Input: The enraged host, Evgeny Kiselyov, blasted America's "impudent behaviour" and spent two hours warning that a conflict could take "nuclear dimensions". Aggressive posturing from Russia in recent weeks has seen the state force 40 million of its citizens to take part in a massive defence drill to prepare them for a nuclear holocaust. Russia’s military announced it would run the country-wide drill in preparation of a large-scale war. GETTY Tensions are mounting between Putin and Obama over the Syrian conflict The governor of St Petersburg clarified what bread rations people could expect should Russia come under attack – 300 grams for 20 days.

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Input: Hide Caption 66 of 83 Photos: Inside North Korea Outdoor exercise accompanied by upbeat music is a daily routine for these North Korean middle school students. Classes are critiqued on their coordination. Hide Caption 67 of 83 Photos: Inside North Korea Young children in a newly constructed Pyongyang orphanage practice a musical performance. Hide Caption 68 of 83 Photos: Inside North Korea The orphanage features a pool area for the children, who live and study in the complex. Hide Caption 69 of 83 Photos: Inside North Korea Young boys practice a drum routine that they will perform during International Children's Day.

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Input: In any case, without guarantees and a halt to shelling and shooting by all sides, aid agencies can not begin to provide the medical evacuations and humanitarian aid deliveries to eastern Aleppo that United Nations officials said they would aim to carry out after Russia agreed to extend its cease-fire. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Previous negotiations to evacuate civilians or fighters from besieged areas and to deliver aid, including in the city of Homs in 2014, faced difficulty in winning consensus among fighters on each side. In Homs, there were disagreements among rebel groups, with some taking a harder line and pressuring other fighters and civilians to hold out longer. And even when the government of President Bashar al-Assad approved aid delivery to Homs, pro-government militias shelled a convoy.

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Input: “The biggest question for this group is if and how HRC engages on Clinton Cash this week and what are the ‘two lines’ she would deliver,” Jake Sullivan wrote on May 3 to 10 top aides, including Jennifer Palmieri, Robby Mook, Mandy Grunwald, Joel Benenson and Jim Margolis. Benenson responded with a few lines for Clinton to say about the foundation’s “life-saving work around the world.” “The notion that that anyone donating to the foundation was going to influence me in my job is absurd,” Benenson suggested Clinton say, to which Margolis suggested, adding “and never happened.” Of the rapid-response website, Sullivan wrote, “John [Podesta] and I discussed yesterday and think it is important that supporters and press know that we will deal aggressively with unfair attacks, but our real focus and hers is her proactive vision. Important that we do not appear beleaguered.”

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Input: Kerry believes the plan is the best chance to limit fighting that is driving thousands of Syrians into exile in Europe and preventing humanitarian aid from reaching tens of thousands more. The talks came as opposition groups effectively surrendered the Damascus suburb of Daraya to the government after a grueling four-year siege. Kerry said the Syrian regime had "forced the surrender" of Daraya in contravention of the February cessation of hostilities agreement, but Lavrov said the local accord was an "example" that should be "replicated". The Russian foreign minister said another besieged area was "interested in such an operation with mediation of the Russian Federation." He did not name the area.

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Input: However, the idea of a head transplant has proved controversial with the medical establishment. Canavero has been criticised on ethical grounds and also by those who think it simply will not work. While head transplants have been performed on dogs and monkeys, the animals tested were unable to move following the procedure and died shortly afterwards. With the planned study, The Daily Telegraph quotes from various doctors who have expressed serious doubts about the likelihood of Mr Spiridinov’s brain remaining functional by the time the surgery is complete. More about head transplant, Transplant, Sergio Canavero More news from head transplant Transplant Sergio Canavero

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Input: "I raise this second possibility," he wrote," because of Hillary's history of neurological illnesses (blood clot in brain, concussion), hints raised on the internet in Wikileaks documents and by others that she may have a neurological disease like Parkinson's, and her by now well documented history of recurrent coughing fits. This second possibility is that she has an aspiration pneumonia." The first possibility, stated at the top, was that she simply had contracted the illness, like any other "healthy person living her usual life."

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Input: He then almost appeared to segue into the standard attack lines of his rally speeches, setting aside jokes to bring up material contained in hacked Clinton campaign emails. Advertisement ‘ ‘Hillary believes that it’s vital to deceive the people by having one public policy and a totally different policy in private,’’ he said to growing jeers. ‘ ‘Here she is tonight, in public, pretending not to hate Catholics.’’ Clinton also veered into personal digs, making one joke in which she said the Statue of Liberty, for most Americans, represents a symbol of hope for immigrants.

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Input: None, none, none. On my first day in office I am also going to ask Congress to pass Kate's Law, named for Kate Steinle. To ensure that criminal aliens convicted of illegal reentry receive strong mandatory minimum sentences. Strong. And then we get them out.

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Input: “We have reserves, stores, but Aleppo is home to 326,000 people who are besieged,” Haji Hasan said. “It is not a small city, it is an industrial city. We can keep going for two to three months, but then people will starve in large numbers. We are facing a major humanitarian crisis and nobody is helping us. Everyone is just watching.

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Input: In contrast, his challenger for the Democratic nomination once "sold" the concept of fracking to other countries. Clinton's affinity for this dangerous form of fossil fuel extraction is highlighted in a Mother Jones piece titled How Hillary Clinton's State Department Sold Fracking to the World: Clinton urged Bulgarian officials to give fracking another chance ... Under her leadership, the State Department worked closely with energy companies to spread fracking around the globe -- part of a broader push to fight climate change, boost global energy supply, and undercut the power of adversaries such as Russia that use their energy resources as a cudgel. But environmental groups fear that exporting fracking, which has been linked to drinking-water contamination and earthquakes at home, could wreak havoc in countries with scant environmental regulation.

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Input: USA Triathlon CEO Rob Urbach makes $ 362,000 while Team USA triathletes compete for stipends that range from about $ 20,000 to $ 40,000 a year. The coach of the USA Rowing women’s team makes $ 237,000 while his rowers vie for stipends that max out at about $ 20,000 per year. (U.S. Olympic athletes are given an additional stipend if they win a gold, silver or bronze medal.) “I’ve never thought it was fair,” said rower Caroline Lind, a two-time gold medalist who recently retired after a back injury. “We’re all replaceable.

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Input: Separately, rebel leaders told reporters that they would not accept emergency medical evacuations if food and medicine were not also delivered to people trapped inside. United Nations officials have said that forcing people to leave their homes in order to receive aid is against international law. But in practice, the government has taken back a number of areas with starve-or-surrender tactics, bombarding and starving people until they agree to leave. In any case, without guarantees and a halt to shelling and shooting by all sides, aid agencies can not begin to provide the medical evacuations and humanitarian aid deliveries to eastern Aleppo that United Nations officials said they would aim to carry out after Russia agreed to extend its cease-fire. Advertisement Continue reading the main story

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Input: But what may disappoint observers is the clear offer of a road back before next summer’s Olympic Games in Rio. As the IAAF statement said: ‘To regain membership to the IAAF the new federation would have to fulfil a list of criteria. An inspection team led by Independent Chair Rune Andersen, an independent international anti-doping expert (Norwegian) and three members of the IAAF Council who will be appointed in the next few days.’ Vitaly Mutko was accused by WADA of being complicit in a state-sponsored drug programme The London Olympics in 2012 were ' sabotaged ' by the approach of Russian athletes suspected of doping

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Input: The state-run Sana news agency reported at least 83 dead and 178 wounded. Image copyright AP Image caption Dozens were killed in the blasts in Sayyida Zeinab The Amaq news agency, which is linked to Islamic State, said IS militants had detonated a car bomb and then blown up explosive belts. The district was hit by suicide attacks last month that left 71 people dead and which IS fighters also said they had carried out. Image copyright AFP Image caption Homs has fallen in and out of rebel control

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Input: "You really just do n’t talk about it." Skinner, added, however, that people at senior levels in the agencies "might be wondering about priorities." He and others also said a Trump win in November won't necessarily repel future recruits nor lead to mass retirements, at least not immediately." If there is a President Trump — that’s kind of a funny sentence to say — then there will probably be a lot of hope that the directors — all the top appointees — would be very diligent in their duties," Skinner said." There has to be some kind of faith that the system works, but he’s running on a no-faith-in-the-system campaign."

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Input: When homeowner Art Gonsalves confronted Bryant, she allegedly drove off erratically, forcing the victim to run out of the way of her car. Police tracked down Bryant and charged her with four counts of defacing property and one count of assault by means of a dangerous weapon. Bryant is suspected of vandalizing signs at the property several other times in previous months. Gonsalves did not suffer any injuries, but said he was “absolutely terrified.” He said he’s caught her defacing his signs on several different occasions and recently installed a security camera. All Gonsalves, a veteran, wants to do is express his First Amendment rights.

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Input: A Caribbean model contest launched Palmer’s career in 2010, and at age 17 she signed an exclusive contract with Trump Model Management in January 2011. Department of Labor records show she received approval to work in the United States beginning in October 2011. Yet according to a financial statement filed as evidence in her case, Palmer started working in the United States nine months before this authorization was granted. Her financial records list a January 22, 2011, job for Condé Nast, when she posed for a Teen Vogue spread featuring the cast of Glee. (The shoot took place at Milk Studios in Los Angeles.)

