Input: From the Wall Street Journal’s Monica Langley: “Trump campaign advisers expect the 34-year -old, a senior executive in the Trump real estate empire and founder of her own fashion line, to provide the American public ‘living proof’ her father believes women can and should do everything men do.” Her speech is expected to be aimed at young professional women, particularly millenials: “She is expected to talk about how she learned to be entrepreneurial from her father, which led her to start and run her brand of ‘accessible’ fashion.” On stage, Ms. Trump plans to wear her line, in which dresses average $ 145 each and shoes $ 135 each.” -- Another blown opportunity (so far) in Cleveland: “Missing: The person behind Trump’s persona,” by Philip Rucker: “For a fleeting moment, Tiffany Trump started to show people the character of her father. A friend of hers had passed away and ‘the first call I got, as I knew I would, came from my father,’ the 22-year -old said … But her story cut off right there. She took the audience right up to the edge of intimacy — and then backed away, depriving viewers of the kind of memorable, humanizing anecdote that helps round out a candidate. For Trump, a historically unpopular candidate who is deeply polarizing to a broad cross-section of the general electorate, the absence of tales that might make the incendiary candidate appear more compassionate or likable is a missed opportunity … [Even] the woman who knows Trump best, his wife, Melania, described her husband with a litany of adjectives — patriotic, determined, tough, kind, loyal — but no stories."

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Input: As State Department cables disclosed by WikiLeaks show, Uranium One officials wanted more than a U.S. statement to the media; they pressed for written confirmation that their mining licenses were valid. Secretary Clinton’s State Department leapt into action: An energy officer from the U.S. embassy immediately held meetings with the Kazakh regime. A few days later, it was announced that Russia’s Rosatom had purchased 17 percent of Uranium One. Problem solved. Except it became a bigger problem when the Russian company sought to acquire a controlling interest in Uranium One.

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Input: "Neighborhoods have been erased completely. Now as I talk to you, the aircrafts are in the sky." Another worker with the group said he does not trust the Syrian and Russian forces to stop bombarding the area." In a few days, they will bomb us, bomb everything and kill everything like yesterday," said Ismail Abdullah. In early October, Putin exacerbated the rift over Syria by suspending a key post Cold-War agreement with Washington over disposal of nuclear weapons accusing the US of failing to eliminate tons of weapons-grade plutonium and “unfriendly acts toward Russia.”

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Input: REUTERS / Joshua Roberts A rainbow flag is held up with the name of the gay nightclub where the worst mass shooting in U.S. history occured in Orlando, Florida, during a vigil in front of the White House in Washington, U.S., June 12, 2016. REUTERS / Joshua Roberts Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies are seen behind a girl riding in a bus at the 46th annual Los Angeles Gay Pride Parade in West Hollywood, California, after a gunman opened fire at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida U.S. June 12, 2016. REUTERS / David McNew People pay their respects to the Orlando massacre victims during a vigil in the Queens borough of New York, U.S., June 12, 2016. REUTERS / Shannon Stapleton Two women hold each other at a vigil outside The Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street, considered by some as the center of New York State's gay rights movement, following the shooting massacre at Orlando's Pulse nightclub, in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S., June 12, 2016. REUTERS / Mark Kauzlarich A man carries a gay pride flag at a vigil outside The Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street, considered by some as the center of New York State's gay rights movement, following the shooting massacre at Orlando's Pulse nightclub, in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S., June 12, 2016.

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Input: That’s why they come to us, so we can protect their anonymity," he said. The WikiLeaks founder then stated he was merely investigating what happened." We are investigating what happened with Seth Rich. We think it is a concerning situation," Assange said." There is not a conclusion yet; we are not willing to state a conclusion, but we are concerned about it.

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

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Input: Unlike in the U.S., the Norwegian union movement kept the people thrown out of work as members, even though they could n’t pay dues. This decision paid off in mass mobilizations. When the employers’ federation locked employees out of the factories to try to force a reduction of wages, the workers fought back with massive demonstrations. Many people then found that their mortgages were in jeopardy. (Sound familiar?)

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Input: The red indicates which areas are controlled by ISIS today. But, this evil might be about to collapse." ISIS members confiscate civilians ' ID cards and flee towards Turkey," says Om Mohammad. The few remaining ISIS members on the streets are suspicious, cautious and conceal their weapons. Facts about the war in Syria and ISIS The war in Syria has entered its sixth year.

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Input: Even if Abbas does shake Netanyahu's hand during the funeral, it is still unclear if the event will turn into an opportunity for an official meeting between the two leaders. Last week at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Netanyahu invited Abbas to come to Jerusalem and give a speech in the Knesset to the people of Israel. Participation in Peres ' funeral will not be an acceptance of Netanyahu's offer, but it does send a message for both Israeli and Palestinian public opinion. Over the past year, various international organizations and leaders have been trying to bring about a breakthrough in the stalemate in the peace process, and arrange a meeting between Netanyahu and Abbas. The latest attempt was made by Russian President Vladimir Putin, and even included a date for such a meeting-a few weeks ago.

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Input: Two others died before Mr. Magnitsky. And as the case gained greater prominence, others began dying under mysterious circumstances. One victim whose death preceded Mr. Magnitsky’s, Valery Kurochkin, a potential witness whose name appeared on documents related to the fraud, fled Russia for Ukraine but died there of liver failure at the age of 43. The other, Oktai Gasanov, a low-level figure in the fraud case but one who might have shed light on the group’s modus operandi, died of heart failure at 53. Photo

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Input: Image copyright EPA Image caption Russia started withdrawing most of its forces from Syria last week Last week, Russia started pulling out most of its forces from Syria, saying it had largely achieved the goals of the air campaign it launched in September to bolster President Bashar al-Assad. But it vowed to continue targeting the jihadist groups Islamic State (IS) and al-Nusra Front, which are excluded from the truce. Russians ' misinformed ' As part of the deal between the warring parties they brokered last month, the US and Russia agreed to chair a ceasefire taskforce that would "develop effective mechanisms to promote and monitor compliance with the ceasefire".

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Input: In May of this year, China introduced its first homegrown maglev line in Changsha, transporting passengers from the south railway station to the airport at a not terribly impressive top speed of 100 km / h. This all must come as quite the disappointment after a Chinese research team unveiled a prototype for a maglev train that could possibly reach 1,800 km / h back in 2014. In less ambitious news, CRRC also announced plans to develop maglev trains that travel at just 200 km / h, hoping to provide a more energy conscious form of medium to high-speed transport around the globe, as well as high-speed trains that can run at 400 km / h and alternate between different track gauges, making crossing borders a breeze, Xinhua reports. Currently, China leads the world with over 20,000 kilometers of high-speed track. That is projected to expand to 30,000 km by 2020 and then grow to 45,000 km by 2030.

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Input: However, the head of the Norwegian Association for Asylum Seekers fears the fence sends out the wrong message to people genuinely in need of help." We think it's hopeless, it's only a symbolic gesture, but we think it's a really wrong symbolic gesture," says Ann-Magrit Austena. In April the Norwegian parliament presented a new asylum and immigration bill that enables officials to refuse entry to anyone who did not come directly from a conflict zone. Image caption Refugee groups say the fence sends out the wrong message Image caption Taxi driver Syvonne Tucker sees spending money on the fence as a joke

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Input: Officers gave chase after the suspect, who fired at them again, wounding another officer. Police then shot and killed the suspect. A Karl Gustav rifle was confiscated at the scene. (Scene of stabbing attack in Petah Tikva. Credit: Alon Hachman)Shortly beforehand, one Israeli was moderately wounded in a suspected terror stabbing in Petah Tikva. The assailant was also stabbed during the incident, after the haredi victim removed the knife from his neck and stabbed the assailant. The attacker was reported to have died. Magen David Adom paramedics provided initial treatment to the victim, a man thought to be around 35-years -old at the scene, before transferring him to Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus. Dana Somberg and Yasser Okbi / Maariv HaShavua contributed to this report

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Input: As in Afghanistan, then in Bosnia, and now in Syria, the story of how entire generations came to be radicalized is incomplete without considering the role of Russian aggression. In Afghanistan the Soviets invaded — only to provide the perfect context for a nascent al Qaeda. In Bosnia, Russia supplied the Serbs while the International Community stood by its arms embargo — paving the way for the Bosnian genocide that radicalized an entire generation of European Muslims. And now in Syria, Putin props up his puppet Assad while destroying entire Syrian cities — and completely ignoring ISIS-held areas. Meanwhile, the Far-Left gleefully denounce lackadaisical American “colonialism” from Russian state television channels or pontificate over American ills, as asylum seekers in Moscow.

