Input: For years, that bill was at the top of the NRA’s agenda. Sanders helped pass it. For her part, Clinton supports comprehensive background checks, closing loopholes in purchasing weapons at gun shows and online, keeping weapons away from domestic abusers and those with serious mental health issues, and banning people on no-fly lists from acquiring weapons. None of these regulatory measures would violate the Second Amendment. On the economy

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Input: By 2010," Iraq finally had relatively good security, a generous state budget, and positive relations among the country’s various ethnic and religious communities," Zaid al-Ali, author of The Struggle for Iraq's Future, wrote in Foreign Policy. But that strong position was squandered. Then-Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki stripped his political opponents of power, appointed his cronies to run the army, and killed peaceful protesters. Most importantly, Maliki reconstructed the Iraqi state along sectarian lines, privileging the Shia majority over the Sunni minority. This exacerbated Iraq's existing sectarian tensions: Sunni Iraqis, after all, had long and falsely believed themselves to be Iraqi's majority (owing to Saddam-era propaganda).

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Input: ursulahx Posts: 441 Sr. MemberPosts: 441 Re: Trump Bombshell Speculation « Reply # 12 on: October 29, 2016, 02:38:33 pm » I'm not buying any of this, but that could just be pessimism on my part. I've certainly never had much time for Luntz, and Wilson's teasing has not yet yielded anything of substance AFAIK. Logged

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Input: The Washington Post, whose writers have portrayed skeptics of Hillary Clinton’s health as conspiracy theorists, is now lending credence to a Nigerian-born doctor’s conspiracy theory that Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump collaborated to poison Hillary Clinton. “The man who discovered CTE thinks Hillary Clinton may have been poisoned,” blared the Post’s headline Monday morning. Nigerian-born doctor Bennet Omalu, who has worked extensively on concussions, suggested that Clinton had been poisoned by Putin and Trump.

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

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Input: US reportedly reverses policy to allow shipments of man-portable systems to Syria, in response to intense bombardment of city Manpad systems are effective against low-flying aircraft such as helicopters (AFP) The US has resolved to prevent the fall of Aleppo and is preparing to allow its Gulf allies to flood the city with shoulder-fired, anti-aircraft missiles, according to a source with close contacts to rebel forces.

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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: Cornel West Philosopher, civil rights activist and professor at Princeton University Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cornel West urges Obama to pardon Edward Snowden. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian In an age of pervasive mendacity and massive criminality my dear brother Edward Snowden exemplifies courage and integrity.

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Input: He had to build and this doesn't help building.” Tyler put it bluntly: “He needs more women supporters, and reminding people he called someone Miss Piggy or Miss Housekeeper is not helpful.” Desperate to put any sort of positive gloss on a disappointing debate performance, Trump’s campaign claimed to have seen an $ 18 million windfall in small-dollar online donations in the 24 hours after the debate. However, it’s not yet clear if that money is all from online contributions or how much of it will be available to Trump, as POLITICO reported Thursday. Clinton’s campaign, meanwhile, is starting to put the pedal down. Even before the candidate mentioned Machado, her communications and rapid response operations had laid the groundwork.

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Input: You are now subscribed to the Daily Digest and Cheat Sheet. We will not share your email with anyone for any reason. Greenwald maintained that he favored no party in the elections and had only come to New Zealand to testify as a surveillance expert. For Assange the connection with Dotcom was not just about the shared ideology of two digital natives. Information was not the only thing the two of them were trying to free.

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Input: (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. “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.

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

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Input: Trump? He managed to incorporate his very large portfolio into nearly every comment he made. Eventually I expected him to announce he knew best how to defeat ISIS because he built a hotel in Mosul. So, yes, Trump lost. But we lost, too.

