Input: She pointed out that the recent Russian-US agreement on Syria can not be implemented unless the problem inside US Administration is solved, noting that Russia is in the right because it is committed to agreements and it works against terrorism, while the US discourse contains a great deal of nonsense and inexactitude, adding that the provisions that were agreed on in the Russian-US agreement were not made public; rather what has been announced was just partial matters and not the five documents. She stressed that the Syrian leadership was a main party in the consultations regarding each point in the agreement even before it was written down, adding that the Russian ally differs from the West in terms of respecting the sovereignty of states and allies, stressing that Russia does not agree to any detail regarding Syria before getting the consent of the Syrian leadership. Shaaban noted that the West does n’t feel embarrassed if it signs an agreement and does n’t abide by it, and it’s attempting to do so with Russia as it did before regarding the nuclear agreement with Iran. On what has been circulated via media outlets regarding a US apology for the aggression on a Syrian Army position in Deir Ezzor, Shaaban clarified that the US apology came through informal channels, adding that Syria does not trust that apology; rather it wants a public apology that ensures that the incident is never repeated. The Presidential Advisor stressed that Syria is a member state at the UN and the Syrian Arab Army is fighting terrorism, and the legitimacy of President Bashar al-Assad stems from the Syrian people, not from what the American administration decides.

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Input: https://t.co/Aitq43XMkv — Robert Tracinski (@Tracinski) September 9, 2016 Putin's evil. He's also got Russia into Syria, Iran and Crimea, threatening Baltics, buzzing Navy planes w/ SU-27s https://t.co/mFA49eVx1k — Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) September 9, 2016 @hughhewitt Plus drive away business leaders, innovators, entire creative class. But leader stays in power forever, and cronies cash in.

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Input: (KAY NIETFELD / Eureopean Pressphoto Agency) Is nationalism what really drives Russian politics? Many politicians and political scientists (including, for example, Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Zbigniew Brzezinski) argue that the 2014 annexation of Crimea showed President Vladimir Putin’s desire to construct the “Soviet Union 2.0” — and direct global affairs once more. Nationalism has been used to explain everything from Russia’s intervention in Syria, Russia’s unusually large number of hate crimes and the regime’s rush to host sporting mega-events such as the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics and the 2018 World Cup. Understanding nationalist sentiment in Russia — and how it might direct the country’s future foreign policy decisions — prompted the Research Council of Norway to fund a three-year research project.

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Input: “Bravo Zulu to the crew of USS Donald Cook for how they handled themselves during this incident,” Admiral John Richardson wrote. What Russia did could be in contravention of a treaty signed between the US and the Soviet Union in 1973, following a series of close calls. The agreement, published on the US Department of State website, outlines that both parties will “not simulate attacks at, launch objects toward or illuminate the bridges of the other party’s ships”, and will “take steps to avoid collisions”. Josh Earnest, White House Press Secretary, released a statement on behalf of the president. “There were reports of Russian planes flying dangerously close to a US naval ship and a Polish aircraft.

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Input: The Royal Navy admitted in September that the boat was actually theirs. READ MORE: ‘Oops, it was us’: Military concedes British sub, not Russian, damaged UK trawler in April Western media blame Russia sometimes bizarrely for various incidents, including the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in 2014 to the vandalizing of a Swedish TV mast last month.

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Input: 41/42 1 June 2017 Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi react while walking near the Constantine (Konstantinovsky) Palace during their meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia REUTERS / Mikhail Metzel / TASS / Host Photo Agency / Pool 42/42 1 June 2017 French riot police signal to a migrant who is on his knees as French authorites block their access to a food distribution point in Calais, France REUTERS / Pascal Rossignol After discussing the alleged shooting of Palestinian children by Israeli soldiers, Baroness Tonge said:" I assure noble Lords that the great danger for Israel is that by treating children in this way, she is creating a generation of terrorists who will have a justified grudge against Israel and the countries who support her – beware. This can not be allowed to go on." The treatment of the Palestinians by Israel is a major cause of the rise of extreme Islamism and Daesh [Isis]."

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Input: In another New Yorker piece, Obama famously referred to ISIS as the "JV" team -- a comment that has plagued him since the group seized territory to create a self-declared caliphate in the Middle East and started staging and inspiring terror attacks in Europe and the US. And Obama is far from the first American president to discover how unwise remarks on national security can hurt. His predecessor, George W. Bush, for instance, found that early in his presidency that imprecise language could trip him up, as he stumbled into controversies on Taiwan policy and the terminology used to refer to terrorism after 9/11. And sometimes, presidential sarcasm can simply lead to commanders in chief being accused of acting in bad taste. In 1984, while the standoff with the Soviets still raged, President Ronald Reagan quipped during an off-air sound check that he had "signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever.

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Input: The vessel is expected to arrive in the Med this Autumn, where it will liaise with land-based Russian forces already deployed in the region. The Admiral Kuznetsov will be packed with warplanes and attack choppers. RELATED STORIES ' CUBS OF THE CALIPHATE ' ISIS release shocking footage of child soldiers executing Taliban captives accused of spying BAGHDAD BOMBINGS At least 125 dead and 150 injured after ISIS car blast at shopping centre cages of death Chilling images reveal the hellhole prisons where ISIS captives were BURNED ALIVE as the jihadis fled Fallujah GOTCHA SAS soldiers shoot and kill three British ISIS extremists during 30 minute gun battle in Libya HOSTAGE DRAMA ISIS release gloating pictures of Bangladesh terror siege victims as its revealed all 20 killed were foreigners FREED TO KILL ISIS mastermind of Istanbul massacre ' dodged extradition to Russia because it breached HUMAN RIGHTS ' It will be carrying 15 Sukhoi Su-33 fighters and 15 MiG-29 warplanes, as well as 30 attack choppers. Airstrikes from coalition forces-including the UK and the US-have already left ISIS on the brink of collapse, and it is hoped Russia’s latest attempt will succeed at destroying what's left of the caliphate.

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Input: Education The senator has been active in Congress on education issues, particularly when it comes to career and technical education. Earlier this year, he testified during a House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing on “ways to make CTE programs more rigorous, relevant, high-quality, and aligned with both academic and labor market demands.” He is co-chair of the Senate Career and Technical Education Caucus. In early May, Kaine wrote a letter to Education Secretary John B. King Jr. urging him to issue a clarification that LGBT students are fully protected from discrimination under Title IX, which prohibits sex-based discrimination in federally-funded education programs and activities.

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Input: Just be my son. Come back as a son.’ He came back as a hero.” Trump insisted to ABC: “I think I’ve made a lot of sacrifices.” He cited his “millions of dollars” in donations for veterans, although the businessman was found to have donated only after the Washington Post found he gave far less than he boasted he had over several months.

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Input: As presidential election day draws near, Clinton will be hailed as the first female president, regardless of her crimes and lies-just as Barack Obama was lauded as the first black president and liberals swallowed his nonsense about "hope". And the drool goes on. Described by the Guardian columnist Owen Jones as "funny, charming, with a coolness that eludes practically every other politician", Obama the other day sent drones to slaughter 150 people in Somalia. He kills people usually on Tuesdays, according to the New York Times, when he is handed a list of candidates for death by drone. So cool.

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Input: Analysis of statements from over 190 world leaders suggests Republican nominee for White House would be isolated as a climate denier By Ed King Should he win November’s US presidential election, Donald Trump will be the only elected world leader to deny the science of climate change.

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Input: She said that CNN accepted Brazile’s official resignation on Oct. 14. The longtime Democratic consultant’s deal was suspended in July when she became interim head of the DNC. Questions still remain about how Brazile obtained the question in advance of the debate. TheDC is told that a CNN employee spotted Brazile talking with a Flint resident at a community event on March 5, the day before the debate. The woman allegedly mentioned to Brazile that she had a rash and that she and her children suffered from lead poisoning.

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Input: Guan also met with a senior Russian general while in Syria. Chinese officials have cited the participation of Islamists from the Uighur population in China’s Xinjiang region in both ISIS and the Syrian Al Qaeda affiliate as one of their reasons for seeking increased involvement in Syria. Perhaps even more concerning is the rapprochement between Russia and Turkey in the wake of last month’s abortive coup against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, which by all indications enjoyed the support of Washington and its European allies. In his first trip abroad in the wake of the July 15 military uprising, Erdoğan visited Saint Petersburg, Russia’s second city, last week for talks with Putin. In the aftermath of the talks, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said that a proposal was “on the table” for Turkey and Russia to carry out joint operations against ISIS.

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Input: Using the term “wet work,” Podesta sent a cryptic email to Democratic strategist and heavyweight consultant Steve Elmendorf. The term wet work is an intelligence slang term with Russian roots. Defined it means to assassinate a public figure, diplomat or someone of political note. Elmendorf replied to Podesta’s mysterious reference: “I am all in Sounds like it will be a bad nite, we all need to buckle up and double down”

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Input: Turkey-US relations “are medium sugar now,” Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told journalists over the weekend, referring to a semi-sweet version of Turkish coffee. Noting that the US is a strategic ally and that “every family experiences problems,” he said Biden “is coming to Turkey to make the coffee sugary.” Top of Turkey’s agenda will be demands for the extradition from Pennsylvania of Fethullah Gülen, a cleric and friend-turned-foe of Erdoğan whose return to Turkey to face charges has become a litmus test for improving US-Turkey ties. During 16 years in exile in the Pocono Mountains, Mr. Gülen has marshaled a network of followers – accused of infiltrating all pillars of the Turkish state – who are widely blamed here for the coup attempt. Tens of thousands of Turks have been purged from the bureaucracy, judiciary, and military, with some 17,740 arrested at last count on suspicion of links to what Turks now call the “Fethullah Terrorist Organization,” or FETÖ.

