Input: Three specific points illustrate why Americans see Trump as the problem: 1) Trump has trouble working with people beyond his base. In Saddam Hussein's Iraq that might work when opponents can be thrown in jail or exterminated. In the United States that won't fly: presidents must build bridges within and beyond their core support to resolve challenges. Without alliances, a president can't get approval to get things done.

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Input: The fixture, anticipated by fans as the marquee game of the second day of Euro 2016, ended in a 1-1 tie. In chaotic scenes involving hundreds of fans, throngs of rival supporters rushed at one another, hurling bottles, chairs and other objects, and forcing police in riot gear to fire tear gas in response. Fans skirmish ahead of the match in the French port city of Marseille on Saturday. Distressing footage emerged of men kicking and stomping on another person lying on the street in broad daylight, as the rivalry turned violent prior to kick-off. Then, at the end of the game, Russian fans charged at the section of the stadium containing England supporters and more chaos ensued.

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Input: In addition to working alongside super-PACs, there’s the latest saga of two Democratic operatives losing their posts because of a leaked video. The Chicago Tribune explains the impact of this video in a piece titled Two local Democratic operatives lose jobs after video sting on voter fraud: Robert Creamer, husband of Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., and Scott Foval -- two little-known but influential Democratic political operatives -- have left their jobs after video investigations by James O'Keefe's Project Veritas Action found them entertaining dark notions about how to win elections. Foval was laid off on Monday by Americans United for Change, where he had been national field director. Creamer announced Tuesday night that he was "stepping back" from the work he was doing for the unified Democratic campaign for Hillary Clinton.

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Input: An estimated 60,000 to 70,000 were killed in the Nagasaki blast. Six days later, a little after noon local time on August 15, Emperor Hirohito's announcement that Japan had accepted the terms of the Potsdam Declaration was broadcast on radio. Japan had surrendered. Hide Caption 36 of 38 Photos: World War II in pictures A jubilant American sailor kisses a nurse in New York's Times Square on August 14, 1945, as he celebrates the news that Japan has surrendered.

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Input: His campaign has just announced it will soon launch a new website, LyingCrookedHillary.com. Here’s are just a few of the most egregious examples of Mrs. Clinton’s corruption scandals: The commodities trader who “bought” his appointment to a Top Secret nuclear weapons security advisory board. Mr. Trump began speaking about commodities trader Raj Fernando on Friday, just hours after ABC News chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross broke the story that tied Mr. Fernando’s appointment to the prestigious International Security Advisory Board in 2009 to his donations to the Clinton Foundation. Newly released emails, acquired by Citizens United through the Freedom of Information Act, show that career Department officials questioned Fernando’s appointment because he had no national security experience.

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Input: Ted Cruz Ted Cruz took swipes at Trump and Obama over their foreign policy. He blasted the Obama administration for not living up to an agreement with Ukraine to secure its territorial integrity made at the end of the Cold War when Kiev gave up its Soviet-era nuclear weapons. Cruz also slammed Obama's trip to Cuba, saying the President was in the company of celebrities who have glamorized the Castro brothers." As Barack Obama is sitting there sipping mojitos with brutal Communist dictators, he can't be bothered to meet the dissidents, he can't be bothered to visit with the Ladies in White, he can't be bothered to hear the screams of oppression," Cruz said.

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Input: In common with much of the region, Thailand's criminal justice system treats drug offenders harshly. Producing and trading in Category 1 drugs, which also include heroin, MDMA-the main chemical for ecstasy pills-and LSD, is punishable by death or life imprisonment. Klong Prem is home to 6,267 inmates serving sentences that range from 15 years to life, with 64 percent convicted of drug-related crimes. A typical cell measures 1.5 x 3 meters (5 x 10 feet) and sleeps five inmates, side-by-side on dark blue mattress on the floor." Some of the men, especially the foreign prisoners, are pretty big, so it's a squeeze for them," said one prison guard.

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Input: I remember our family trip to the White House in middle school -- even though you disagreed with the man who was President, you spoke of the office with such reverence and dignity that we felt honored just to visit. I left that day with exactly the sense of admiration and respect for the office that I think you hoped we'd feel. I remember another trip to New York where we walked by the Trump Tower. What's that, I asked? You just shook your head and said," Tacky."

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Input: The DNC responded by assembling files to gauge the exposure from Hsu to its slate of candidates. Similar files on Paul J. Magliocchetti, a lobbyist closely associated with the late Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), provide a quick reference document outlining Magliocchetti’s donations to Republicans. Magliocchetti pleaded guilty in 2010 to involvement in a pay-for-play campaign finance scheme. Guccifer 2.0 has claimed to be a Romanian hacker with no strong political leanings. Guccifer 2.0’s choice to release documents from Magliocchetti and Hsu, whose cases are now six and seven years old, shows a detailed knowledge of American politics seemingly at odds with the backstory provided by the hacker.

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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: Advertisement When it comes to war, Fish found no statistical evidence to support Samuel Huntington’s controversial “clash of civilizations” thesis that Muslim societies are inherently more war-prone than non-Muslim states. The higher the percentage of Muslims in a society, the lower the homicide rate. Moreover, a lot depends on what type of war is being counted. A 2011 analysis by the Human Security Report looked at which states had fought most international wars — including colonial wars — since the end of World War II.

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Input: “We are aware of the reports and are closely monitoring the situation on the Korean peninsula in coordination with our regional allies,” said Commander Bill Urban, a Pentagon spokesman. North Korea fires missile volley into sea after UN ratchets up sanctions Read more The UN sanctions target mineral exports and other key sectors of the North Korean economy, as well as requiring member states to inspect cargo shipments to and from the North that go via their ports. The measures, passed on Wednesday, are designed to limit North Korea’s ability to earn foreign currency, which it then uses to fund its nuclear and missile programmes. On Friday the Philippines coast guard announced it had detained a North Korean cargo ship that docked at the port of Subic Bay after arriving from Balembang, Indonesia.

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Input: If they are successful, it could trigger a cascade, an avalanche of similar cases in other places.” Last week, another 32 members were dismissed from the state council for nature conservation, an advisory body which had opposed the logging plan and has been accused of “inefficiency”. “We were sacked because the new government needs scientists who will applaud increased logging, to convince public opinion that this insane idea is okay,” said Przemysław Chylarecki, one of the dismissed scientists. Most of the new council member are foresters, or colleagues of the environment minister, he added. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Białowieża is home to Europe’s largest bison population.

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Input: Peter Feaver, a former National Security Council official in the George W. Bush White House, said that Trump’s position — which fits Trump’s broader view that the U.S. should avoid Middle East entanglements — has a surface appeal but ultimately does not make sense." In theory, this is not an irresponsible position,” Feaver said, noting that the U.S. forged an “alliance of convenience” with Russian dictator Josef Stalin during World War II. “In practice, however, it is fatally flawed,” Feaver added, noting that all three countries are waging brutal assaults on Sunni groups in Syria that are likely to fuel long-term extremism. “So while there might be a few narrow tactical scenarios where the United States can coordinate with one or other of these in a short-term tactical engagement against an ISIS outpost, in the larger war against ISIS they are not reliable partners,” Feaver said. Some conservatives argued that Trump’s position echoes current U.S. policy.

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Input: It appears, for example, that none of the anti-Muslim critics are aware that, with respect to the single greatest source of deadly intentional violence worldwide, Muslim societies are among the least violent in the world. This is not to deny the incontestable fact that campaigns of political violence in which Islamist radical groups — like ISIS — are one of the warring parties are now the world’s deadliest — and by a huge margin. It appears that none of the anti-Muslim critics are aware that Muslim societies are among the least violent in the world. Advertisement This reality might seem to lend credence to claims that Islam is indeed an inherently violent religion, but this is to confuse the ultra-violent ideology of a very small minority of Muslims at a particular point in time with the Islamic religion as it is understood and practiced today by the overwhelming majority of a billion-plus Muslims worldwide.

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Input: Hillary Clinton in last night’s presidential debate tried to avoid talking about the substance of the damaging WikiLeaks disclosures of DNC and Clinton campaign officials by claiming 17 U.S. intelligence agencies determined that Russia was responsible for this. After Clinton made this claim, she scolded Trump for challenging U.S. intelligence professionals who have taken an oath to help defend this country. What Clinton said was false and misleading. First of all, only two intelligence entities – the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – have weighed in on this issue, not 17 intelligence agencies. And what they said was ambiguous about Russian involvement.

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Input: Three specific points illustrate why Americans see Trump as the problem: 1) Trump has trouble working with people beyond his base. In Saddam Hussein's Iraq that might work when opponents can be thrown in jail or exterminated. In the United States that won't fly: presidents must build bridges within and beyond their core support to resolve challenges. Without alliances, a president can't get approval to get things done.