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Input: The group believes the two agencies were not working together on the hack, but rather competing, as Russian intelligence agencies often do. Dmitri Alperovitch, CrowdStrike's co-founder, told NBC News that the Russian government is "extremely interested in Mr. Trump, his positions, and any weaknesses he may have." In Russia, Alperovitch adds, political parties engage in blackmail, hacking, extortion and theft of information. The Russians may have believed U.S. political parties do the same and hoped to find sensitive files in the DNC’s databases. Hillary Clinton told Telemundo in an interview that she only learned of the breach when it was made public Tuesday, calling the episode "troubling."

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Input: This boycott movement is enjoying growing success around the world as the only nonviolent means to put pressure on Israel. It permits everyone who wishes to peacefully demonstrate their solidarity and to protest the favorable treatment that country receives from a large part of the international community despite its constant violations of international law. It is why we call for the support and strengthening of the BDS movement and for the boycott of Israeli goods.

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Input: That message was repeated by the sources in the article, with another saying," the resistance wo n’t stay in Lebanon; it will reach the Galilee. It will not look like the 2006 war at all.” The claims by Hezbollah sources come even as the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) on Wednesday declared the group a terrorist organization, citing Hezbollah's activity in the Gulf states recruiting terrorists and smuggling weapons-a point that was not raised in the article. Iran and Hezbollah both responded to the declaration with fury, apparently upset at how the move may impact the group. GCC's declaration came a week after Saudi Arabia halted a $ 3 billion program funding equipment for Lebanese security forces over the danger posed by Hezbollah.

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Input: He noted that the Republican presidential nominee has voiced praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin and the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. If Trump likes them," He would have loved "Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union until his death in 1953. Scholars estimate that under Stalin, more than 1 million people were executed in political purges and millions more died as a result of harsh labor and cruel treatment in the vast gulag prison camp system, mass starvation in Ukraine and southern Russia, and deportations of ethnic minorities. _ _ _ 2:10 p.m.

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Input: The forum landed in the wake of new NBC News / Survey Monkey polling showing that Trump holds a substantial lead over Clinton when it comes to military and veteran voters — a crucial voting bloc in states like Virginia -- 55 percent to 36 percent overall. Even so, as the two campaigns spar over the numbers of military endorsers each has, Trump’s poll numbers in the military community are lower than either Mitt Romney's in 2012 or John McCain’s in 2008 relative to Obama’s. After a summer of Clinton bombarding Trump’s fitness for the office and a stretch in which he saw his support waver after clashing with the parents of a deceased soldier, however, this week’s pitches are not just targeted at the significant military community: They are each campaign’s latest attempt to appeal to middle-class voters concerned about national security and their own safety. While Trump has gone after Clinton aggressively over her emails, she has responded by pointing out some of his policy inconsistencies on the trail and specifically identifying his ties to Russia as particularly troubling. Prior to the event, members of the Trump team spent pieces of the morning playing defense after Clinton’s super PAC, Priorities USA Action, promoted an ad that prominently featured the candidate declaring his love for war, the latest in a series of spots from both the campaign and super PAC making the case that Trump is far too inconsistent and unpredictable to sit in the Oval Office or have control of the nuclear codes.

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Input: The government also would need to build about 1,250 immigration courts — there now are 57 such courts — and hire thousands more immigration judges and federal attorneys to process the caseload. The think tank estimates that the lost labor and purchasing power of 11 million people — many of whom work, own businesses and pay taxes — could reduce the nation’s gross domestic product by $ 1 trillion, equal to about $ 9,000 per household. Moreover, finding millions of undocumented migrants almost certainly would entail immigration agents entering homes, raiding businesses and operating roadblocks to check identity papers to separate U.S. citizens and approved immigrants from those in the country illegally, a winnowing-out process that undoubtedly would be challenged in court. “You will really have to tear up the social fabric to get this done,” said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, head of the nonprofit think tank. Farming, meatpacking, construction and hospitality industries would be hardest hit by labor shortages, the study concluded.

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Input: And the public knew it: Gallup’s polling shows Americans in the 1960s, ' 70s, ' 80s, and especially the early ' 90s were much more likely to say that crime was "the most important problem" facing the US. But in their fears of these statistics, policymakers embraced a tremendous escalation of the criminal justice system. This escalation had dire effects: The US now incarcerates more people than any other country in the world, including authoritarian regimes like China and Russia. Black people are nearly six times as likely to be locked up as their white peers, with only about 61 to 80 percent of that overrepresentation explained by higher crime rates in black communities. The racial disparity is one of the major explanations for black Americans’ distrust of the criminal justice system.

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Input: There is an uncomfortable willingness among privacy campaigners to discriminate against mass surveillance conducted by the state to the exclusion of similar surveillance conducted for profit by large corporations. Partially, this is a vestigial ethic from the Californian libertarian origins of online pro-privacy campaigning. Partially, it is a symptom of the superior public relations enjoyed by Silicon Valley technology corporations, and the fact that those corporations also provide the bulk of private funding for the flagship digital privacy advocacy groups, leading to a conflict of interest. At the individual level, many of even the most committed privacy campaigners have an unacknowledged addiction to easy-to-use, privacy-destroying amenities like Gmail, Facebook and Apple products. As a result, privacy campaigners frequently overlook corporate surveillance abuses.

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Input: Photos: World War II in pictures Soviet soldiers advance against the German army during the Battle of Stalingrad. The battle for the city on the Volga River (present-day Volgograd) was a major defeat for Germany and a turning point in the war. The battle lasted more than five months, ending in February 1943, at the cost of at least 160,000 German soldiers killed or captured. However, even conservative estimates of Russian casualties are much higher. Hide Caption 16 of 38

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Input: The Clintons Will Be DEVASTATED: Infowars Historic LIVE COVERAGE Of # Wikileaks10 Press Conference-Share this link! https://t.co/M4saKik1GO — infowars (@infowars) October 3, 2016 Before Assange took the stage, Jones — who broadcast through the wee hours of the American morning — told viewers and listeners that he was so excited he was worried his heart couldn't stand it. But by the end, Jones realized he’d been played — or in his words, “# wikirolled.” Release the documents NOW @wikileaks!

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Input: The fighting in South Sudan, whose 2011 secession from Sudan was supported by the United States, has torn apart the world's youngest country. The country's rebel leader Riek Machar was sworn in as first vice president on Tuesday after he returned to the capital Juba for the first time since conflict broke out two years ago. President Salva Kiir's sacking of Machar as his deputy ignited a war in December 2013 which has killed thousands and displaced millions in the world's newest country. The United States has said Machar's return is an important step toward the establishment of a unity government. But Booth said an arms embargo could only work if neighboring countries cooperated.

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Input: A Kurdish-Arab alliance has announced the launch of a military campaign against IS north of Raqaa." With the participation of all SDF [Syrian Democratic Forces] units, we start this operation to liberate northern Raqaa "province, the SDF said on Twitter, quoting Kurdish commander Rojda Felat. The assault will be supported by air strikes from the US-led coalition bombing IS in Iraq and Syria, it added. The Iranian Al-Alam news website carried reports earlier this month that" Syrian allied forces "had cut off IS supply lines between Raqqa and Homs by taking over four hills overlooking the Shaer gas fields held by IS. But Mr Tack counters that IS supply lines to Raqqa are holding.

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Input: US diplomacy reached a high last week when president Barack Obama rolled out the red carpet for a White House visit by the five Nordic countries ' leaders. In a statement after the summit, they voiced joint concern about "Russia’s growing military presence in the Baltic Sea region, its nuclear posturing, its undeclared exercises, and the provocative actions taken by Russian aircraft and naval vessels." They also said there should be an "appropriate dialogue with Russia to be maintained to enhance transparency and reduce risk."

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Input: Instead, it is all based on selling access and influence. ADVERTISEMENT It remains a mystery why an FBI public corruption investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State has not been front-page news since it was first revealed in January. It is no mystery, however, why Mrs. Clinton never appointed an Inspector General for the entire time she served as Secretary of State. Based on the recently released State Department IG report, we now know how much she had to hide.

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Input: “This election in particular can be downright depressing sometimes.” — Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, weighing in on the 2016 campaign on Monday before an audience at Temple University in Philadelphia. REAGAN AUCTION GOES LIVE A reminder from Christie’s, the esteemed New York City auction house, which is now offering hundreds of items from the very private collection of Ronald Reagan and wife Nancy. The proceeds benefit the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute; the items up for bid are personal indeed — including the Reagan family Thanksgiving platter, complete with charming little turkey salt and pepper shakers.

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Input: They're motivated to vote for Trump or Clinton or Gary Johnson or Jill Stein or whoever. And so I think the idea that people are going to change their minds because of a last-minute something, that's probably more of a problem in theory than in practice. I think offering people some form of early voting makes sense. As you said, voting on Election Day, you might have long lines, someone might work, they might have commitments. Being able to do it over the period also takes some of the pressure off election officials who don't have to worry about everyone coming on Election Day.

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Input: President Obama on Friday marked the anniversary of the Ottoman Turks’ massacre of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 but once again stopped short of labeling it a genocide. “Today we solemnly reflect on the first mass atrocity of the 20th century — the Armenian Meds Yeghern — when one and a half million Armenian people were deported, massacred, and marched to their deaths,” he said in a statement. ADVERTISEMENT The statement came on the final Armenian Remembrance Day of Obama's presidency.