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Input: CROWD: (applause) TRUMP: Hillary Clinton’s closest friend, Terry McAuliffe, confirmed what I’ve been saying — and this is from the beginning. If sent to the Oval Office, Hillary Clinton will enact the TPP. Her donors will make sure of it. Detroit is still waiting for Hillary Clinton’s apology.

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Input: As was obvious on Monday, the GOP candidate has no grasp of what's required to be a global leader. He still acts like a reality TV star who's using the media and twittersphere to stoke populist anger and sell the Trump brand. He's said he consults himself on foreign policy, and he is resistant to conferring with experts. He openly scoffed at Hillary Clinton for spending several days on debate preparation." Yes, I did."

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Input: Hide Caption 3 of 20 Photos: Orlando nightclub shooting Pastor Kelvin Cobaris embraces Orlando City Commissioner Patty Sheehan, right, and Terry DeCarlo, executive director of the LGBT Center of Central Florida, on June 12. Hide Caption 4 of 20 Photos: Orlando nightclub shooting Jeremy Glatstein donates blood in Orlando on June 12. He drove an hour to the donation center to show his support for the shooting victims. Hide Caption 5 of 20 Photos: Orlando nightclub shooting A bomb disposal unit checks for explosives around the apartment building where Mateen is believed to have lived in Fort Pierce, Florida. Hide Caption 6 of 20 Photos: Orlando nightclub shooting Ray Rivera, a DJ at the nightclub, is consoled by a friend outside of the Orlando Police Department.

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Input: But wherever Brazile got the questions from, the email’s posting on Monday by WikiLeaks was the final straw, at least publicly for Brazile and CNN. CNN announced that Brazile had actually previously resigned and said they were “completely uncomfortable” with what they learned in the emails. “CNN never gave Brazile access to any questions, prep material, attendee list, background information or meetings in advance of a town hall or debate,” CNN spokeswoman Lauren Pratapas said in a statement. “We are completely uncomfortable with what we have learned about her interactions with the Clinton campaign while she was a CNN contributor.” A CNN spokesperson did not respond to follow-up questions as to why Brazile’s Oct. 14 resignation was not announced until Monday, although networks typically do n’t publicly announce when commentators have severed contracts unless specifically asked.

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Input: The Norwegian branch of the PEN Club has invited Snowden to Oslo on November 18 to collect the Ossietzky prize, which celebrates "outstanding efforts for freedom of expression." But the former US intelligence contractor-turned-whistleblower who has lived in Russia since making landmark disclosures on mass surveillance in 2013 faces charges in the US of theft of state secrets and espionage that carry up to 30 years in prison. The Borgarting Court of Appeal said it could not rule on the Snowden petition asking for guarantees as there is no formal extradition request and Snowden is not in Norway. The decision mirrored arguments made by a lower court in June. Norway's PEN Club said it would appeal.

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Input: During his 1992 campaign for the presidency, Bill Clinton was fond of promising America, “You get two for the price of one,” indicating Hillary Clinton would act as his co-president. But the nation got much more than it bargained for, as the top power couple brought a load of baggage with them into the White House from their days in Arkansas. After the Clintons moved into the presidential mansion, the political scandals multiplied – from use of the IRS and FBI to target political opponents to stalking and harassing subjects of Bill Clinton’s sexual advances and even attempts to loot taxpayer-funded items from the White House.

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Input: It's not just good enough to stick with the rhetoric and not be able to answer questions about that rhetoric, people want to know what you're offering, what your plans are, what your record of getting results is, I think that's what should be expected of him as well. Your browser does not support the audio element. Q: One of your surrogates, President Clinton, was here in the city the other day, and confronted by a couple of Black Lives Matter protesters who brought up the crime bill, the welfare reform bills President Clinton signed into law, he became agitated and responded they were trying to protect the crack dealers that were sending 13-year -olds out on the street to sell drugs and die. I wonder if someone asked you about the crime bill and the welfare reform bill, how would you have responded differently? A: Well, I've certainly answered this question many many times in the last year.

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Input: French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius announced Friday that France will try to convene an international peace summit in the next few weeks to renew diplomatic efforts between Israeli and the Palestinians. Fabius threatened that should the diplomatic offensive fail, France will formally recognize a Palestinian state. Israel rejected the initiative, with a senior official in Jerusalem saying the threat to recognize Palestine only encourages Palestinians not to negotiate.

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Input: Morales noted that Bolivia rejected the US proposal and chose nationalization of economy as a development model." For me nationalization is a synonym to economic liberation … That is our model. Now we are not subject to setting conditions and blackmailing. I repeat the situation with investments has become better," he said. The president added that Bolivia was free from "this dominion mentality" and expected to gain more than $ 8 billion in investments this year.

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Input: ' Saddam Hussein … has the wherewithal to develop smallpox '. Garbage. ' We know that Iraq and al-Qaeda have had high-level contacts that go back a decade ... We've learned that Iraq has trained al-Qaeda members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases '. Baloney. ‘The threat is very real and it is a threat not just to America or the international community but to Britain.’ Has the trash been collected yet?

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Input: Daily Emails and Alerts- Get the best of Newsweek delivered to your inbox Let’s start with the reality that has led the GOP to the crisis it now faces: Trump is not a Republican. Sure, he appears on the ballot with an R next to his name, but you are supporting a candidate who has hijacked your party. This is my fourth open letter urging you to withdraw your endorsement of Trump, and at no point have I suggested that my efforts are in support of Hillary Clinton; instead, these missives were written to preserve the two-party system and to save the GOP and its rational supporters from the toxin of Trumpism. I have already written to you about my experiences with Trump, dating back decades, that convinced me he will govern as recklessly as he has campaigned; I have also reviewed for you his repeated lies under oath and discussed the disturbing ruse of his “religious commitment.” Now I will address what, for you, Mr. Speaker, may be the most important point here: Trump will poison the Republican brand for decades because he embodies the racist, xenophobic, angry faction your party has exploited for the past eight years.

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Input: •The Clinton Foundation refuse to let external auditors from the IRS, GAO, and Inspector General's Office inspect their accounting books. •The Clinton Foundation often received millions wired in to them from Panama bank accounts at Morgan and Morgan. See the above link for more details about the Russian uranium link, Chinagate and the $ 10 million of hush moneys paid to cover up this mass murder of 911 all paid through the Clinton Foundation; http://www.scam.com/entry.php?3719-Hillary-Clinton-Protected-911-Saudi-M ... We sincerely thank Mr. Comey for making our election choices so much easier since our original candidate, Bernie Sanders was sabotaged with DNC dirty tricks and primary election fraud, which I assume you will also not bother to investigate nor the frauds and racketeering of Debbie Wasserman Schultz. No matter, we will soon have a new President and either Jill or Donald will restore some honor, integrity, and ethics to America and outlaw your brand of Justus.

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Input: Russia has decided to freeze its shipment of S-300 anti-aircraft missile system to Iran, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida reported on Saturday. Follow Ynetnews on Facebook and Twitter The paper quotes a highly reliable source as saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered to suspend delivery of the advanced aerial defense system because Iran failed to lived up to its promise not deliver advanced weaponry to the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah.

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Input: He intimates that he would use government to attack those who displease him," it wrote." He promises diktats — impose a tariff, build a wall — as if Congress is nothing but an inconvenience. His vow to round up and deport 11 million undocumented immigrants, while perhaps not requiring congressional action, would necessitate a kind of intrusive police power this country has never seen," they added. Though the Post holds out hope that Trump will fail either in the GOP primary or the general election, they warn that his campaign itself marks a dangerous turn in American politics." Politics is never free of rough-and-tumble accusations, wild exaggerations and unrealistic promises.

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Input: Before Hillary: In 2009, more and more nations began recognizing the independence of this nation that broke away from Georgia and successfully repelled a U.S.-supported Georgian invasion in 2008. After Hillary: Clinton pressured Vanuatu and Tuvalu to break off diplomatic relations with Abkhazia in 2011. The State Department pressured the governments of India, Germany, and Spain to refuse to recognize the validity of Abkhazian passports and, in violation of the US-UN Treaty, refused to permit Abkhazian diplomats to visit UN headquarters in New York. The Clinton State Department also threatened San Marino, Belarus, Ecuador, Bolivia, Cuba, Somalia, Uzbekistan, and Peru with recriminations if they recognized Abkhazia. Georgia was connected to Clinton through the representation of Georgia in Washington the Podesta Group, headed by Tony Podesta, the brother of Mrs. Clinton’s close friend and current campaign chairman John Podesta.

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Input: More than 20,000 Syrians are now trapped at Jordan’s border without sanitation or medicine, desperate to enter the country properly as it permits only a trickle to do so. Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour has said there were now grave security concerns about those seeking to come. “We will make it very clear in the London conference that the Syrian crisis is no longer only a refugee concern but also a security burden – an issue of sleeper cells, illicit drugs, trafficking, terror and radicalisation. It is true that supporting the refugees is our duty, but we are doing this on the behalf of the world, especially Europe,” he said. Conditions in Zaatari, built in July 2012, have improved recently after previous reports of extortion, drug dealing, sexual assaults and prostitution.