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Input: "While our party has bestowed upon him the nomination, it is not accompanied by unfettered license to defame those who are the best among us." McCain was a Navy combat pilot during the Vietnam War and spent more than five years as a prisoner of war. Earlier in the campaign, Trump denigrated McCain's status as a war hero, saying he prefers people who do not get captured. Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley said the families of military service members are owed "the utmost respect." "Mr. Trump’s comments are not in line with my own beliefs about how the members of the military and their families should be treated, and respect for the people who serve our country is something both presidential campaigns could use more of," he said.

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Input: 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. They had also failed to predict last year's general election win for the Conservatives.

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Input: Iraqi MPs would not have risked their jobs in support of a US troop presence that many of them also resented." The Iraqis had a vote here, and made it very clear that they wanted a clear end date when US troops would leave the country," Douglas Ollivant, the National Security Council director for Iraq from 2008 to 2009, said in a 2012 interview with Iraq expert Joel Wing." From the Iraqi perspective, this agreement was always about our withdrawal, and our presence over the last three years was simply a temporary accommodation to allow us to do that in an orderly manner." Bottom line? US troops probably would not have stopped ISIS’s rise, and, even if they could have, there would have been very little Obama could have done to make sure they stayed in Iraq.

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Input: The Russian Defence Ministry has reportedly since issued a statement which pulls no punches in its criticism of Vice Admiral Kravchuk. The commander had displayed “serious shortcomings in the organisation of combat training, daily activities of their forces, failure to take all necessary measures to improve personnel accommodations, inattention to their subordinates and distorted reports on the real state of affairs [in the fleet].” Russian news service Fontanka.ru has speculated that an attempt to cover-up an unconfirmed collision between a Polish patrol boat and the Russian submarine Krasnodar may have been behind the purge. But some Russian defence analysts have linked the removal of the entire officer structure to Putin’s sidelining of Admiral Victor Chirkov, the head of Russia’s navy, last year. Vice Admiral Kravchuk may have been perceived as having been ‘too close’ to his former boss.

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Input: Whether these cyber-attacks are the work foreign hackers or inside moles, someone is sharing the information. WikiLeaks and Julian Assange do n’t hack into networks; they’re given emails from whistleblowers like Edward Snowden. For example, Democracy Now reported after the DNC Leaks (resulting in the resignation of Debbie Wasserman Schultz and other DNC officials) that “WikiLeaks has not revealed the source of the leaked emails, although in June a hacker using the name Guccifer 2.0 claimed responsibility for the hacking into the DNC’s computer network.” Someone hacks into a computer network, or acquires the information, then gives this information to WikiLeaks. Clinton’s cavalier attitude regarding classified data has likely trickled down to the various institutions hacked by either Russian hackers, or hackers from other nations. First, Clinton’s private server at the State Department was unencrypted according to a Fortune article titled For 3 months Hillary Clinton’s email access was unencrypted, vulnerable to spies:

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Input: He was free to come. Those decisions are his alone to make.” Intelligence officials later told the New York Times that he was a voluntary defector and that the videos were made under pressure from Iranian and American authorities, respectively. Weeks after his voluntary return to Tehran, on 15 July 2010, he disappeared. Also on that day, the New York Times reported, citing US officials, that Amiri had given them “significant, original” information “about secret aspects of his country’s nuclear program”.

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Input: 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. All countries suffer from homicides, however. In 2015, the Global Burden of Armed Violence published by the Geneva-based Small Arms Survey, found that between 2007 and 2012, for every individual killed in war or terror campaigns around the world, seven individuals were murdered. Worldwide, for most people, in most countries, most of the time, murder is a far greater threat to human security than organized political violence.

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Input: GETTY Russia told its citizens to find their nearest nuclear bunker amid WW3 fears A terrifying Russian television broadcast explicitly told civilians to find out where their nearest bomb shelter is and repeatedly asked viewers if they were ready for nuclear war. One apocalyptic broadcast told viewers on Moscow's state-owned TV channel NTV:" If it should one day happen, every one of you should know where the nearest bomb shelter is. It’s best to find out now."

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Input: Pointing to Manafort's involvement, Weber told AP that Manafort discussed the project before it began in a conference call with Podesta and himself. The director of the European Centre, Ina Kirsch, told the AP her group never worked with Manafort or Gates and said the group hired the Washington lobbyists on its own. She said she had met with Manafort twice but said neither Manafort nor Gates played a role in its lobbying activities. The center has declined for years to reveal specific sources of its funding. Prosecutions under the Foreign Agents Registration Act are generally rare, although a former U.S. congressman, Mark Siljander, R-Mich., pleaded guilty in July 2010 to illegal lobbying under the law and obstruction of justice for his work with a charity in Khartoum, Sudan, that prosecutors said was suspected of funding international terrorism.

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Input: US Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has denounced America’s protective relationship with Saudi Arabia. The billionaire businessman told a campaign rally in Racine, Wisconsin, on Saturday that the United States should be reimbursed by the countries it provides protection, especially those with vast resources such as Saudi Arabia, a top oil exporter." We take care of Saudi Arabia. Now nobody’s going to mess with Saudi Arabia because we’re watching them," he said.

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Input: Any coziness has been interrupted during the presidential election campaign. Though President Obama maintained a wait-and-see foreign policy posture on Russia through most of his time in office, the Obama justice department has accused Russia of mounting the cyber attacks that hacked Democrat and Clinton campaign emails and Clinton campaign directors routinely say “the Russians did it” when confronted with volatile WiliLeaks emails. Vice President Joe Biden threatened Russia with a “clandestine” cyber attack on Sunday’s “Meet the Press.” Meanwhile Russian officials have been speaking ominously about war between the Cold War enemies with retired Russian Lt-Gen and roving Kremlin spokesman Evgeny Buzhinsky telling the BBC, “If you want a confrontation, you’ll get one … You want a confrontation, you’ll get one everywhere.” Tthe last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhal Gorbachev, told Russia’s state news agency that relations between his country and the U.S. had reached a crisis.

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Input: Photos: World War II in pictures Hide Caption 34 of 38 Photos: World War II in pictures A patient suffering severe radiation burns lies in the Hiroshima Red Cross hospital in August 1945. Many of those who survived the initial blast on August 6 died of severe radiation-related injuries and illnesses. Hide Caption 35 of 38 Photos: World War II in pictures A dense column of smoke rises more than 60,000 feet into the air over Nagasaki, the result of an atomic bomb dropped on August 9, 1945.

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Input: The Inquisitr has run an October 15th headline “The Russians Are Coming, Says Ex-Navy Leader: World War 3 Will Start with Alaska Invasion.” Let me briefly digress here. Granted, newspapers typically run stories with sensational headlines because they want to sell lots of newspapers and true journalistic integrity in this age of rampant deception is all but ancient history. And of course, an army of government shills and trolls have thoroughly infiltrated if not saturated both mainstream as well as alternative internet and social media with the expressed purpose of muddying the waters to intentionally misinform, deceive and confuse the public, making them highly susceptible to nefarious manipulation by fear porn propaganda. Under the chronic duress of hypervigilance and paranoia, both the sheeple and the so-called “awakened” can become more easily controlled, and certainly the trusting diehards will automatically be predisposed to seek protection and security in the face of real or perceived rising dangers from their Big Brother government, the very same perpetrator responsible for their mass brainwashing, mind control and pervasive harm. That said when bits and pieces of information are leaked and astute observers who are aware of historical patterns of deceptive US government behavior repeated ad nauseam by our enslavers, a clear picture of connected dots emerges of what may actually be unfolding.

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Input: The department has created several versions of special units to target gang and drug crews, but then disbanded them after allegations of abuse or corruption surfaced. The spike in violence in Chicago this year has been particularly vexing. Homicides in Chicago are up 49 percent, according to Chicago Police Department figures, with 441 homicides as of Monday. In comparison, Chicago recorded 473 homicides for all of 2015. So far this year, at least 2,702 people have been shot in Chicago, according to data kept by the Tribune.

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Input: Caroline Lind won two gold medals for Terhaar, at the 2008 and 2012 Games. Her average annual income, Lind said, has been about $ 12,000, so she’s relied on her parents for financial support. In 2015, Lind had surgery on a herniated disc she developed after years of intense training. She asked Terhaar for a reduced schedule while she recovered. Terhaar refused, and when Lind started to feel twinges in her back as she returned to rowing, she decided to retire.

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Input: “Food Stamp recipients did n’t cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did. Immigrants are n’t the reason wages have n’t gone up enough; those decisions are made in the boardrooms that too often put quarterly earnings over long-term returns. “It’s sure not the average family watching tonight avoids paying taxes through offshore accounts. In this new economy, workers and startups and small businesses need more of a voice, not less. The rules should work for them.