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Input: If elected president, she will escalate the wars in Iraq and Syria. She will push to spend whatever it takes to reassert and expand U.S. power in the world and dangerously provoke China, Iran and Russia. She will not only be another president of endless war and lies — if she is allowed to carry out her program of greater aggression it would pose a grave and unnecessary threat to the human race. Maybe I’m sounding too crystal-ballish. Of course, Clinton can be stopped.

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Input: Brazil, which is hosting the Olympics and the Paralympics, is at the epicenter of the rapidly evolving mosquito-borne epidemic. The letter is signed by 150 individuals from more than a dozen countries, including Brazil, Japan, Israel, Russia, Sweden, South Africa and the United States. It calls on the WHO to convene an independent group to advise it and the International Olympic Committee, and for authorities to reconsider the decision to hold the Games in Rio. [Zika precautions: What you need to know as you prepare your summer travel]" We are doing it to ask for an open, transparent discussion of the risks of holding the Olympics as planned in Brazil," said Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist at New York University and one of the letter's four authors, in an email explaining the reasoning behind the letter.

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Input: He says: ' Listen, Putin. We will come to Russia and kill you in your homes. ' Vladimir Putin and Russia are the latest to be threatened by ISIS in a video published by one of the terror group's members The terrorist finishes the clip with the man driving through the desert yelling while wagging his finger. He says: ' Oh Brothers, carry out jihad and kill and fight them. '

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Input: Due to global milk overproduction and weak global demand, prices for milk products are at a very low level. The removal of EU milk quotas has worsened the situation," a Valio statement said. After the embargo began in 2014, Valio sold its "Oltermanni" cheese, popular in Russia, for half its regular price in Finland because of oversupply. Customers nicknamed it "Putin cheese" because of the large price discount.

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Input: For them the American dream is dying. Some 72 percent of the electorate feels the economy is still in recession, according to the American Values Survey released in November, even though economic analysts date the Great Recession as having ended mid-2009. When a family grows concerned about its future income or job prospects, it can not stop paying rent or other necessities, but it typically defers spending on durable goods such as cars, appliances, luxury items and vacations. These categories amount to about 10 percent of total household spending but they explain virtually all of its variations over time. U.S. citizens believe that this is an exceptional country, and it is – but we have to do better for them.

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Input: Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham ClintonGOP fires opening attack on Dem reportedly running for Heller's Senate seat Trump seeks tech's help for government IT overhaul What do Democrats stand for? MORE and Republican nominee Donald Trump Donald TrumpLewandowski near ' high six-figure book deal ': report GOP fires opening attack on Dem reportedly running for Heller's Senate seat Overnight Tech: Trump seeks tech's help for ' sweeping ' IT overhaul | FTC looks to block sports fantasy merger | Firm exposes nearly 200 M voters ' data MORE, whom Ryan has endorsed, are both opposed to the TPP. Still, Ryan noted the benefits of trade, especially for his home state where dairy and cheese exports fuel the economy. He argued that other nations are forging trade deals that are hurting U.S. exporters. “That means we have to engage in the world,” he said.

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Input: And so, this idea that somehow we’ve got to opt for a neoliberal disaster as the only option vis-à-vis the neofascist catastrophe, as a blues man, I appreciate you playing that blues, said I can deal with catastrophe, not by panicking and being driven by fear, but I can look the catastrophe in the face and still tell the truth and still go down swinging with a smile and, most importantly, love, Coltrane’s love — and for me, Jesus’s love — at the center of how we proceed. AMY GOODMAN: We’re going to leave it there, but we’ll be talking to you through the week, Dr. Cornel West, professor at Union Theological Seminary. He endorsed Bernie Sanders for president last summer and was appointed by Sanders to serve on the Democratic platform committee, author of a number of books, most recently Black Prophetic Fire, now is endorsing Dr. Jill Stein, Green Party presidential candidate.

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Input: ADVERTISEMENT The statement came on the final Armenian Remembrance Day of Obama's presidency. Obama’s refusal to call the mass killings a genocide is a gesture to Turkey, a NATO ally of the U.S. and an important member of the president’s coalition fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). But it also breaks a 2008 campaign promise, when he said the “the Armenian genocide is not an allegation … but rather a widely documented fact.” Obama noted the debate over the use of the term genocide and urged the Turks to make a full accounting of the mass killings.

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Input: “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.” The 30,000 emails Trump is referring to are a pointed reference to the those ‘missing’ from Hillary Clinton’s home server. Clinton, as you may remember, escaped indictment even after FBI Director James Comey seemed to hint that there was enough evidence to charge her with a crime — not counting additional charges, such as tampering with evidence or obstruction of justice for seemingly deleting the emails in question. Trump’s comment though, was just as troubling. He would appear to be actively encouraging hackers to “find” the missing (or deleted) emails, and then touting a reward for turning them over to the press.

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Input: Here's my concern-when voter fraud does occur or when voter coercion does occur, it tends to occur with absentee ballots. And the it reason occurs with absentee ballots is because you can verify how someone voted, right? So I can pay you $ 20 for your ballot and vote it in the way that I want. Or you could have a situation of spouses where one spouse could look at the other, make sure that person voted the way that the spouse wants. When you're in the privacy of the voting booth, that becomes impossible.

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Input: Merkel told the RedaktionsNetzwerks Deutschland (RND) that Russia had caused a major crisis by annexing the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea in 2014 and with its support for separatists in eastern Ukraine." Europe had to react against this violation of basic principles," Merkel said. She added that she and French President Francois Hollande were working "with all one's strength" to urge Ukraine and Russia to implement the so-called Minsk ceasefire agreement despite all the difficulties." This is and remains the yardstick for the future of the sanctions," Merkel said. Russia has been under U.S. and EU sanctions over its annexation of Crimea and support for separatists in eastern Ukraine for two years.

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Input: Assange has not been charged. “We do see her as a bit of a problem for freedom of the press more generally,” Assange said. In February, Assange, who is living in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and is avoiding a rape charge in Sweden he claims is politically motivated, published an editorial on WikiLeaks calling Clinton a “war hawk with bad judgment who gets an unseemly emotional rush out of killing people.” “She shouldn't be let near a gun shop, let alone an army. And she certainly should not become president of the United States,” he wrote.

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Input: In 2011, a major study by University of California, Berkeley, political scientist M. Steven Fish presented cross-national statistical data showing that between 1994 and 2007, annual homicide rates in the Muslim world averaged just 2.4 per 100,000 of the population. That was approximately a third of the rate for the non-Muslim world and less than the average rate in Europe. It is also approximately half the homicide rate in the United States. In comparing individual countries, the difference is even greater. The latest homicide statistics from the U.N.’s Office on Drugs and Crime reveal that for every murder perpetrated in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim state, seven people are murdered in the United States.

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Input: Photos: World War II in pictures Smoke rises behind Tower Bridge during the first mass daylight bombing of London on September 7, 1940. Hide Caption 6 of 38 Photos: World War II in pictures Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, left, with Hitler, center, and other leading Nazis, visits Germany during the war. Italy and Germany formed an alliance before the outbreak of war, but Italy remained a non-belligerent until June 10, 1940, when it declared war on Britain and France. Fighting spread to Greece and North Africa.

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Input: According to BuzzFeed News, Trump tried to meet with Gadhafi himself to "explore business ventures." 1980s Chinese Communist Party Trump made waves in March during a GOP presidential debate when he called the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, in which hundreds of protesters were killed as the People's Liberation Army enforced martial law, a "riot." While he insisted that he did not endorse the killings of the pro-democracy demonstrators, he called the Chinese government "strong." "I was not endorsing it," Trump said.

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Input: In addition to the recent comments, over the past two decades Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as well as a number of religious leaders have condemned the Armenian aggression against Azerbaijani Muslims in Karabakh several times. “The occupation of Karabakh [by Armenia] has always been condemned by Iran,” Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s representative in East Azerbaijan Province Ayatollah Mohsen Mojtehed-e Shabestari had said earlier. In a recent development, Iran's Foreign Ministry has urged Azerbaijan and Armenia to show restraint and avoid any move that can escalate their tensions. The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.

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Input: Others said Trump needed to stop engaging in petty battles with former rivals and build a fundraising organization. Trump will meet on Thursday in New York with top fundraisers of the Republican National Committee, a party official said. Hopes flickered among some anti-Trump Republicans that there would be a revolt against him when delegates convene to nominate him formally in Cleveland from July 18 to 21. Representative Morgan Griffith, a Virginia Republican, said that was unlikely but that Trump needed to improve as a candidate." Don't step into the cow pie," Griffith said.

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Input: Donald Trump’s critics have been calling for months on the Republican presidential candidate to release his tax returns, to no avail. Now, even Trump supporters are joining the chorus. Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.), a professed Trump backer (for now), wrote a Sunday New York Times op-ed titled, “I Support You, Donald Trump. Now Release Your Tax Returns.” ASSOCIATED PRESS Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) has called on Donald Trump to release his tax returns.

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Input: What they fail to point out is that a true system of open borders would open the only border in the world between a First World nation and a Third World nation, the U.S. and Mexico. Her goal is entirely unrealistic. If we opened that border, millions of Mexicans would migrate immediately because of the higher pay and better living conditions here. But she stated in plain English that this is her goal. Nonetheless, the Post pundits rate as "mostly false" Trump's assertion that when she said "open borders" she meant "open border."