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Input: Edward Kleinbard of the University of Southern California and Martin J. McMahon Jr. of the University of Florida refined my view. Trump’s gambit is easy to explain in plain English, but for tax wonks the short version is this: Trump combined tax benefits under Section 1231 of the Internal Revenue Code with the exception provisions in Section 108. The story of Trump’s income tax-free life begins in 1990 with Trump’s well-documented mismanagement of his casinos and his admission that he paid far too much for “trophy properties” like the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan and 23 worn-out jetliners for the short-lived Trump Shuttle airline. These mistakes created about $ 1 billion of “net operating losses,” or NOLs, under Section 1231 of the tax code. NOLs are incredibly valuable.

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Input: Donald Trump did not quadruple the price of food. Trump is not stirring a race war. Trump did not leave U.S. [personnel] in Benghazi to be slaughtered and desecrated by filthy Muslims. Trump did not send the U.S. Navy to fight for Syrian al-Qaida. Trump did not arm ISIS and systematically exterminate Christians throughout the Middle East.

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Input: In a video released last week, a masked Isis fighter threatened Vladimir Putin and claimed militants would “come to Russia and kill you in your homes”. The so-called Islamic State previously targeted Russia last year by downing a passenger plane flying from Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg. All 224 people on board Metrojet Flight 9268 died – including 219 Russian passengers and crew – after a bomb was detonated in the hold as it flew over the Sinai Peninsula. It came just a month after Russia started its campaign of air strikes supporting President Bashar al-Assad against Isis and rebel groups in Syria.

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Input: But no longer. By the end of 2015 the establishment was expressing considerable dismay and desperation over its inability to do so, as the Republican base and its choices fell out of control. Republican elected officials and contenders for the next presidential election expressed open contempt for the Paris deliberations, refusing to even attend the proceedings. The three candidates who led in the polls at the time — Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Ben Carson — adopted the stand of the largely evangelical base: humans have no impact on global warming, if it is happening at all. The other candidates reject government action to deal with the matter.

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Input: Course he claimed that he did n’t, and all this stuff. … I had him take a polygraph, which he passed – which forever destroyed my faith in polygraphs.” She laughed at the statement. Listen to the audio of the interview. (Warning: Description of the case may disturb some listeners): The Washington Free Beacon report on the recordings also confirmed she was laughing several other times while discussing the case, including “when discussing the crime lab’s accidental destruction of DNA evidence that tied Taylor to the crime.”

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Input: That paid off for Bahrain, a country high on the list of Human Rights Watch for the “torture and mistreatment of detainees,” in more concrete terms, too. David Sirota reported in 2015 about the curious increases in arms sales that took place with governments that contributed to the Clinton Foundation during Hillary Clinton’s tenure. Between 2010 and 2012, arms sales to Bahrain increased by 187 percent over a similar period from 2006-8 during the Bush administration, including a $ 70,000 purchase of toxicological agents. Bahrain at the time was suppressing an Arab Spring uprising of the kind that the Obama administration was encouraging in other places, even in nominally allied Yemen. Related: Report Prompts Pence to Call for Probe of Clinton ‘Pay-to-Play ' Practices

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Input: A PRESIDENT TRUMP could alter the face of this country and its role in the world, in many cases with Congress and the courts having little power to check him. In a series of editorials over the past several days, we have described the vast reach of executive power in areas where Mr. Trump has made his intentions clear. He could, in fact, unilaterally order mass deportations, resume torturing detainees, undo the preservation of natural treasures and tear up long-standing trade agreements. But we should be clear: The scope of the damage a President Trump could do can not be fully predicted or imagined. His candidacy forces us to confront the extent to which democracy depends on leaders adhering to a set of norms and traditions — civic virtues, to be old-fashioned about it.

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Input: We don't win on anything." More recently, during an Oct. 10 rally in Ambridge, Pa., Trump offered a variation on that theme -- and the U.S. chess community was n’t happy about his remarks. Trump was in the midst of criticizing international trade agreements, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership. He said he supports the idea of bilateral agreements, saying that such deals would make it possible for the United States to threaten to withdraw, then renegotiate on more favorable terms before the agreement expired. Trump went on to say that with multilateral pacts like the TPP," you can't terminate -- there's too many people, you go crazy.

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Input: The White House declined to comment. Friday's planned meeting is the latest in a long series of internal debates about what, if anything, to do to end a 5-1/2 year civil war that has killed at least 300,000 people and displaced half the country's population. The ultimate aim of any new action could be to bolster the battered moderate rebels so they can weather what is now widely seen as the inevitable fall of rebel-held eastern Aleppo to the forces of Russian- and Iranian-backed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. It also might temper a sense of betrayal among moderate rebels who feel Obama encouraged their uprising by calling for Assad to go but then abandoned them, failing even to enforce his own "red line" against Syria's use of chemical weapons. This, in turn, might deter them from migrating to Islamist groups such as the Nusra Front, which the United States regards as Syria's al Qaeda branch.

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Input: Click on the yellow, highlighted text for our annotations. To annotate yourself, sign up for an account at Genius. MATTHEWS: Do you think there were any signs of illness last night by the former secretary of state? Signs of illness? GIULIANI: No, but I thought there were the day before when she coughed for about, I don't know, 15 minutes and then coughed on the airplane and then spit something up.

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Input: 8) Circumstantial evidence and conventional wisdom indicates Russian responsibility. Here's why that is significant: 9) This leak is likely a warning that someone can prove US responsibility for any attacks that originated from this malware server. 10) That could have significant foreign policy consequences. Particularly if any of those operations targeted US allies.

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Input: "I built a business after my father gave me a small loan of a million dollars." This is a fable. Trump benefited from millions of dollars in loans from his father, as well as his father's connections in New York real state and local government. His father also saved him from almost certain financial ruin in 1990." Trump University got an A rating from the Better Business Bureau."

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Input: During a Republican debate in November, Trump said that "I got to know him very well because we were both on" 60 Minutes," we were stablemates, and we did very well that night." 15. In an interview with a local station in Miami on Tuesday, Trump changed his story, as Hawkins notes." I have nothing to do with Russia, nothing to do, I never met Putin, I have nothing to do with Russia whatsoever," he said. Asked if he had any outstanding loans from Russian banks or investors, Trump replied," Absolutely not.

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Input: Saddam Hussein’s. How the battle against the Islamic State is redrawing the map of the Middle East A Syrian rebel’s slaying in Turkey points to the long, lethal reach of ISIS Today's coverage from Post correspondents around the world

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Input: . Let’s assume this is a program about some particularly well-placed individual somewhere who is feeding us information. If I were a bad guy, and I got hold of this kind of information, the last thing I would do would be to roll the guy up.” He adds: “If it were one of my people, I might start feeding him, the source, slightly skewed information so as to mislead the U.S. But that is only the beginning. No matter what, the last thing I want to do is let the U.S. know that I know of this source.

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Input: "It is the same member of this Council that has recently caused a new wave of massive displacement due to its continued aerial bombardments especially in north and northwest Syria." Those responsible for such abhorrent violations of international law are not in a position to lecture anyone," Çevik said." The Syrian regime continues to resort to all means to prolong its grip on power, keeps employing all instruments of force and violence available to itself, be it chemical weapons, barrel bombs, ballistic missiles, targeted killings, arbitrary detentions, torture, systematic abuse, starvation and forced displacement," Çevik added. He also raised concern about intensified Russian aerial bombardments targeting civilians in Syria, noting that such airstrikes had targeted hospitals and schools in the past 24 hours. The UN says up to 50 civilians, including children, were killed in attacks against five hospitals and two schools in Aleppo and Idlib on Monday.

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Input: The Founding Fathers disdained the entitlement mentality and were very clear that you have a right to pursue happiness, but that’s as far as it goes. Sanders would have you believe that happiness (translation: free goods and services) itself is a “right.” He is sorely mistaken. You simply do not have a right to the fruits of others’ labor without compensating them for it. Otherwise you destroy the incentive for anyone to produce said fruits … and then where will you be? Review: empty shelves of USSR for a clue.

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Input: In that same email Powell also said Trump “is in the process of destroying himself, no need for Dems to attack him. [Speaker of the House] Paul Ryan is calibrating his position again.” Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, a retired four-star general who served under three Republican presidents, slammed GOP nominee Donald Trump as “a national disgrace” and an “international pariah,” according to his personal emails seen by BuzzFeed News. In an Aug. 21 email from Powell to Miller, he blasted Trump for embarking on a “racist” movement that believes President Obama was not born in the US. “Yup, the whole birther movement was racist,” Powell wrote.

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Input: One day he writes off the Baltic States in a fit of pique, prompting Vladimir Putin to strike while the iron is hot. Trump does not believe the United States can default on the debt so he does just that in refusing to accept a reasonable budget (or continuing resolution) crafted by members of both parties. He digs in his heels and decides he need not abide by a Supreme Court ruling invalidating parts of his wacky immigration plan. These are not fantastical scenarios; they are entirely predictable. At the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, vendors are selling everything from "Hillary for Prison" T-shirts to Donald Trump whoopee cushions.

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Input: This means voting machines with voter-verified paper audit trails, and no Internet voting. I know it’s slower and less convenient to stick to the old-fashioned way, but the security risks are simply too great. There are other ways to attack our election system on the Internet besides hacking voting machines or changing vote tallies: deleting voter records, hijacking candidate or party websites, targeting and intimidating campaign workers or donors. There have already been multiple instances of political doxing — publishing personal information and documents about a person or organization — and we could easily see more of it in this election cycle. We need to take these risks much more seriously than before.