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Input: Just a month ago, it appeared that Secretary of State John Kerry was on the verge of securing the long-sought cooperation of Russia on Syria through an agreement with Sergey V. Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, that called for a reduction of violence, access to humanitarian aid and the joint targeting of jihadist groups. But no sooner was the agreement announced than it began to fray — first because of the accidental bombing of Syrian troops by the American-led coalition and then because of what the United States claimed was a deliberate bombing by Russian aircraft and Syrian helicopters of a humanitarian convoy headed to Aleppo. Video

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Input: Worldwide death tolls have risen at an astonishing rate — up more than 600 percent from 2010 to the end of 2014, according to Uppsala University’s authoritative Conflict Data Program. The primary drivers of this startling change have been wars in which radical Islamist insurgents are one of the warring parties — Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Nigeria being the deadliest. As the slaughter has increased and spread internationally, so too have claims in the West that Islam — perceived as an inherently violent religion — has been its primary driver. Pushed by right-wing partisans, as well as some liberal critics, these claims have fanned a wave of strident, and sometimes violent, anti-Muslim sentiment across Europe and North America. Advertisement

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Input: “Everything about my job in the U.S. Navy was classified,” said Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez, R-Lake Elsinore. “I’d be facing a court martial if I’d handled it like Hillary.” Melendez, who served as a Russian translator in the Navy, took to Twitter to share her opinion about the ongoing FBI probe into Clinton’s alleged use of a personal email account to send and receive classified information. The State Department announced today that it would not be releasing 22 emails covering 37 pages for public scrutiny because they contain highly sensitive information. The U.S.

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Input: In fact, he had rallies that filled stadiums like cool socialist grandpa, Bernie Sanders. But Nader went on to win enough votes to push America to the brink of nuclear war, and it was frightening. No one would have ever thought voting would potentially move us closer to annihilating humankind, and it took Kevin Costner to pull us back from what seemed like certain doom. Another thing millennials should know is Jill may seem like your sweet grandma in a flouncy blouse, who always wants you to sit with her by her bean garden while she plays mandolin, but Jill is really more like a babushka. That is, she is a Russian grandmother.

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Input: So that is just a variation of the impersonation claim. The idea is that rather than vote for someone who might be at the polling place, you can pick a dead person. And this is based on the fact that there was a study by Pew which found that there were up to 1.8 million deceased voters on voting rolls. Our voting rolls are not kept up to date as well as they should be. And things have improved in the last few years since that Pew study.

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Input: The senator recalled the radioactive effect that two Republican Senate candidates, Todd Akin, who ran in Missouri, and Richard Mourdock, who ran in Indiana, had on Republicans running for Senate seats in other races. Akin’s comments on “legitimate rape” and Mourdock’s claim that pregnancy resulting from rape “is something that God intended” not only sank their own campaigns but also became political liabilities for candidates in other states by alienating women. Dante Scala, an associate professor of political science at the University of New Hampshire, said Sen. Kelly Ayotte Kelly AyotteKelly Ayotte joins defense contractor's board of directors Week ahead: Comey firing dominates Washington GOP senators pitch Merrick Garland for FBI director MORE (R-N.H.), who faces a tough challenge from Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan, would probably prefer Sen. Marco Rubio Marco RubioWeek ahead: Obama DHS chief to testify on Russian meddling THE MEMO: For Trump, danger signs in the polls Trump retweets supporters Diamond and Silk on Russia probe MORE (R-Fla.) or former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush as the party’s nominee.

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Input: The FBI’s COINTELPRO program infamously used forged documents and false news reports to discredit or harass dissenters during the 1950s and 1960s, including civil rights leaders, anti-war protesters and alleged communist organizations. Hackers have adopted similar strategies. In 2013, Syrian hackers backing embattled President Bashar Assad hijacked The Associated Press’ Twitter account, tweeting out falsified reports of two explosions at the White House that had injured Obama. The Dow plummeted in minutes, wiping out $ 136 billion in market value, according to Bloomberg. It stabilized shortly thereafter, once the report was revealed to be a hoax.

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Input: Image caption Mr Roslovtsev has repeatedly protested against a Russian law that allows people breaking protest laws to be jailed Image caption He served 20 days in police custody for wearing a T-shirt stating "I'm not afraid of Article 212.1" Mr Roslovtsev, 36, has been detained as least nine times by Russian authorities after walking in Moscow's Red Square in his Putin mask. Watch a BBC Our World documentary featuring Roman Roslovtsev (UK only) Authorities say his actions breach Russian protest laws.

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Input: Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump Donald TrumpRepublicans and the lost promise of local control in education Press: Worse than Nixon What do Democrats stand for? MORE said it’s possible he could ask his former rival for the nomination, 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 (R-Fla.), to be his running mate. ADVERTISEMENT In an interview Thursday with Fox News’ “Special Report,” Trump said he and Rubio have patched things up after the contentious campaign.

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Input: A State Department official, who was not authorized to speak on the record, said no specific goal has been set for the number of Syrian refugees who will be admitted. Syrian refugees are expected to be admitted at a “robust level,” the official said, though not as many as in recent months. The primary goal, however, is to provide aid and protection to refugees in the countries and areas where they have fled, “so refugees can return home when the conflict ends,” the official added. Since the conflict began five years ago, the United States has donated $ 5.6 billion in humanitarian aid to the region, both in direct aid to refugees and to the countries where they have sought safe haven, as well as inside the borders of Syria. The administration has launched a new effort to reach a political solution to the Syrian conflict by brokering a still-fragile cease-fire with Russia that took effect Monday.

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Input: Today, the group is fighting alongside the Syrian Army to retake the camp. Nour al-Din al-Zenki is part of the Levant Front, and its allies the Islamic Front and the Free Syrian Army are fighting to overthrow the Assad regime. It is also battling ISIS and the U.S government supplied the group with money and anti-tank missiles.

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Input: The level of violence horrifies Russians, who believed that the most vicious Al Capone-like excesses of the chaotic 1990s had been left behind given the stern guidance and prosperity of past years under President Vladimir V. Putin. The outcry finally prompted the government to act, albeit haltingly. Yuri Y. Chaika, Russia’s prosecutor general, publicly urged law enforcement agencies to be less lethargic. Out of 21,000 complaints in recent years, only a handful of cases were pursued, he said, calling the legal response a failure given the magnitude of the problem. This month Parliament began debating a law to ban collection agencies.

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Input: Federal Security Service intelligence has found that Tahir Javed has really made his fortune through his involvement in Mexican drug cartels and with ISI. Meanwhile, he utilizes the support of government officials from the United States. According to news reports from Alabama, eleven of Tahir Javed’s convenience stores affiliated with criminal activity were confiscated over the summer of 2015. The report explains that Alabama law enforcement was the only legal agency in the United States to crack down on Tahir Javed because the top judge in Alabama did not support President Obama and his attempt to give legal rights to gay married people. This action by Alabama was supposed to send a message to the Obama administration that they know their biggest secrets.

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Input: Election monitors reported that police had beaten and detained political opponents, in line with the country’s reputation for repression. Becoming president was n’t Aliyev’s only ascension during 2003. Using a network of secretive companies in offshore tax havens, his family, advisers and allies set about acquiring expensive overseas homes and positions in the country’s valuable industries and natural resources, including the family’s majority control of a major gold mine that has been unknown until now. The new details of the Aliyev offshore empire emerge from secret records obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and other media partners from Mossack Fonseca, a Panama-based law firm that helps to set up hard-to-trace corporate structures for clients. The more than 11 million documents reviewed by ICIJ and its partners – emails, bank accounts and client records – represent the inner workings of Mossack Fonseca for nearly 40 years, from 1977 to December 2015.

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Input: "We need to factor these issues into our strategic discussions, [but] our Russian and Chinese colleagues have been less than I would say enthusiastic about engaging in those types of discussions." The possibility of nuclear terrorism was also a key focus on Thursday, the first day of the summit. President Obama said that in the wake of attacks in places including Brussels, there is “not only great urgency around the nuclear issue but eliminating generally the scourge of terrorism.” Some of the world leaders who attended a White House summit dinner Thursday were from countries that have been directly impacted by terrorist attacks. Slow progress

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Input: For US liberals who eschew the naked imperialism of Paul Wolfowitz (on which see Patrick E. Tyler, “U.S. strategy plan calls for insuring no rivals develop,” New York Times, 8 March 1992, archive.today/Rin1g), R2P is the justification of choice for Western military action in the Middle East and elsewhere, as evidenced by its ubiquity in the push to invade Libya in 2011 and Syria in 2013. Jared Cohen's former superior at the US State Department, Anne-Marie Slaughter, has called it “the most important shift in our conception of sovereignty since the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648.” See her praise for the book Responsibility to Protect: The Global Moral Compact for the 21st Century, edited by Richard H. Cooper and Juliette Voïnov Kohler, on the website of the publisher Palgrave Macmillan, archive.today/0dmMq. For a critical essay on R2P see Noam Chomsky's statement on the doctrine to the UN General Assembly. Noam Chomsky, “Statement by Professor Noam Chomsky to the United Nations General Assembly Thematic Dialogue on Responsibility to Protect,” United Nations, New York, 23 July 2009, is.gd / bLx3uU.