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Input: “According to reports, terrorists used the American TOW system to down the helicopter, which, having exhausted its ammunition, was on the course back to the base at an extremely low altitude,” the source is quoted as saying. Friday’s tragedy puts the number of Russian military casualties in Syria at 10. In June, serviceman Anton Erygin suffered fatal wounds after falling under militant fire while guarding a Russian center for reconciliation convoy in Homs province. Earlier in April, Russia paid its respects to Lt. Aleksandr Prokhorenko, who called in artillery fire on his own position after being surrounded by the terrorists near the Syrian city of Palmyra. READ MORE: YPG secure & return ‘Russian Rambo’ of Palmyra’s body

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Input: Her campaign manager, Jerry Crawford, is a former Monsanto lobbyist. Additionally, Monsanto has donated money to the Clinton Foundation as well as bundled money for her current campaign. Lobbyist obstruction is largely the reason why we haven't studied the full effects of GMO crops or how they affect the livestock that eat them. GMOs are indeed a complex issue, but how are we to trust that she will always defend our right to information? Her campaign has assured that she will, but how are we to feel knowing that Monsanto has such close ties to her campaign-that they will already have a seat at the table?

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Input: So if there really is an inherent — Islam-driven — propensity for deadly violence in Muslim societies, we should expect to find that the greater the percentage of Muslims in society, the greater would be the numbers of homicides. In fact, the reverse is the case: The higher the percentage of Muslims in a society, the lower the homicide rate. In 2011, a major study by University of California, Berkeley, political scientist M. Steven Fish presented cross-national statistical data showing that between 1994 and 2007, annual homicide rates in the Muslim world averaged just 2.4 per 100,000 of the population. That was approximately a third of the rate for the non-Muslim world and less than the average rate in Europe. It is also approximately half the homicide rate in the United States.

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Input: In a nationally televised speech, Clinton’s obscure Obama-administration colleague Leon Panetta tut-tutted at an “irresponsible” Trump asking one of our “adversaries to engage in hacking … against the United States of America.” Of course, foreign data theft is nothing to laugh at. But the pilferage of old yoga schedules and plans for a wedding long-consummated hardly seem the kind of thing to require the involvement of an old CIA director long-retired. And, well, calling Russia an “adversary” seems unnecessarily dramatic. It was n’t long-ago that Clinton’s obscure Obama-administration colleague Barack Obama was laughing at the previous wild-eyed lunatic nominated by Republicans as their presidential candidate.

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Input: Support for the ICC among Africa’s leaders has declined since the indictment of top politicians, including sitting heads of state in Kenya and Sudan. Some have labeled the ICC an instrument of neocolonialism, noting that countries that did not ratify the Rome Statute are among those exerting the greatest pressure on African leaders to submit to the court. South Africa expressed its displeasure last year when it was accused of ignoring its treaty obligations because it allowed Sudan’s President Omar Bashir — accused of genocide and other crimes in his country’s Darfur region — to attend an African Union summit without arresting him. South African officials contend that the Rome Statute is at odds with their efforts to promote a peaceful resolution of conflicts on the continent, which can include hosting adversaries. The decision to leave will be put to a vote in the country’s parliament, but is expected to win approval.

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Input: Johnstone, meanwhile, was less optimistic." The United States has already bombed Syrian soldiers, killing over 60 and wounding a hundred, and saying, ‘Oh dear me, we didn't know we were doing that, ' which I don't think any sane person can believe for a minute," she said." The US doesn't want to send in foot soldiers, that's the policy now, the United States wants to wreck the rest of the world from a safe distance." If the US carries out the bombing, the possibility of an even wider conflagration, with the Russians against the Americans on one side, and the Saudis against Iran on the other, is very high, Almassian suggested.

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Input: That is the only conversation we should be having at this time, immigration security. Cut it off. Whether it's dangerous materials being smuggled across the border, terrorists entering on visas or Americans losing their jobs to foreign workers, these are the problems we must now focus on fixing. And the media needs to begin demanding to hear Hillary Clinton's answer on how her policies will affect Americans and their security. These are matters of life and death for our country and its people, and we deserve answers from Hillary Clinton.

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Input: These rules for immigrants are in place to “protect them from being exploited,” she said. “That US company should n’t be making money off you.” Two of the former Trump models said Trump’s agency encouraged them to deceive customs officials about why they were visiting the United States and told them to lie on customs forms about where they intended to live. Anna said she received a specific instruction from a Trump agency representative: “If they ask you any questions, you’re just here for meetings.” Trump’s campaign spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, declined to answer questions about Trump Model Management’s use of foreign labor.

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Input: "We are conducting a comprehensive dialog on a wide scale of international issues, in which Indian and Russian approaches are close to each other or coincide," said Putin. Modi also praised Putin's support for the fight against international terrorism, which India accuses its neighbor and rival Pakistan of sponsoring." Russia's clear stand on the need to combat terrorism mirrors our own," Modi said. MULTIPLE DEALS The Rosneft-Essar deal will be the biggest foreign takeover in India, and Russia's largest outbound deal, according to Thomson Reuters data.

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Input: Hide Caption 12 of 38 Photos: World War II in pictures Black smoke rises from demolished buildings after Japanese air forces attacked the U.S. Navy base on Midway Atoll during the Battle of Midway in June 1942. The four-day battle became a major victory for the U.S. Navy, which sunk four Japanese aircraft carriers, and it marked a turning point in the war in the Pacific. Hide Caption 13 of 38 Photos: World War II in pictures Balloon operators from Britain's Women's Auxiliary Air Force, or WAAF, report for inspection in a hangar used to store balloons, at a facility in the UK.

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Input: Russia PM warns of ' new cold war ' amid Syria accusations Read more Turkey, which already hosts 2.6 million Syrian refugees, has kept the latest arrivals on the Syrian side of the border, in part to pressure Russia to cease its air support for Syrian government forces near the city of Aleppo. Davutoğlu condemned the attacks in Aleppo as “barbarity, tyranny, a war strategy conducted with a medieval mentality” and said hundreds of thousands of people in the region faced the danger of starvation if a humanitarian corridor was not opened. “We will help our brothers in Aleppo with all means at our disposal. We will take those in need but we will never allow Aleppo to be emptied through an ethnic massacre,” he said.

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Input: At the time of writing, the Bitcoin address associated with the so-called Shadow Brokers had received a handful of Bitcoin transfers totaling about $ 24 (the exchange rate was $ 568.22 per Bitcoin at press time)—nowhere near the crowdsourced half a billion dollars requested to publicly leak an unencrypted version of the remaining 40% of the data. The hackers said they would end the bidding "when we feel it is time to end," and would not return money to losers. (Most people agree the auction was a clever — and successful — ploy to attract attention.) See also: These 10 Companies Are the Top Cybersecurity Startup Acquirers Meanwhile, whistleblowing website WikiLeaks also said that it had acquired and would publish a copy of the "cyber weapons" cache shortly.

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Input: Mr Braga is trained in jiu-jitsu and was travelling with his wife and daughter at the time, local media outlet Globo reported. Scroll down for video Deadly force: The Russian diplomat was in this X6 SUV when a robbery attempt turned into a wrestling match which ended in the death of the robber Diplomatic car: The X6 belongs to Russia's vice-consul in Rio who is a local lawyer The mugger, who was on a motorbike with another man, struck at around midday as Braga was waiting for traffic to start moving again after the Olympic torch had passed by on Avenida das Americas in the Barra da Tijuca district of Rio, close to the Olympic Park and athletes village.

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Input: My son Steve (ph), a high school senior, 17 years old, went to the beach after a high school football game. A local gang came along, nine members. The cars were battered to -- like war in Beirut. And all I can say is they murdered him and if Mr. Trump had been in office then the border would have been secure and our children would not be dead today. SPEAKER: Hi.

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Input: The power of staying true to the precedent that had been set prevailed.” Recent revelations about the finances of Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort are likely to increase pressure on Trump to release his tax returns. The New York Times reported on Sunday that a Ukrainian anti-corruption agency found Manafort’s name on a secret ledger used by the ousted, pro-Russia government of ex-Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. The ledger showed payments totaling $ 12.7 million designated for Manafort from Yanukovych’s political party. Manafort was a top political adviser to Yanukovych for several years, but it’s not clear if he ever received the payments listed.

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Input: Clinton’s campaign would not confirm the authenticity of the emails — though it did not explicitly deny it either. Podesta tweeted on Friday evening that he did not “have time to figure out which docs are real and which are faked.” Clinton spokesman Glen Caplin said in an email that, “Earlier today the U.S. government removed any reasonable doubt that the Kremlin has weaponized WikiLeaks to meddle in our election and benefit Donald Trump’s candidacy.” He added, “We are not going to confirm the authenticity of stolen documents released by Julian Assange who has made no secret of his desire to damage Hillary Clinton. Guccifer 2.0 has already proven the warnings of top national security officials that documents can be faked as part of a sophisticated Russian misinformation campaign.”

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Input: # BREAKING According to local reports, there are more than 100 people inside # SplendidHotel, attackers still firing. — Barzan Sadiq (@BarzanSadiq) January 15, 2016 The shooting was initiated by three armed and turbaned men, an AFP journalist reported from the scene. A car was on fire outside the Splendid Hotel, he added. The property is frequently used by Westerners and UN agency staff.