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Input: “It’s not a serious presidential campaign. And it is beyond one’s imagination to have a candidate for president praising a Russian autocrat like Vladimir Putin and throwing his lot in with him,” Clinton said. Clinton also addressed head-on the perception that she is chilly or aloof, telling the online interview site Humans of New York on Thursday that her natural reserve is born of the “hard path” she walked as a professional woman. “I had to learn as a young woman to control my emotions,” she wrote. “And that’s a hard path to walk.

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Input: “Given other considerations, 63% say it makes no difference.” Only 7% of Clinton supporters felt it would make any difference, but this rises “much higher among groups already predisposed not to vote for her”, the poll found. “The potential for a pullback in motivation of Clinton supporters, or further resurgence among Trump’s, may cause concern in the Clinton camp – especially because this dynamic already was under way,” Langer added. “Intention to vote has grown in Trump support groups in the past week as the intensity of criticisms about him has ebbed.” The notion that the FBI may not change any minds but will bolster opinion, and thus perhaps turnout, was also supported in a poll of voters in 13 battleground states.

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Input: They were desperate, they needed help. Hillary Clinton's State Department refused them all. She started the war that put them in Libya, denied him the security he asked for, then left him there to die. To cover her tracks, Hillary lied about the video being the cause of death, the famous video. [In marathon testimony to a congressional committee last year, Clinton said she had "lost sleep" and had been "racking my brain over what more could have or should've been done."

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Input: Because democratic idealism and principles are what Roger Stone is all about. Let’s see if this makes any sense in the context of Roger Stone’s record. Starting with the 1972 Nixon re-election campaign, when a hippie-bashing college student named Roger Stone joined Nixon’s dirty tricks team, and impressed them with stunts like planting a fake check from the Socialist Party in a rival’s campaign fund kitty, then leaking that story to the press ... Or planting a spy in Hubert Humphrey’s campaign and seeing to it that his spy becomes Hubert Humphrey’s favorite driver on the campaign trail ... Roger Stone had a hand in the "Willie Horton" ad; he masterminded the Florida "yuppie riot" on James Baker’s behalf, halting the recount long enough to let William Rehnquist decide the elections; and although he wo n’t admit it on record yet, Roger Stone is most likely responsible for destroying Dan Rather’s career by planting the fake National Guard documents on his producer. That’s a small sampler, but it’s enough to make anyone with a functioning brain realize that when Roger Stone’s says he’s suddenly decided he’s had a political awakening and he’s now a hardcore libertarian doing volunteer "pro bono" political consulting for Gary Johnson’s campaign ... you better assume he’s not telling you the whole story.

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Input: Smith is the chairman of the House subcommittee on human rights, and as a co-chairman of the Helsinki Committee, the congressional panel that monitors human rights overseas, has made the resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe a focus. Smith’s office, announcing the passage of the bill, headlined the statement “Combating Persecution of Christians and Anti-Semitism,” although many of its protections would extend in the current climate to moderate Sunni Muslims and non-Sunni Muslim sects in the Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Myanmar. Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., the bill’s lead Democratic sponsor, said in the same statement that the bill would “better address the religious freedom and violent extremism problems being experienced in the 21st century.” The bill integrates the 1998 law’s protections into US national security priorities, mandating that the ambassador at large for religious freedom – currently Rabbi David Saperstein, a veteran Reform movement leader — report directly to the secretary of state. It also adds new requirements for presidential reporting to Congress on religious freedom violations and training for diplomats in identifying violations of religious freedoms.

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Input: Those drew criticism from even fellow Democrats, and the DNC returned some donations. The Clinton Foundation, which continued to accept foreign donations even while the former secretary of State prepared to run for office, has raised a new round of scrutiny. The campaign has been forced to address a slew of stories including a Wall Street Journal report that the Clintons used the Foundation to help their friends; an International Business Times report that the State Department under Clinton approved increased arms sales to governments that had donated to the Foundation; revelations about the millions of dollars Bill Clinton has collected from Foundation donors; and the release of emails detailing the two-day appointment to a sensitive State position of Rajiv Fernando, a Foundation donor who stepped down after ABC News started asking about his qualifications. And The New York Times reported that then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton played a role in approving the sale of a uranium company to Russia while the head of the company secretly donated more than $ 2 million to the Clinton Foundation. The State Department said she was not personally involved.

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Input: Holder has shown some leniency toward Snowden before, but his use of the phrase “public service” turned heads. In January 2014, Holder told an audience at the University of Virginia that the government could accept a plea deal with Snowden if he were to return to the US and plead guilty to criminal charges. He reiterated the possibility of a plea deal last year, after stepping down from his post as the country’s top law enforcement officer in April 2015 and returning to private practice with the Washington law firm Covington & Burling. “I certainly think there could be a basis for a resolution that everybody could ultimately be satisfied with,” Holder told Yahoo News in July 2015. He added that the disclosures “spurred a necessary debate”.

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Input: "If this is legit, it could well be an example of ' hacking back '. As in a previous target of the Equation Group did some forensics and discovered a resource to go after. This" auction "seems an awful good way to publicly embarrass a political rival in a way that can't be positively attributed. (What country does that sounds like?)" But he adds:" Or: it could be a total scam."

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Input: There are all sorts of treaties that are ready to move forward. In fact the Soviets and the Chinese have been prime movers in expansion of treaties to prohibit weapons in space and to establish the rule of law in cyberspace." We can actually begin to rein in the Saudis with a weapons embargo and by impounding their bank accounts. So, what would President Jill Stein do about ISIS? She answered that question with no hesitation:" Number 1: we don't stop ISIS by doing more of what created ISIS.

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Input: At least Mrs. Clinton never engaged in crude, private trash talk that was recorded on tape. And all of her disparaging, condescending, hate-soaked, fiction-laced denunciations of her political rivals are delivered in measured, solemn, well-rehearsed tones. And she deeply respects women and homosexuals, including the 49 people who were slaughtered in the Orlando nightclub. Clinton’s Role in the Rise of ISIS and the Stratospheric Growth of Worldwide Terrorism ISIS, which evolved out of Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), grew into the most powerful, well-funded horde of bloodthirsty barbarians in world history, right under Mrs. Clinton’s nose, and precisely during her watch as secretary of state.

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Input: International humanitarian law bans any attack on patients and medical personnel or indeed any attack on medical facilities, unless they are used for military purposes However, even if they are identified as a military objective, such a target must not be attacked if the scale of collateral civilian casualties is likely to be disproportionate to the military gain Indiscriminate attacks are prohibited The strikes came days after world powers-including Russia-agreed to work towards a selective truce in Syria, due to begin later this week. Earlier, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, in his first comments on Friday's "cessation of hostilities" plan, said it was doubtful all parties would be putting down their weapons within a week.

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Input: Everything is black or dark. There is very little traffic. Occasional trucks, transporting oil tanks, drive through the city on their way to other ISIS areas or the Turkish border. It was one o'clock in the afternoon.

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Input: This is evidence that even as they twisted the rule at the time, they recognized its value and retained it for the most consequential situations. I wrote at the time in The New York Times: The Senate Republicans, by blatantly and transparently obstructing President Obama's judicial nominations, have goaded the Democrats into an historic mistake. To reach understandable ends, they have adopted tragically flawed means. By use of the so-called "nuclear option," Senate Democrats have now established the principle that a simple majority in the Senate can change any rule at any time.

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Input: PHILADELPHIA – The National Security Agency (NSA) has “all” of Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails and the FBI could gain access to them if they so desired, William Binney, a former highly placed NSA official, declared in a radio interview broadcast on Sunday. Speaking as an analyst, Binney raised the possibility that the hack of the Democratic National Committee’s server was done not by Russia but by a disgruntled U.S. intelligence worker concerned about Clinton’s compromise of national security secrets via her personal email use. advertisement

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Input: Image copyright Reuters Image caption A chemical weapons attack near Damascus in 2013 prompted the UN to take action The US has urged "strong and swift action" after a UN investigation found that Syria's government used chemical weapons against its own people. The year-long inquiry found the government used chlorine gas in attacks in Idlib province in 2014 and 2015. Chlorine is an industrial chemical and was not part of the weapons stockpile that Syria agreed to give up in 2013.

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Input: “That goes to show just how reckless and careless her decision was to put that kind of highly classified information on a private server. And I think her judgment is not suited to keep this country safe,” he said. Iran said on Sunday that it had indeed Amiri had been hanged for treason. “Through his connection with the United States, Amiri gave vital information about the country to the enemy,” a spokesman for the Iranian judiciary said. In his statement in early July declaring the FBI would not recommend Clinton be indicted for her improper use of “several” private email servers, Director James Comey did say that investigators believed that because they were unsecured by government agencies, she was likely hacked.

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Input: Arab states ' military support needed to avoid defeat, says Syrian opposition Read more Similar speculative reports about intensified Turkish military action, including intervention on the ground, in Kurdish areas of northern Syria have surfaced in Turkish media. For its part, Russia insisted last week that renewed Turkish accusations of airspace violations were cover for Ankara’s threatening military plans. “The Russian defence ministry has registered a growing number of signs of hidden preparation by the Turkish armed forces for action in Syrian territory,” a ministry spokesman, Igor Konashenkov, said. Turkish forces have frequently intervened in the past in Kurdish areas of northern Iraq and have taken very limited action in Syria.