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Input: ADVERTISEMENT In the audio, Bannon, who was the chairman of the right-wing news outlet Breitbart at the time, can be heard saying," What we need to do is b---- slap the Republican Party," adding:" If we have to, we will take it over." The clip comes from a 2010 interview on Political Vindication Radio, a conservative talk show in California. Bannon has been a strong critic of the mainstream Republican Party and helped rally Tea Party conservatives against the GOP. The Hill reported exclusively Tuesday that Bannon gave explicit orders to his staff to destroy House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.).

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Input: “It seems he found it to be of good quality.” Advertisement Of course, no one really believed that Naryshkin had read Inozemtsev’s article or that he was guilty of copying it himself. Rather, he was suspected of paying a ghostwriter to produce a thesis in his name, then bribing academic officials to secure its certification. Naryshkin probably never even read the dissertation that had earned him his degree.

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Input: Was this the coalition or could it have been an air strike by the Syrian regime, or shelling by one of the armed groups fighting IS? Image copyright AP Image caption IS proclaimed the creation of a caliphate stretching across Syria and Iraq in 2014 While there is no record of a coalition air strike on Abu Kamal on the day the hospital was hit-6 March-a coalition press release does talk about an oil pipeline nearby being bombed. In one sense, it does not matter. IS claims it was a coalition air strike and uses it as propaganda in the battle for Sunni Muslim public opinion.

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Input: The Obama administration has engaged in all kinds of politically correct gymnastics to avoid making the connection between Islam and terror, terming acts of terror “man-made disasters” missions fought abroad “overseas contingency operations,” and in the case of the Islamic attack at Ford Hood, “workplace violence.” The virus of political correctness has long infected the way in which Mr. Obama, his administration and many in the media speak about the enemy — when they do at all — and in how they deal with it. It’s no wonder that despite waving Islamist red flags everywhere from his place of employment to the FBI, Mateen roamed freely until he committed mass murder. Mr. Obama initially dismissed ISIS as “junior varsity.” He later declared the organization “contained” — just a day before it launched its massacre in Paris. One thing we know about the most committed jihadis — the networks of whom are in every corner of the globe — is that they can not be contained.

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Input: Protestors defying a ban on Palestine solidarity demonstrations in Paris hold a banner saying “Stop the blackmail: Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism,” 26 July 2014. (Alain Bachellier / Flickr) A group of prominent intellectuals and activists is defying France’s crackdown on the Palestine solidarity movement by publicly calling for the boycott of Israeli goods. This comes just as the French prime minister has announced that his government plans to intensify its restrictions on free speech targeting the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. “This boycott movement is enjoying growing success around the world as the only nonviolent means to put pressure on Israel,” the public figures’ statement in the independent online publication Médiapart says.

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Input: Inmates sit on the floor during an inspection visit in the long term sentence zone inside Klong Prem high-security prison in Bangkok, Thailand July 12, 2016. REUTERS / Jorge Silva By Amy Sawitta Lefevre

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Input: Shortly after the flight from Paris to Cairo disappeared early on Thursday morning, Trump tweeted that it “Looks like yet another terrorist attack,” despite calls from an Egyptian civil aviation official to stop speculation without confirmation." When will we get tough, smart and vigilant? Great hate and sickness," the tweet read. Later in the day, Clinton questioned the presumptive Republican nominee’s credentials to occupy the Oval Office. “I know how hard this job is, and I know that we need steadiness as well as strength and smarts in it, and I have concluded he is not qualified to be president of the United States,” the former secretary of state told CNN.

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Input: ANALYSIS / OPINION: The most recent Islamic act of war, in which self-professed Islamic State jihadi Omar Mir Seddique Mateen slaughtered 49 people and injured scores of others at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., should be a game changer. The deadliest attack on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001, should finally convince our leadership that dealing with the Islamic threat must no longer be business as usual. Do n’t hold your breath.

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Input: Syrian rebel at a demonstration in Idlib AP Leaflets dropped on the city in the past day sought to assure trapped residents “there are no boundaries between us, break fears within you and come back to your normal life,” urging them to flee to government-held parts of the city. However, several reports say that those who tried to approach the siege barricades were shot at by snipers. There are no reports of any east Aleppo civilians crossing over into western districts.

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Input: The neoconservatives are organizing for Hillary as she is their warmonger and Trump says he is not, but as the Presidential contest is really a contest between the two Republican parties about which gets to be the whore for the One Percent, the RNC, impressed with Hillary’s lack of voter support, seems to be sticking with Trump. Better to be a well-paid whore than to be out in the cold. In the coming presidential election, the outcome will probably be determined by whether the powerful oligarchic interest groups decide whether Trump is an actual threat or whether they can cosy up to him and rope him in by appointing his government. Trump’s disability is that no matter how able an individual is, that person can not simultaneously make themselves a multi-billionaire and be knowledgeable of economic and foreign policy issues. The bald fact is that Trump, if he becomes president, does not know whom to appoint in order to have the support from his government to effect the changes for which his supporters hope he stands.

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Input: He urged Zakharov to contact him in 2020 if he's still interested. Oklahoma Secretary of State Chris Benge turned down the request, citing Oklahoma law." While it would be our honor to offer the opportunity to observe our voting process, it is prohibited under state law to allow anyone except election officials and voters in or around the area where the voting takes place," Benge wrote. Read or Share this story: http://usat.ly/2ex6tOw

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Input: This week Brazil moved one step closer to removing Dilma Rousseff from office after the Senate voted to indict the suspended president over charges of violating fiscal laws. The move means the Senate will go ahead with Rousseff's trial, which is expected to begin at the end of August. Rousseff calls the ongoing impeachment proceedings a "coup". Critics of Rousseff's impeachment argue that many of those voting on whether to remove the suspended president, including those strongly pushing for the impeachment, need also to be examined as they face serious corruption violations. In this week's Reality Check, Mehdi Hasan looks at how deep corruption runs in the Brazilian political system.

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Input: JUST WATCHED The tale of two former North Korean inmates Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH The tale of two former North Korean inmates 02:36 Jung, who escaped to South Korea in 2004, said he was first inspired to use the technology after reading about how Amazon was testing drone deliveries and he wondered whether it would work to get small items such as flash drives and SD cards into North Korea. He has testified several times about his imprisonment in the notorious Yodok political prison and about the torture he endured in a prison camp -- experiences that caused him to lose his faith in the regime. As he has advocated from South Korea, Jung's identity has been questioned by the North Korean government -- a common tactic used to target vocal defectors. In recent months, North Korea has attracted attention after announcing that it had conducted test launches of missiles and has tested a nuclear device.

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Input: In the 1990s, Chagoury portrayed himself as an Abacha insider as he tried to influence American policy to be more friendly to the regime. Soon after President Clinton named Donald E. McHenry a special envoy to Nigeria in 1995, Gilbert and brother Ronald Chagoury visited McHenry in his office at Georgetown University in Washington. The U.S. was pushing for the return of democratic rule in Nigeria; Abacha, meanwhile, was eager to have his country taken off a U.S. list of nations that enabled drug trafficking, McHenry said. “Their effort was to try and influence anyone who they thought could influence the U.S. government,” McHenry said, adding that the approach was heavy-handed. “They tried every key on the piano.”

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Input: Japan had surrendered. Hide Caption 36 of 38 Photos: World War II in pictures A jubilant American sailor kisses a nurse in New York's Times Square on August 14, 1945, as he celebrates the news that Japan has surrendered. (Because of the time difference between the two nations, the surrender occurred August 15 in Japan). Hide Caption 37 of 38

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Input: POLICY, I TELL YOU! According to The New York Times today, Hillary’s speech today in San Diego will target Trump over his foreign policy incoherence: The argument will include specific criticism of comments Mr. Trump has made about rethinking the United States’s support of NATO; his proposal to allow Japan, South Korea and Saudi Arabia to acquire nuclear weapons; his vow to temporarily bar Muslims from entering the United States; and his pledge to advance the use of torture and kill the families of suspected terrorists. But Mrs. Clinton will also invoke her experiences as secretary of state, including in 2011 when she supported President Obama’s decision to send Navy SEALs on a raid in Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden, to make the case that Mr. Trump does not have the temperament to make such decisions. Epic, epic fail.

