. The text of the agreement further states that all arms, ammunition, and equipment necessary to sustain the Russian units shall be imported free of any charge. Russian personnel and their family members are granted diplomatic immunity in the agreement, and all transport means used to ship equipment and ammunition to Syria is to be immune from inspections, searches, or impounding. The agreement also states that the Syrian government will not make any legal claims against the Russian government or the personnel of its armed forces serving in Syrian territory.

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Input: The existence of this server, with her approval, is itself a violation of federal law, since it was kept in an insecure manner. There are no excuses, the prosecutors wo n’t have to prove anything was done intentionally. For Hillary to employ a private internet tech to set up this server was itself a federal felony since it could not have been secure. Particularly since she was given a secure .gov email address and knew she had to use it exclusively for work product. High school freshmen today are instructed to submit all their homework to a very specific website maintained by their high school.

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Input: It is the primary combat platform on Vikramaditya, which was acquired from Russia when it was known as the Admiral Gorshkov. The MiG-29 K aircraft are also expected to serve on the homemade aircraft carrier INS Vikrant, which is still under construction. Arun Prakash, who served as chief of the Indian Naval Staff, evaluated the aircraft in 1999 before the purchase from Russia. The retired admiral said:" There are the only two fighters — MiG-29 K and Sukhoi-33 — in the world capable of operations from a Short Take-Off But Arrested Recovery, a system used for the launch and recovery of aircraft from the deck of an aircraft carrier like INS Vikramaditya. There is no better fighter available to replace the MiG-29K."

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Input: (APPLAUSE) As secretary of state, she worked hard to get strong sanctions against Iran's nuclear program. And in what The Wall Street Journal no less called a half-court shot at the buzzer, she got Russia and China to support them. Her team negotiated the New START Treaty with Russia to reduce nuclear weapons and reestablish inspections. And she got enough Republican support to get two-thirds of the Senate, the vote necessary to ratify the treaty. (APPLAUSE)

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Input: The Wayback Machine’s unique search function frequently is used as a tool for journalists to review now-dead websites or to comb through dated news reports. The archived content has been used to embarrass politicians and expose battlefield lies. This week Buzzfeed News used the archive to report that Democratic president candidate Hillary Clinton removed from her campaign website a statement that survivors of sexual assault “have the right to be believed” as Juanita Broaddrick resurfaced decades-old rape allegations against Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton. The archive was used last month by The Huffington Post to document a website for Republican candidate Donald Trump's wife Melania after it was deleted following questions about its accuracy. In 2014 an archived social media page of Igor Girkin, a pro-Russia rebel leader in Ukraine, showed he boasted his troops shot down a suspected Ukrainian military airplane before it became known that the plane actually was a Malaysian Airlines jet aboard which 298 civilians died.

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Input: Read more The project is part of a reported $ 13 billion aviation cooperation deal signed in 2014 during President Vladimir Putin’s visit to China. The long-haul plane will be developed in Russia and assembled in China. A special engineering center will be created in Russia to undertake technical and electronics production. The plane’s engines will be produced by Rolls Royce and GE.

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Input: The subject that most seemed to provoke Mr. Putin was Aleppo, where Russian and Syrian bombing of hospitals, apartment buildings and a United Nations relief convoy has been widely condemned as a war crime. “We keep hearing Aleppo, Aleppo, Aleppo,” whined Mr. Putin. Yet the attack on the Syrian city, he contended, was not different from the U.S.-backed assault on Mosul, the Iraqi city held by the Islamic State. “If it is better not to go in” to Aleppo, he contended, “then the offensive against Mosul should n’t go ahead either.” Here, for the record, are some differences: While Mosul is controlled by Islamist extremists who enslave non-Sunni women and behead dissenters, the rebel forces in Aleppo include Western-backed secular groups who seek only to overturn the blood-drenched Assad regime.

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Input: Putin's pawn? Mr Assange fears for his future. He sought refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over sex assault allegations that he says are a US plot to jail him for leaking US military and diplomatic files. Image copyright AFP / Getty Image caption Mr Assange has been in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012 But the war of words has escalated dramatically this month.

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Input: We are not just talking about stolen nuclear material, using conventional explosives in a nuclear plant, such as smuggling in a bomb, would have catastrophic consequences." Former British defence secretary Des Browne, a member of the forum and vice-chairman of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), said the threat of nuclear terrorism was a highly significant and complex issue which needed a unified international response." It shouldn't be a surprise that if terrorists get hold of nuclear material they will try to use it, we also know that they are seeking such material, there were reports, for example, of ISIS getting hold of uranium when they captured Mosul," he said." It isn't that hard to build a ' dirty bomb '. They may notwith such a bomb, but the effect on the environment, the infrastructure and the psychological impact on people would be devastating.