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Input: To, inevitably, booze. A native Londoner writes: It's surely only a matter of time before a barrel of crude oil will be cheaper to buy than a pint in a London pub. — Derek Murray # 2331 (@DerekJMurray) January 13, 2016 Barrel of oil is genuinely gon na be cheaper than a night out in Nottingham — Ray J Verma (@rayverma _) August 24, 2015

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Input: A French hooligan hurled a bottle at the England fans sitting in a bar as violence continued in the city-the Three Lions play tonight The gang then started hurling chairs at the English supporters-who retaliated by throwing objects back at the French hooligans The French supporters prepare to hurl more objects at the the English fans congregated at the bar The disgraceful scenes came as violence flared up again in Marseille for the second night, which saw seven England fans arrested. And this afternoon fighting broke out for the third successive day as Russian and English fans were seen throwing objects at one another-prior to the match between the two nations this evening.

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Input: They need to reuse the housing that is just lying waste, empty now, to rehab that housing and create jobs.” Elijah Sims, a young black teen who was about a day away from his 17th birthday, was shot and killed in South Austin on August 29. Stein was asked about the shooting and what she would recommend to white residents, who may be afraid to organize in the west side because they fear violence in the community. “We are a divided nation,” Stein answered. “We are a nation that’s locked into fear, and we’re an armed nation because we’re afraid of each other.”

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Input: This was much easier.” Trump criticized news networks for not airing the speech of Pat Smith, the mother of one of the four Americans to die in the terrorist attacks on Benghazi. Smith, who spoke at the Republican national convention, had her speech broadcast live on CNN and MSNBC. It did not appear on Fox because Trump was being interviewed by Bill O’Reilly while she was on stage. Obama delivered a searing indictment of Trump at last week’s Democratic national convention in Philadelphia while also championing Clinton, who would be the first female president in American history.

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Input: In the days after a retreat, “there would be relentless shelling” at key sites, the CIJA’s chief investigator, a Syrian, told me. Water pipes would explode, destroying hundreds of thousands of pages before he and his colleagues could enter. Sometimes armed groups would call them to come and collect the files after a firefight ended. “Chain of custody is important, but it’s not a deal breaker,” Wiley said. “It’s not worth getting — Well, people have been killed and wounded moving this stuff.”

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Input: These three components of a newly constituted America First movement would be supplemented by subsidiary groups targeting specific constituencies. First and foremost, what’s needed is a student affiliate – it’s been a long time since we’ve heard “Hell no, we wo n’t go!” on the nation’s campuses. And what about abolishing draft registration? Hillary Clinton wants to force women to register for the draft – why is n’t this horrific proposal roiling the student bodies of universities and high schools across the country? African-Americans suffer from our foreign policy of global intervention much more than most others: they are, too often, the cannon fodder that feeds the war machine, and if they return they come home to an economy drained by the diversion of vital resources toward war-making and away from productive job-creating and wealth-creating investment.

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Input: One of Lewinsky nuggets was the story of a woman who claimed she met Clinton when she was a student at a university in California, some time after 1970 when he returned to the states from his Rhodes scholar studies. On their second date they ended up in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park where Clinton led her to a wooded area, ' knocked her to the ground and attempted to have sex with her ', author Daniel Halper reports in his recent book, Clinton, Inc. The victim was 5 ft, 11 in, and fought off Clinton by scratching and kicking until she was able to get away. The story goes that Clinton tried to reach her by phone decades later in California and asked if she would ' support ' him in his presidential race. A hard-core Democrat, the answer was yes but she believed the real purpose of the call was to learn whether or not she was going to publicly expose him.

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Input: In another governor’s race, in Tabasco, Sepúlveda set up fake Facebook accounts of gay men claiming to back a conservative Catholic candidate representing the PAN, a stunt designed to alienate his base. “I always suspected something was off,” the candidate, Gerardo Priego, said recently when told how Sepúlveda’s team manipulated social media in the campaign. In May, Peña Nieto visited Mexico City’s Ibero-American University and was bombarded by angry chants and boos from students. The rattled candidate retreated with his bodyguards into an adjacent building, hiding, according to some social media posts, in a bathroom. The images were a disaster.

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Input: Guests at the four-star Bella Vista Hotel in Harghada on the Red Sea were soaking up the rays on sun loungers and wading into the swimming pool. Jihadis armed with a pellet gun, knives and a suicide belt wounded three tourists at an Egyptian hotel popular with Brits yesterday. Two assailants are believed to have arrived by sea to launch the assault at

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Input: The Polish government plans to demolish about 500 Soviet monuments throughout the country, head of the Institute of National Remembrance Lukasz Kaminsky said in an interview with online portal Onet.pl, the RBC news website reported Thursday. Kaminsky — whose institute is responsible for investigating crimes against the Polish nation — said that plans for the demolition of the monuments, would be sent to local authorities in the coming weeks. These monuments should have been demolished in the early 1990s, he said, and called the preservation of the monuments “a fatal mistake.”

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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 (R-Wis.) said Friday he personally spoke with Donald Trump Donald TrumpOvernight Tech: Trump seeks tech's help for ' sweeping ' IT overhaul | FTC looks to block sports fantasy merger | Firm exposes nearly 200 M voters ' data Trump seeks tech's help for government IT overhaul Republicans and the lost promise of local control in education MORE to reprimand him over the controversial comments he made about a U.S. district court judge. ADVERTISEMENT "I have ... and I have explained to him exactly what I thought about that comment," Ryan said on "Good Morning America" Friday.

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Input: But it just bought a bunch of American crude. A ship carrying half a million barrels of oil that was pumped in the U.S. docked at a terminal owned by Venezuela last week, according to oil data research firm ClipperData. The shipment was sent to a facility located on the Dutch island of Curacao in the Caribbean. The fact that Venezuela is importing American oil is raising eyebrows because Venezuela has 298 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, according to the Energy Information Administration. That's more than Saudi Arabia, Russia or Iran and eight times the reserves of the United States.

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Input: I have reservations about Trump, but I have to take this chance.” In Montgomery County, at a Ukrainian soccer club that hosted a fundraiser with local Republican candidates, there was the same preponderance of good feeling. Brian Fitzpatrick, the brother of Bucks County’s retiring congressman Mike Fitzpatrick, joined a Beatles cover band singing “With a Little Help From My Friends.” “They always talk about Hillary having experience, but not all experience is good experience,” said Gary Tiller, 65. “I think Trump can do something to cross party lines.

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Input: Police arrested a lovestruck “idiot” who wore a fake suicide belt and forced an EgyptAir passenger jet to land in Cyprus Tuesday morning, government officials confirmed, ending a bizarre and frightening hijacking that stretched on for hours. The president of Cyprus, Nicos Anastasiades insisted it was not terrorism, with another government official saying the man "seems (to be) in love." Police said he demanded a meeting with his ex-wife, with whom he has four children.

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Input: “If I say that the collection of Jewish fairytales entitled the Bible is complete bullshit, that is that. At least for me,” Krasnov wrote, adding later “there is no God!” One of the young people involved in the dispute with Krasnov then lodged a complaint against him accusing him of “offending the sentiments of Orthodox believers”. Krasnov, whose case began last month, spent one month in a psychiatric ward last year undergoing psychiatric examinations before he was finally deemed to be sane. Krasnov’s lawyer insisted to AFP that his client was “simply an atheist” and that he had taken aim at both “Halloween and Yiddish holidays” in the same exchange.

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Input: But his pronouncement that he would therefore support Clinton, a woman reviled by much of his party, dealt yet another blow to Trump as his poll numbers dip in the wake of the conventions and as his campaign struggles under mounting criticism over his response to the Khans, whose son Humayun was killed in 2004, at age 27, by a car bomber in Iraq. Trump said Khizr Khan had “no right” to assail him and suggested that Ghazala Khan was barred by her Muslim faith from speaking alongside her husband. The quarrel continued into this week, as Trump tweeted that Khan had “viciously attacked” him and had shifted focus from the real concern, “RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISM.” The GOP nominee faced strong criticism from a bipartisan group of decorated combat veterans, members of Congress and family members of slain soldiers. A particularly lengthy and impassioned rebuke came from McCain, the Senate Armed Services Committee chairman, who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam. “While our party has bestowed upon him the nomination, it is not accompanied by unfettered license to defame those who are the best among us,” McCain said.

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Input: "I shot them in the back of the head, it's true." Euromaidan activist Ivan Bubenchik, a resident of Lvov, gave an interview to Bird in Flight publication, in which he told of how he was killing Berkut riot police officers during mass riots in Ukraine. Bubenchik said that by 20 February, after the blaze in the House of Trade Unions on Independence Square, the protesters had moved to the Conservatory, from where they were shooting at the riot police from hunting rifles. He asked the protesters not to do it, because the riot police started throwing Molotov cocktails back. In the morning of February 20, someone brought a Kalashnikov and 75 rounds of ammunition.