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Input: The Obama administration has engaged in all kinds of politically correct gymnastics to avoid making the connection between Islam and terror, terming acts of terror “man-made disasters” missions fought abroad “overseas contingency operations,” and in the case of the Islamic attack at Ford Hood, “workplace violence.” The virus of political correctness has long infected the way in which Mr. Obama, his administration and many in the media speak about the enemy — when they do at all — and in how they deal with it. It’s no wonder that despite waving Islamist red flags everywhere from his place of employment to the FBI, Mateen roamed freely until he committed mass murder. Mr. Obama initially dismissed ISIS as “junior varsity.” He later declared the organization “contained” — just a day before it launched its massacre in Paris. One thing we know about the most committed jihadis — the networks of whom are in every corner of the globe — is that they can not be contained.

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Input: Sentence # 7: While not rigged, there is no question that the Democratic Party's primary process -- which uses superdelegates to create an appearance of pre-election electoral inevitability and closed primaries and onerous registration requirements to exclude many new, independent, and party-switching voters -- has dramatically favored Mrs. Clinton, just as the mainstream media, while not engaged in a massive conspiracy, has without question done all it can to aid Mrs. Clinton and hinder Mr. Sanders (as to airtime, coverage, reporting of superdelegate tallies contrary to explicit DNC instructions, and much more); and now, having failed to stop Sanders via either a lack of media coverage or the superdelegate process, a host of arguments against the Senator are now being marshaled by Party and media forces, not a single one of which is novel, and all of which are familiar strategies for decimating grassroots movements before they have an opportunity to threaten entrenched power: alleging, alternately, that the movement's leader is vain, self-interested, foolish, disloyal, senile / demented, short-sighted, or dangerous; alleging that participants in the movement are violent, spiteful, unrealistic, self-defeating, ignorant, destructive / anarchistic, or in some way grievously biased; alleging that hard data supporting the causes of the movement have in some way been misconstrued, miscast, over-emphasized, or wrongly elevated to the level of polite, reasonable national discourse; and alleging, with little proof, that absolutely nothing about the current movement is novel, and that it is instead merely a rehashing of other failed movements from the past, doomed to fade from public view and relevance in short order.

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Input: Although the newspaper could not determine who had prevailed in the vast majority of the cases, it did find Mr. Trump the clear winner in 450 suits and the clear loser in 38. And, indeed, for all of the litigation Mr. Trump has attracted or spawned, for all of the times he has been accused of ruinous dishonesty, the legal and regulatory record is surprisingly bare of official findings by judges, juries or regulators that Mr. Trump engaged in perjury or improper deception or actual fraud. A rare exception came after Mr. Trump decided to demolish a department store to make way for his Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan. Mr. Trump’s demolition contractor hired about 200 unauthorized Polish laborers, paying them as little as $ 4 an hour to work 12 hours a day, seven days a week. The case ended up in federal court after some workers were shortchanged even these wages.

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Input: Trump has also denigrated veterans who suffered captivity during their service, saying last year: “I like people who were n’t captured,” and has cast aspersion on the parents of a US army captain who was killed in Iraq. “Many people are saying that the Iranians killed the scientist who helped the US because of Hillary Clinton’s hacked emails.” – 8 August, Twitter Shahran Amiri, the nuclear scientist executed in Iran last week, claimed to have been abducted to Arizona by the CIA in a YouTube video uploaded in June 2010. In a video uploaded two days later, he said he had come voluntarily to study. Before long he was reunited with his son in Tehran, and then he disappeared.

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Input: The United States government can't seem to catch a break in cyberspace. Hackers claim to have stolen attack code from a team of sophisticated cyber spies known as "the Equation Group," widely believed to be associated with the U.S. National Security Agency, one of the world's top intelligence outfits. The hackers have offered to sell their purloined exploits to the highest bidder in an online auction conducted in the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. Although the alleged breach could just be an extravagant hoax, experts who reviewed a preliminary data dump teased alongside the hackers ' garbled sales pitch said that the files, amazingly, looked authentic." This appears to be legitimate code," Matt Suiche, a French cybersecurity entrepreneur, wrote in a Medium blog post, echoing what others had posted on Twitter (twtr).

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Input: The council convened to decide whether to suspend Russian athletes The IAAF have voted to suspend Russia's athletics team by 22 votes to one Russia's national athletics federation have been suspended from competition after being accused of running a state-sponsored doping programme. But new IAAF president Seb Coe said the ‘whole system has failed the athletes around the world’.

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Input: When considering whether or not he deserves to be pardoned, the president should remember that even former attorney general Eric Holder said that Snowden performed a public service. His revelations were the tidal wave the nation needed to change its ways. The importance of what he did for the country outweighs the law that he violated and the just move is a pardon for Edward Snowden. Ladar Levison Owner of webmail service Lavabit that he shut down in 2013 rather than comply with US government orders to facilitate spying on Snowden

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Input: A transcript of the radio message appeared on social media." I request an air strike. They'll mutilate me and my uniform. I want to die with dignity, and I want all these scumbags to die with me. Please fulfil my last request," he was quoted as saying.

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Input: While many athletes struggle to pay their rent or buy groceries, the billions the Rio Games will generate will flow into the paychecks and extravagant perks enjoyed by IOC members, USOC staffers, and employees and volunteers with the hundreds of sports organizations that comprise “the Movement.” 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.

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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: At first, the police moved to arrest not the drunken attacker, but his blood-covered victim. of being in the country illegally. Eventually the police were able to subdue and arrest Saidov's attacker." I've been coming to Russia for 13 years," says Saidov a month after the horrific shooting." The Russians that I worked with never had a problem with me.

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Input: "The embargo is currently effective until the end of August. I think these documents will be approved unless some miraculous changes occur in the geopolitics," Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich said. While the United States exports little food to Russia, some European Union countries had a significant trade relationship with Russia prior to the embargo. A major dairy in one such country, Finland, announced the closing of a milk-processing facility because of losses caused in part by the lack of access to the Russian market. The Valio dairy company said it would close its Tampere, Finland, operations.

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Input: Most viewers either agree with him or with her. And a small minority watched it and thought," How the hell did things come to this?" The debate will likely harden impressions, not soften hearts. The impression is that Trump has matured into an effective champion of the working class. But Clinton looks like a president-in-waiting.

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Input: FBI officials don't yet know how many of the emails are duplicates of emails they already have reviewed as part of the Clinton email server investigation and whether any of them may contain classified information. Investigators believe it's likely the newly recovered trove will include emails that were deleted from the Clinton server before the FBI took possession of it as part of that earlier investigation. FBI officials expect they have to interview Abedin again after they have gone through the emails. Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that talks between the Department of Justice and Abedin's lawyers were underway. They are not.

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Input: In 1894, the People’s Party Paper denounced Chinese immigrants as “moral and social lepers,” and a year later, Kansas populist Mary Elizabeth Lease warned of a “tide of Mongols.” In blaming illegal immigration for crime, rising social costs, and declining wages, Trump is following Pat Buchanan and the Tea Party. But he has also drawn attention to market liberalism’s support for low-wage legal immigration, which he promises to reduce, and for high-tech guest workers. Trump has pledged to “put American workers first.” Trump’s foreign policy views have been attributed in large part to his affinity for Russian president Vladimir Putin. But as far back as 1987, Trump was urging burden-sharing among America’s NATO allies.

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Input: The U.S. has been doing better than Europe. As the locomotive to pull the world out of the dump, the U.S. has been running on half steam and the scary prospect is now of the U.S. being afflicted with long-term Japan-style stagnation. Americans see the United States as a super-power but it is living on borrowed glory. It lags behind in education. The U.S. ranked 27th in mathematics and 17th and 20th respectively in reading and science, according to the OECD, at a time when the link between higher education and graduate readiness for today's rapidly changing workplace is critical.

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Input: A judge determined that the raid was unconstitutional and the children were returned. Interestingly, as the San Diego Reader reported, the public defender at the time, Jean Swantko, joined the group soon after. An investigation by the Sydney Morning Herald in 2013 told similar stories of members who had escaped the group, as did an investigation last year by Pacific Standard, which reported that children were allegedly beaten multiple times per day. In 2001 the New York Post launched an investigation that resulted in some of the group’s New York businesses being cited for violating child labor laws. * * *

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Input: Personal trainer — Arnold (@Schwarzenegger) August 10, 2016 Scott Walker hung out with Klement's Racing Sausages: Klements Racing Sausages hung out with me at WI 4-H Fdn meat auction @WIStateFair @Brewers # selfie pic.twitter.com/2BsVx4yslM — Scott Walker (@ScottWalker) August 10, 2016 Scott Brown seems to find himself in a pickle with the same regularity as any leading guy in a situation comedy: Made it to Omaha for my triathlon, but @SouthwestAir lost my bike.

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Input: “Sanchez, 56, a 10-term House member, was well behind but still in second place. Under the state’s primary rules, the two candidates with the highest vote totals, regardless of party, advance to the general election.” The outcome guarantees Democrats will hold the seat of the retiring Barbara Boxer, which means the national party will not need to spend a dime in the expensive state. But a battle between an African American and a Latina could draw in outside groups. Harris, who has struggled to run an effective campaign, is the front-runner in the fall, but Sanchez may be able to draw in moderates and Republicans.