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Input: “The Muslim migrants arriving to Europe are for the most part not refugees but job seekers who belong to what is de facto an invasion,” Rom, nee Norbert Kurtzman, told JTA after the Russia premiere of the film “The Children of Tehran” in the city of Kazan during its Limmud FSU conference of Jewish learning. “The attempts to pass off the new arrivals, people who left and in many cases participated in a murderous civil war, as refugees and then to liken their experiences to what Holocaust survivors had to endure is false,” Rom, who survived the Holocaust with his sister, said last month. The rebuke by Rom, a supporter of the left-wing Meretz party and one of the founders of Kibbutz Afikim, followed the publication in August of an op-ed in The New York Times titled “Anne Frank Today Is a Syrian Girl,” in which the journalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Nicholas Kristof argued that the reasons for the opposition to absorbing Jewish Holocaust refugees in the United States “were the same as they are for rejecting Syrians or Hondurans today. ”While some European Jews have repeated the analogy, others have been careful to avoid it amid the arrival to Europe of 1.5 million immigrants since 2015 from the war-torn Middle East and Africa. While many of those arriving file for refugee status, critics of EU immigration policies have argued for stricter screening against job seekers, citing the heavy presence among the newcomers of work-age men. The Tehran Children trekked a tormented 8,000 miles to Israel through Siberia, Uzbekistan, Tehran, India, Egypt and finally prestate Israel. Rom and his sister, Ziva, were given up for adoption in the Uzbeki city of Samarkand by their parents, Karol and Ethel, who were starving and opted to part with their two older children in the hope of saving their baby brother, Uzi. Karol died of starvation and disease in Samarkand. Natan and Ziva eventually were reunited with their mother and baby brother. The arrival of the Tehran Children to Israel in 1943 is widely considered the first encounter between the yishuv, prestate Israel’s Jewish population, and any large group of refugees from the Holocaust.

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Input: QUICK DOWNLOADS WikiLeaks says it has access to NSA source code and will be posting it for free, unlike an outfit known as the “Shadow Brokers” that had announced plans to auction off code they allegedly stole. Univision won the bidding auction for Gawker and will buy all seven of the company’s media properties for $ 135 million. Pay TV providers posted their highest subscriber loss ever in this year’s second quarter, with cable, satellite and telecom companies losing at least 665,000 subscribers, reports CNET. Sens.

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Input: The bombing of the plane was the most visible sign that Egypt's longstanding campaign against IS was not going well. But the government goes to great lengths to portray that effort as a success — it regularly releases photos of corpses it says belong to IS militants, and is wary of admitting the group has the capabilities to bring down an international jet. Egypt's Civil Aviation Authority, which was responsible for investigating the bombing, has yet to amend its report. But Wednesday's comments are the first indication that Egypt is open to changing its tone on the plane crash. Such an admission may carry some consequences for the Egyptian government.

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Input: Dirty bomb Fears over nuclear materials falling into terrorists ' hands were highlighted at the Nuclear Security Summit hosted by President Obama in Washington last week, and underscored by an ISIS plan uncovered earlier this year to try and target a Belgian nuclear facility. Two men linked to the Brussels attacks recorded 10 hours of secret surveillance video of a top Belgian nuclear scientist, likely hoping to use his security clearance to try to obtain radioactive material to build a so-called "dirty bomb." "The possibility of threats against nuclear facilities is of particular concern and our agencies are actively reacting to it," German Ambassador to the United States, Peter Wittig, told CBS News. The ambassador said Germany would seek more international help by hosting an international workshop in Berlin in September on the existing Code of Conduct for Safety and Security of Radioactive Sources.

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Input: Medical workers, including doctors, dentists, nurses, paramedics, ambulance drivers and laboratory technicians, have been attacked for attending to the wounded. Many have been killed and injured. Others have fled with their families across the Syrian borders, seeking refuge. Hospitals, clinics and ambulances have been destroyed. As a consequence, there has been a severe weakening of health-care infrastructure, particularly in areas of the country not under government control.

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Input: Personal Income Tax Rate in Russia averaged 13.00 percent from 2004 until 2016, reaching an all time high of 13.00 percent in 2005 and a record low of 13.00 percent in 2005. Russia Personal Income Tax Rate Notes In Russia, the Personal Income Tax Rate is a tax collected from individuals and is imposed on different sources of income like labour, pensions, interest and dividends. The benchmark we use refers to the Top Marginal Tax Rate for individuals. Revenues from the Personal Income Tax Rate are an important source of income for the government of Russia.

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Input: Because WikiLeaks has numerous back-ups, the cut-off has n’t slowed the steady release of embarrassing revelations about Clinton and her campaign. If that is the sum total of Obama’s retaliatory repertoire, it is no wonder the Russians are acting with impunity around the globe. If Biden is right, President Obama is moved to confront Russia not over hundreds of thousands being slaughtered in Syria – not because of the barrel bombs or chlorine gas – nor over Russia’s takeover of Crimea from Ukraine, with whom we have a security treaty. He is not inspired by Russia selling a missile defense system to Iran over U.S. opposition, guaranteeing the security of Tehran’s inevitable nuclear program. He is unmoved by Russian threats to shoot down our airplanes and their attacks on U.S. allies in Syria.

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Input: But there were some problems, some unintended consequences. Too many young African-American and Latino men ended up in jail for nonviolent offenses. And it's just a fact that if you're a young African-American man and you do the same thing as a young white man, you are more likely to be arrested, charged, convicted, and incarcerated. So we've got to address the systemic racism in our criminal justice system. We can not just say law and order.

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Input: The relative calm that dawn brings seems a lifetime away. All are at the mercy of the darkness. This is eastern Ukraine 28 months after the start of a conflict that once seemed unthinkable, and a year and a half after the signing of a second cease-fire deal, known as Minsk 2, that was supposed to bring lasting peace to this war-torn edge of Europe and reintegrate it with the rest of Ukraine. But the armistice is unraveling fast as fighting between Ukrainian government forces and Russia-backed separatists has escalated to levels not seen since more furious phases of the conflict in the Donbas -- where the separatists hold parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions -- in 2014 and 2015. Casualties, both civilian and military, are mounting.

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Input: But the Iraqi government replaced judges who seemed sympathetic to the defense, and, days after Saddam’s lawyers appeared in news broadcasts, two of them were assassinated. In early 2006, the coalition hired Wiley to advise Saddam’s lawyers, whose principal argument was that the court itself was illegal. They regularly boycotted proceedings, leaving Iraq and watching the hearings on television. To Wiley, the trial was “not about Saddam, per se,” but “about sending a signal to a conflict-affected society that, from here on out, this nation will be governed on the basis of the rule of law.” He urged the lawyers to come back to Baghdad and defend their client. Eventually, Saddam’s defense team returned to court, but shortly before the hearings concluded a third lawyer was kidnapped; his bullet-riddled corpse was found the next day.

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Input: US Again Ignores Russian Warning As Islamic Terror Hits New York City, New Jersey And Minnesota Hillary Clinton Makes Millions To Destroy Samsung So Apple Can Sell More iPhones Putin Issues Global Alert: “The American Establishment Is Merciless, Donald Trump Could Soon Die” Hillary Clinton To Make Millions After Obama Orders All Wild Horses In American Killed Hillary Clinton Placed In Hospital As “Blackout Of Truth” Descends Upon America

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Input: OFFICER REGINALD ' JAKE ' GUTIERREZ Reginald "Jake" Gutierrez Gutierrez, a Tacoma police officer, was shot and killed while responding to a report of domestic violence in that port city on November 30, police said. He was a 17-year veteran of the force and was survived by his fiancee and children, police said. WISCONSIN

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Input: Despite repeated warnings of Russians developing hypersonic cruise-missile engines, new radar equipment, and acquiring other sensitive technology from the West, the State Department did not threaten to pull these companies out of the project if the Russians did n’t stop using Skolkovo for military research. The most disturbing case from Schweizer’s book is that Rosatom, a state-owned Russian company, now controls one fifth of America’s uranium reserves. The purchase of Uranium One by Salida Capital, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Rosatom, had to be approved by the State Department among other government entities. When Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State, Bill Clinton signed a disclosure agreement that required the State Department to approve all his speeches as well as annually provide a detailed list of donors to each of the legal entities inside the Clinton Foundation. If the Clinton Foundation was more transparent, it is highly unlikely the deal would have gone through.

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Input: Long-time Democratic fundraiser Kenneth Christensen, whose D.C.-based consulting firm Christensen & Associates helps candidates set up their finance operations, says he's not surprised that the Clinton campaign has established a more powerful offshore finance machine than any other candidate." Obviously with the Clintons they have a lot of experience in doing that. They give lots of speeches overseas, and they run into a lot of people," Christensen told The Hill in a telephone interview Friday." A lot of that fundraising overseas are relationships they already have." Christensen, who is focusing on Democratic congressional races this cycle, indicated it would be professionally negligent not to take full advantage of Clinton's relationships to finance what is becoming an expensive primary race against a well-funded Bernie Sanders campaign.

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Input: All week, the G-word has been rattling around the foreign ministries of the world. Ever since John Kerry – he of Israeli-Palestinian peace "in six months" fame – announced that Isis was committing genocide against Yazidis, Christians and Shia Muslims, we’ve been trying to work out just what he’s talking about. Even the poor old Canadians and their super-liberal prime minister Justin Trudeau, have since been refusing to recognise the Isis atrocities as "genocide" – the attempt to exterminate an entire race of people – preferring instead to talk about “crimes perpetrated … against religious and ethnic minorities.” Could this be, ask Canadian critics, because Canada last month withdrew the last of its clapped out CF-18 fighter jets from the battle against Isis? More likely the Canadians have caught on to the whole genocide trap. But first: yes, Isis have indeed committed horrific crimes against minorities under their control.