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Input: Americans enjoy a constitutional democracy where criticism is protected and respected. That certainly does n’t mean political leaders have to agree with their critics, but it should mean that they understand criticism and dissent are part of our democracy. Donald Trump’s response to his critics suggests he does not understand or accept this cornerstone feature of American society. Rather than address the substantive points critics make (which would be entirely legitimate), Trump instead attempts to delegitimize or personally discredit those who disagree with or question him. Consider:

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Input: -- A Washington Post poll finds that 53 percent of Virginia voters approve of Terry McAuliffe’s performance as governor, but that’s weaker and more partisan than what nearly all of his predecessors enjoyed over the past two decades. Six in 10 Virginians support the governor’s effort to restore voting rights to more than 200,000 felons. But they are evenly split on whether he was motivated by altruism or politics: 45 percent say he did it because he thinks it is the right thing to do, while 42 percent say he did it because it would help Democrats win elections. (Laura Vozzella, Gregory S. Schneider and Emily Guskin) -- “Efforts to choose a successor to D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier, who is retiring next month, are beginning with an early focus on the department’s assistant chiefs, including one just promoted to that position this month,” Peter Hermann and Clarence Williams report.

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Input: Sessions and his allies have called, for example, for ending the visa lottery that allows about 50,000 people a year to immigrate and has been a major way for people to come to the U.S. from Africa and Asia. Advocates for greater restrictions have also called for eliminating legal provisions that allow naturalized citizens to bring their parents and adult siblings to the U.S. In addition to the cuts in legal immigration, Trump pledged to build a wall along the border with Mexico, aggressively step up efforts to detain and deport immigrants convicted of crimes, complete a long-planned effort to accurately track entry and exit visas, greatly expand the size of the Border Patrol and the immigration service and cut off federal money to cities and other local governments that fail to cooperate with federal enforcement efforts. Those moves would come with a hefty price tag. Most of those steps would cost $ 40 billion or more over five years, the Congressional Budget Office has estimated.

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Input: German explosion injures 12 A 27-year -old Syrian man who had been denied asylum died in an explosion at a music festival in the German town of Ansbach. It is believed a device he was carrying exploded, although it was not clear if it was a suicide bombing or whether the man intended to plant the device: 12 people were injured. Germany is on edge after a shooting at a Munich shopping mall on Friday in which nine people died, and an axe attack on a train near Würzburg last Monday in which five were wounded. Ansbach blast: Syrian asylum seeker kills himself and injures 12 in Germany

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Input: OLONGAPO, Philippines In a bar along the Philippines ' Subic Bay owned by an American military veteran, the main topic of conversation is not the upcoming U.S. election despite the Donald Trump coffee mugs, photographs and caps on display. The talk is of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte's tensions with Washington and his courting of China, which is worrying the bar's mostly American clients who have settled in the vicinity of the huge Subic Bay base, a former U.S. navy installation." The biggest fear is that one day he's going to wake up and say ' everybody from the U.S., get out of town ' and we'd have to leave our loved ones behind," said Jack Walker, a retired Marine sergeant who has lived in Olongapo, the town around the base, for five years. For more than a century the Philippines and the United States have had a shared history of colonialism, wars, rebellion, aid and deep economic ties. That could change as Duterte's three-month-old administration re-examines the relationship.

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Input: "They used to tell her that nobody cares about her. Like, nobody's going to negotiate for her and, you know, trying to put ideas in her mind that she is different [from] us," Chavez said. But in March 2014, Mueller was told by ISIS to pen two letters to her family stating the demands for her freedom: the release of convicted al-Qaeda operative Aafia Siddiqui from a U.S. federal prison or 5 million euros. She gave a third letter for her family to the Doctors Without Borders women to smuggle out. Though similarly worded, it included important personal contacts on the back, including her friend and college spiritual adviser, the Rev.

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Input: That being said, instead of denouncing all of them, you actually have done quite the opposite. You have repeatedly embraced Putin as a world leader whom you would “get along very well with.” And after Putin praised you as “bright and talented,” you declared that a great honor. When given the opportunity to comment on Fox News about the ruthless dictator of North Korea, instead of condemning him for growing his nuclear weapon arsenal or starving his own people, you said of Kim, “I mean, it’s amazing that a young guy would go over and take over. So he’s got ta have something going for him, because he kept control, which is amazing for a young person to do.” In turn, Kim has considered all of the choices in our presidential election and has named you the official candidate of the DPRK.

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Input: Facing ruin, he met with his bankers, who had almost no recourse — they had been as reckless as Trump. By lending him billions — with loans for his real estate, his casinos, his airline and other businesses — they could fail if Trump went down. So the banks agreed to lend him tens of millions more in exchange for Trump temporarily ceding control over his multibillion-dollar empire and accepting a budget of $ 450,000 a month for personal expenditures. In August, New Jersey regulators prepared a report totaling Trump’s debt at $ 3.4 billion, writing that “a complete financial collapse of the Trump Organization was not out of the question.” In September, Trump informed his bankers that he would not be paying the $ 1.1 million in interest due and asked that they defer $ 245 million of future loan payments.

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Input: Significantly, Comey made no mention of this malfeasance during his announcement and limited his conclusions and recommendations to the email probe. Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) of the House Oversight Committee asked Comey directly whether such an investigation was ongoing and Comey refused to issue comment “on the existence or nonexistence of any other ongoing investigations,” leaving the door open to the possibility that this aspect is still actively being pursued. Clinton also faces the potential for perjury charges for lying under oath to Congress. Chaffets made this clear during another remarkable exchange with Comey. During her testimony to the House Select Committee on Benghazi, Clinton falsely testified that “there was nothing marked classified on my emails either sent or received.” Comey however, indicated otherwise prompting Chaffets to note that Congress would be submitting a perjury referral to the FBI.

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Input: The detained Frenchman had spoken against mass immigration, the spread of Islam and globalization, Hrytsak said, and talked of plans to carry out 15 attacks on Jewish and Muslim places of worship as well as government buildings during the Euro tournament that runs for a month until July 10. However, in a sign that French officials doubt terrorism as a motive, the case has been handed to Pison's office and the organized crime brigade rather than to the national anti-terrorism unit in the Paris prosecutor's office. Asked if France would demand the man's extradition, Pison said:" We're not at that point yet." FAR-RIGHT TIES? Neighbors in the village of Nant-Le-Petit in eastern France described the suspect as a hard-working, courteous young man who often kept to himself.

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Input: In this tweet, he complains about peeling potatoes In a second tweet, he admitted he was ' lonely ' but was cheered up with a Ferrero Rocher chocolate The militants recently lost the key city of Ramadi, while air strikes, previously carried out almost entirely by the U.S., are now being conducted with renewed aggression by France, Russia and the UK. Hussain made headlines in March last year after posting a series of tweets revealing he was living as a hopeless loner. According to his social media page, Omar Hussain, had difficulty completing the most basic daily jobs including peeling potatoes for his dinner and washing his clothes.

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Input: “Most family charities exist to allow self-made Americans to disperse their good fortune to philanthropic causes,” Strassel wrote. “The Clinton Foundation exists to allow the nation’s most powerful couple to use their not-so-subtle persuasion to exact global tribute for a fund that promotes the Clintons.” The Washington Post reported that Clinton fundraiser Susie Tompkins Buell, a member of George Soros’s shadowy billionaires’ club known as the Democracy Alliance, donated $ 10 million to the Clinton Foundation (for more on the Democracy Alliance, see Foundation Watch, October 2014). In February, the foundation’s chief development officer, Dennis Cheng, resigned to be a fundraiser for Hillary’s 2016 campaign. And in March of this year the Wall Street Journal reported that Donna Shalala, one of the more controversial members of Bill Clinton’s cabinet, will take over as CEO of the foundation later this year when her tenure as president of Miami University ends.

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Input: Rep. Ted Yoho (R., Fla.) said that the United States should send a clear message to Palestine that "if these policies continue, we’re done." "We are funding hatred. We are funding terrorism," Yoho said, labeling it "unconscionable" to provide aid to Palestine in the name of peace while the Palestinian Authority is subsidizing terrorists. Royce said that the United States and its European allies must do more to use leverage against Palestinian Authority to halt the practice of rewarding terrorists." If the PA’s irresponsible behavior continues, the whole premise for funding the PA needs to be reconsidered.

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Input: (Emma Brown) -- The fire department screws up: Fire struck the same Temple Hill duplex twice in a single day, displacing eight people and causing an estimated $ 85,000 in damage. Officials suspect “residual heat and embers” were left after emergency responders treated the first blaze, which sparked the second fire. (Terrence McCoy) -- Leon Harris, the anchor on WJLA (Channel 7), is out.

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Input: "He was adamant that he had not committed a single crime when building his business empire," the cable says, and he "argued that outsiders still failed to understand the period of lawlessness that reigned in Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union." At one point during the meeting, Firtash began to talk about "mistakes he might have made," the cable says, but was waved off by an accompanying adviser. Mogilevich was once on the FBI’s top 10 most wanted list, has an Interpol Red Notice out for his arrest, and the FBI says publicly he is "involved in weapons trafficking, contract murders, extortion, drug trafficking, and prostitution on an international scale." In a posting on the FBI’s website, the man who ran the investigation that eventually led to an indictment against Mogilevich said," What makes him so dangerous is that he operates without borders." In 2014, Firtash was charged by the Justice Department with paying $ 18.5 million in bribes in India to expand his business empire.