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Input: It comes after Russia agreed that Norway could return migrants with a Russian visa by bus rather than bicycle. A coach with 13 people on board drove to the airport in the Russian port city of Murmansk on Tuesday night, according to Norwegian public TV. Tor Espen Haga, a spokesman for the Norwegian police immigration service, told the broadcaster NRK (in Norwegian), that all those transported had either a valid Russian visa or other residence permit. He said deportations would continue, and "what happens next is up to the Russians". Over the weekend, about 70 people were brought from other asylum centres in Norway to the reception centre in Kirkenes, about 8 km (5 miles) from the Russian border, according to reports.

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Input: Since 1976, 1,414 people have been executed in the US. That's 11% of Americans who were sentenced to die, but later exonerated and freed. Ohio and 30 other states should join the current list and abolish the death penalty." Palmieri appeared to take Brazile's email as a request for talking points, saying that "not everyone likes her answer, but I can share it," CCing a staffer asking to send over Clinton's previous answer on death penalty questions. At a town hall event a day later, exonerated death row inmate Ricky Johnson posed a question for Clinton about her stance on the death penalty.

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Input: WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump's accusation that Hillary Clinton "meets in secret with international banks" drew criticism from the Anti-Defamation League, which said such charges "historically have been used against Jews." Trump said Clinton was in the center of a "global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth, and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities.". @TeamTrump should avoid rhetoric&tropes that historically have been used ag.

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Input: Stein went beyond merely praising Assange by inviting him to speak via teleconference to the Green Party’s national convention earlier this month. His views not only mesh with the party’s belief in transparency and civil liberties, they apparently speak to many Bernie Sanders supporters who believed they were part of a movement, not merely a campaign. Assange addressed the audience from the Embassy of Ecuador in London where he's been living for the past four years as he fights extradition to Sweden over sexual assault allegations. “The Green Party bringing in Julian Assange is an attempt to further brand themselves as an alternative to Hillary Clinton in the wake of Bernie Sanders’ loss and the leaked DNC emails,” Jared Yates Sexton, a professor at Georgia Southern University and political contributor to The New Republic and New York Times, told Foxnews.com “What I've found from time with the Greens, both at the convention and the Democratic National Convention, is that the ‘Bernie Or Bust’ people are primarily voters who wouldn't have normally voted Democrat in the first place and were probably either not going to vote or go for the Greens in the first place,” he added.

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Input: Part of the email leak focuses on Podesta's communications relating to nuclear energy and media handling over donations to the Clinton Foundation from mining and nuclear interests. It makes the point that a uranium company in the US, uranium being a strategic asset and can be used to produce nuclear weapons, was sold to Russian government-controlled interests, which was seemingly signed off by then Secretary of State, Clinton. In addition, the chairman of the company, Uranium One, donated to the Clinton Foundation and these donations were undisclosed. ADVERTISEMENT READ NEXT Quantum-encrypted communication satellites could be a reality within five years Quantum-encrypted communication satellites could be a reality within five years

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Input: Not wanting to overdo it, he wrote that he was apolitical, and thought all politics were cynical. It was not good enough to pass. Before he was told he had failed, however, other people in the room were told they had passed the preliminary test and were set to work composing comments on two English-language articles about Ukraine – one by the New York Times and another by CNN. Lawyers in St Petersburg said it was extremely rare for such a big enterprise to be working entirely on the “black economy”, not paying any tax and not officially registering its employees. Leaked documents have linked the opaque company running the troll factory to structures close to the Kremlin, but there has been no hard evidence.

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Input: These exchanges, primarily between Clinton’s assistant Huma Abedin and Clinton Foundation top honcho Doug Band, have become Exhibit A in efforts to brand Clinton as a corrupt figure and the Foundation as a pay-for-play operation. The evidence, however, speaks to a different reality. In 2009, Band reached out to Abedin and asked if she could help put a Nigerian businessman of Lebanese descent named Gilbert Chagoury – who had donated to the Clinton Foundation — in touch with “the substance person re: Lebanon.” Chagoury apparently wanted to pass along information about upcoming elections in Lebanon. Considering that State Department diplomats glean information and intelligence from civil society leaders, activists, and business people on a regular basis there’s nothing particularly untoward about the ask. But because Chagoury is a Clinton donor, there’s a scent of scandal.

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Input: Manafort has denied receiving payments under the table from pro-Russian Ukrainian groups before becoming involved with the Trump campaign." I have never received a single off-the-books cash payment, as falsely ' reported ' by The New York Times, nor have I ever done work for the governments of Ukraine or Russia," Manafort said in a statement released to ABC News." Further, all of the political payments directed to me were for my entire political team: campaign staff (local and international), polling and research, election integrity and television advertising. The suggestion that I accepted cash payments is unfounded, silly and nonsensical," he said. Manafort’s connections to Yanukovych and his party have surfaced intermittently over the past decade, first attracting notice during the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign when Manafort's partner in his firm, Davis Manafort Inc., was found to be advising John McCain at the same time as the firm appeared to be working to improve Yanukovych’s image abroad.