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Input: Documents prepared by a prosecutor's office contain a large number of transcripts of “friendly” telephone communications between military officers and Mustafa Demir, the ISIL member in charge of Turkey's Syria border, the Cumhuriyet daily said on Monday. The prosecutor's documents reportedly say Turkish military officers also met with Demir on the border. The ISIL leader is indicated in the documents as the person behind the transportation of bombs from Syria to Turkey. advertisement Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ban of YouTube occurred after a conversation was leaked between Head of Turkish Intelligence Hakan Fidan and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu that he wanted removed from the video-sharing website.

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Input: See also: How Alex Gibney Made the Most Chilling Documentary Film of the Year For more on cyberespionage, watch Fortune's video: Some onlookers have suggested that the alleged thieves could be linked to Russian intelligence agencies, citing a recent flareup of activity by "Guccifer 2.0," believed to be a Russia-sponsored puppet account, and the country's well-known penchant for "false flag" operations, intended to deceive or confuse people. Others have urged caution of those so casually proposing attributions before thorough investigations can be conducted. 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.

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Input: The girl was therefore forced by law enforcement officers to a false statement on their tormentors. The family now comes with a lawyer against these measures. There is a medical document confirming the rape. The German wave published now a long report in Russian, who called the message a lie. Should correspond to the allegations made by the family of the truth, they are strongly reminiscent of the abuse scandal of Rotherham, where for decades white girls were raped organized by a Pakistani-britsch clique and the police deliberately turned a blind eye.

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Input: Another leaflet warns rebel fighters to surrender or die, showing portraits of leaders recently killed in clashes struck through with red crosses. The Syrian government announced last week following the collapse of a US-Russian brokered ceasefire that it intends to retake Aleppo – the last major rebel stronghold – for good. The UN’s envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura warned that the battle could be a “grinding, street-by-street fight, over the course of months if not years”. Government forces briefly captured Handarat from rebels on Saturday, but lost it in a counter-attack the same day. Minor clashes in several outskirts in recent days have so far been repelled by the opposition.

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Input: So, if there is something incriminating – or at least politically damaging – in Clinton’s emails, it’s a safe bet that at least the NSA and maybe the FBI, as well, knows. And that could make life difficult for a Clinton-45 presidency. Inside the Beltway, we do n’t say the word “blackmail,” but the potential will be there. The whole thing needs to be cleaned up now before the choices for the next President are locked in. https://consortiumnews.com/2016/04/30/hillary-clintons-damning-emails/

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Input: Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus declared: “I think that they ought to be prepared for more excitement in the email world this week.” How would he know? If the Clinton campaign, and not the Trump campaign, were so extensively interwoven with Putin’s Russia, it’s a safe bet that Trump would be demanding that Clinton release her tax returns to prove that she’s not beholden to Putin — just as he demanded Obama release his birth certificate. He would also very likely float allegations masquerading as questions by using the phrases “a lot of people have said” or “I’m hearing,” or “there’s something we do n’t know about.” But Trump, I’m hearing, wo n’t be doing that in this case. So let’s help him.

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Input: To the Times, he said, “NATO is obsolete,” but to the Post he said, “NATO is a good thing to have,” though adding the allies should pay for our troop deployments. He said nuclear proliferation is the world’s No. 1 problem, then said it would be a good thing if we withdrew from Japan and South Korea, even if the two countries reacted by building their own nuclear arsenals. He denounced President Obama for pulling out of Iraq (ignoring the fact that President Bush set the date for withdrawal), then said we derive no benefit from U.S. bases around the world. Advertisement

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Input: — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 3, 2016 That followed his call Saturday for criminal charges against Clinton." It is impossible for the FBI not to recommend criminal charges against Hillary Clinton," Trump tweeted Saturday." What she did was wrong! What Bill did was stupid!"

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Input: Dr Abdul Aziz (pictured flanked by colleagues), a surgeon working in Syria, said his patients and colleagues are being deliberately targeted by Russian air strikes, even after the internationally brokered ceasefire MI6 and British police are investigating alleged attacks on civilians by Russian war planes in Syria. Flames are pictured rising after the Russian army carried out airstrikes on two hospitals in Aleppo, Syria, last December In his first interview since the attack, Dr Aziz said: ‘It was horrific, terrifying. People were screaming and crying, the hospital was ablaze and the place filled with dense smoke and nobody could see.

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Input: Former IAAF president Diack is under investigation for his alleged involvement in a doping cover-up After a conference call meeting on Friday night involving 24 members of the 27-strong IAAF council Coe, at his London office, announced that the All-Russia Athletic Federation (ARAF) had been provisionally suspended with immediate effect. Twenty-two voted in favour of the sanction, with one voting against. The council member from Russia, who pleaded ARAF’s case as part of the meeting, was not eligible to vote. Coe said: ‘Today we have been dealing with the failure of ARAF and made the decision to provisionally suspend them, the toughest sanction we can apply at this time.

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Input: The most significant element of the Republican Party platform, however, is what it says about foreign policy — asserting that the United States must subordinate the entire world to the interests of American corporations. “We can not allow foreign governments to limit American access to their markets while stealing our designs, patents, brands, know-how, and technology,” it proclaims. “We can not allow China to continue its currency manipulation, exclusion of US products from government purchases, and subsidization of Chinese companies to thwart American imports.” In the Middle East, it calls for forcing out Assad in Syria, going to war with Hezbollah in Lebanon, repudiating the Obama administration’s deal with Iran, expanding the war in Iraq and unconditionally supporting Israel. The platform backs the arming of Ukraine against Russia and pledges to “meet the return of Russian belligerence with the same resolve that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union.”

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Input: I think it’s incompetence. Regardless, a lot of people think it’s evil intentions. I do n’t bring up the possibility that Trump has already been bribed or blackmailed by Putin because I do n’t know enough to really discuss it. I will say there are people who continue to bring it up because they think it was absolutely bribery and blackmail. I do n’t do that because I do n’t think it’s fair.

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Input: Has said he wants more countries to have nuclear weapons. Said he ca n’t release his tax returns because they’re currently being audited — even though the IRS said that’s a lie. Feels he has the right to sexually assault women. One man has done all of that, and much more — the person these people support for president. Look, I’m no mental health expert and I’m not involved in the medical field at all.

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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: The greatest threat to our homeland security today is the National Rifle Association, a front group for the firearms industry that derails gun-safety measures and perversely profits with each new mass shooting. Related 7 Things That Are Harder to Get Than an Assault Weapon In Florida, it's easier to obtain a gun than an abortion Responding to Orlando — the deadliest attack by a gunman in our history — the NRA blamed the massacre on "the Obama administration's political correctness" and not the terrorist's access to "so-called ' assault weapons '" — while advertising that "semi-automatics are the most popular firearms sold in America for sport-shooting, hunting and self-defense." Make no mistake: The NRA paved the way for the Orlando attack, during which Omar Mateen killed at least 49 people. Here's how:

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Input: Terhaar is US Rowing’s highest-paid employee, at $ 237,000. Men’s coach Luke McGee makes $ 197,000. Their rowers compete for stipends that range from $ 500 to $ 1,700 per month. Caroline Lind won two gold medals for Terhaar, at the 2008 and 2012 Games. Her average annual income, Lind said, has been about $ 12,000, so she’s relied on her parents for financial support.

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Input: And in 2011, Trump sued the company behind Trump Vodka after it went bankrupt, demanding $ 8.4 from his former partners. There’s no indication that Trump received the money, or that he gave any of it to charity." Trump also faces questions about what happened to money from his most recent book, “Crippled America.” He pledged to donate the profits to charity: “In May, Trump reported earning more than $ 1 million in royalties from the book. But there were no signs that he gave away any of it. His staff refused to answer questions.” Both of these fit into a quite familiar pattern ...

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Input: It's against two NFL games. I got a letter from the NFL saying, ' This is ridiculous. ' Why are the debates against—'cause the NFL doesn't want to go against the debates. 'Cause the debates are going to be pretty massive, from what I understand, okay? And I don't think we should be against the NFL.

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Input: Eleven days later, he won South Carolina with less than a third of the vote. On Super Tuesday, March 1st, he needed less than a third to win Arkansas and Vermont, and just over a third to capture Virginia and Tennessee. As late as March 8th, with nearly half the states already having voted or still voting, he was able to win Michigan wit h just 36% because there were still a dozen other people in the race. Discounting caucuses, which involve a much smaller percentage of voters than primaries do, Trump didn't poll a majority in any state primary until his backyard victory in New York (60%) more than after Michigan. And it wasn't until late April, after three months and thirty-eight states plus D.C. had cast their ballots, that any state other than Trump's home turf awarded him a simple majority of primary votes.