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Input: It was thorough and concluded:" She is in excellent physical condition and fit to serve as president of the United States." What a fool I was to be duped by this "doctor," who is actually a highly respected doctor. On Fox News on Sunday, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani raised the specter of Clinton's "signs of illness," saying:" Go online and put down ' Hillary Clinton illness ' and take a look at the videos for yourself." I did that. I went "online" and "put down" those words and indeed found videos of people who are not Clinton's physician or anyone's physician, including Giuliani, saying that Clinton is absolutely sick, and possibly mentally ill.

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Input: It was, in fact, a kind of nation-building approach. The U.S. still has troops in Germany and Japan, with the permission of those nations, but it never confiscated their natural resources. In his speech, Trump said that as president he would discard “nation-building.” In its place would be what he called a new approach, which he described simply as halting the spread of “radical Islam.” He said that if elected he would convene an international conference on the topic and work closely with Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Russia, the NATO alliance and “all others who recognize this ideology of death that must be extinguished.” Trump also called Monday for “extreme” ideological vetting of immigrants seeking admission to the United States, vowing to significantly overhaul the country’s screening process and block those who sympathize with extremist groups or do n’t embrace American values. “Those who do not believe in our Constitution, or who support bigotry and hatred, will not be admitted for immigration into our country,” Trump said.

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Input: A memorial to the Armenian genocide in Yerevan, Armenia. Photo: DPA Turkey on Monday strongly warned the German parliament against adopting a resolution recognising the mass killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire as genocide, saying it could have repercussions for bilateral ties.

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Input: Halaki added that Deir ez-Zor would be the next major target for Damascus after taking control of Aleppo. He was speaking as a parliamentary delegation from Russia visited Syria on Sunday. things just as bad in Sheikh Maksoud # Aleppo post ceasefire. 4 kids & 3 women killed when this house attacked y'day pic.twitter.com/xoxz4Gh0c5 — Lizzie Phelan (@LizziePhelan) March 7, 2016 SalahEddin # Aleppo ppl live in these homes, say things better since ceasefire but still gas jars fired across f'line pic.twitter.com/s6XzHK2vEC — Lizzie Phelan (@LizziePhelan) March 4, 2016

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Input: “The US government remains concerned about unequal treatment that some Arab-Americans receive at Israel’s borders and checkpoints,” he added. “And we regularly raise with Israeli authorities our concerns about the issue of equal treatment for all US citizens in ports of entry.” A spokesman for Israel’s Interior Ministry told NBC that three of the five campaigners were denied entry for “security reasons” but did not elaborate on what those reasons were. End the Israeli Occupation did not provide the names of two of the activists so Israeli officials could not provide information on their attempts to enter. The delegates, who included Bina Ahmad, a New York City public defender, were denied entry into Israel and then detained for hours before they were sent back to the United States.

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Input: Later the Associated Press, citing an unnamed official, claimed the newly discovered emails “did not come from her private server”. Several outlets have reported that the emails came from devices seized from top Clinton aide Huma Abedin and her husband, former congressman Anthony Weiner, in connection to an investigation of inappropriate text messages that Weiner sent to an underage girl. The letter from Comey comes 11 days before the presidential election and nearly four months after the FBI director announced the bureau would not recommend criminal charges against Clinton for what it dubbed “extremely careless” use of a private email server while secretary of state. The FBI director said then: “Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes … our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.” Clinton was campaigning in Iowa.

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Input: This banned assault weapons, not insignificant. But where we are today is we have a broken criminal justice system. We have more people in jail than any other country on Earth. And in my view, what we have got to do is rethink the system from the bottom on up. And that means, for a start — and we do n’t talk about this.

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Input: Three weeks later, the Islamic State released a picture of the device it said took down the plane in its Dabiq magazine. In the aftermath of the incident, Moscow stopped all civilian flights to Egypt, a popular destination for Russian tourists. Russian President Vladamir Putin blamed the Islamic State for the attack and vowed to exact "retribution" on the group. But, in December, Egypt's internal investigators claimed that no evidence existed to back up the IS-claim of responsibility." The technical investigative committee has so far not found anything indicating any illegal intervention or terrorist action," Egypt's Ministry of Civil Aviation reported at the time.

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Input: And they’re not alone — according to the U.S. intelligence community, ISIS has been using chemicals like mustard and chlorine agents in Iraq and Syria since the first half of 2015. It’s no surprise that an organization like ISIS, with so little respect for human life, would be willing to engage in chemical warfare. But how did they acquire these weapons in the first place? It All Began With Obama’s ‘Red Line’ ISIS is making some of its chemical weapons itself.

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Input: Against anyone? Should n’t all the strategies discussed by the country’s top diplomat be strictly legal only? And is the email a smoking gun to confirm Clinton was actually serious about pursuing an obvious “nonlegal strategy” proposal to allegedly assassinate Assange? Numerous attempts were made to try and interview and decipher Slaughter’s choice of email wording, however, she could not be reached for comment. Insiders said Slaughter is keeping a “low profile” in Princeton, NJ until she is nominated for a position in Clinton’s cabinet if the Democrat is elected in November.

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Input: Why? Well, maybe it’s because Hillary is getting speaking fees. So the secretary of state should have been indicting people? I mean, yes, McCarthyite in the sense that it’s guilt by association. He complains about what she did with regards to all this money stuff.

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Input: King Bela IV fled his palace in Pest (now part of Budapest), and Ogodei's armies slaughtered an estimated 1 million Hungarians: troops, clerics, nobles, knights, and peasants. It was one of the bloodiest defeats of the medieval period. In December 1241, Ogodei Khan died unexpectedly. Some historians have argued that Batu, Ogodei's nephew who had been leading the western campaign, turned back toward the Mongol capital of Karakorum for the election of a new leader. But Batu never returned to Mongolia, instead remaining in the south of modern-day Russia to rule the Golden Horde.

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Input: Utter disgrace,” she tweeted. Earlier this week, a German reporter was detained at an Istanbul airport and sent back to Cairo where he is based. A day later, authorities denied entry into Turkey for Russian news agency Sputnik’s Istanbul-based general manager.

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

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Input: What follows is her report." We joke in Ukraine that it is a bad sign for Trump that he hired Manafort. Because his client Yanukovych was ousted and fled to Russia, to the city of Rostov. So Trump could also end up in Rostov. It is almost like an anecdote."

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Input: That includes the kingdom's interests in Syria, where Saudi-backed rebel groups are currently battling Iran-backed Shiite militias and Hezbollah forces loyal to the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Saudi Arabia is locked in two other proxy wars with Iran in Yemen and Bahrain. Saudi Arabia's relations with Iran hit a new low in January after the Saudis executed a prominent Shiite cleric, Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, leading Iranian protesters to ransack and set fire to the Saudi embassy in Tehran. The kingdom cut off all diplomatic ties with Iran shortly thereafter. Washington's response to the spat between Saudi Arabia — a longtime US ally — and Iran, with which the Obama administration recently secured a historic nuclear deal, was not as supportive of the Saudis as the kingdom would have hoped.

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Input: Many of the Republicans who have declared that they would never vote for Trump gave carte blanche to politicians who have been complicit in the growth of the government leviathan. These Republicans have ignored conservatism in the name of party politics, and their broken promises gave rise to Donald Trump’s candidacy. Nonetheless, I will not be voting for Donald Trump in the primary. I take my conservatism seriously, and I also take Saint Paul seriously. In setting out the qualifications for overseers, or bishops, Saint Paul admonished Timothy, “If anyone aspires to the office of overseer,.

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Input: Mrs. Clinton champions the use of executive agreements in lieu of treaties to circumvent the constitutional requirement of a two-thirds Senate majority for ratification. A recent example was the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action to contain Iran’s nuclear ambitions. It was fashioned as an executive agreement because, as Secretary of State John Kerry told the House Judiciary Committee, “you ca n’t pass a treaty anymore.” In other words, if the President ca n’t get his way by complying with the Constitution, then the Constitution must be tortured to accommodate the President, i.e., to borrow from President Nixon to David Frost, “When the President does it, that means it is not illegal.” In flagrant violation of constitutional due process, Ms. Clinton also supports limitless presidential power to play prosecutor, judge, jury, and executioner to kill American citizens anywhere on the planet not engaged in hostilities that the president decrees based on secret, unsubstantiated information threatens national security. In exercising this awesome power, according to Clinton, the president is not accountable to any other person, branch of government, or to the public.

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Input: RECESSION THREATENS DEFENSE BUDGET Goldman Sachs ' top economists told clients that they expect Britain to enter a recession within the next year as investment plans shrink and credit tightens in the vote's wake .. Both Standard and Poor's and Fitch Ratings cut their credit ratings for Britain, anticipating damage to its economy from Brexit, while the shares of British homebuilders have tumbled as much as 40 percent in two days. The British government is scheduled to make a final decision this year on replacing the four aging submarines that carry its Trident intercontinental nuclear ballistic missiles, a program that could cost as much as $ 167 billion. British Defense Minister Michael Fallon told parliament on Monday that the government maintains its commitment to the BAE Systems program and hoped a vote on the decision would be held “shortly.”

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Input: According to the extremist group’s apocalyptic creed, representations of deities and sites of pre-Islamic worship are worthy of destruction. As the group’s fighters wreaked havoc on the civilian populations caught up in their onslaught, they also pulverized what they could of the region’s supposedly apostate history. Moreover, as my colleague Loveday Morris detailed last year, the Islamic State — also known as ISIS and ISIL – developed a lucrative, illicit trade in smuggling the antiquities it chose not to smash. This also was the case in Tal Ajaja, where the militants dug tunnels in previously untouched areas of the site and unearthed hitherto unknown treasures — most of which have disappeared. “They found items that were still buried, statues, columns.