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Input: The NSA has a team of researchers who look for security vulnerabilities in popular technology products, and it also sometimes buys information about security vulnerabilities from outside hackers. That means the NSA is often able to break into computer systems that would repel less sophisticated hackers. The NSA also has broader surveillance capabilities. The Snowden revelations showed that the agency was engaging in dragnet surveillance of Americans’ call records and had streamlined access to users ' data on online services like Yahoo Mail and Google Docs. The NSA, of course, is supposed to focus these resources on hostile foreign governments and terrorist groups.

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Input: Trump told the man:" Israel is a very, very important ally of the United States and we are going to protect them 100% -- 100%. It's our true friend over there." On Sunday, Trump noted the death of Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and author who fought for peace, human rights:" On Saturday a great man, Elie Wiesel, passed away. The world is a better place because of him and his belief that good can triumph over evil!" On Saturday a great man, Elie Wiesel, passed away. The world is a better place because of him and his belief that good can triumph over evil!

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Input: “From Clinical Medicine to Political Medicine” Dr. Stein is a Harvard Medical School graduate who witnessed firsthand the terrible impacts of what she calls “predatory capitalism” on ordinary working and middle-class children and families during her years as a physician. Learning that pollution produced by corporate greed was the major “underlying driver” behind many of the expanding illnesses (especially asthma, diabetes, cancer, and learning disabilities) she was confronting on an individual basis, she became a leading environmental and public health policy expert and advocate. “You can help people one at a time,” Stein realized, “while whole populations get thrown over the cliff.” She turned “from clinical medicine to political medicine” after realizing that “the road to health was profoundly obstructed by the hijacking of our political system by oligarchy and corporate power.” Stein was first “tricked into electoral politics," in her words, 14 years ago.

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Input: The Senate’s bill would have provided about $ 1.1 billion, including about $ 350 million in new money and the rest coming from existing health accounts, such as a fund for fighting the Ebola virus. Earlier this summer, the Senate approved a different, bipartisan $ 1.1 billion funding package, though it was ultimately not taken up by the House because the funding was not offset. Both bills are shy of the White House’s total $ 1.9 billion request, which Republicans from Florida — such as vulnerable incumbents Sen. Marco Rubio Marco RubioOvernight Finance: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays Senators ask administration to probe possible Russian takeover of Citgo Week ahead: Obama DHS chief to testify on Russian meddling MORE and Rep. Carlos Curbelo — have backed. Updated 8:08 p.m.

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Input: The coach of the USA Rowing women’s team makes $ 237,000 while his rowers vie for stipends that max out at about $ 20,000 per year. (U.S. Olympic athletes are given an additional stipend if they win a gold, silver or bronze medal.) “I’ve never thought it was fair,” said rower Caroline Lind, a two-time gold medalist who recently retired after a back injury. “We’re all replaceable..

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Input: . They must think we are a little bit on the weak side.” In Reno, Nevada, he bemoaned the NFL’s measures to reduce tackling-related head injuries and said that “football has become soft like our country has become soft.” As for his supporters’ tendency to sucker-punch people of color at rallies, Trump’s supporters are happy to paint him as the victim, as Media Matters has shown; for example, conservative radio host Wayne Allyn Root argued Monday that “it’s not [Trump’s] fault that he’s being victimized at rallies.” The grain of truth here is that Trump’s “weak” rhetoric is designed to play toward working-class whites, who’ve suffered badly during the past decade of economic downturn. That suffering can turn into anger about class inequality and austerity — or it can turn people of color, immigrants, and other oppressed groups into scapegoats.

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Input: Hide Caption 22 of 22 Death toll climbs The death toll rose to 44 when a 3-year -old Palestinian boy hurt in the attack died, according to Palestinian officials. The boy's mother died Wednesday, officials said. And Turkish state news agency Anadolu reported a Turkish man died at a hospital.

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Input: 3/10 Thunderbirds And many other TV shows created, funded and otherwise produced by that largest of larger-than-life characters, Lew Grade (also a world class tap dancer). The man who dominated commercial television gave us memorable entertainment such as The Prisoner, the Saint and brought the Muppets to Britain (a sort of fuzzy felt wave of immigration), as well as puppet shows where you could see the strings. All this from a penniless Jew from Ukraine, born Lev Winogradsky, who escaped the pogroms in Ukraine with his family in the 1890s. His nephew Michael Grade has also done his bit for British television. Rex Features

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Input: There is only one core issue in the immigration debate, and that issue is the well-being of the American people. Nothing even comes a close second. Hillary Clinton, for instance, talks constantly about her fears that families will be separated, but she's not talking about the American families who have been permanently separated from their loved ones because of a preventable homicide, because of a preventable death, because of murder. No, she's only talking about families who come here in violation of the law. We will treat everyone living or residing in our country with great dignity.

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Input: That, sadly, is the nature of our country these days (some would argue we have always been thus and point to all manner of cases from the Salem witch trials to Alger Hiss, to the Rosenbergs, to the San Francisco 49ers quarterback now being shouted down for his refusals with respect to the US national anthem). Snowden’s actions, in many minds, constitute treason. I’m quite certain that most of the following of Donald Trump, for example, would want him in prison for life at best and hanged at worst. After listening to Snowden on tape and video multiple times, I believe him to be a highly courageous and extremely ethical young man. He just might be the type who could weather such a storm and lead an otherwise productive life, like Daniel Ellsberg has for example.

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Input: Interviews over the past several months with current and former intelligence officials and intelligence experts revealed significant trepidation about the notion of a Trump presidency — an uneasiness that the Republican nominee’s latest comments are likely to exacerbate. Several sources cited Trump's unpredictability, his harsh rhetoric about Muslims, his vocal support for torture and his suggestions that he'd go after terror suspects ' families as causes of concern, even among the most hawkish elements of the intelligence world." The wholesale slaughter of families of terrorists — it is understood as a war crime," an Army intelligence officer told POLITICO." You can see how emotionally it might seem like a satisfying "thing to say," but no matter how much you might wait to raze and salt the earth ... people understand the right versus wrong component of it." A terrorism expert at a D.C. think tank described the mood about a possible President Trump in the intelligence community as "fearful."

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Input: ... Another Trump foreign policy advisor, retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, flew to Moscow last year to attend a gala banquet celebrating Russia Today, the Kremlin’s propaganda channel, and was seated at the head table near Putin. Manafort denounced the New York Times Monday for a deeply reported story that broke over the weekend showing that secret ledgers in Ukraine contained references to $ 12.7 million in payments earmarked for him. The Times report said that the party of former Ukraine president and pro-Russia ally, Viktor Yanukovych, set aside the payments for Manafort as part of an illegal and previously undisclosed system of payments. “Once again, the New York Times has chosen to purposefully ignore facts and professional journalism to fit their political agenda, choosing to attack my character and reputation rather than present an honest report,” Manafort said in a statement first reported by NBC News. Manafort said that he has never done work for the governments of Ukraine or Russia — but that “political payments directed to me” in Ukraine were for his entire political team there that included operatives and researchers.

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Input: But that’s not what happened. Eichenwald, with increasing levels of hysteria, manically posted no fewer than three dozen tweets last night about his story, each time escalating his claims of what it proved. By the time he was done, he had misled large numbers of people into believing that he found proof that: 1) the documents in the WikiLeaks archive were altered; 2) Russia put forgeries into the WikiLeaks archive; 3) Sputnik knew about the WikiLeaks archive ahead of time, before it was posted online; 4) WikiLeaks coordinated the release of the documents with the Russian government; and 5) the Russian government and the Trump campaign coordinated to falsely attribute Eichenwald’s words to Blumenthal. In fact, Eichenwald literally has zero evidence for any of that. The point is not that his evidence for these propositions is inconclusive or unpersuasive; the point is that there is zero evidence for any of it.

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Input: By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States is prepared to consider imposing sanctions or an arms embargo on South Sudan's leaders if they fail to cooperate in a proposed unity government to end conflict in the country, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday." We have everything at the table, we are prepared to look at sanctions, we're prepared to look at an arms embargo," U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan and South Sudan, Donald Booth, told lawmakers. The fighting in South Sudan, whose 2011 secession from Sudan was supported by the United States, has torn apart the world's youngest country.

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Input: These rules for immigrants are in place to “protect them from being exploited,” she said. “That US company should n’t be making money off you.” Two of the former Trump models said Trump’s agency encouraged them to deceive customs officials about why they were visiting the United States and told them to lie on customs forms about where they intended to live. Anna said she received a specific instruction from a Trump agency representative: “If they ask you any questions, you’re just here for meetings.” Trump’s campaign spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, declined to answer questions about Trump Model Management’s use of foreign labor.

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Input: Many of these arrivals have greatly enriched our country. So true. But we now have an obligation to them and to their children to control future immigration as we are following, if you think, previous immigration waves. We've had some big waves. And tremendously positive things have happened.

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Input: The Post reports that the FBI is also investigating whether McAuliffe, who was an unpaid director of the Clinton Foundation, violated a statute regarding U.S. citizens’ lobbying on behalf of foreign governments. Then expect a battle royal with Congress if Clinton tries to elevate close aides such as Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills and others implicated in her email scandal to positions of public trust. In announcing that he would recommend against prosecution in July, Comey made a point of declaring that “this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences. To the contrary, those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions.” Republicans will insist that such sanctions be imposed on anyone who mishandled classified information, received immunity or took the Fifth in the Clinton investigation — including denial of access to classified material. And they may also want to look into how Abedin failed to turn over husband Anthony Weiner’s laptop containing thousands of Clinton emails — after she swore under oath that she had handed over “all the devices” she possessed containing such emails.