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Input: This statement is an incentive for the Palestinians to bring about a dead end. Negotiations can not be held nor peace achieved in this manner." Fabius announced Friday that France will try to convene an international peace summit in the next few weeks to renew diplomatic efforts between Israeli and the Palestinians. Fabius threatened that should the diplomatic offensive fail, France will formally recognize a Palestinian state. The Palestinians welcome the French call "for serious international involvement towards ending the Israeli occupation that began in 1967," the PLO's negotiations affairs department, led by chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat, said in a statement.

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Input: Israel should stop building settlements, denying Palestinian development and designating land for exclusive Israeli use that Palestinians seek for a future state, the Middle East peace quartet – the US, Russia, the EU and the UN – recommended today in a an eagerly awaited report. The report by the four entities sponsoring the stalled peace process said the Israeli policy "is steadily eroding the viability of the two-state solution"." This raises legitimate questions about Israel's long-term intentions, which are compounded by the statements of some Israeli ministers that there should never be a Palestinian state," according to the eight-page report.

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Input: Hide Caption 70 of 83 Photos: Inside North Korea Toy rocket launchers sit ready for children to play with. Hide Caption 71 of 83 Photos: Inside North Korea Junior Lt. Col. Nam Dong Ho speaks to CNN correspondent Will Ripley. In May 2015, Ripley and his team were granted rare access to the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in North Korea. An estimated three-quarters of North Korea's standing army of more than a million is based near the heavily fortified border. Hide Caption 72 of 83 Photos: Inside North Korea Soldiers stand guard on the North Korean side of the DMZ.

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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: See also: How Alex Gibney Made the Most Chilling Documentary Film of the Year For more on cyberespionage, watch Fortune's video: Some onlookers have suggested that the alleged thieves could be linked to Russian intelligence agencies, citing a recent flareup of activity by "Guccifer 2.0," believed to be a Russia-sponsored puppet account, and the country's well-known penchant for "false flag" operations, intended to deceive or confuse people. Others have urged caution of those so casually proposing attributions before thorough investigations can be conducted. 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.

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Input: Because it tears the scab off a much bigger wound that Japan wants healed,” says Grant Newsham, a senior research fellow with Japan Forum for Strategic Studies and former U.S. diplomat with over 20 years’ experience in Japan. “If Obama apologizes at Hiroshima, it draws attention to Japanese behavior elsewhere in Asia during the’ 30s and’ 40s. It might even be demanded that the Japanese government and emperor go to Singapore and apologize for slaughtering 25,000 Chinese there in 1942. Or to Australia to apologize for how they treated their POWs. Or to the Philippines (to apologize) for a few hundred thousand murders by the Imperial Japanese Army as well.”

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Input: In late December an American-made F-16, part of Bahrain’s air force, came down in Saudi Arabia. The pilot ejected and survived in what appeared to be a crash related to a technical problem. In May of last year, a Moroccan pilot died when his F-16 crashed in the north Yemen governorate of Saada. The Houthis claimed at the time that the jet was flying low and was hit by anti-aircraft guns positioned in the mountains. Coalition authorities said technical problems caused the crash.

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Input: Hide Caption 3 of 38 Photos: World War II in pictures German soldiers on the Esplanade du Trocadero view the Eiffel Tower. In June 1940, German troops marched into Paris, forcing France to capitulate and establish the pro-Axis Vichy French government. Hide Caption 4 of 38 Photos: World War II in pictures British Hawker Hurricanes fly in formation during the Battle of Britain in 1940.

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Input: "While our party has bestowed upon him the nomination, it is not accompanied by unfettered license to defame those who are the best among us." McCain was a Navy combat pilot during the Vietnam War and spent more than five years as a prisoner of war. Earlier in the campaign, Trump denigrated McCain's status as a war hero, saying he prefers people who do not get captured. Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley said the families of military service members are owed "the utmost respect." "Mr. Trump’s comments are not in line with my own beliefs about how the members of the military and their families should be treated, and respect for the people who serve our country is something both presidential campaigns could use more of," he said.

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Input: In addition, Russia and the Ukraine are at odds related to Russia’s takeover of Crimea and their military actions in Eastern Ukraine,” while “The recent tragic bombings in Paris, Beirut, Mali, the Sinai Peninsula, and other places have emboldened nations to join in the fight against terrorism.” The US spends more on its military than the next seven countries combined The report notes that “improved profitability” will result from “renewed interest from buyers” in acquiring “armored ground vehicles, ground attack munitions, light air support aircraft” and “maritime patrol ships and aircraft,” as “the military operations tempo is likely to increase and more missions are executed.” The global uptick in military spending coincides with a major new shopping spree by the United States, which spends as much money on its military as the next seven countries — China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, France, the UK, India and Germany — combined. The US expends $ 609.9 billion out of the $ 1.7 trillion spent worldwide by all countries each year on war.

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Input: — He illegally used corporate resources to pay an employee to write a political speech — He violated federal law by claiming proceeds from various Trump products would go to charity, although there is no evidence that Trump ever donated the money to charity — He violated IRS rules by using $ 12,000 from his charity organization to purchase a Tim Tebow helmet — He violated election laws by emailing foreign officials to solicit political contributions — He violated federal laws by offering Ben Carson a job in exchange for his endorsement

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Input: Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Tehran in November. Iran emerged from years of economic isolation this month when the United Nations ' nuclear watchdog ruled it had curbed its nuclear program, clearing the way for the lifting of U.N., U.S., and European Union sanctions." Iran and China have agreed to increase trade to $ 600 billion in the next 10 years," President Hassan Rouhani said at a news conference with Xi broadcast live on state television." Iran and China have agreed on forming strategic relations (as) reflected in a 25-year comprehensive document," he said. Iran and China signed 17 accords on Saturday, including on cooperation in nuclear energy and a revival of the ancient Silk Road trade route, known in China as One Belt, One Road.

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Input: The PYD and the YPG militia should not replace Islamic State there," Isik told Turkish broadcaster NTV. EUPHRATES U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu by phone on Thursday that YPG fighters were retreating to the east side of the Euphrates, as Turkey has demanded, foreign ministry sources in Ankara said. A spokesman for the U.S .- led coalition against Islamic State said the SDF had withdrawn across the Euphrates, doing so "to prepare for the eventual liberation" of Raqqa, the radical group's stronghold which lies further east. Isik said the retreat was not yet complete and Washington had given assurances that this would happen in the next week.

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Input: ' It has proven efficient in the past three years. ' We are restoring roads, building temporary bridges and handle many other problems. ' During the drill we are going to inspect what was planned to be inspected and make suggestions on building-up the potential and areas of developing civil defense considering risks and threats, civil defense plans are going to be revised and suggestions will be made for summary rules of national standards. '

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Input: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu by phone on Thursday that YPG fighters were retreating to the east side of the Euphrates, as Turkey has demanded, foreign ministry sources in Ankara said. A spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State said the SDF had withdrawn across the Euphrates, doing so "to prepare for the eventual liberation" of Raqqa, the radical group's stronghold which lies further east. Isik said the retreat was not yet complete and Washington had given assurances that this would happen in the next week." If the PYD does not retreat to east of the Euphrates, we have the right to do everything about it," the minister said. The offensive is Turkey's first major military operation since a failed July 15 coup shook confidence in its ability to step up the fight against Islamic State.

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Input: 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.) “I’ve never thought it was fair,” said rower Caroline Lind, a two-time gold medalist who recently retired after a back injury.

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Input: 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. That figure does not include airstrike operations conducted by Russia, which began a bombing campaign of its own against in the Islamic State in Syria last year. The relentless airstrikes by the coalition, now in their 24th month, reflect the intensity of air campaign against ISIS, said Chris Woods, the director of Airwars, which is based in the United Kingdom. By comparison, U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan have dropped just over 16,000 bombs in the last six years, military data shows. The liberal use of air power by America and its allies — which have included France, Canada and 11 other countries since the bombing raids began in August 2014—has been instrumental in routing the Sunni extremists, analysts and military officials say.

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Input: As the New York Times reported: “It does n’t matter what the friggin’ legal and ethics people say, we need to win this,” Mr. Foval said in one clip of the video that describes how to get Mr. Trump’s supporters to start punching the people that they plant in line at his rallies. Although Democrats are complaining that the Project Veritas videos were edited (as are virtually all TV videos), and therefore misleading, Creamer, as well as Foval, who admitted on tape to hiring “mentally ill” people to disrupt Trump events and foment violence, were ousted almost immediately, with Creamer stepping down and Foval being “laid off.” Creamer, as revealed by Stanley Kurtz, an expert on Vietnam-era radical movements, is a longtime disciple of notorious 1960s Marxist activist Saul Alinsky and a leader in Obama’s old community organizing network and its training center, the Midwest Academy, which was founded by members of the radical Students for a Democratic Society, SDS. Stealing elections

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Input: Of some 18,000 Japanese soldiers defending the island, 216 survived. Hide Caption 22 of 38 Photos: World War II in pictures German prisoners captured at Friedrichsfeld march through a town in Germany after the crossing of the Rhine River by the U.S. 9th Army on March 26, 1945. Hide Caption 23 of 38 Photos: World War II in pictures From left, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Russian Premier Joseph Stalin at the Yalta Conference on February 1945.