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Input: The Syrian ceasefire is breaking down in Aleppo, as the deal brokered by Russia and the United States shows signs of strain. The breakdown threatens a planned United Nations effort to provide aid to Syria’s largest city, Aleppo, where upwards of 250,000 people are trapped by the hostilities. The below video shows the eerie but anxious calm that fell over Aleppo as the ceasefire began. The Syrian ceasefire began Monday amid high hopes from the international community.

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Input: In many the cases they’re unions. The union people thus stay employed. The key aspect of that is they continue to pay union dues. The union dues are then collected by union leaders who then do what? They donate to Democrats.

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Input: In effect it means unelected transnational corporations can dictate the policies of democratically elected governments AFP / Getty Migrant workers could be classified as “independent service suppliers”, the report says, meaning they would not be eligible for the minimum wage or be allowed to join a union. People going to another country may find their visa is tied to their job, so if they were sacked, they would be deported. “This sort of system of modern indentured labour is wide open to abuse by unscrupulous employers who may get away with illegal practices safe in the knowledge that they can threaten any employee with deportation if they complain," the report says. “This sort of system is used in countries like Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar and has resulted in working conditions that have been described as being close to slavery.”

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Input: Russia has exposed this, and President Vladimir Putin has clearly shown this in the Russian intelligence exposing the Turkish, Saudi, Israeli, Persian Gulf states, and U.S. funding through Swiss Banks such as Union Bank of Switzerland — which was also confirmed by WikiLeaks cables from the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency and Central Intelligence Agency, and Britain’s MI6. Turkey’s real agenda is to carve out an area of Iraq that it can use to target Kurds and confiscate land belonging to Iraq and Syria -- all in the name of "countering ISIS”. Conveniently, Turkey has totally ignored the calls by Iraqi leaders to leave their country, and instead have positioned themselves in order to provide an escape route for ISIS forces to escape Iraqi forces. Iraqi PM warned certain countries, most significantly Saudi Arabia, of the possible outcomes of supporting DAESH for their own security. What's your take on that?

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Input: They didn't. She confessed to lying because she had a consciousness of not wanting to tell the truth, of covering something up. He raped her, she didn't have sexual relations with him, she didn't lie and I am so fucking tired of the media that can't even think that obvious thing through. Report it a thousand times but don't think about it once. ...

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Input: Vice President Joe Biden has arrived in Ankara for talks with Turkish leaders as Turkey launched a military operation to clear a Syrian border town of Islamic State militants. Wednesday's visit comes at a difficult time for ties between the two NATO allies. Turkey is demanding that Washington quickly extradite a U.S.-based cleric blamed for orchestrating last month's failed coup. The United States is asking for evidence against the cleric and asking that Turkey allow the extradition process to take its course. In Syria, Turkey is concerned about the growing power of U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces, who it says are linked to Kurdish groups waging an insurgency in southeastern Turkey.

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Input: 1/15 Serbia-Hungary border Refugees protest as Hungarian riot police fires tear gas and water cannon on the Serbian side of the border, near Roszke 2/15 Serbia-Hungary border A refugee throws a bottle of water towards Hungarian riot police after they used water cannon to push back refugees at the Hungarian border with Serbia near the town of Horgos 3/15 Serbia-Hungary border Refugees protest as Hungarian riot police fires tear gas and water cannon at the border crossing with Serbia in Roszke 4/15 Serbia-Hungary border Hungarian armoured personnel carriers are deployed at the border crossing with Serbia in Roszke 5/15 Serbia-Hungary border Hungarian riot policemen are deployed at the border crossing with Serbia in Roszke

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Input: Yayla confirmed that the IHH police raid in 1997 had identified direct ties between the charity and al-Qaeda. IHH personnel, he said, were being prepared for combat operations in Chechnya, Bosnia and Afghanistan. Documents found during the raid revealed that weapons were being secretly supplied to groups connected to Osama bin Laden. ISIS supporters also regularly transport parts to engineer make-shift explosive devices across the Turkish-Syria border with impunity. Photographs provided exclusively to INSURGE by Yayla, which he obtained directly from former ISIS members, depict ISIS members handling so-called “hell fireball bombs” made from liquid petroleum gas tanks, the parts for which are manufactured in Konya, an inner city in Turkey where hundreds of ISIS supporters reside.

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Input: The Ukraine president, Petro Poroshenko, called the journalist’s death a “terrible tragedy” and ordered specialists from the US and the European Union be brought in to assist the investigation. Sheremet began his career as a television journalist in his native Minsk. He was arrested after filming himself crossing into Lithuania and back illegally for a Russian television story about smuggling in 1997, sparking a diplomatic spat between Russia and Belarus. Under pressure in his home country, he left to work in Russia before moving to Ukraine several years ago. He was a supporter of the pro-European movement that toppled president Viktor Yanukovych in 2014 and was known for his criticism of the Belarusian and Russian governments.

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Input: Retail sales in June shrank for a record 18th month, plunging 5.9 percent from a year earlier, the Federal Statistics Service in Moscow said on Tuesday. “It’s not possible for consumption to expand,” said Dmitry Polevoy, chief economist for Russia at ING Groep NV in Moscow. “Salaries are n’t growing or are growing much more moderately than they used to, lending is declining.” As Russia pivots from a consumer-driven growth model after the crash in oil prices, the crisis is decimating the middle class and millions are sinking into poverty. Not even better consumer confidence and stabilizing inflation are translating into stronger demand.

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Input: -- Hillary released her personal financial disclosure statement last night, showing that she made at least $ 6.4 million in 2015 from book royalties and paid speeches. (Abby Phillip) Trump boasted that his annual personal financial disclosure form is “the largest in the history of the FEC.” He claims that his net worth has increased since his last disclosure was filed in July and that his annual income is more than $ 557 million, not including dividends, interest, capital gains, rents and royalties. The campaign did not actually release a copy of the 104-page disclosure, and the FEC has yet to make it public. (Jenna Johnson)

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Input: "Last night I was ' grossly generalistic, ' and that's never a good idea. I regret saying ' half ' — that was wrong," Clinton's Saturday afternoon mea culpa read." But let's be clear, what's really ' deplorable ' is that Donald Trump hired a major advocate for the so-called ' alt-right ' movement to run his campaign and that David Duke and other white supremacists see him as a champion of their values." Speaking at an LGBT fundraiser in downtown Manhattan on Friday night, Clinton characterized “half of Trump’s supporters” as “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic and Islamophobic — you name it." “He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people — now how 11 million.

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Input: He added that Moscow is ready to develop large-scale military-technical cooperation with Ankara and the sides are now studying various projects. Read more The Turkish military operation in Syria and ways to cooperate in providing aid to civilians in the city of Aleppo were discussed during the talks in Istanbul on Monday, Erdogan said. The Russian and Turkish militaries, as well as intelligence services and diplomats from the two countries, will continue to work together on the provision of humanitarian aid in Syria, he added. “We thoroughly discussed the Syrian issue.

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Input: READ MORE: Terrorists in Aleppo ‘forcefully’ enroll teens – Russian MOD That battle now is now concentrated in Aleppo where jihadists are centered. Denying US-led criticisms that Russia and Syrian air forces are rather bombing the positions of the so-called moderate rebels, Assad emphasized that anyone who holds a weapon is a terrorist. “Now, most of the world used the word ' opposition ' about people who carry guns and kill people. You don't call them opposition; ' opposition ' is a political term; it can not be a military term,” he said.

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Input: Peter Cook, the Department of Defense spokesman, wrote in an email, “The DoD has a strong partnership with the Somali National Army and AMISOM forces from Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Burundi operating in Somalia. They have made steady progress pressuring Al Shabab.” The escalation of the war can be seen in the bureaucratic language of the semiannual notifications that Mr. Obama sends to Congress about American conflicts overseas. Photo The Somalia passage in the June 2015 notification is terse, saying American troops “have worked to counter the terrorist threat posed by al-Qa’ida and associated elements of al-Shabaab.”

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Input: Nice attack: French police question several as details emerge about suspect Mohamed Bouhlel Updated French investigators have detained several people as they piece together details of the Nice massacre and work to shed light on the motives of the Tunisian who rammed a truck into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day. Key points: Attacker visited promenade on the two days before attack, AFP sources say People affected by tragedy still searching for answers, news of loved ones

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Input: That's when the Russian intelligence services likely decided they needed to come up with a cover hacker identity to claim credit and shift blame away from themselves. Guccifer 2.0 had no online history until yesterday, and multiple security sources said they'd never heard of nor seen anyone by that alias until Wednesday. This suggests that the Guccifer 2.0 persona — whose name references Guccifer, a notorious Romanian hacker who is jailed in the US and claims to have hacked Hillary Clinton's private email server — was created in response to the news of the hack, and was used to put up a defiant blog post and leak documents directly to Gawker and The Smoking Gun at the same time. Or, as The Grugq, a well-known independent security researcher put it: 1.