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Input: He was due to complete his military service and return home in May. The authorities in Yerevan and Stepanakert have already accused the Azerbaijani army of committing war crimes during the worst hostilities in the Karabakh conflict zone since 1994. They point to not only Sloyan’s alleged decapitation but also the killing of three elderly residents of Talish, a village in northern Karabakh close to the Armenian-Azerbaijani “line of contact.” According to the Karabakh Armenian authorities, the villagers were shot dead in their home by Azerbaijani special forces that briefly infiltrated Talish early on April 2. Baku has not officially reacted to these accusations yet. Although the hostilities largely stopped on April 5 following a Russian-mediated ceasefire, Kyaram Sloyan’s grief-stricken father, a veteran of the 1991-1994 Armenian-Azerbaijani war, now wants to rejoin the Armenian troops in Karabakh.

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Input: The terrorists stormed the airport Tuesday nigh t, opening fire and detonating explosives -- two of them at the international terminal building, and the third in a parking lot, according to officials. History of airport attacks Preliminary findings suggest all three attackers at Ataturk airport opened fire and then detonated explosives strapped to their bodies, similar to the mass shootings and suicide bombings at Paris ' Bataclan concert hall in November. ISIS claimed responsibility for that massacre, which left 89 people dead. Similar attacks took place elsewhere in Paris the same night, killing an additional 41 people.

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Input: South Africa has joined China and Russia in voting against a United Nations resolution on the “promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the internet”. On Friday, the UN held a vote on the resolution, which seeks to bring political commitment from member states to protect human rights online such as freedom of expression and privacy. The resolution further seeks to ensure the release of those imprisoned for “legitimate” freedom of expression online. Other key points of the resolution include investigating attacks against bloggers or other internet users, and refraining from preventing access to information online by, for example, shutting down the internet during key times such as elections or terror attacks. Countries such as Russia and China requested four amendments to the draft resolution to remove, for instance, text on freedom of expression and the shutting down of internet access.

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Input: There is not space here to discuss in responsible detail the epic historical deletions and distortions this narrative imposes. The omissions are staggering. They range from the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Filipinos resisting U.S. imperial invasion and occupation at the last century’s outset to the restoration of de facto slavery in Haiti and the Dominican Republic after World War I; the unnecessary atom bombing of Hiroshima and, even worse, of Nagasaki (really the first shots of the Cold War); the toppling of more than 50 governments by U.S. coups and invasions since the end of World War II; the liquidation of perhaps as many as 5 million Southeast Asians in the so-called Vietnam War between 1962 and 1975; the Cold War-era sponsorship of Third World fascism from Chile to South Africa and Indonesia; the attempted assassinations of Fidel Castro and numerous CIA-directed terror bombings in socialist Cuba; the near instigation of global thermonuclear war on at least three occasions; the development and sponsorship of Osama bin Laden and other radically arch-reactionary, jihadist Muslim, paramilitary forces to fight the Cold War against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan; the “Highway of Death,” when U.S. warplanes engaged in an aerial traffic jam as they rushed to slaughter tens of thousands of surrendered Iraqi troops retreating from Iraq in 1991; the coordination and sponsorship of a mass-murderous civil war on peasants, workers and intellectuals (with a death toll well into the many hundreds of thousands) in Central America during the 1970s and 1980s; the disastrous U.S. invasion of Iraq (responsible for at least 1 million Iraqi deaths); the calamitous U.S. toppling of the Libyan Gadhafi regime; the calamitous destabilization of the Syrian regime; the U.S. funding and encouragement of civil war in central Africa; the enablement and protection of a vicious right-wing coup in Honduras in the spring and summer of 2009; the criminal U.S. global war of terror, replete with rampant “targeted assassinations,” torture, illegal renditions, endless drone war and special-forces killing operations across the Muslim world and other places as well.