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Input: Nearly three years after signing with Trump’s agency, Blais had little to show for it — and it was n’t for lack of modeling jobs. Under the contracts that she and other Trump models had signed, the company advanced money for rent and various other expenses (such as trainers, beauty treatments, travel, and administrative costs), deducting these charges from its clients’ modeling fees. But these charges — including the pricey rent that Blais and her roommates paid — consumed nearly all her modeling earnings. “I only got one check from Trump Models, and that’s when I left them,” she said. “I got $ 8,000 at most after having worked there for three years and having made tens of thousands of dollars.” (The check Blais received was for $ 8,427.35.)

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Input: An Armenian soldier killed and allegedly decapitated by Azerbaijani troops in Nagorno-Karabakh has been reburied after the Armenian military has retrieved his severed head and handed it to his family. Kyaram Sloyan, who would have turned 20 on April 27, was among dozens of Armenian soldiers who died while fighting back an Azerbaijani offensive in and around Karabakh launched on April 2. A military position in Karabakh’s northern Martakert district held by Sloyan’s unit was reportedly overrun by Azerbaijani troops but later recaptured by Karabakh Armenian forces.

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Input: President Barack Obama and Putin spoke over the phone Monday but the recent military encounters were not discussed, according to White House spokesman Josh Earnest The U.S. Navy told CNN Monday that the Cook continues to operate in the Baltic Sea." The United States is not going to be intimidated," Kerry said.

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Input: Photos: World War II in pictures A view of U.S. ships in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, after the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941. The USS West Virginia and USS Tennessee are in the foreground. The attack destroyed more than half the fleet of aircraft and damaged or destroyed eight battleships. Japan also attacked Clark and Iba airfields in the Philippines, destroying more than half the U.S. Army's aircraft there. Hide Caption 9 of 38

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Input: Hide Caption 17 of 17 It was a stunning show of disrespect for an American president. And though Obama shrugged off the comments from the "colorful" leader during his own news conference Monday, the White House later canceled his meeting with Duterte, conferring instead with the President of South Korea. Duterte later apologized for any offense caused Asian troubles

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Input: And in the wake of the DNC leak in July, Trump asked Moscow to hack Clinton’s emails, a remark he later suggested was a joke. Last month, Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort resigned after ledgers surfaced detailing that he had been paid millions in cash by pro-Russian Ukrainian politicos. But Trump has n’t backed off, repeating time and again his admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his leadership style, and suggesting the United States work more closely with Moscow. Yet his coziness toward the Kremlin has split the party, already conflicted over his candidacy and concerned it could damage the chances of keeping control of the Senate. Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Bob Corker, (R-Tenn.), and Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John McCain, (R-Ariz.), along with Sen. Lindsey Graham, (R-S.C.), who dropped out of the 2016 Republican primary, all recently expressed their concerns to Foreign Policy.

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Input: From left, USA Swimming team director Frank Busch; USOC CEO Scott Blackmun; USA Swimming Exectuive Director Chuck Wielgus; IOC President Thomas Bach (Associated Press and European Pressphoto Agency photos) USA Swimming Executive Director Chuck Wielgus makes $ 854,000, and national swim team director Frank Busch makes $ 346,000; their swimmers competing in Rio next month can make monthly stipends that cap at $ 42,000 per year. USA Triathlon CEO Rob Urbach makes $ 362,000 while Team USA triathletes compete for stipends that range from about $ 20,000 to $ 40,000 a year. The coach of the USA Rowing women’s team makes $ 237,000 while his rowers vie for stipends that max out at about $ 20,000 per year. (U.S. Olympic athletes are given an additional stipend if they win a gold, silver or bronze medal.)

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Input: How did this happen, and who is to blame? There were many lies peddled by the Leave camp, none more so than by its grinning junior conductor. Early in the evening, after the latest bookmakers and pollsters had had their say, Nigel Farage all but conceded defeat, rightly professing himself shocked that slightly more than half the country could ever take him seriously. Farage had insisted throughout the debate that Britain was spending over £ 50 million per day, or more than £ 350 million a week, on the EU (the actual figure is less than half that amount) and that a Brexit would mean redirecting those funds to the National Health Service, a claim which the official Leave UK organizers, of which he was not one, had turned into a prominently advertised campaign pledge. But today, on Good Morning Britain, Farage confessed that all that had been a bit of a porky and Leave had been wrong to promise it.

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Input: By Lucas Tomlinson, Jennifer Griffin | FoxNews.com Russia seemingly has ignored Secretary of State John Kerry’s appeals to stop bombing civilians and allow critical humanitarian aid to starving Syrians – and is instead escalating its military involvement, deploying four of its most capable fighter jets to Syria, two defense officials confirmed to Fox News. The decision to send the Su-35S jets poses yet another hurdle for Kerry’s efforts to proceed with peace talks. The Su-35S is Russia’s most advanced warplane, capable of air-to-air and air-to-ground missions, one official familiar with the jet said.

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Input: "Look, I think we’re talking about the refugee issue as it relates to Syrians," he told NBC News. As for his policy to defeat ISIS, he proposed leading a coalition that includes soldiers fighting on the ground in both Syria and Iraq. He would not indicate a number and said the coalition should not be involved in Syria’s civil war. “Civil wars do not work out well for the U.S.,” he said. “Nation building.

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Input: But the withdrawal of South Africa, a leader on the continent and a strong proponent of international justice, could be more damaging. “It is quite plausible that other states will quickly follow suit,” said Kamari Clarke, a legal scholar at Carleton University in Ottawa who has studied the court’s activities in Africa. The ICC, which began hearing cases at The Hague in the Netherlands in 2002, was established as a court of last resort, to prosecute grave abuses when countries would not or could not act against those responsible. Why has there been so much focus on Africa? The ICC’s jurisdiction is limited: It can investigate crimes that took place in or were committed by nationals of the countries that ratified its founding treaty, the 1998 Rome Statute.

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Input: The late-Friday release came almost immediately after a devastating tape emerged of Donald Trump in 2005 talking about how being “a star” entitled him to make aggressive sexual advances on women, fueling speculation that WikiLeaks is trying to tip the balance of the election. Story Continued Below The batch of emails — which Wikileaks promised is the first of many more to come — provided a glimpse into the inner workings of the campaign, and offered telling details about Clinton’s views on trade and the middle class. In one of the most notable exchanges, Clinton campaign research director Tony Carrk emails other members of the team on Jan. 25, 2016 to share excerpts of her paid speeches that could come back to bite the campaign. “Attached are the flags from HRC’s paid speeches we have from HWA.

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Input: Since the going theory of the DNC hack is that it was perpetrated by Russian government groups that then passed this information to propagandists or professional trolls to spread, my best guess is it was just a rookie mistake.” The sender had used a proxy, but the proxy masking Guccifer’s location was Russian. Guccifer 2.0 had always claimed to be Romanian like the original Guccifer, imprisoned hacker Marcel Lazăr Lehel, but the 2.0 version had regularly communicated with journalists in Russian. When Motherboard reporter Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai asked Guccifer 2.0 to speak Romanian, the few sentences that came back were filled with mistakes. Then there was the way Guccifer claimed to have attacked the DNC with a “zero-day” hack into a software called Votebuilder used by the DNC.

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Input: And it emerged in news reports this week that two U.S. officials traveling with diplomatic passports were drugged while attending a conference in St. Petersburg, Russia last year. The incident happened at a hotel bar during a UN anticorruption conference in November 2015. It was first reported by Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, a U.S. government funded broadcaster, and quoted current and former U.S. officials." We are extremely troubled by the way our employees have been treated over the past couple of years and we've raised those concerns at the highest levels," State Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters in July, speaking about the embassy incident." Harassment and surveillance of our diplomatic personnel in Moscow by security personnel and by traffic police have increased significantly and we find this absolutely unacceptable.”

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Input: They appear to fear that a President Trump would conduct a searching reappraisal of U.S. foreign policy that should have occurred after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but never did. Mr. Trump is right to call for a fresh look at America’s relationships in terms of costs and returns, especially with respect to NATO. In 1949, Senator Robert Taft voted for ratification of the NATO treaty on the condition that the U.S. withdraw from it the moment Europe was sufficiently recovered from World War II to afford its own defense. Taft’s rival, Dwight D. Eisenhower, concurred, saying that, if, by 1961, U.S. forces in Europe had not come home, the NATO experiment would have failed. These two giants of mid-century Republican politics were united in their opposition to NATO’s becoming a permanent, costly commitment.

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Input: It looks as if the NSA has indeed been hacked. A group of hackers known as the Shadow Brokers is currently selling off cyber-spying tools, which it claims belong to the U.S. government, in an online auction. Now, analysis of software that the group made freely available to prove its legitimacy suggests that it’s authentic, and likely to belong to the National Security Agency. The Shadow Brokers claimed that their initial public release of the software included tools that could be used to break into firewall systems from companies like Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks.