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Input: It basically has fallen,” Trump said. Then he quickly changed the subject to wonder aloud why the Iraqi government does n’t do a “sneak attack” to liberate Mosul, it’s second largest city. The Assad regime and its Russian partners are bombarding eastern Aleppo each and every day in a brutal campaign to crush the opposition under siege there by terrorizing the civilian population. The U.S. government and international experts agree Syria and Russia are committing war crimes there. For Trump to deny that any hope exists for the people of Aleppo to resist this onslaught amounts to turning a blind eye to the ongoing atrocities.

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Input: And in October 1999, an EgyptAir passenger jet made a rapid descent, plunging almost 14,000 feet in 36 seconds. The Boeing 767, en route to Cairo from New York, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the Massachusetts coast. Its debris was later found, but speculation remains on the cause of the crash that killed all 217 people on board.

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Input: At 6.30am this morning WikiLeaks tweeted: ' Julian Assange's internet link has been intentionally severed by a state party ', with conspiracy theorists claiming that it is linked to John Kerry's visit to London to meet Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson. WikiLeaks say they ' have activated the appropriate contingency plans ' as they try to restore his internet link. It all began when Anderson paid Assange a visit on Saturday at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he has been hiding out for more than four years to avoid a rape investigation in his native Sweden. In her hands were two bags from Pret, a popular sandwich shop chain based in the UK. Anderson, an advocate for animals ' rights, later said that she brought Assange ' a nice vegan lunch '.

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Input: Accepting international disaster assistance would not set a precedent and has happened in the past, but Babcock did n’t provide examples. Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said Canadian authorities have a handle on the crisis and what’s truly needed is a break in the weather. “The decision was made by the firefighters in the emergency management system that (foreign help) was n’t necessary because of the nature of this blaze,” Goodale said following question period. “This beast is so big the only thing that will fix it is rain.” READ MORE: ‘Ocean of fire’ destroys 2,400 structures but 85% of Fort McMurray still stands

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Input: My father said, don't go into Manhattan, it's not our territory, we can't do that, it's not for us. I started off with a very, very small amount of money. And by the way, when my father passed away, remember, I have four -- I have a total of five in my family. So we have brothers, sisters, split. And when my father died, by that time I had already built a great fortune and my father didn't leave a great fortune.

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Input: Russia has denounced the possible extradition by Finland of two Russian citizens to the US on cyber-crime charges. It says that the move is a violation of international law because the pair will receive "absurd punishments" of up to 100 years in jail. Finland confirmed the decision to extradite one of the men on Friday. Maxim Senakh is suspected by the US state of Minnesota of attacking servers to steal millions of dollars. It is unclear whether another computer fraud suspect named by Russia, Alexander Sergeyev, will be deported.

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Input: None of this has seemed particularly to trouble Assange, who has mined the leaked Democratic National Committee e-mails, as well as publicly available e-mails from Clinton’s tenure at the State Department, for any meme-worthy tidbit to reinforce the case against her candidacy. He has used these finding to give cover to thinly sourced theories about Clinton’s health — in late August, he dug up an e-mail that showed that Clinton once received information about a Parkinson’s disease drug — and inventing new anti-Clinton theories out of whole cloth. After Clinton claimed that Russian hackers had been the source of the leak, Assange deflected the allegation in part by pointing out that a low-level Democratic Party staffer, Seth Rich, had been murdered weeks earlier while walking home from a bar in Washington. Although police believe Rich was the victim of a botched robbery attempt, Assange hinted at a darker possibility: that Rich was murdered for sharing documents with WikiLeaks. “Our sources take risks,” Assange said ominously.

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Input: On Wednesday, the state media of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) broadcast video of leader Kim Jong Un watching what appears to have been a successful launch of a submarine-launched ballistic missile. However, the launch actually took place in April. The footage was broadcast now, according to analysts, likely as an attempt to demonstrate North Korea's nuclear threat as a senior DPRK official meets with China this week. The broadcast may also be an attempt to draw attention away from a string of failed launches of North Korea's Musudan intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM). The video was broadcast just after analyst reports said North Korea had made a fourth failed attempt in two months to test-launch the Musudan — a missile designed to strike at targets as distant as Guam and the Philippines.

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Input: Of course, I strongly condemn indiscriminate rocket fire by Hamas into Israeli territory, and Hamas’ use of civilian neighborhoods to launch those attacks. I condemn the fact that Hamas diverted funds and materials for much-needed construction projects designed to improve the quality of life of the Palestinian people, and instead used those funds to construct a network of tunnels for military purposes. However, let me also be very clear: I – along with many supporters of Israel – spoke out strongly against the Israeli counter attacks that killed nearly 1,500 civilians and wounded thousands more. I condemned the bombing of hospitals, schools and refugee camps. Today, Gaza is still largely in ruins.

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Input: “If you talk about those fighters, ideological fighters, or terrorists, let’s say, who are fighting our army, the only way is to fight them and kill them. You do n’t have any other way. They are not ready for any dialogue, and you do n’t have time to make dialogue, you want to protect your citizens, so you have to kill them,” the Syrian leader said.

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Input: We are going to Dewsbury, the beating heart of UK terrorism, to make a stand." Skirmishes in Dover The Dewsbury protest came as skirmishes broke out at a service station in Dover between anti-fascists and right-wing groups. Anti-fascist activists claimed that their coach windscreen was smashed by their rivals and a swastika was daubed in blood on the side of their vehicle at a Maidstone service station. A counter demonstration was arranged by group called We Are Dewsbury who said in a statement:" We urge members of the local and neighbouring communities and further afield to come and show their support by standing up against fascists and racists such as Britain First and others who seek to divide our communities."

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Input: Rio 2016: How the Olympic Games have fared one week on If confirmed, the incident involving Mr Lochte will be the most high profile of a series of security incidents that have caused problems at an Olympics already overshadowed by the Zika virus and swimming pool water that mysteriously turned green. In June, before the games even began, the Australian wheelchair basketball player Liesl Tesch warned that Rio was a “dangerous place” after two armed thieves demanded money and stole her bicycle as she trained in the city. The Australian team then had a laptop and Zika-protective team shirts stolen from their quarters in the Olympic village, after about 100 team members had been evacuated because of a small fire in the basement car park of their accommodation. Evgeny Korotyshkin, a Russian former Olympic swimmer, visiting Rio as president of the Moscow swimming association, also claimed to have been robbed by gun-toting teenagers who let him photograph them in exchange for all the money he had on him.

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Input: Putin has declared the United States as enemy number one since his February 2007 speech in Munich. How will Trump “get along very well” with a negotiating partner, whose regime’s very existence requires the U.S. as Russia’s major enemy? Putin lies publicly and repeatedly about the most important political matters, such as “there are no Russian troops in Ukraine,” that the Crimean annexation was a spontaneous act of the Crimean people, and that a Ukrainian fighter shot down MH17. Trump complains that Hillary is a serial liar; yet he believes he can negotiate with a rogue leader who lies without hesitation about matters involving the lives of thousands or hundreds of thousands. Putin runs a criminal kleptocracy that not only stole the national wealth but likely killed hundreds of Russians in politically-motivated apartment bombings and is presumed to have ordered a number of political assassinations.

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Input: The anti-Muslim argument was also heard this week from a self-identified lesbian whose online video rant has been promoted by Matt Drudge and others in the right-wing media. In the video, “DeplorableCorgiGirl,” a.k.a. @DebraMax, attacks Hillary Clinton’s gay campaign manager, Robby Mook, calling him “a disgrace” for working for “that bitch.” She says Clinton “took money from these countries, from these countries that would take him and his friends or his lover or his partner and throw them off a building and kill them.” She says Mook is too young to remember “the time of AIDS” and adds, “I never thought in my life I would see another time that I would fear for me and my other gay friends,” referring to the shooting in Orlando. “How disgraceful that you are out there in the public supporting somebody that is going to come here and will kill you for being a gay man,” she says. @DebraMax is not the first to use the massacre at an Orlando gay Pulse nightclub to try to push LGBT people to vote for the overtly anti-Muslim Trump.

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Input: Please share on Linkedin “The two terrorists stabbed them in the back multiple times, both in the upper body, and fled the scene toward the adjacent neighborhood of Jebl Mukaber,” police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said shortly after the stabbings. “Police and emergency units rushed to the scene and gave immediate medical assistance before transferring both women to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in moderate condition. While a forensics team searched the area, police set up roadblocks to find the terrorists. ”Roughly one hour later, Rosenfeld said, Border Police officers arrested two suspects matching the description of the assailants, but after extensive questioning, both young men were released without charges. “Police are continuing to search for the terrorists involved in the attack and hope to make arrests soon,” he said later in the day. Shortly after the attack, Shaare Zedek Medical Center spokeswoman Shoham Ruvio said both victims were in stable condition and expected to survive. “They are stable and conscious,” said Ruvio. “One, 86 years old, was stabbed in the back three times and is in the intensive care unit. The second victim, 82, was also stabbed multiple times and is in the department for heart surgery. She does n’t need surgery, but is being closely monitored due to a preexisting heart condition. ”Meanwhile, Rosenfeld said, security has been heightened throughout the capital, and will continue at elevated levels throughout the holiday. “All public areas will have additional police units deployed and nothing will be left to chance, as the city observes Remembrance Day and Independence Day,” he said. Last October, the Armon Hanatziv / East Talpiot neighborhood made international headlines after two terrorists from Jebl Mukaber stormed an Egged bus and stabbed and shot four victims to death before being killed by police. To stymie the deadly violence between the Arab and Jewish communities, police temporarily set up a concrete wall and checkpoint around Jebl Mukaber, which was soon taken down amid protests by human rights groups. Near the scene of Tuesday’s attack, a cross-section of residents expressed shock and indignation that the assailants preyed on women in their 80s. Meir Shahar, 67, a longtime resident of Armon Hanatziv/ East Talpiot said young Arab residents from Jebl Mukaber have long intimidated and terrorized Jews living in his neighborhood, but said he was stunned that defenseless elderly women were stabbed in the back. “These are old women!” he said with clear revulsion.