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Input: Opposition to the Netanyahu government is now the norm in all but the most retrograde Jewish circles, and opposition to Israel’s domination of Palestine is on the rise as well. Liberal Zionism may be an incoherent position, but there are lots of liberal Zionists out there, and they would readily cover Bernie’s back, joining the increasing numbers of progressives whose views are more evolved. It would be better still, of course, were Sanders to address AIPAC and use the occasion, speaking as a Jew, to advocate for justice for Palestinians; and, speaking as a candidate, to announce that, if elected, the United States will stop enabling Israel’s efforts to ethnically cleanse Palestine. But since that is n’t going to happen, Bernie should just not go. Let the light shine on Hillary instead; on how, on this, as on so much else, even the Donald has her beat.

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Input: 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. Today, Kenya took a step toward abolishing the horrific “tests,” as a court heard a constitutional challenge to the practice. Although the results were inconclusive, the court signaled that the abhorrent practice’s days may be numbered. Neela Ghoshal, a Nairobi-based activist for Human Rights Watch, told The Daily Beast that “it’s hard to imagine how a practice that has been harshly condemned by the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture can continue to be authorized in Kenya.”

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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 2014, the FBI issued what it called “an extraordinary warning” to several technology companies involved with Skolkovo. “The [Skolkovo] foundation may be a means for the Russian government to access our nation’s sensitive or classified research development facilities and dual-use technologies with military and commercial application,” warned Lucia Ziobro, the assistant special agent at the FBI’s Boston office. She added: “The FBI believes the true motives of the Russian partners, who are often funded by the government, is to gain access to classified, sensitive, and emerging technology from the companies.” Still, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta sat on the executive board of a small energy company called Joule Unlimited. Joule, too, received the FBI letter warning about Skolkovo.

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Input: THE DESTRUCTION OF EMAILS But Trump was unflinchingly critical of Clinton over the latest disclosures from the Federal Bureau of Investigation about her use of a private email server and destruction of thousands of emails that she and her staff had deemed of a personal nature. At least two of her mobile devices were reported destroyed by a staff using a hammer and BleachBit software to wipe unwanted emails." People who have nothing to hide do n’t smash phones with hammers. People who have nothing to hide do n’t bleach their emails or destroy evidence to keep it from being publicly archived as required under federal law," Trump said.

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

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Input: The US and South Korea have said that Thaad is only designed to protect South Korea from a threat from the North and would not target China or anyone else. Image copyright AP Image caption Tensions are high between North and South Korea But Mr Wang urged the US to rethink its strategy." The facts are clear. The deployment of the Thaad system by the United States ... goes far beyond the defence need of the Korean peninsula and the coverage would mean it will reach deep into the Asian continent," he said.

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

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Input: And, 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. Mr. Trump protested that he knew nothing about the use of unauthorized workers — even though workers testified that they saw him visiting the site and some witnesses said that Mr. Trump and the executive he assigned to oversee the demolition were well aware of what was going on.

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Input: Clinton laughed when asked about his comments." It is just ludicrous on the face of it. You know, I have been campaigning for Democrats, fundraising for Democrats, recruiting for Democrats to run and win for a really long time, I think about 40 years," Clinton said. She added:" Bernie Sanders, by his own admission, has never even been a Democrat. So look, I understand they're getting anxious, I get that.

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Input: 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 In recent days, Russian and Syrian aircraft have carried out attacks, mainly in Aleppo, using bunker-busting bombs, incendiary munitions, cluster bombs, barrel bombs and thermobaric bombs, which scatter a cloud of explosive particles before detonating in devastating blasts, according to American intelligence officials. About 275,000 civilians are trapped in those areas, including an estimated 100,000 children. Hundreds of people have been killed in the past week, international aid groups say.

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Input: Published on Oct 18, 2016 Rachel Maddow points out that while Donald Trump is confidently declaring that Russia is fighting ISIS in Syria, Russia has constructed an air defense system in Syria against planes that ISIS doesn't have but the U.S. does. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About: MSNBC is the premier destination for in-depth analysis of daily headlines, insightful political commentary and informed perspectives.

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Input: Foxes are wild animals and do not fare well as domestic pets The foxes did not last long in Macdonald's house. He found that they would tear up the living area and create chaos. Others who have tried living with foxes report the same thing. Richard Bowler, a wildlife photographer based in Wales, looks after a few foxes in a large outside space at his home.