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Input: “In fact, there have been reports that Secretary Clinton’s emails were, indeed, hacked successfully by foreigners. The Romanian hacker who goes by the name Guccifer claimed earlier this month that he had repeatedly hacked her email server. He described the server as ‘like an open orchid on the Internet’ and that ‘it was easy … easy for me, for everybody.’ Guccifer has been extradited from Romania and is now in jail in Alexandria, Virginia, where the FBI is said to be questioning him on the emails. There have also been credible claims that Russian intelligence and other foreign services were able to hack the Secretary’s server.” It is currently unknown, at least to the public, who else may have seen the emails.

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Input: The previously unreleased Clinton emails date back as far as January 2009 and further contradict statements by Hillary Clinton that, “as far as she knew,” all of her government emails were turned over to the State Department and that she did not use her clintonemail.com system until March 18, 2009. The new Clinton emails cover topics such as: the administration’s Iran policy; Obama’s stimulus program; the sharing of “management issues” with “Maggie” Williams, former campaign manager for Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign; confusion over voice mail versus text messages; image coaching from 2008 campaign advisor Doug Hattaway; and a thank you note from Mark Hyman for “opening the door” for a Senate hearing on functional medicine; as well email detailing incoming calls from China and Russia. The new Clinton documents also include a censored email that shows Clinton and Cheryl Mills were contacted by Maria Haley, a longtime Clinton aide (since deceased) who was implicated the Chinagate scandal. The documents were obtained in response to a court order from a May 5, 2015, lawsuit filed against the State Department (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-00684)) after it failed to respond to a March 18 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking:

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Input: WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — In his annual nationally televised question and answer broadcast with the Russian people on Thursday, Putin expressed his doubts about the possibility of removing power from established circles in the United States, citing the Bush and Clinton political dynasties as examples. © Sputnik/ Michael Klimentyev Putin Identifies Continuing Grip of Neocon-Liberal Militarists Running US Policy "Yes, it is true that in America politics has become a ‘family business’, in at least some instances.

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Input: But I can only see myself reflected in his black sunglasses. Under his hat, a 10-centimeter hole in his skull made by the bullet when he was shot is covered with a temporary implant that will eventually be replaced with a metal prosthetic. Sulaimon Saidov of Tajikistan still has a lot of complicated surgery ahead of him. His health has forever been ruined. The 38-year -old speaks quietly, relating the horrific attack in his mother tongue; an attack, for which there is no other explanation than pure, unadulterated hatred.

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Input: "No tool is off the table." The order will also attempt to define for the first time what constitutes a "significant cyber incident" triggering a federal response. It's an incident "likely to result in demonstrable harm to the national security interests, foreign relations, or economy of the United States or to the public confidence, civil liberties, or public health and safety of the American people." Obama issued the guidance through a presidential policy directive, a form of executive order used in national security matters and usually kept secret. In fact, the issuance of the directive, numbered PPD-41, implicitly acknowledged the existence of 10 secret orders issued by Obama in the past year.

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Input: Recently-installed Deutsche Bank chief executive John Cryan has set an ambitious target of resolving the lender's biggest legal worries by the end of 2016, including the US mortgage-backed securities case. Even once a deal has been reached, the bank will still have to face New York's Department of Financial Services (DFS) regulator, which is investigating allegations of money laundering in Deutsche's Russian arm. The German bank has already paid out $ 2.5 billion in the United States over manipulation of the Libor interest rate used by banks to lend to one another, and settled a dispute with the US Federal Reserve and the DFS, which accused it of violating bans on trading with Syria and Iran. As he fights legal challenges on multiple fronts, Cryan has also vowed to press through an ambitious restructuring of the lender, slashing 200 branches in Germany alone and 9,000 jobs worldwide. Deutsche Bank booked an almost 7.0-billion -euro loss in 2015, and its May annual general meeting saw shareholders berate managers for their performance.

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Input: However, both Rubio and Kasich are already well-behind in the delegates race. Trump is in the lead with 459, followed by Ted Cruz Ted CruzAccess to palliative care needs to stay in new health bill Dems step up attacks on GOP ObamaCare bill Overnight Finance: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays MORE at 360, Rubio at 152, and Kasich at 54. Both Rubio and Kasich appear now to be angling for a seat at a contested convention, in which they block Trump from getting 1,237, and potentially emerge victorious by negotiating at the gathering in Cleveland in July. Kasich has talked openly about how he believes a contested convention is likely, and Conant’s remarks on Friday indicate the Rubio campaign sees promise through that path as well.

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Input: It started calling itself the Islamic State in Iraq, or ISI for short. Shortly thereafter, Zarqawi’s group met a fierce backlash. Sunni tribal leaders, who had always hated living under AQI's harsh and often violent rule, became convinced that the Shias were starting to win Iraq's sectarian civil war. To avoid being on the losing end of a bloody war, they up took arms against AQI in a movement called the Awakening. Zarqawi was killed in 2006 by a US airstrike, and the US increased its troop presence in Iraq that year and the next.

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Input: On Friday, Trump said, if elected president, he would consider stopping American oil purchases from Saudi Arabia unless the Saudi government provide troops to fight the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group." And yet, without us, Saudi Arabia wouldn't exist for very long," Trump said during a lengthy foreign policy interview published by the New York Times on Saturday." We’re not being reimbursed for the kind of tremendous service that we’re performing by protecting various countries. Now Saudi Arabia’s one of them," he added. The billionaire businessman told the Times he was willing to rethink traditional US alliances should he become president.

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Input: As a former president, Clinton still gets a taxpayer-funded security detail for life. The cable network reported that Clinton would have been required to file an official form to leave his protective forces behind, although the Secret Service hasn't responded to formal document requests. Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting a minor for prostitution in 2008, and served just 18 months in jail for the offense despite outrage from victims advocates. Others reported to have spent time with Epstein include Great Britain's Prince Andrew and legal eagle Alan Dershowitz. ' LOLITA EXPRESS ' AND THE MILE-HIGH CLUB: This Boeing 727 owned by Epstein reportedly had a bed inside that was iused for sex romps with underage girls

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Input: He had been a fast-talking “Generation Y” ideas man at State under two US administrations, a courtier from the world of policy think tanks and institutes, poached in his early twenties. He became a senior advisor for Secretaries of State Rice and Clinton. At State, on the Policy Planning Staff, Cohen was soon christened “Condi’s party-starter,” channeling buzzwords from Silicon Valley into US policy circles and producing delightful rhetorical concoctions such as “Public Diplomacy 2.0.” On his Council on Foreign Relations adjunct staff page he listed his expertise as “terrorism; radicalization; impact of connection technologies on 21st century statecraft; Iran.” Director of Google Ideas, and "geopolitical visionary" Jared Cohen shares his vision with US Army recruits in a lecture theatre at West Point Military Academy on 26 Feb 2014 (Instagram by Eric Schmidt His documented love affair with Google began the same year, when he befriended Eric Schmidt as they together surveyed the post-occupation wreckage of Baghdad. Just months later, Schmidt re-created Cohen’s natural habitat within Google itself by engineering a “think / do tank” based in New York and appointing Cohen as its head.

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Input: If she pleased Uday, the story went, she would leave with a stereo. If not, well, a dead woman does n’t need a stereo. Uday reputedly learned the trade of terror from Saddam, who took him as a child to tour the prisons where his regime tortured and executed hundred of thousands of Iraqis. Though Donald Trump has praised Hussein before, the tactical stupidity of his latest comment really made it pop. Hillary Clinton had just been given a literal get-out-of-jail card from the FBI, but Trump picked the moment to heap praise on a dictator who gassed and tortured by the millions.

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Input: “No exceptions.” Nearly three years after signing with Trump’s agency, Blais had little to show for it — and it was n’t for lack of modeling jobs. Under the contracts that she and other Trump models had signed, the company advanced money for rent and various other expenses (such as trainers, beauty treatments, travel, and administrative costs), deducting these charges from its clients’ modeling fees. But these charges — including the pricey rent that Blais and her roommates paid — consumed nearly all her modeling earnings. “I only got one check from Trump Models, and that’s when I left them,” she said.

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Input: ADVERTISEMENT So far, 19 Republicans and 17 Democrats have signed on to the letter, including's vice presidential pick, Sen.(D -Va.). The proposed increase, of $ 319.9 million, would go toward three U.S.-Israeli missile defense programs and more purchases of Iron Dome systems, which would include co-production of the systems in the U.S. The senators are urging their colleagues, who are working with House members on a final version of the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), to include the funding levels authorized by the House's bill, rather than the Senate's. The House bill authorizes $ 600.7 million for research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) and procurement of the systems, while the Senate bill authorizes $ 280.8 million.

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Input: These terrorists are exploiting a vulnerability identified in jihadi training materials going back over a decade. A terrorist manual discovered in Afghanistan in the early 2000s titled "How can I train myself for Jihad" encourages would-be terrorists to obtain military-grade weapons in America: In "some states of USA," it reads," it is perfectly legal for members of the public to own certain types of firearms. If you live in such a country, obtain an assault rifle legally, preferably AK-47 or variations." (The AR-15, which the NRA calls "America's Rifle," is the domestic cousin of the Russian AK-47.) A 2011 Al Qaeda recruitment video included similar advice:" America is absolutely awash with easily obtainable firearms.