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Input: IN PRINT “I just wanted to make sure John Podesta had a heads up that his name will be in a story concerning the White House’s ethics policy, which could run on Monday,” WaPo White House Bureau Chief Juliet Eilperin told then-Obama White House Assistant Press Secretary Frank Benenati in a March 21, 2015, e-mail. The story appeared March 22, 2015, under the headline, “Obama promised to curb the influence of lobbyists. Has he succeeded?” ... AND WITH THAT “LEAKED” CNN QUESTION

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Input: Jill Stein, who is seeking the Green Party nomination for President, said that President Obama should apologize during his trip to Hiroshima for the use of nuclear weapons against Japan by pledging nuclear disarmament. Dr. Stein also urged Obama to listen to the testimony of the survivors of the nuclear attack, who have dedicated their lives to the elimination of nuclear weapons so that no one else should ever experience the hell on earth they survived." The existence of nuclear weapons threatens the survival of humanity. I pledge to eliminate all such weapons as an urgent priority," stated Stein.

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Input: On 5 February 2016, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention announced its decision after a 16-month investigation into his case. Sweden and the UK participated in the process, but their arguments failed to convince the panel that their actions against Julian Assange were justified. The UN ordered Sweden and UK to immediately release him and compensate him for violating his rights. 2. Assange has not been charged and he is not wanted for trial.

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Input: One-apparently a crew member-escaped by climbing out of the aircraft's cockpit window. Throughout the morning, people had been seen leaving the aircraft after appearing to have been released. Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption A man was seen fleeing from a cockpit window shortly before the hijacker surrendered Local media reports said the hijacker had handed over a four-page letter in Arabic after the plane landed at Larnaca on Tuesday morning, and that later a woman thought to be his wife had arrived at the airport. Earlier, Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades had responded to a reporter's question about whether the hijacker was motivated by romance, by laughing and saying:" Always there is a woman involved."

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Input: “Regavim’s work is beginning to bear fruit with a large increase in demolitions of European structures. We will not stop until there is a total European exit from all Israeli territory.” EU Ambassador to Israeli Lars Faaborg-Andersen said on July 27 that since 2009, approximately 170 EU-funded structures of a value of € 300,000 have been demolished or confiscated and approximately 600 structures, worth over € 2.3 million, have been served with demolition, stop-work or eviction orders and are therefore under threat of demolition. During the first six months of 2016, Israel razed 91 houses built with “support of the European Union,” up from 70 in all of 2015, he said. The EU has invested € 21 million in the last two years for development and humanitarian aid for Palestinian in the past two years, he added.

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Input: ' Some are attempting to politicize this horrible tragedy, ' Seth Rich's parents told Daily Mail Online through a spokesperson ' There had been a struggle. His hands were bruised, his knees are bruised, his face is bruised, and yet he had two shots to his back, and yet they never took anything, ' his mother Mary told Washington's NBC affiliate. ' They took his life for literally no reason. ' So far, police have uncovered no clues to help solve his July 10 murder.

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Input: Official figures state that food prices rose by 14 percent during 2015. Experts and many ordinary Russians estimate the real increase was at least 30 percent. The situation worsened after the Kremlin slapped a ban on many Western food imports in 2014 during the height of tensions over Moscow's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula and alleged meddling in Ukraine’s civil war. 3. Taxes

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Input: Clinton spoke from Cleveland, Ohio and Trump spoke from Manchester, New Hampshire. Both expressed their very different stances on guns, Muslim-Americans, and how the country should be led in light of crisis. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump both responded to the Orlando massacre on Monday, June 13, 2016. Clinton spoke from Cleveland, Ohio and Trump spoke from Manchester, New Hampshire. Both expressed their very different stances on guns, Muslim-Americans, and how the country should be led in light of crisis.

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Input: But there are clues. The redbrick, colonnaded villa at 85-14 Midland Pkwy that the Trump family called home through the 1940s and 50s remains standing and well-kept. It’s a grand structure, built by his father Fred Trump, featuring 23 rooms and nine bathrooms, with a path that twists around flowerbeds to the street below. One can imagine the young Donald surveying life at a comfortable distance, watching tradesmen come and go, cocooned in warmth and safety, with the knowledge that whatever anti-social forces might be gathering beyond the gatehouse would be safely intercepted. Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump look like saviours to voters who feel left out of the American Dream | Michael J Sandel Read more

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Input: Biden to lower $ 10,000-a -plate Dinner For The Homeless to $ 5,000 so more homeless can attend Kim becomes world leader, feeds uncle to dogs; Obama eats dogs, becomes world leader, America cries uncle 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

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Input: These funds were designed to look and act like bank accounts: one share was valued at one dollar, you could write checks and use payment cards on your accounts with them, etc. Problem was, these bank imitators were not carefully regulated as banks. Indeed, they acted much as banks had done prior to the 1929 crash and the first Glass-Steagall Act: They made short-term loans to securities firms and other high-flying financial institutions — firms like Bear Sterns and Lehman Brothers — that used short-term borrowed funds to make highly speculative investments in bad mortgage products and other high-risk financial instruments. The results were predictable and catastrophic: In essence, a replay of the Wall Street binge of the 1920s, culminating in a crash much like that of 1929. Now, as noted above, there are other shadow banking activities additional to those of MMMFs — derivatives writing and trading, for example, like that done by AIG before 2008, and speculative (not to mention exploitative) securitizable mortgage lending like that done by Countrywide in the same period.

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Input: Killing the people who are providing aid to your enemies is effective If you want to completely cripple your enemies and are not concerned with pesky things like basic human decency and morality, bombing hospitals and humanitarian aid convoys is a great idea. After all, they’re providing aid to your enemies. (Never mind the fact that they’re neutral and thus may also be providing aid to your own forces and innocent civilians caught up in the mix.) How are you supposed to eliminate your enemies or force them to surrender if all those meddlesome doctors keep fixing them up so they can go back out on the battlefield and fight another day?

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Input: They've exceeded the annual average of police shooting deaths over the past 10 years, 53. And this year's total is higher than the number of firearms-related police deaths in 2015. According to the fund, firearms were responsible for 41 of 123 officer fatalities in 2015, one of the safest years for officers on record. The decade's highest total came in 2011, with 73 officers shot dead. This year's shooting deaths include an officer on her first day on the job and a sheriff's corporal who was about to retire.

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Input: Whether U.S. forces were guilty of war crimes remains a subject of dispute. Gen. Leonard Wood, the U.S. commander, claimed that the Moros fanatically resisted his troops, that even women fought, and that children were used as human shields. Even if U.S. troops massacred the Moros, it is pretty rich for Duterte to demand an apology for an extra-judicial killing carried out more than a century ago while he is carrying out a rampage of extra-judicial killings of his own. Duterte also refuses to acknowledge that, by the standards of the day, American colonial rule was fairly benign. Manual Quezon, who had fought against the Americans before becoming president of the Philippine Commonwealth in 1935, famously complained of the difficulty of rousing a nationalist revolt against U.S. rule: “Damn the Americans!

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Input: DR. JILL STEIN: — then you are enhancing the vote of Donald Trump. BEN JEALOUS: — win in Senate, win a governorship. DR. JILL STEIN: And this is how you do it, is by actually breaking into the political dialogue; otherwise, we are essentially wiped out, we are eliminated from that political dialogue — BEN JEALOUS: No. DR. JILL STEIN: — even while we are leading the charge.

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Input: The independence initiative was championed by a fantastically wealthy Russian mogul called Oleg Deripaska. Deripaska had parochial reasons for promoting independence. He had just purchased Montenegro’s aluminum industry and intended to buy broader swaths of its economy. But he was also doing the bidding of Vladimir Putin, on whose good graces the fate of all Russian business ultimately hangs. The Nation quoted Deripaska boasting that “the Kremlin wanted an area of influence in the Mediterranean.”

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Input: Attackers reaching into the ballot box from thousands of miles away wo n’t happen, simply because the vast majority of election machines are not connected to the internet. Some 31 states offer voting via internet, email, or fax, but nearly all only allow it as an option for military families and Americans living overseas – a very small percentage of the electorate. Only Alaska allows any voter to cast a ballot across the net, according to Verified Voting. But election rigging is a potential threat, says Rubin. That’s where adversaries attack the electronic voting machines themselves, altering the software inside the machines to favor one candidate.

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Input: * The agreement includes an undertaking to prevent terrorist or military activity against Israel from Turkey, and bans fundraising for such purposes." That is an important commitment," Netanyahu remarked. During the negotiations Israel has demanded that Turkey close down Hamas ' military command post in Turkey. Turkey will however continue to allow Hamas offices to operate on its soil, but only for political activity. * In the agreement, Turkey waived its demand that the naval blockade of Gaza be lifted in its entirety.

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Input: 26/32 Syria crisis A Free Syrian Army fighter works on a locally made launcher before firing it towards forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad in Mork town 27/32 Syria crisis Syrian policemen and citizens inspecting the site of a car bomb at the entrance of Moadhamiyet al-Sham neighborhood in rural Damascus. According to Syria's Arab News Agency (SANA), a car bomb explosion has gone off in the countryside of Damascus and initial information say there are casualties, where a car rigged with explosions was remotely detonated at the entrance of Moadhamiyet al-Sham neighborhood in rural Damascus during engineering units it was trying to dismantled it 28/32 Syria crisis Opposition fighters carrying a rocket launcher during clashes against government forces in the Sheikh Lutfi area, west of the airport in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo 29/32 Syria crisis A Syrian man helps a woman to make her way through debris following reported air strikes by government forces in the Halak neighbourhood in northeastern Aleppo

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Input: For Finland For Germany For Switzerland Zug, Switzerland, Sept. 27, 2001: A man whose lawsuits had been denied murdered 14 members of a cantonal parliament. For Italy For Belgium

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Input: Egyptian passenger Farah el-Dabani told the Dubai-based Al-Arabiyah TV network that the suspect was seated in the back of the aircraft and that it was the crew who told passengers that the plane was being hijacked." There was panic at the beginning, but the crew told us to be quiet. They did a good job to keep us all quiet so the hijacker does not do anything rash," she said in a telephone interview. He initially released most of the passengers, but kept three as well as four members of the cabin crew for several additional hours. One of the last people to get off the plane, reportedly a crew member, escaped through a cockpit window and slid down to the ground.