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Input: I think the administration should have said:" No. We are going to at least create safe zones. We are not going to let you massacre people with impunity." We knew that Assad was using chemical weapons. And when he crossed the famous red line and used them without a doubt, we should have reacted to that.

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Input: "Now, Trump probably thinks the SOFA ... is a gilded couch at Mar-a-Lago. He probably doesn't even know what SOFA is, but that was a very relevant part of the this," she said." It was also important to realize that [Syrian President Bashar al] Assad, by what he did in his country, allowed ISIS to move into ... Syria and get strongholds and recruit. That was the work and support of [Russian President Vladimir] Putin, who is Trump's best buddy. So you can say Trump and his friend Putin are the founder of ISIS, which probably would be more accurate than calling out the commander in chief in that way."

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Input: "Today we do have a place where we can implement Sharia. Thanks to Allah, we have many brave brothers here with us and millions of Muslims in Russia. Let's get together my brothers, seize a territory and expand it,” one of the leading members of the group reportedly said in the video." If someone does not find us, he shall start killing Russian apostates on his own. It is not difficult to find weapons in Russia."

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Input: His remarks came after NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg used an address to defend NATO’s move to strengthen its defenses, including moving more troops and equipment to countries bordering Russia. Stoltenberg said he expected a summer NATO summit in Warsaw would be used “to decide to further strengthen the alliance’s defense and deterrence.” “Russia’s rhetoric, posture and exercises of its nuclear forces are aimed at intimidating its neighbors, undermining trust and stability in Europe,” he said. In a separate panel, Poroshenko made an emotional appeal for continued support for his country amid its conflict with Russia in eastern Ukraine. A 1-year -old peace deal — the Minsk agreement — has not been fully implemented.

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Input: A group of prominent intellectuals and activists is defying France’s crackdown on the Palestine solidarity movement by publicly calling for the boycott of Israeli goods. This comes just as the French prime minister has announced that his government plans to intensify its restrictions on free speech targeting the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. “This boycott movement is enjoying growing success around the world as the only nonviolent means to put pressure on Israel,” the public figures’ statement in the independent online publication Médiapart says. “It permits everyone who wishes to peacefully demonstrate their solidarity and to protest the favorable treatment [Israel] receives from a large part of the international community despite its constant violations of international law,” it adds. “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: I would not be inclined to take one myself,” he said. Senate Republican Whip John Cornyn John CornynDems 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 Senators ask administration to probe possible Russian takeover of Citgo MORE (R-Texas) echoed that position. “I do n’t see the point of going through the motions and creating a misleading impression that something else is going on,” Cornyn said. McConnell said the rest of the Senate Republican Conference backed him in a lunchtime meeting Tuesday." The overwhelming view of the Republican conference in the Senate is this vacancy should not be filled by this lame-duck president," he told reporters.

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Input: (Lena H. Sun) A retired NASA astronaut was charged with murder after killing an 11-year -old and a 13-year -old girl in a car accident. Police said alcohol and speed may have been factors in the crash. (USA Today) Bashar al-Assad vowed to take back “every inch” of Syria, pledging to ramp up military efforts until his government has regained full control of the country. His tough words come amid indications that Russia is preparing to reengage militarily, reversing course just three months after backing a U.S.-led ceasefire. (Liz Sly) During a bilateral meeting at the White House, Obama and India’s prime minister vowed to ratify the Paris climate accord this year, pledged to nail down terms for limiting emissions of a potent greenhouse gas and set a one-year deadline for concluding a deal for six commercial nuclear power plants.

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Input: Hide Caption 3 of 38 Photos: World War II in pictures German soldiers on the Esplanade du Trocadero view the Eiffel Tower. In June 1940, German troops marched into Paris, forcing France to capitulate and establish the pro-Axis Vichy French government. Hide Caption 4 of 38 Photos: World War II in pictures British Hawker Hurricanes fly in formation during the Battle of Britain in 1940.

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Input: “Usually no hands go up,” she tells me. Her clients repair oil platforms, cut sheet metal, fix refrigerators, process chicken, lay asphalt, and dig ditches. She sells to entry-level floor sweepers who make $ 8 an hour and ca n’t afford to get sick. She sells to flaggers in highway repair crews who earn $ 12 an hour, and to welders and operators who, with overtime, make up to $ 100,000 a year. For most, education stopped after high school.

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Input: But Smith also drew criticism for bringing up Benghazi. GQ writer Bethlehem Shoals tweeted: “I do n’t care how many children Pat Smith lost, I would like to beat her to death.” He later apologized. In her “Fox News Sunday” interview, Clinton was asked about Smith’s allegations that she misled her and another Benghazi family after the 2012 attack. She took a soft approach. “Chris, my heart goes out to both of them.

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Input: Another fact: the Clinton's have created a massive $ 3 billion fundraising network. But if Hillary Clinton isn't as influenced by money as she claims, how do you explain the weapons deals brokered by Clinton's state department with foreign countries who made donations to the Clinton Foundation? Many of these countries include the world's worst tyrants with abysmal human rights records and are known to fund terrorism, execute gays, and discriminate against women and religious minorities. Perhaps this is how the system has worked, but how would we react if a Republican in office did the same? 2.

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Input: Jamie Seidel News Corp Australia Network RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has taken a page out of Joseph Stalin’s book — and sacked every commander in his Baltic fleet. The stated cause: corruption and incompetence. But given the endemic nature of both problems across the Russian military, Western analysts are scratching their heads as to the real reason behind the purge.

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Input: "Maybe, maybe not. I think that it's completely up in the air now, and so the result of the nomination process has no political legitimacy." Assange remains in exile in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to avoid prosecution on sexual assault charges in Sweden. He denies the charges.

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Input: Here’s something that does n’t work: inspecting a man’s anus to determine if he’s homosexual. Not only does human anatomy simply not work that way, forced anal examinations are humiliating, intrusive, and akin to torture. And yet, eight countries are known to still do it.

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Input: Full stop. Period.” But, although a former professor of Constitutional law, the President sports a checkered history when it comes to prejudicing investigations and even trials, conducted by those ultimately reporting to him. For example, more than two years before Bradley (Chelsea) Manning was brought to trial, the President stated publicly: “We are a nation of laws. We do n’t let individuals make decisions about how the law operates.

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Input: And I don't think people would judge a man in the same way. SPIEGEL: So you believe that a female candidate still has a more difficult path than a male candidate does? Slaughter: No question. I mean, in 2008, she had to prove she was tough. Now she has to prove she's caring.

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Input: Whistleblowing controversies of the last decade 12 show all Whistleblowing controversies of the last decade 1/12 Edward Snowden NSA leak Articles in The Guardian revealed that the US and the UK spied on foreign leaders and diplomats at the 2009 G20 summit. Reuters 2/12 WikiLeaks ' US diplomatic cables leak In 2009, former US soldier Chelsea Manning, downloaded hundreds of thousands of classified US Government documents, and passed them on to Jullian Assange's whistleblowing website WikiLeaks.

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Input: "The extreme left will not be satisfied by one person's resignation," the Republican party national chairman added. Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort said Clinton should follow Wasserman Schultz out the door." Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned over her failure to secure the DNC's email servers and the rigged system she set up with the Clinton campaign," he said in a statement." Now Hillary Clinton should follow Wasserman Schultz's lead and drop out over her failure to safeguard top secret, classified information both on her unauthorized home server and while traveling abroad." DNC hack: What you need to know

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Input: The greatest threat to our homeland security today is the National Rifle Association, a front group for the firearms industry that derails gun-safety measures and perversely profits with each new mass shooting. Related 7 Things That Are Harder to Get Than an Assault Weapon In Florida, it's easier to obtain a gun than an abortion Responding to Orlando — the deadliest attack by a gunman in our history — the NRA blamed the massacre on "the Obama administration's political correctness" and not the terrorist's access to "so-called ' assault weapons '" — while advertising that "semi-automatics are the most popular firearms sold in America for sport-shooting, hunting and self-defense." Make no mistake: The NRA paved the way for the Orlando attack, during which Omar Mateen killed at least 49 people. Here's how:

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Input: This year and next year Russia is set to put up more than 350 buildings for military needs on the Kuril islands of Iturup and Kunashir, called Etorofu and Kunashiri in Japan. Some 19,000 Russians live on the remote rocky islands, which were occupied by Soviet troops in the dying days of World War II. The two countries have never officially struck a peace treaty and the lingering tensions over the issue have hampered trade ties for decades.

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