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Input: Ilona Bogen, who immigrated from Lithuania about 15 years ago, is one of the few in Mayfield Heights likely to support Hillary Clinton. MAYFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio — Russian pop songs play in the background as immigrants browse the local deli for items they can rarely find outside their native Moscow: candies, dried salted fish, perogies, and heaps of imported sausage. Some stop to pick up one of several Russian-language newspapers, which this week prominently feature coverage of Paul Manafort, the former campaign manager for Donald Trump whose consulting work for Russia’s allies in Ukraine has stirred controversy.

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Input: "It is designed, as retired KGB General Oleg Kalugin once defined it, ' to drive wedges in the Western community alliances of all sorts, particularly NATO, to sow discord among allies, to weaken the United States in the eyes of the people in Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and thus to prepare ground in case the war really occurs. ' The most common subcategory of active measures is dezinformatsiya, or disinformation: feverish, if believable lies cooked up by Moscow Centre and planted in friendly media outlets to make democratic nations look sinister." It is not surprising, then, that the Kremlin would pay internet trolls to pose as Trump supporters and build him up online. In fact, that would be the easy part. From his interviews with former trolls employed by Russia, Chen gathered that the point of their jobs "was to weave propaganda seamlessly into what appeared to be the nonpolitical musings of an everyday person."

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Input: Here it’s not like that — but in that way, on the surface, Trump is, of course, very similar to Putin. He’s the closest to this kind of Russian politics. FP: In that, by voting for him, you’re more showing who you are than voting for a policy? Feldman: Yes. I was actually at a Trump rally in Cedar Falls, and I had this feeling that I had returned to the Motherland.

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Input: Kadyrov, who rules with an iron grip the North Caucasus region that was the scene of two separatist wars, penned a lengthy diatribe in pro-Kremlin daily Izvestiya against the critics of President Vladimir Putin, calling them a "gang of jackals" who "dream of destroying our state." "We will save Russia if we don't spare the enemy," Kadyrov wrote, calling himself "Putin's foot soldier" and offering to put the opposition in a Chechen asylum where "there won't be a shortage of injections." The latest broadside by former rebel Kadyrov -- accused by human rights groups of overseeing torture, extrajudicial executions and corruption -- came after he last week called liberal independent media "enemies of Russia" that seek to sow "chaos" in the Caucasus and beyond. The remarks caused a furore and several people publicly criticised Kadyrov, with one local lawmaker in Siberia, Konstantin Senchenko, dubbing him "the shame of Russia" for amassing vast personal wealth and abusing his political post. Senchenko later apologised, writing that he "talked to some Chechen people and became convinced in the authority of the leader of Chechnya," in comments that were interpreted by many as a thinly-veiled announcement that he had received threats on his life.

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Input: There’s a saying in Brazil: “Even the past is unpredictable.” It seems particularly apt in the wake of leaked audio recordings that point to ulterior motives for the recent impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff and that have already forced the resignations of two members of the new Cabinet. Congress voted to put Rousseff on trial on charges that she shifted funds to cover holes in the national budget. The recordings — made before she was booted from office — bolster the suspicions of many Brazilians that her impeachment was both a power grab by political opponents and an effort to stop widespread corruption investigations that targeted them. The first Cabinet resignation came last week.

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Input: The move followed the publication of leaked emails by WikiLeaks, including some from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) released just before the party’s convention in July, and more recently a cache of emails from the account of Hillary Clinton campaign adviser John Podesta. On Tuesday, officials released a statement saying that the government of Ecuador “respects the principle of non-intervention in the internal affairs of other states” and had cut off the internet access available to Assange because “in recent weeks, WikiLeaks has published a wealth of documents, impacting on the US election campaign”. The statement also reaffirmed the asylum granted to Assange and reiterated its intention “to safeguard his life and physical integrity until he reaches a safe place”. Assange’s internet access was cut off on Monday morning. It was not immediately clear who was responsible, though a tweet from the site’s official account claimed it had been “intentionally severed” by a “state party”.

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Input: It has only four sources: Sanofi Pasteur, a French drug company, and institutes in Brazil, Senegal and Russia. “That leaves us in a very vulnerable position,” says Peter Piot, the director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. If yellow fever did take hold in Asia, he says, then the numbers at immediate risk would rise from tens of millions to 100 m or more. The world’s emergency stockpile of 11 m doses, which is held on top of normal supply to enable a rapid response to outbreaks, is already being depleted to control the one in Africa. If the disease takes hold in Asia, says William Perea of the WHO, there would be little choice but to limit inoculations to a fifth of a standard dose so as to make supplies of the vaccine stretch further.