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Input: By then, there may not be time to organize a national campaign with a suitable candidate (as opposed to a goofy 74-year -old avowed socialist). RELATED: Hillary’s E-mail Recklessness Compromised Our National Security So these Democrats play Russian roulette: hopefully assuming that the FBI wo n’t dare recommend criminal charges with the stakes so high; that the Obama Justice Department wo n’t prosecute if charges are recommended; that Obama will figure out a way to intervene with a pardon that wo n’t do Clinton too much damage, and that the public can be spun into thinking an investigation led by Obama appointees and career law-enforcement officers is somehow a Vast-Right-Wing-Conspiracy plot dreamt up by Republicans. Many of these Democrats know that the right thing to do for their party — and country — is to demand that Mrs. Clinton step aside. They also know that if they do the right thing, and Clinton wins anyway, there will be vengeance — Hillary being the vengeful sort.

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Input: When I wake up I’m sweating again. I make a note in the margin of my journal. It reads: “when the baby is old enough, start talking to her about how things like the Holocaust happen when great power falls into the wrong hands.” When the world starts measuring a culture by the size of their noses, jawlines and heads. When people start throwing books of another language into the fire. When people stop using their words, people stop choosing their words.

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Input: So, she gets a subpoena and after – not before, that would be bad – but after getting a subpoena to give over your emails and lots of other things, she deleted the emails.” Chopping the air with his right hand, Trump roared: “She has to go to jail.” The crowd erupted, punching the air, holding placards aloft and chanting, “Lock her up!” – a demand that Trump used to disavow. He pressed for more: “And her law firm, which is the very big and powerful law firm, which is the one that said, ‘Oh, they’ll determine what they’re giving’, those representatives within that law firm that did that have to go to jail.” Once again, Conway attempted to play down the threat.

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Input: In a different missive, a staffer relayed that Clinton herself was frustrated with "poll-tested lines that don't work" on the campaign trail. Another exchange dealt with the dicey issue of whether to allow lobbyists for foreign companies and governments to bundle for the campaign. Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said he was comfortable allowing for some of them to donate and fundraise. Jennifer Palmieri replied with:" Take the money!!" It is not uncommon for professional campaigns to be so deliberate.

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Input: After 30 minutes of this, Kwan steps up on one of the vinyl-upholstered benches in the corner of the room and is introduced by a local organizer to the crowd. “As I have been on the campaign trail now for over a year, every day I’m reminded about my personal story, about what’s at stake in these elections. I think of my parents, and as I look around the room, we probably share similar stories, of how our parents, grandparents, or great-grandparents might have immigrated to the U.S. … I often think, what’s the motivation for Hillary Clinton? It’s so the next generation of Americans have the ability to dream that dream,” she says. As Kwan speaks, the crowd is silent, craning their necks to look up at her.

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Input: “The importance of these documents is that we get a better structural understanding of the last phase of the war,” Nikolaus Katzer, director of the German Historical Institute tells Rothwell. “It provides insight into the changing role of Himmler and insight into the SS elite and overall the entire German leadership.” Himmler was captured by British soldiers in Berlin in May 1945. He killed himself using a secret cyanide capsule before he could be interrogated. His body was buried in an unmarked grave that has not been revealed to this day.

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Input: Joseph Stalin ordered the “liquidation” of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg — who saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust — in 1947, according to the diary of a former KGB chief. The document offers a first confirmation that Wallenberg, who disappeared in 1945, was executed by the Soviet Union. A young architect and businessman, Wallenberg volunteered to travel to Hungary in 1944 as a special envoy to aid a US effort to rescue Jews from extermination at the hands of Nazi Germany. Wallenberg used his position to save tens of thousands of Jews by issuing them protective passports in the final months of World War II.

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Input: Trump’s demonization of Muslims is not political — it’s personal. His reckless rhetoric about our community has manifested in a spike in hate crimes against us. Just a few days ago a self-professed Trump fan physically attacked two hijab-wearing Muslim women in New York City while reportedly yelling, “Get the fuck out of America, bitches … This is America — you should n’t be different from us.” (The attacker was formally charged with a hate crime.) And in the last month alone we have seen three Muslim Americans killed in New York City in two separate incidents that the Muslim community believes are possible hate crimes. Add to that the numerous mosques that have been attacked, including a fire Sunday night — officially deemed by the police as arson — at the mosque the Orlando Pulse nightclub gunman had attended.

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Input: And what I’d like to know is, that annex that was close by, were they involved with procuring, buying, selling, obtaining weapons and were any of these weapons being transferred to other countries? Any countries, Turkey included? Clinton: Well, Senator you’ll have to direct that question to the agency that ran the annex. And, I will see what information was available. Paul: You’re saying you do n’t know?

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Input: The first part of that remark is just another Trumpian rewriting of his personal history. But to assert, over and over, that the United States should have seized Iraq’s oil in to-the-victor-go-the-spoils fashion is to display an utter disregard for the way civilized nations conduct themselves. A reputable international-law-abiding country ca n’t simply invade another country and forcibly commandeer its natural resources. Not even in cases when the country is question is run by a ruthless tyrant like Saddam Hussein. Speaking of Hussein, that’s exactly what he did to Kuwait in 1990 — and why President George H.W.

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Input: The Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation improperly exploited its tax status to expand in size and stature, Daily Caller News Foundation investigations indicate. TheDCNF’s Mark Tapscott and Richard Pollock reported in recent weeks that the Clinton Foundation deceived the IRS with respect to its tax status, and that the Foundation often does not abide by good governance practices common to charities. Taken together, these revelations could present a significant legal problem for the Foundation. As Tapscott reports, when the Foundation registered as a charity with the IRS in 1997, it was designated strictly as a presidential archive.

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Input: Tens of thousands of people in the Ukrainian capital came to various observances of the “Day of the Heavenly Hundred.” The term refers to those who died during the months of protests in Kyiv that culminated with President Viktor Yanukovych fleeing. Article Continued Below Saturday was the second anniversary of the bloodiest day of the protests, when more than 50 people died from sniper fire. People pay their respects in honor of the "Heavenly Hundred" on Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 20 2016. The "Heavenly Hundred" is what Ukrainians in Kiev call those who died during months of anti-government protests in 2013-14.

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Input: Still, both passed background checks and were declared "clean." They were then placed in U.S. public housing and afforded other welfare benefits. While here, the two refugees plotted to obtain Stinger missiles and attack homeland targets. Luckily, the FBI caught up to them before they could carry out their plans. They're now serving 40 years in federal prison.

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Input: (Yamil Lage / AFP / Getty Images) People carry some of their belongings through rubble in Baracoa. (Ramon Espinosa / AP) A man fixes a roof of a partially built house after the hurricane in Les Cayes, Haiti. (Andres Martinez Casares / Reuters) A girl watches as authorities arrive to evacuate people from her house in Tabarre, Haiti. (Dieu Nalio Chery / AP) A structure lays on the ground after being brought down by the winds of Hurricane Matthew in Leogane, Haiti. (Dieu Nalio Chery / AP) People watch from the other side of the La Digue river as water roars past the destroyed Petit Goave bridge in Petit Goave, Haiti.

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Input: Congressman Gosset represented Amarillo, Texas, in the House of Representatives. Congressman Gosset was alarmed that the Senate Armed Services Committee the day before confirmed the appointment of Anna M. Rosenberg as Assistant Secretary of Defense without a public hearing. The only witness who appeared to testify concerning Anna Rosenberg's fitness to serve as Assistant Secretary of Defense was Ann Rosenberg herself. That by itself aroused suspicion among the country's leaders. Congress Gosset took this author to Senator Johnson's office and explained to him the reason for the visit.

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Input: The emails were lifted earlier this year in a hacking breach that security experts have linked to Russian espionage groups. As part of their pushback against the emails ' damning details, many Democrats accuse Putin of trying to help Trump's campaign. They point to mutually admiring comments between the two men, as well as Trump policy proposals that many experts say would weaken NATO and cause the United States to retreat from the world stage." Experts are now saying that the Russians are releasing these emails for the purpose of actually helping Donald Trump," Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, Robby Mook, told CNN on Sunday." That foreign actors may be trying to influence our election — let alone a powerful adversary like Russia — should concern all Americans of any party," said ranking House Intelligence Committee Democrat Adam Schiff on Monday.

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Input: From Sidney Blumenthal (continued) “Larry C. Johnson is a former analyst at the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, who moved subsequently in 1989 to the U.S. Department of State, where he served four years as the deputy director for transportation security, antiterrorism assistance training, and special operations in the State Department’s Office of Counterterrorism. He left government … in October 1993 … and is an expert in the fields of terrorism, aviation security, and crisis and risk management, and money laundering investigations. Johnson is the founder and main author of No Quarter, a weblog that addresses issues of terrorism and intelligence and politics.)”