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Input: In a May 2014 email, Clinton’s soon-to-be campaign manager Robby Mook called it “troubling” that Goldman Sachs had been selected to host an upcoming Clinton Foundation event. “I flagged for Tina and Cheryl as well but it's a little troubling that Goldman Sachs was selected for the foundation event,” he wrote in an email to Podesta. His comment was in reference to a New York Times story included in the email that described how “The most generous donors to the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation will convene on June 6 at the Goldman Sachs.” 2) Clinton’s Keystone response In August, 2015, senior aides to Hillary Clinton debated intensely how to react to the Obama administration’s decision to reject the Keystone Pipeline, which they had heard was imminent.

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Input: Dotcom and Assange cemented a political alliance in 2014 when the two of them plus journalist Glenn Greenwald and famed leaker Edward Snowden formed “the all-stars of the internet freedom movement,” as The Daily Beast’s Lennox Samuels dubbed them at the time. Greenwald flew to Australia while Assange and Snowden were beamed in on behalf of Dotcom’s Internet Mana Party. Their big revelation in the race was a leak from the Snowden archives related to New Zealand’s surveillance program, released just in time for that country’s national elections. Get The Beast In Your Inbox! Daily Digest Start and finish your day with the top stories from The Daily Beast.

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Input: The senior officials remind the president they have 400 years of experience in working with classified information between the 14 of them. They know exactly how serious the situation is. Intelligence officials have been imprisoned for less. The memo states that an official named Jeffrey Sterling is serving three and a half years, and he was convicted with far less evidence than what the FBI has on Hillary. “The contrast between the copious evidence – some of it self-admitted – of Secretary Clinton’s demonstrable infractions, on the one hand, and the very sketchy, circumstantial evidence used to convict and imprison Jeffrey Sterling, on the other, lend weight to the suspicion that there is one law for the rich and powerful in the United States and another for the rest of us.”

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Input: In Trump’s, it is because of what his reality TV campaign style does for their bottom lines. Either way, they are bastards, and they should rot in that special place in hell that Madeleine Albright wants to reserve for women who do n’t support Hillary. Proud of her role in superintending the sanctions regime that led to the death of some half million Iraqis, Albright deserves a special place in hell too. To be sure, it’s not over ‘till it’s over; and anything can happen. But now that Super Tuesday 3 has come and gone, it is looking like we are in for a long hot summer and fall, and for many gruesome years ahead.

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Input: But Egypt’s Christians complain that they still suffer discrimination and even violence in some cases. A 70-year -old Christian woman was stripped naked by a Muslim mob in the Minya province in Upper Egypt in May, following rumors that the woman’s son had had an affair with a Muslim woman. Seven Christian homes were also ransacked and torched in the incident. Mina Thabet, a Coptic activist at the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms, a civil society group based in Cairo, tells Newsweek that Moussa’s killing can not be taken out of context. “You ca n’t separate this from the problem of discrimination against Christians and religious minorities in general in Egypt.

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Input: WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States called Friday for a war crimes investigation of Russia and Syria, ramping up the rhetoric against Moscow for its part in a deadly military offensive in Aleppo while potentially making it harder to restart diplomatic efforts to end the conflict. Secretary of State John Kerry said Syrian forces hit a hospital overnight, killing 20 people and wounding 100, describing what would be the latest strike by Russia or its ally in Damascus on a civilian target. A spokesman said the attack occurred Thursday outside Damascus, while human rights group accuse the pair of killing thousands in their assault on Aleppo, Syria’s largest city. “Russia and the regime owe the world more than an explanation about why they keep hitting hospitals and medical facilities, and children and women,” Kerry told reporters alongside French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, who arrived in Washington directly from meeting Russian officials in Moscow.

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Input: Labour's shadow chancellor John Macdonnell predicted the Bank of England would have to intervene to slow the fall of the pound. He said the market might be reassured if the government promised to bargain for the best trade deal it could get with Europe, from the outside. The EU's leaders in Brussels are expected to play hardball in negotiating Britain's exit, to send a message to other states that might be contemplating a similar move. Informal meeting of EU 27 next week without PM in the room to decide common negotiating position vs UK on exit negotiations — Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) June 24, 2016 Th e result was another terrible night for pollsters and bookies, almost all of whom had predicted a narrow Remain win.

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Input: But together, the city functions as one, in harmony.” The harmony did not last. There is a hint, in the demolition of some of the sculptures that adorn the temples and monuments, of periodic regime change in the ruling class of Teotihuacán; and, in the depiction of shield- and spear-toting warriors, of clashes with other local city-states. Perhaps, as several archaeologists suggested to me, civil war swept through Teotihuacán, culminating in a fire that seems to have damaged vast sections of the interior of the city around A.D. 550. Perhaps the fire was caused by a visiting army.

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Input: "Everything I just said, I bet you dollars to doughnuts Donald Trump has no idea about any of that." "It has been Russia's objective, it has been Putin's objective, for decades to break NATO. What Donald Trump is saying that he would unilaterally surrender to Russia and Putin, give Putin a massive foreign policy victory by breaking NATO and abandoning Europe." The interview became contentious when the conversation turned to the controversial foreign policy views of Cruz adviser Frank Gaffney. CNN's Wolf Blitzer presented Cruz with a series of quotes from Gaffney, in which his adviser described Obama as a Muslim, said the Muslim Brotherhood had infiltrated the U.S. government and linked former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center in New York and the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.

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Input: But a more appropriate metric for determining the propensity for violence of a particular society, culture, or religion is the incidence of intentional homicide. In almost all societies it is murder, not war, that accounts for the large majority of intentional killings. And perpetrating homicide, unlike embarking on wars or terror campaigns, does not require long preparation, intensive organization, a huge range of weaponry, complex logistics, political mobilization, intensive training, or a great deal of money — which is one reason why war and terrorism death tolls around the world are far smaller than the number of homicides. It is far more difficult to mount an armed campaign against a state than to kill an individual. And even today, wars directly affect only a relatively small minority of countries.

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Input: The federal Bureau of Justice Statistics once calculated, based on crime victimization rates from 1975 to 1984, the lifetime chances of being raped, robbed, or assaulted. The numbers were astounding. If crime rates remained the same (which, of course, they did n’t), 83 percent of all Americans aged 12 at the time would, in their actuarial lifetimes, be victimized by an attempted or completed violent crime, and 40 percent would be injured as a result of a robbery or assault. These are the kind of numbers that the public, media, and lawmakers worried about in the ' 60s through ' 90s. Rates of violent crime and drug use, particularly during the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s, really were unusually high, as federal statistics show.

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Input: (Silvia Izquierdo / AP) This post has been updated. More than 100 prominent physicians, bioethicists and scientists from around the world posted a letter Friday urging World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan to exert pressure on Olympic authorities to move the Olympics from Rio de Janeiro or delay the Games because of public health concerns over the Zika virus. Brazil, which is hosting the Olympics and the Paralympics, is at the epicenter of the rapidly evolving mosquito-borne epidemic. The letter is signed by 150 individuals from more than a dozen countries, including Brazil, Japan, Israel, Russia, Sweden, South Africa and the United States.

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Input: The United States-led bombing campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria surpassed a stunning milestone this month, underscoring the magnitude of the coalition’s quest to crush the militant group. Coalition drones and warplanes unleashed 49,917 bombs and missiles against ISIS targets through June 30, according to new official figures released this week by the U.S. Air Forces Central Command. Daily airstrikes by America and its allies throughout July has since pushed that number above 50,000, according to Airwars, a watchdog group that monitors the U.S.-led air campaign against ISIS.

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Input: In a state department email released years later, Clinton aides warned that Amiri, called “our friend”, wanted to leave. “If he has to leave, so be it,” a former state department special envoy wrote in a 5 July 2010 email. In other words, Amiri’s assistance to the US had been reported publicly for six years before his execution, years before the release of any emails from state department servers. The FBI has said there is no evidence that Clinton’s private email servers were hacked, though director James Comey has said they were susceptible to attack. The Democratic National Committee and Clinton’s campaign were targeted in a hack that has been largely blamed on Russian security services, and that took place years after Amiri’s disappearance in Iran.

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Input: Starting in 2011, this campaign went into overdrive in Syria, where the Saudis and their Western and regional allies have sided with and sponsored the Takfiri militants fighting to conquer and “cleanse” the Levant. That axis is being opposed by “Crescent” powers and by Russia. In 2015, another front opened up in Yemen, where the Saudis began a US-supplied brutal air war against that country’s new Shiite Houthi government and a starvation blockade of its people. This war has helped the Takfiri terrorists of AQAP (Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula) conquer territory in the country. With the beheading of Nimr, this proxy war between the Saudis and Iran has threatened to become a direct conflict.

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Input: In other words, he is saying that business wo n’t send jobs out of the country if we can make wages low enough here. His “plan” is to compete by pitting states against each other to lower wages, particularly by encouraging businesses to move to low-wage anti-union states. Once the layoffs start, workers will be willing to take big pay cuts to keep their jobs. Johnson shows how Trump believes “companies should continue this in a ‘rotation’ of wage cuts, state to state, until you go ‘full-circle,’ getting wages low enough across the entire country. Then the U.S. will be ‘competitive’ with China and Mexico.

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Input: Philosopher and professor of political science at the CUNY Graduate Center The charge of espionage against Snowden makes no sense. How can he be guilty as an agent of an enemy power, when his goal was to defend the people of the United States against secret and illegal actions by their own government? What would a pardon of Edward Snowden signal? It would acknowledge the very principle of democratic rule.

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