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Input: I am a 68-year -old American voter. I am a white American. I am a combat veteran of the U.S. Army; I served for 18½ years, received an honourable medical discharge, and was declared 100 per cent Service Connected Disabled. I have been married to the same wonderful woman for over 33 years, have four children with her. I grew up on a farm in the state of Maryland, which in the ’50s and ’60s, made my parents automatically Democrat.

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Input: Rich backers needed Canavero is seeking funds to offer a head transplant to a 31-year -old Russian patient, Valery Spriridonov, who has a genetic muscle-wasting disease. Canavero says he intends to make a plea to Mark Zuckerberg to finance the surgery. Last week, Trinh Hong Son, director of the Vietnam-Germany Hospital in Hanoi, Vietnam, offered to host the procedure. “If the so-called head transplant works, this is going to open up a whole new science of spinal cord trauma reconstruction,” says Michael Sarr, editor of the journal Surgery and a surgeon at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

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Input: How are they going to beat ISIS?" Getty 2/14 On immigration:" I will build a great wall — and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me — and I’ll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words."

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Input: Nearly 90% of those stopped that year were black or Latino. Crime rates declined in New York City from its peak in the 1990s, but criminologists attribute that to a nationwide plunge in crime over two decades, not specifically to stop-and-frisk. A federal judge ruled in 2013 that the New York City program violated the rights of minorities. Current Mayor Bill de Blasio ended the city's use of the tactic. Trump has put particular emphasis on crime and how it affects black Americans.

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Input: All 298 people on board, most of them Dutch, were killed. The conclusions were based on thousands of wiretaps, photographs, witness statements and forensic tests during more than two years of inquiries into an incident which led to a sharp rise in tensions between Russia and the West. Among the key findings were: the plane was hit by a Russian-made Buk-9M38 missile; the missile was fired from the rebel-held village of Pervomaysk in eastern Ukraine; and the launcher was transported into Ukraine from Russia." This Buk trailer came from the territory of the Russian Federation, and after the launch it was returned again to the territory of the Russian Federation," said Wilbert Paulissen, chief investigator with the Dutch national police. The Ukrainian government said the findings pointed to Russia's "direct involvement".

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Input: Over the past 25 years, Addington has “served in a number of operational and leadership roles supporting global U.S. intelligence efforts and federal law enforcement,” the company said in a release. QUICK BYTES — “For the first time, students will be able to use Pell Grants and federal student loans to help cover costs of nontraditional coding bootcamps and other programs.” POLITICO Pro. — The trial begins this week for an infamous hacker that allegedly had 1.7 million stolen credit card numbers on a laptop. The Associated Press.

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Input: But that was nothing compared to the all-out civil war that erupted over electoral returns in Louisiana that same year — the “Colfax Massacre.” As forces on both sides struggled for control over the governorship, a band of militant “Redeemers,” who sought to end Reconstruction in the state, slaughtered scores of African-Americans — maybe more than 100. In 1879, the “Twelve Days that Shook Maine” was what local residents called the period when the threat of civil war loomed in the state, as control of both the governorship and the state legislature was ensnared in allegations over electoral fraud. Only the intervention of Joshua Chamberlain, the hero at Gettysburg, prevented opposing militias in the state, one Democrat and the other Republican, from waging a battle on the grounds of the state capitol. Twenty years later, Kentucky was not so lucky. As Democrats and Republicans armed themselves to fight over allegations of fraud in the state’s 1899 gubernatorial election, the Democratic candidate for governor was assassinated on the grounds of the state capitol, by a bullet shot from a window in the offices of the secretary of state, a Republican.

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Input: Russian media reported Monday that a woman working as a nanny in Moscow had decapitated a four-year-old boy and then held his head up while shouting at people near the entrance to a subway station before being arrested. Amateur videos posted online showed a woman in black, traditional Muslim dress, waving what appeared to be a child's head around while shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is great) and threatening to blow herself up outside the station in northwest Moscow. The woman's ranting, recorded by several people who posted videos online, was largely nonsensical but included mentions of terrorism.

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Input: This is a rigged, rigged system,” Trump said Wednesday during an afternoon rally in Ocala, Florida. “After getting a subpoena to give over your emails and lots of other things, she deleted the emails. She has to go to jail,” he declared at his second rally in Lakeland, Florida, prompting supporters to chant “lock her up!” “And her law firm, which is a very big and powerful law firm, which is the one that said oh, they’ll determine what they’re giving, those representatives within that law firm that did that have to go to jail.” The real estate mogul lamented Republicans and Democrats in Congress for not doing enough. He recommended that the next Congress pass a bill to address Clinton’s email scandal.