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Input: Is she responsible for his death? The email was sent in 2011 and is one of several State Department emails that went through Clinton's personal email account and private, non-secure server virtually advertising Stevens ' whereabouts, Breitbart reports. Others that had been previously released revealed that Stevens was moving "from Malta to Benghazi," advised that he and his "team are in the hotel" and disclosed that he had requested "better security at the hotel" and "better security-related coordination." Stevens died on Sept. 11, 2012, during terrorist attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, more than a year after these emails were sent. But the fact that his whereabouts were exposed in emails in 2011 strongly suggests that his movements and location could have also have crossed through Clinton's private email server days and even hours before he was killed.

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Input: These are not coincidences. This is a dangerous pattern. Trump threatened to jail his opponent if he became president. It was a chilling moment that revealed the depth of his ignorance and disdain for the principles that actually make America great. It was also a window into how his presidency would change our country.

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Input: As early as July, 1989, Eduard Shevardnadze, Gorbachev’s Foreign Minister, had told Secretary of State James Baker, “In time there could be danger of civil war and dictatorship.” The C.I.A. did not think a putsch was necessarily imminent, but with every month there were broad indications — then more booming ones. In December, 1990, Shevardnadze resigned his post, declaring publicly, “A dictatorship is coming.” And in June, 1991, just weeks before the publication of “A Word to the People,” Gavriil Popov, a liberal and the mayor of Moscow, went to Spaso House, the residence of American Ambassador Jack Matlock, and told him that a coup was being planned. Matlock sent an emergency “flash cable” to Baker, who, in turn, told Bush; the Americans also informed both Gorbachev and the Russian President, Boris Yeltsin. Gorbachev, who had grown accustomed to a more or less permanent state of crisis and embattlement, somehow did not take the warning seriously.

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Input: “There is enormous expectation in the United States. Some of that expectation will be partly answered; but you should understand that if we're going to make a major publication in relation to the United States at a particular hour, we don't do it at 3AM,” said Assange. Assange declined at the time to say whether the upcoming releases would tilt the election toward Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, though as the website was responsible for leaking the US Democratic National Committee emails in July this year, rumours circulated that the leaks would affect Clinton’s reputation." Are upcoming publications significant in relation to the US election? Yeah, we think they're significant," said Assange.

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Input: I'm proud to stand by our allies in NATO against any threat they face, including from Russia. I've laid out my strategy for defeating ISIS. We will strike their sanctuaries from the air, and support local forces taking them out on the ground. We will surge our intelligence so that we detect and prevent attacks before they happen. We will disrupt their efforts online to reach and radicalize young people in our country.

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Input: Clinton is n’t the only reminder of the third-world politics of this campaign season. After a decade of CIA service, Trump is also a familiar character to me. Blustering, despotic, and fueling racial and ethnic tensions to thrill his followers and intimidate his opponents while empowering himself, Trump’s disdain for America’s character and the values enshrined in our Constitution plays out every day in his attacks on religious minorities, Hispanics, African Americans, the free press, and the rule of law. POLICING THE USA: A look at race, justice, media Trump’s adoration of dictatorships and authoritarians was on full display tonight, and flies in the face of every American ideal.

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Input: "It is also incredible that the Libyan president would call and meet Bill Clinton through the Clinton Foundation before meeting Hillary Clinton about Benghazi." "Secretary of State Hillary Clinton worked hand in glove with the Clinton Foundation on fundraising and foreign policy. Despite the law and her promises to the contrary, Hillary Clinton turned the State Department into the DC office of the Clinton Foundation."

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Input: Iran captured the ten sailors after one of their riverine boats veered into Iranian waters on January 12. According to U.S. Central Command, the sailors were taken at gunpoint to a port facility on Farsi Island, in the middle of the Persian Gulf, where they were detained for around 15 hours before being allowed to continue to Bahrain. The Iranians were also reported to have confiscated SIM cards from two satellite phones that the sailors had in their possession. Naval and legal experts have criticized Iran’s seizure of the U.S. naval boats and its treatment of the sailors, arguing that Tehran breached multiple international laws. According to U.S. Navy Captain Sean Liedman, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, the broadcasting of photos and videos for propaganda purposes violates the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, a treaty which bans degrading treatment of detainees that was ratified by Iran in 1975.

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Input: Just a few days ago a self-professed Trump fan physically attacked two hijab-wearing Muslim women in New York City while reportedly yelling, “Get the fuck out of America, bitches … This is America — you should n’t be different from us.” (The attacker was formally charged with a hate crime.) And in the last month alone we have seen three Muslim Americans killed in New York City in two separate incidents that the Muslim community believes are possible hate crimes. Add to that the numerous mosques that have been attacked, including a fire Sunday night — officially deemed by the police as arson — at the mosque the Orlando Pulse nightclub gunman had attended. Keep in mind that after the horrific 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that killed three and injured over 250, we did n’t see this type of backlash. As the Associated Press noted at the time, “Muslim civil rights leaders say the anti-Islam reaction has been more muted this time than after other attacks since Sept. 11.” The difference was that in 2013 there was no Trump ginning up hatred of Muslims for political gain.

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Input: It includes food and agricultural products, as well as automotive sector," he added. Turkey's foreign minister also said that Putin asked Erdogan to take measures on products that are embargoed by Russia, but still reaches the country via Turkey." We will continue our embargo to these countries," Cavusoglu said." We won't let this happen. Why would another country's products reach Russia, instead of our own?"

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Input: The Syrian ceasefire is breaking down in Aleppo, as the deal brokered by Russia and the United States shows signs of strain. The breakdown threatens a planned United Nations effort to provide aid to Syria’s largest city, Aleppo, where upwards of 250,000 people are trapped by the hostilities. The below video shows the eerie but anxious calm that fell over Aleppo as the ceasefire began. The Syrian ceasefire began Monday amid high hopes from the international community.

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Input: Deputy Spokesperson @Toner_Mark outlines joint declaration for export and use of UAVs. https://t.co/0He6M4e07C — Department of State (@StateDept) October 5, 2016

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Input: Russia has made “specific proposals” on a ceasefire in Syria and is waiting for a reaction from the US, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. “We made proposals on implementing a ceasefire, quite specific ones,” Lavrov said. “We are waiting for a US response before putting them before the International Syria Support Group.”

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Input: “This stunning development raises serious questions about what records may not have been turned over and why, and whether they show intent to violate the law.” Photo Speaker Paul D. Ryan, who has been critical of Mr. Trump, assailed Mrs. Clinton and said that she should no longer be allowed to receive classified briefings. “Hillary Clinton has nobody but herself to blame,” Mr. Ryan said in an emailed statement. “She was entrusted with some of our nation’s most important secrets, and she betrayed that trust by carelessly mishandling highly classified information.”

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Input: The North's recent actions have sorely tested its only ally, China. It condemned January's test and repeated that on Friday after the latest. China's foreign ministry said it would lodge a diplomatic protest and urged North Korea to avoid further action that would worsen the situation. Reaction from elsewhere was more harsh: United States-President Barack Obama condemned the test saying he had agreed with South Korea and Japan to work with the UN Security Council "to vigorously implement existing measures imposed in previous resolutions, and to take additional significant steps, including new sanctions"

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Input: These findings are basically unchanged from July when FBI Director James Comey first announced the decision not to seek an indictment. Seventy percent (70%) of voters say Clinton’s mishandling of classified information is important to their vote for president, with 49% who say it’s Very Important. Twenty-seven percent (27%) say the issue is not important, but that includes only nine percent (9%) who say it’s Not At All Important to how they will vote. Newly released information shows that a State Department official offered the FBI a secret deal to take the classified rating off one of the e-mails Hillary Clinton sent on her private e-mail server. That e-mail was about the incident in Benghazi, Libya in which four Americans were killed, including the U.S. ambassador, and was one that triggered the FBI's investigation of Clinton's private e-mail server.

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Input: The media organizations looking into Mossack Fonseca are expected to publish many more articles based on the new documents in the coming days. Advertisement Continue reading the main story The firm, which has dozens of offices around the world, has been investigated by law enforcement authorities in several countries over accusations of connections to money laundering. In a lengthy statement provided to The Guardian, the firm said it could not respond to specific questions, but insisted that many of the individuals and companies named in the documents were never clients of Mossack Fonseca. The firm added that in many cases it was “legal and common for companies to establish commercial entities in different jurisdictions for a variety of legitimate reasons.”

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Input: “Hillary must be brought to justice — arrested, tried and executed for murder,” he tweeted two years ago. Stone suggested anew this week (at a rally also attended by Baldasaro) that Clinton murdered her friend Vince Foster. In Turkey, Erdogan is imprisoning his foes without trial. In Russia, enemies of Putin have been killed. But in America, we usually deal with political opponents in elections.

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Input: Bannon was charged in 1996 with misdemeanor witness intimidation, domestic violence with traumatic injury and battery, according to a Santa Monica, California, police report. The charges were dropped when after his estranged wife didn't show up at trial, according to court records. Piccard said in her declaration that she skipped the trial after Bannon and his lawyer arranged for her to leave town. She said Bannon had told her the lawyer would make her look like the guilty party if she testified and the attorney told her she'd be broke if Bannon went to jail. The Trump campaign declined to comment on the abuse charges.