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Input: Feinstein’s amendment would have allowed the attorney general to block the sale of a gun or explosive if there’s a “reasonable suspicion” an individual has or will be involved in a terrorist attack. It would allow the attorney general to block the sale of a gun to anyone under a terror investigation in the past five years. Minority Leader Harry Reid Harry ReidTrump's crush on foreign autocrats threatens democracy at home How the Obama administration made it possible to gut Medicaid Indiana canvassers charged with submitting fake voter applications MORE (D-Nev.) praised the Democratic proposal earlier Monday, saying it would “close the terror loophole which allows suspected terrorists to illegally purchase weapons and explosives.” Reid also blasted Republicans, saying they “need to put the lives of innocent Americans ahead of the NRA.” Sens.

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Input: Furthermore, Comey testified before Congress that by providing her lawyers access to the emails, she exposed highly classified information to individuals without security clearance, further endangering state secrets. Even though the FBI recommended against indicting Clinton, Comey said that," To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences. To the contrary, those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions." A lower-level agency official that violated protocol and carelessly put highly classified information at risk would not be allowed to remain in a position requiring such a high level of security clearance. Yet Clinton is not only being let off the hook, but she is running for an office that would require an even higher level of security clearance, giving her access and control over the nation's most protected secrets, which only a handful of people know.

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Input: “I see that the conviction of the importance of peace is rising among the Israeli side, and the conviction about finding an exit to the issue is a positive sign." Egypt supports these efforts and both sides are urged to participate and respond positively to the initiative for the sake of finding light at the end of the tunnel for Palestinians and establishing their state alongside Israel." The move came just days after it was announced efforts by European diplomats to host a similar meeting in Paris had failed, and further signals Mr Putin’s ambition for Russia to eventually replace the United States as chief negotiator in the Middle East. Mr Putin claimed he “would fight” for an independent Palestinian state at an Arab League summit in March, but now appears to be interested in a more peaceful resolution. The Israeli – Palestinian conflict intensifies

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Input: Although it is unclear if Rahami is connected to that bomb, his family did sue the city of Elizabeth in 2011 claiming harassment and religious discrimination related to their family restaurant, First American Fried Chicken. Rahami came to the attention of the FBI two years ago when his father suspected his son was involved in terrorism. Mohammad Rahami told reporters he contacted federal authorities after Ahmad stabbed Nasser, another one of his sons, and attacked another family member, which led to a criminal investigation. The FBI apparently performed a superficial examination of the case at the time. “In August 2014, the F.B.I.

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Input: The former secretary of state’s campaign blamed pneumonia for the incident after video of Secret Service agents lifting her into a van was posted online. “She was put on antibiotics and advised to rest and modify her schedule,” Dr. Lisa Bardack, Mrs. Clinton’s physician, said in a statement at the time. “While at this morning’s event, she became overheated and dehydrated. I have just examined her and she is now re-hydrated and recovering nicely.” Mrs. Clinton, 68, suffered a concussion after fainting inside her home in December 2012.

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Input: 4:20 a.m. Parliament Speaker Ismail Kahraman says a bomb hit one corner of a public relations building inside the parliament complex, injuring some police officers. He says there are no fatalities and that all legislators are safe at a parliamentary shelter. Meanwhile in Istanbul, an official at the president's office says more than 50 military officers have been arrested in Istanbul and large crowds have carried out multiple citizen arrests. Turkish TV channels are broadcasting scenes of soldiers being escorted away by policemen.

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Input: The rate ranged from as little as 13.4 percent in 2009 to 24 percent in 2011. The Kaines’ income dipped as low as $ 153,000 in 2012, when he was running for the Senate. He won election that year, after serving as head of the Democratic National Committee, governor of Virginia and lieutenant governor. Clinton's team has been pushing Trump to release his tax returns — something presidential candidates have done for decades — since before he became the GOP's official nominee. Trump has refused, citing an ongoing IRS audit, among other reasons.

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Input: That appears to be changing. Post-convention polls show Trump falling behind by double digits both nationally and in must-win swing states like Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and Virginia. And the political ride will only get rockier for Trump in the coming days after he suggested that one way to keep a conservative Supreme Court after Hillary Clinton got elected would be to assassinate her or federal judges. Trump and his supporters have been scrambling wildly all day to explain away the inexplicable, but they can stop wasting their time. The GOP nominee was clearly suggesting that some of the “Second Amendment people” among his supporters could kill his Democratic opponent were she to be elected.

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Input: But practical policy questions of housing and integrating the rest remain submerged by increasingly fearful discussions of Islam — propelled by regular news coverage associating the religion with terrorist attacks, sexual assaults and civil wars — and by an absence of historical experience with Muslims among the population, combined with traumatic memories of the country’s past under Soviet rule. For nearly 50 years, the country had no control over its migration policy, leading to a large Russian-speaking minority. With a tiny minority of Muslims to join the dialogue, the public debate has splayed outward to the extremes. Leons Taivans, a religious studies professor at the University of Latvia in Riga, has reflected the broader fears in the region about the influx of Muslims, especially on the far right, by predicting “Islamic invasions.” Photo

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Input: But we found no evidence to support that claim, and experts disagree on whether such cost shifting occurs. “Clinton’s Shaky Cost-Shifting Claim,” Dec. 23 A Clinton TV ad made the misleading claim that “in the last seven years drug prices have doubled.” To support that claim, her campaign cited a report that said brand-name drug prices, on average, have more than doubled in that time. But more than 80% of filled prescriptions are for generic drugs, the prices of which have declined by nearly 63%, according to the same report. “Clinton’s Misleading Ad on Drug Prices,” Jan. 7

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Input: It’s important for [Sharma] to have said how to punish the perpetrators of crime and stop the nonsense of ogling women and following them. Why should any girls come to India when it is becoming famous for not being safe to girls?” India toughened sentences for rape and introduced fast-track courts for sexual assault trials after the fatal 2012 gang-rape focused world attention on violence against women in the country. National crime statistics show 92 women are raped each day in India, mostly in rural areas, though the figure is widely believed to be an underestimate. Street harassment and violence, sometimes called “eve-teasing”, is even more common, experienced by 79% of Indian women according to a recent survey.

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Input: Now this weekend, the main rebel groups are due to meet to discuss their position. Their mistrust of the government and its Russian allies runs deep. They see the obstruction of aid deliveries on the border as a stalling tactic, and one which they have seen before. If aid doesn't reach besieged areas soon, the ceasefire's days are numbered. And co-ordinated strikes against IS won't happen.

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Input: I want to buy what I want. I want to go out alone, free and without having a guardian with me ", says one of the women, Om Mohammad. And in this place, contraceptive pills that have been smuggled in are the only way to save a pregnant woman from being stoned to death. The winter rain falls onto the few people walking around on the streets of al-Raqqah. The hidden camera footage shows men with semi-concealed Kalashnikovs over their shoulders – ISIS fighters.

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Input: In one email, staffers dismissed Sanders ' campaign as "a mess" and added that his campaign "never had their act together." The 20,000 pages of hacked emails nearly overshadowed Clinton's announcement Saturday that Virginia Senator Tim Kaine would run as her vice president. Clinton's campaign has previously criticized Trump for his praise of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, a point that was highlighted this past week when Trump suggested that without sufficient financial contributions, the US under his leadership may not honor NATO commitments to defend European allies against attacks from Russian. Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort dismissed Mook's comments on Sunday, telling ABC's "This Week" that the allegations were "absurd," and that "there was no basis for it." He added that this was just a smokescreen by the Clinton campaign, which doesn't want to talk about what's in the emails.

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Input: The numbers for Clinton — who very quickly tweeted that Trump's Michigan comments were "so ignorant it's staggering" -- were nearly completely flipped. There are any number of reasons that black Americans might view Trump unfavorably, starting with his 2011 effort to cast suspicion on Obama's place of birth. Or, probably, starting with his full-page ad calling for the death penalty against five black teenagers in New York City who were accused of rape — wrongly, as it turned out. Or perhaps thanks to the support his current candidacy is getting from people like former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke. There's no reason to think that Trump's suggestion that black Americans had "nothing to lose" because they "are living in poverty" will do anything to reverse that trend.

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Input: In mid-December, Ukraine's cabinet of ministers approved a total ban on trade with Crimea, excepting a small category of ' socially significant products '. Ukrainian authorities then joined the Washington and Brussels-inspired sanctions against Russia, prompting Moscow to respond with a ban on the import of Ukrainian food products for six months. Kiev responded with an embargo against Russian food. Effectively, Kiev's measures against Crimea specifically and against Russia more broadly have transferred responsibility for the so-called ' food blockade ' of the peninsula (which affected Ukrainian farmers much harder than it had Crimeans) from the activists to the government. In his interview, Islyamov confirmed that his activists, who include Tatar nationalists and paramilitaries from Ukraine's notorious Right Sector militant group, are on track with their plans for a ' naval blockade ' of Crimea.

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