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Input: Israel will be able to evade the S-300 when it receives its first fifth-generation F-35s in December 2016 but the F-35 can not carry the GBU-28 bunker buster. Bunker busters for the F-35 are under development but are many years away from deployment. I believe these factors indicate Iranian leaders are contemplating violating or terminating the JCPOA in the short to medium term by resuming uranium enrichment at Fordow and want to prevent Israel from responding with airstrikes and discourage the United States from doing so. When would Iran do this? Certainly not before Barack Obama leaves office because Tehran is using the Obama administration’s desperation to protect the president’s legacy nuclear deal to exact more concession from the United States.

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Input: Julian Paul Assange, 45, is an Australian computer programmer, publisher and journalist. He is editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, which he founded in 2006. On November 2010, Assange was requested to be extradited to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning concerning an allegation of rape. Assange denied the allegation and has expressed concern that he would be extradited from Sweden to the United States due to his perceived role in publishing secret American documents. After exhausting his legal options in the United Kingdom, Assange did not surrender for extradition.

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Input: Al-Qaeda? Hezbollah? The Iranian and Syrian forces who massacred hundreds of thousands of people?” The ministry said the UN was was “ignoring the reality” in Syria when it rejected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent assertion that the Golan Heights would “forever” remain under Israeli control. “In the face of the war raging in Syria and the security and stability that Israel has built in the Golan in the past 50 years, the suggestion that Israel withdraw from the Golan is unreasonable,” said the ministry.

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Input: AP: Associated Press 13 The Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, run through the damaged buildings after airstrikes in the village of Hass AP: Associated Press 13 The area around the school was reduced to rubble International Development Secretary Priti Patel hit out last night: “Schools should be safe places to learn, not transformed into places of slaughter.” “These airstrikes are a barbaric assault on the world’s humanity. The daily atrocities can not continue.”

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Input: It seems like ages ago, but the United States’ international reputation took a severe hit during the Bush / Cheney years. As the war in Iraq dragged on, there were anecdotal reports about Americans traveling abroad with Canadian flags sewn onto their belongings, hoping to avoid confrontations with critics of U.S. policies and leaders. And yet, in recent years, Republicans have invested enormous energy into an odd talking point: President Obama, they insist, has damaged America’s global standing. It’s not only bizarre because it was George W. Bush who actually hurt our credibility abroad, but also because there is quite a bit of evidence that our standing has improved throughout much of the world under Obama’s leadership.

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Input: Free the Delegates has taken the lead in that effort while the complementary Delegates Unbound group urges the RNC to cut off all financial support to the Trump campaign. The odds of either effort succeeding are low but for the anti-Trump dissenters, desperate times require desperate measures and conscience demands action. Democrats have ignored the opportunity to replace the increasingly damaged Clinton with a qualified and vetted candidate readily at hand, such as Vice President Joseph Biden or Secretary of State John Kerry John KerryTillerson: ' My view did n’t change ' on Paris climate agreement CORRECTED: Three members of Mueller's team have donated to Democrats Kerry: New Iran sanctions may be dangerous MORE. History will judge which party has taken the more responsible course during this unpredictable, unprecedented, and increasingly parlous presidential election. Joseph Bosco served in the office of the Secretary of Defense under President George W. Bush.

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Input: While GOP nominee Donald Trump Donald TrumpLewandowski near ' high six-figure book deal ': report GOP fires opening attack on Dem reportedly running for Heller's Senate seat Overnight Tech: Trump seeks tech's help for ' sweeping ' IT overhaul | FTC looks to block sports fantasy merger | Firm exposes nearly 200 M voters ' data MORE debates with his campaign staff about whether to keep insulting a former Miss Universe, a profound and serious contest has begun between former Democratic primary candidate Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersSanders to GOP on healthcare bill: ' What are you afraid of? ' Dems step up attacks on GOP ObamaCare bill Live coverage: Senate Dems hold talkathon to protest GOP health plan MORE and Libertarian nominee Gary JohnsonGary JohnsonMueller to give first speech since taking on Russia probe Poll: 85 percent of Clinton supporters would vote for her again Open primaries are the answer to America’s election woes — so what are we waiting for? MORE to win the votes of millennials.

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Input: Svenska Dagbladet (SVD), one of Sweden’s leading newspapers, has now revealed that a well-known journalist and ‘left activist’ – who, among other things, exerted considerable influence with Amnesty International Sweden – was a paid agent of Sweden’s Security Police (SÄPO). The government security agent, Martin Fredriksson, was mainly active during the years that former Foreign Minister Carl Bildt was dictating Sweden’s foreign policy, when the “Assange Affair” was widely publicized on the home page of Sweden’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. According to statements Fredriksson posted on Twitter, his “work” at SÄPO covered different periods between 2004 and 2010, the year Sweden opened its ‘investigation’ against the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The Swedish media establishment awarded this SÄPO secret agent its highest investigative journalism prize, ‘Guldspaden’ (Golden Spade), in 2014. The rationale on which the award was given to Fredriksson referred precisely to the work he had implemented as a paid agent of Sweden’s Secret Police.