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Input: Tensions rising The call comes as tension between the authorities and many in the Kurdish minority are growing over the military's campaign against rebels from the PKK in the southeast. Erdogan also said Wednesday that some arms confiscated from the PKK, the Syrian Democratic Union Party (PYD), and its armed wing, the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), had come from Russia and the West, including the US. While Washington recognizes the PKK as a terrorist group, it has strong ties with the YPG, and provides air support to the group, widely seen as one of the most effective ground forces fighting the Islamic State in Syria. Turkey launched air strikes

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Input: If you are going to set up your own e-mail server to keep your correspondence off of government systems, you should probably not let it go without an encryption certificate for months. You should also not bother to set up your own e-mail server, since any moderately bright 14-year -old could tell you that your e-mails are going to show up in others ' inboxes, and then your secret server is going to become an eminently FOIA-able political disaster. The thing does n’t just make me question Clinton’s character, but also her political acumen, and her ability to identify and hire competent staff. Of course, Clinton supporters can point out that Trump has some problems in the planning, staffing and truth-telling departments. He really really does.

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Input: 2/11 Executions Defence minister Hyon Yong Chol is believed to be the latest official executed after falling foul of Kim Jong-un. As well as gruesome public executions, thousands of people have been killed in state ' purges ' and for alleged anti-state crimes Getty 3/11 Torture Torture is prevalent in prison camps, as well as in police and security service custody. AP 4/11 Freedom of religion American missionary Kenneth Bae was one of the many people detained after trying to practice their religion.

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Input: To better understand Assange’s recent intervention in the U.S. election, it helps to look more closely at a sort of manifesto he wrote as he was creating WikiLeaks. The same month that WikiLeaks.org went live, in December of 2006, Assange posted an essay on his blog, “Conspiracy as Governance,” in which he explained his theory that authoritarian regimes — and western political parties — maintain power by conspiring to keep the public in the dark, through “collaborative secrecy, working to the detriment of a population.” In order for the people to regain control of the political system, Assange argued, it is necessary to find ways of “throttling the conspiracy,” like disrupting the ability of the conspirators to communicate secretly. With that in mind, Assange wrote, “let us consider two closely balanced and broadly conspiratorial power groupings, the US Democratic and Republican parties.” He continued, “Consider what would happen if one of these parties gave up their mobile phones, fax and email correspondence — let alone the computer systems which manage their subscribers, donors, budgets, polling, call centres and direct mail campaigns? They would immediately fall into an organisational stupor and lose to the other.” A decade later, by releasing thousands of unredacted emails and voice-mail messages hacked from the Democratic Party — in a database that makes it easy to search for the social security numbers of donors, as well as their passport and credit card details — Assange was finally able to put his theory into practice, by attempting to throttle one of the “conspiratorial power groupings” that selects candidates to run the U.S. government. Assange’s attack on the DNC certainly revealed hypocrisy within the party, and led to the resignations of four senior officials, but his decision to not redact personal information from those documents — or from a second cache of emails hacked from a Turkish political party — also led to criticism from some longtime supporters, including Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower.

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Input: "London has been a crossroads for the world's money for centuries," he explained." When the British empire collapsed, London swapped being the governor of the imperial engine to being an offshore island and allowing money to come with no questions asked," he added. With public pressure mounting, Murphy said Britain had the power to legislate directly on its overseas territories, but the lobbying power of the financial sector and worries about upsetting the jewel in Britain's economic crown were holding back efforts." The City of London seems to believe that without these conduits, then it would not have the competitive edge that it needs," he said." The financial institutions have become like wild animals," added Shaxson.

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Input: Before the debate, the mainstream media was insisting that Holt debate the facts with Trump. I believe he did so only once, disputing Trump’s claim that he opposed the Iraq war pre-invasion. It’s difficult to be too sympathetic to Trump here because he certainly did make mildly supportive statements about invading Iraq. Even so, Holt overstepped his proper role. When Holt asserted that Trump supported the war, Hillary Clinton had already said so and Trump had denied it.

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Input: Hide Caption 25 of 32 Photos: North Dakota pipeline protests Marlo Langdeau of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe joins hundreds of Native Americans for a march near Cannon Ball on Sunday, September 4. Hide Caption 26 of 32 Photos: North Dakota pipeline protests Protesters march on September 4 in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline. Hide Caption 27 of 32 Photos: North Dakota pipeline protests Native Americans march to the site of a sacred burial ground on September 4. Hide Caption 28 of 32 Photos: North Dakota pipeline protests Native Americans ride with raised fists to the sacred burial ground on September 4 to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline. Hide Caption 29 of 32 Photos: North Dakota pipeline protests The Missouri River is seen beyond an encampment near Cannon Ball, where hundreds of people gathered to join the protest on September 4.

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Input: Cybersecurity experts are searching for answers after an unidentified group claimed on Monday to have hacked into "Equation Group" — an elite cyber-attack group associated with the NSA. The "Shadow Brokers" claimed in a post on blogging service Tumblr to have hacked Equation Group, and say they are holding an "auction" to sell off the "cyber weapons" they were able to steal. Shadow Brokers have also provided a sample of files, free to access, to "prove" their legitimacy. (Business Insider isn't linking to the files because they are a potential security risk.)

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Input: “It would take an hour and a half to learn everything there is to learn about missiles,” he said. “I think I know most of it anyway.” According to Bruce G. Blair, a research scholar at the Program on Science and Global Security, at Princeton, Trump encountered a U.S. nuclear-arms negotiator at a reception in 1990 and offered advice on how to cut a “terrific” deal with a Soviet counterpart. Trump told him to arrive late, stand over the Soviet negotiator, stick his finger in his chest, and say, “Fuck you!” Recently, a former Republican White House official whom Trump has called on for his insights told me, “Honestly, the problem with Donald is he does n’t know what he does n’t know.” Shortly after taking the oath of office, Trump would be assigned a military aide who carries the forty-five-pound aluminum-and-leather briefcase that holds “a manual for conducting nuclear war,” according to Dan Zak, the author of “Almighty,” a new book on nuclear weapons. The briefcase, known in the White House as “the football,” contains menus of foreign targets: cities, arsenals, critical infrastructure. To launch an attack, Trump would first verify his identity to a commander in the Pentagon’s war room, by referring to codes on a one-of-a-kind I.D.

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Input: Mother Jones has reviewed that report and other memos this former spy wrote. The first memo, based on the former intelligence officer’s conversations with Russian sources, noted, “Russian regime has been cultivating, supporting and assisting TRUMP for at least 5 years. Aim, endorsed by PUTIN, has been to encourage splits and divisions in western alliance.” It maintained that Trump “and his inner circle have accepted a regular flow of intelligence from the Kremlin, including on his Democratic and other political rivals.” It claimed that Russian intelligence had “compromised” Trump during his visits to Moscow and could “blackmail him.” It also reported that Russian intelligence had compiled a dossier on Hillary Clinton based on “bugged conversations she had on various visits to Russia and intercepted phone calls.” The former intelligence officer says the response from the FBI was “shock and horror.” The FBI, after receiving the first memo, did not immediately request additional material, according to the former intelligence officer and his American associates. Yet in August, they say, the FBI asked him for all information in his possession and for him to explain how the material had been gathered and to identify his sources.

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Input: A U.S. general, in contrast, underscored the need for the joint drills to brace for potential crises. Duterte, who labels himself a socialist, has had an uneasy relationship with the U.S. and a falling out with President Barack Obama, whom he has lambasted for criticizing his deadly anti-drug fight. Despite his constant anti-U.S. pronouncements, Duterte said he would not abrogate the mutual defense treaty with the U.S. but questioned the need for it." I do not mean to cancel or abrogate the military alliances," Duterte said in a speech before new government officials at the presidential palace." But let me ask you ... do you really think we need it?"

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Input: "I believe strongly that we need to make sure that Wall Street never wrecks Main Street again," Clinton said in January." No bank is too big to fail, and no executive is too powerful to jail." As she sought to burnish her image as an advocate of working America, Clinton declared her opposition to the Trans Pacific Partnership, Obama's 12-nation trade pact, and distanced herself from Nafta, which her husband signed into law. But in a 2013 speech to a Brazilian bank, Clinton took a far different approach." My dream," she said," is a hemispheric common market, with open borders, some time in the future."

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Input: Gov. Chris Christie (R-N.J.) presented his case against Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at the GOP convention on Tuesday, July 19. People in the crowd shouted "guilty!" throughout his speech and started a "lock her up" chant. (The Washington Post)

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Input: No one tracked their movements and phone calls, a notable lapse since both men ended up among the 19 hijackers.) Voters had no problem re-electing a president who did nothing after receiving an intelligence briefing weeks before 9/11 headlined “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the U.S.” In his September cover story for The Atlantic, Steven Brill recounts how the political lessons of those early years evolved into an approach he succinctly summarizes as “never again.” Politicians and government bureaucrats understood that the public would not forgive a second, devastating strike. For the administrations of both President Bush and President Obama, “never again” has meant saying yes to any initiative that could be sold as plausible protection against a future attack. The “never again” approach has remained in place even as those who commit acts of terrorism have shifted in recent years to take advantage of the lethal possibilities of the ever-more connected world.

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