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Input: The entrance into the Syrian conflict represents an expansion of Denmark’s role in the fight against the terrorist group. Danish planes have conducted strikes against the Islamic State in Iraq since voting to join the U.S.-led coalition in Sept. 2014, but Friday’s announcement marks the nation’s first declaration of activity in Syria. In April, Denmark said it would increase its involvement in the coalition’s effort by sending seven F-16 jets, a transport aircraft and military personnel to assist the Syria campaign. The multi-sided war in Syria raged on as Denmark announced its increased activity, with Aleppo surrounded by pro-government forces and bombarded by Russian airstrikes. On Friday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called for the resumption of peace talks.

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Input: 9:45 p.m. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are clashing over the future of President Barack Obama's signature health care law. Clinton is vowing to fix the Affordable Care Act and Trump is promising to repeal and replace "Obamacare." Clinton says 20 million more people have health coverage because of the law. She says she wants to "save what works," but the next administration will need to get costs down and provide more help to small businesses.

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Input: North Korean leader executes own uncle for talking about Obamacare at family Christmas party White House hires part-time schizophrenic Mandela sign interpreter to help sell Obamacare Kim Jong Un executes own "crazy uncle" to keep him from ruining another family Christmas OFA admits its advice for area activists to give Obamacare Talk at shooting ranges was a bad idea President resolves Obamacare debacle with executive order declaring all Americans equally healthy

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Input: “When you have a more limited vocabulary of words or expressions, it’s easier to lie,” he said. “Everyone lies, but for people with a greater expressive range, it requires more conscious work, and you’re more likely to give yourself away. With a narrower range, the brain does n’t have to multitask as much and worry about what the face is doing, which makes it easier to deceive.” And so Donald Trump can sound just as convincing saying something that plainly is not true, such as his imagined meeting request from the Kochs, as something that is true.

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Input: Sarkozy's relationship with Gaddafi took another odd turn when allegations surfaced that the Libyan leader had helped fund the president's 2007 electoral campaign. In 2012, French investigative news site Mediapart published an official document dating back to 2006 detailing plans for the dictator to bankroll Sarkozy's campaign to the tune of 50 million euros. The document — which was disputed by Sarkozy — surfaced among the archives of the demolished Qaddafi regime, and has been backed up by several former regime insiders. Fabrice Arfi, a French investigative journalist at Mediapart who helped uncover the alleged links between Qaddafi and Sarkozy, is skeptical that the the Blumenthal memo captures France's true motivations for war in Libya." At first glance, this hypothesis [that France's intervention was motivated by Gaddafi's plans for a Pan-African currency] seems far-fetched," he told VICE News by phone.

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Input: The attack is believed to have been inspired by ISIS. June 28, 2016-Three suicide bombers attack the Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul. They killed 44 people with gunfire and the explosions of powerful suicide vests. The incident marks the highest death toll in a terror attack against an airport. The perpetrators were identified by Turkish authorities as from the central Asian states of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, and from the Dagestan region of Russia.

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Input: Saudi Arabia is discussing plans to deploy ground troops with regional allies, including Turkey, for a safe zone in Syria, in a last-ditch effort to keep alive a rebellion at risk of collapse as a Russian-backed offensive by Syrian regime forces encroaches on the northern province of Aleppo. Although western officials have dismissed the plans as lacking credibility, they are a sign of the desperation that many of Syria’s opposition backers feel towards what looks like an increasingly bleak outcome to the war. Two people familiar with Saudi plans told the Financial Times that high-ranking Gulf officials are in Riyadh meeting Turkish officials to discuss options for deploying ground troops to head a coalition of fighters inside Syria.

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Input: Every day, more Americans are standing up and saying "enough is enough" – including a lot of Republicans. I’m honored to have their support. And I promise you this: with your help, I will be a President for Democrats, Republicans, and Independents. For those who vote for me and those who don't. For all Americans

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Input: No doubt within a matter of months, Daesh will be pushed out of Iraq and Syria and forced to return to their own Wahhabi nations such as Saudi Arabia, thanks in large part to the Russian-Iran-China alliance against ISIS. This will in turn cause increasing disruption within Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf Nations such as Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, Egypt, and Libya, and also Europe. The Iraqi military operation will be ruthlessly efficient at cleansing the land of Mosul from the disease of ISIS, and it will in turn retract and try and escape into the Persian Gulf Nations to regroup and re-examine their long term options. Large amounts may even try to travel to Europe — more specifically Germany — as “refugees”, but the growing hostility in Europe for the violence and social unrest developing as a result of forcibly mixing the European and Middle East cultures and peoples may cause a civil war and right wing backlash against all immigration. This may ironically also result in the immediate end to all military bombings and attacks against Assad and Iran and Russia, since they are fast becoming seen as the only stabilizing force in the Middle East.

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Input: Bannon runs Breitbart News, a website that creates its own ultranationalist far-right reality — one that often bears little resemblance to the world as it really is. As I write, the site is claiming that Hillary Clinton has some serious undisclosed health problem (her doctor says she is just fine), that one of Clinton’s aides has “very clear ties” to radical Islam (which is totally untrue) and that Clinton herself has “clear ties” to Russian President Vladimir Putin (when in fact it is Trump who often reveals his man-crush on the Russian leader). The site’s since-deceased founder, Andrew Breitbart, once “described Bannon, with sincere admiration, as the Leni Riefenstahl of the Tea Party movement,” according to a Bloomberg News profile. Riefenstahl was the brilliant filmmaker who became one of Hitler’s most effective propagandists. I think the comparison is wrong; Bannon is not nearly as talented.

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Input: Nov. 7, 2016 Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event at SNHU Arena in Manchester, N.H. Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post Buy Photo Wait 1 second to continue. [Trump is rigging the election: No matter who wins, America loses] Similarly, some Republicans pretended to be shocked when Trump asserted that he would follow two-bit tyrants such as Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and imprison his political rival after the election. But for years, congressional Republicans have focused most of their resources on finding some way to brand Hillary Clinton a criminal. A party that wastes millions of taxpayer dollars on eight separate Benghazi investigations — and shouts itself hoarse attacking an FBI director who served as a senior political appointee in a Republican administration when he concludes that no reasonable prosecutor would bring charges against Clinton over her emails — should n’t feign astonishment when its presidential nominee echoes their efforts to criminalize American politics.

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Input: The superpowers would therefore quickly be put on a path toward a never-ending offensive-defensive arms race, as each tried to balance its counterpart’s actions. Until Bush took office, the Treaty was referred to as a “cornerstone of strategic stability” because it facilitated later agreements, reducing U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear arsenals. The US, assuming that a weakened Russia will never again be in a position to counter US hegemonic power, proceeded to encroach on Russia’s borders through its manipulation of NATO objectives. Today, there is no instrument in international law that prevents the possibility of mutually assured destruction. Putin has been sending out warnings for over 10 years – all of which fell on deaf ears.

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Input: Kruse: That is what I was thinking as you just said that, that he’s always had the opinion that even bad publicity is publicity and, therefore, good publicity, and that he has had, over these last six months especially, just an incredible onslaught, such intensity of negative publicity. But perhaps that does n’t matter, and the fact that he will go down in history is what he was after all along. O’Brien: You know, I think he has stumbled into this whole event. I do n’t think he contemplated being the nominee. I do n’t think he thought he could be the nominee.

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Input: Or maybe you did, and she just found out about it through the wonder of WikiLeaks," Trump said." We've learned so much from WikiLeaks. For example, Hillary believes that it is vital to deceive the people by having one public policy and a totally different policy in private." When the audience booed at that line, Trump said," That's OK, I don't know who they're angry at, Hillary, you or I. For example, here she is tonight, in public, pretending not to hate Catholics."

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Input: There is the need for adulation. There are the fantasies of unlimited power — see Trump’s admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin. There is the expectation of special treatment — see his debate boycott. There is the lack of empathy — see his cruel mocking of a disabled reporter. Leadership is often evidenced in relatively small things.

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Input: "We have never had control over technology. This represents the most serious attempt to build a domestic base. A full or a near-full tech transfer lays the ground for further development," said retired Indian air marshal M. Matheswaran, a former adviser at HAL. He said the Indian government would be looking at producing at least 200 fighters, and then probably some more, to make up for the decades of delay in modernizing the air force. (Reporting by Sanjeev Miglani, with additional reporting by Tommy Wilkes in NEW DELHI; Editing by Ian Geoghegan)

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Input: Several of Trump’s advisers also have connections to Moscow and its allies. His campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, served as a political consultant to Ukraine’s former president, Viktor Yanukovych, a Putin ally who fled to Russia after he was driven out by a pro-Western uprising in March 2014. One of Trump’s few named foreign policy advisers is Carter Page, an investment banker who has worked in Moscow and has advised and invested in the state-controlled Russian energy giant Gazprom. Another Trump adviser, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, has made several appearances on the propagandistic Kremlin-funded Russian television network RT. Last December, Flynn flew to Moscow for RT’s 10th anniversary dinner, where he donned a tuxedo and sat next to Putin at the head table.

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Input: Story Continued Below No one knows this better than Gary Berntsen, the CIA officer in charge of the operation at Tora Bora who, with the Afghan forces he commanded, had managed to trap the chief perpetrator of 9/11, Osama bin Laden, and his fellow terrorists in their mountain redoubt in mid-December of 2001, only two months after 9/11. With a Delta Force officer standing by his side, Berntsen drafted a message to his superiors back in Washington that he told me ended with this line: “Let’s kill this baby in the crib.” Berntsen wanted to send in troops — fewer than 1,000 Army Rangers — who could have closed the noose (his position was backed by Marine Gen. James Mattis, who wanted to send in his own troops), but George W. Bush, on the advice of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney, turned him down, believing that Pakistani forces would trap bin Laden as the Afghans forced him southward into Pakistan. (In fact, the Pakistanis were likely helping bin Laden to escape.) Other opportunities presented themselves in the months that followed, in places like Shahikot.

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Input: There are currently 34 countries in the OECD, but the agency also includes Brazil and Russia in its statistical data. (The two countries have been negotiating for membership but talks have been suspended with Russia because of the Crimea crisis.) The OECD says the average homicide rate among the 36 countries is 4.1 per 100,000 people. According to the 2014 data, at the top of the list is Brazil, with a homicide rate 25.5, or six times the average. Next on the list is Mexico, with a homicide rate of 23.4, followed by Russia at 12.8.

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Input: Her down-pat answers consistently downplayed her involvement in any nefarious actions and aped various Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersSanders to GOP on healthcare bill: ' What are you afraid of? ' Dems step up attacks on GOP ObamaCare bill Live coverage: Senate Dems hold talkathon to protest GOP health plan MORE positions, but without the enthusiasm. Clinton seemed to borrow enough “no more for-profit prisons” and economic populism postures from Sanders that one almost expected him to run out onstage with a folding chair, WWF-style. Instead Sanders been out and about trying to pressure his supporters into voting Clinton. Trump also seemed almost resigned to the possibility Clinton might win.

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Input: Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack after it took place. Mateen himself “claimed allegiance to the Islamic State and praised the Boston Marathon bombers,” before being killed by police on the scene, the New York Times reported at the time. In December 2015, President Obama ignored FBI-procured evidence that the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif., was an Islamic terrorist operation and ordered federal officials to mislead the public about the true nature of the assault. Although the FBI knew immediately that the mass-casualty event was a Muslim terrorist attack, Obama and FBI Director James Comey reportedly clashed over why Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, opened fire Farook's municipal government workmates, leaving 14 dead. They left a trail of social media evidence that went unused before the attack.

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Input: Fought for children and families for 40 years and counting. After law school, Hillary could have gone to work for a prestigious law firm, but took a job at the Children’s Defense Fund. She worked with teenagers incarcerated in adult prisons in South Carolina and families with disabled children in Massachusetts. It sparked a lifelong passion for helping children live up to their potential. Well, not all children:

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Input: I ca n’t even access it.” Early on June 17, 2011, Clinton grew impatient as she waited for “talking points” about a sensitive matter that had to be delivered via a secure line. “They say they’ve had issues sending secure fax. They’re working on it,” Sullivan wrote his boss. Clinton told him to take a shortcut.

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Input: I was always able to tell it like it is, and I don't think that has anything to do with my immigrant background." Still, she says, she has noticed how quickly one can become jaded as a journalist. Since September, when the chancellor began allowing refugees from Hungary to enter Germany, Hayali has repeatedly received messages on Facebook telling her how German women had allegedly been raped or how mass robberies were being committed by refugees." I pursued every lead at first. But none of them were true."

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Input: In recent years, Lacy has been a major backer of anti-immigrant Minutemen groups, Islamophobia, and "birther" conspiracy-theory outfits smearing Obama as a foreign-born Muslim. Lacy co-founded a handful of far-right immigrant-bashing outfits with "Birther" leader Gary Kreep, Orly Taitz’s creepier half in joint lawsuits filed to "expose" Obama’s birth certificate as a fake. Both Kreep and Jim Lacy have provided legal help to Minutemen groups in San Diego, when they were at their violent peak terrorizing homeless illegal migrant workers and vandalizing their shanties. This summer, Jim Lacy opened up his bag of dirty tricks to get Gary Kreep get elected Superior Court judge. How he did it is instructive: On the eve of the San Diego vote, a Lacy outfit bombarded Latinos and Democrats with robocalls claiming that the sitting judge had been releasing drug dealers into their neighborhoods.

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Input: “Here’s a guy, throwing punches, nasty as hell, screaming at everything else, when we’re talking," he said. “The guards are very gentle with him. He’s walking out, like, big high-fives, smiling, laughing. I’d like to punch him in the face, I tell ya.” Reporters could not corroborate claims that the protester had initiated physical contact.

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