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Input: One might imagine that this threat to public safety and homeland security would lead to a reconsideration of Florida's permissive gun culture. But the state's Republican leaders are not backing down. When pressed on whether assault rifles ought to be restricted in the wake of the Orlando massacre, Gov. Scott insisted," The Second Amendment didn't kill people. Evil killed people."

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Input: 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. I’m hearing it’s a big topic, the question of whether Trump is guilty of treason.

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Input: AP Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton:" Hillary Clinton does not stand for revolution." I think one explanation is that young people always want change, revolution. This is why they voted for Obama in 2008. But Hillary Clinton does not stand for revolution. She was the first lady, she was a senator, she was secretary of state.

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Input: She endangered national security by carelessly exposing highly classified information to hackers. She was hacked, and now Russia has some of the nation’s most secret information. If Hillary Clinton were to become President, the memo suggests she would be open to blackmail, by various government officials, foreign governments and any number of hackers. [Photo by Scott Olson / Getty Images]

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Input: In terms of American political mechanics, how could this happen and what does it mean? How did it get here, and what can we learn from it? The one common mechanical process in almost every aspect of American politics is the two-party system: an extra-constitutional artifice that long ago hijacked government. And it is through those double swinging doors that we have stumbled into our current political purgatory. This bi-polar orgy of villainy signifies that America's two-party system itself is badly broken; indeed, odds are that such a scenario would not have emerged if there were additional healthy political parties.

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Input: The FBI in July said it had completed its yearlong probe into whether the former secretary of State mishandled classified information on her personal server. The investigation was never formally closed from an administrative standpoint. Comey at the time called Clinton "extremely careless" but declined to recommend criminal charges to the Justice Department, outraging Republicans who said she should have been indicted. The FBI director repeatedly said Clinton's use of the server did not rise to the level of criminal behavior because investigators were unable to amass any evidence that she had intended to mishandle classified information. The probe did reveal that some information marked classified at the time passed through her servers.

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Input: Asking malapportioned lawmakers to decide whether to continue malapportionment is a bit like polling billionaires on whether their fortunes should be taxed. Indeed, Thomas’ opinion seems to suggest that billionaires should have an outsized voice in the nation’s political disputes. The justice criticizes the one person / one vote doctrine because he believes that it is “driven by the belief that there is a single, correct answer to the question of how much voting strength an individual citizen should have.” Such an assertion, Thomas claims, “overlook[s] that, to control factions that would legislate against the common good, individual voting strength must sometimes yield to counter majoritarian checks.” As a sign of what sort of factions Thomas finds needing of control, and which “counter majoritarian checks” he deems necessary, Thomas offers a theory of the Constitution that closely resembles a theory a libertarian group funded by the billionaire Koch brothers tried to teach to school children. “Of particular concern for the Framers was the majority of people violating the property rights of the minority,” Thomas writes.

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Input: Recently the Green Party put up a meme on Facebook: “How Long Will a Counter-Revolutionary Party Support a Revolutionary Campaign?” Stein was initially unenthusiastic about running the slogan. But she was pleasantly surprised: “It went viral.” Hillary Clinton, Stein agrees with me, has considerably less capacity to deceive and bamboozle progressive and young voters than Barack Obama enjoyed in 2007-08. “Obama,” Stein notes was fairly new on the scene. Hillary,” by contrast, “has been a warmonger who never found a war she did n’t love forever!”

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Input: Robert S. Ford, a former ambassador to Syria, said, “Many people working on Syria for the State Department have long urged a tougher policy with the Assad government as a means of facilitating arrival at a negotiated political deal to set up a new Syrian government.” Mr. Ford, who is now a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, resigned from the Foreign Service in 2014 out of frustration with the administration’s hands-off policy toward the conflict. In the memo, the State Department officials wrote that the Assad government’s continuing violations of the partial cease-fire, known as a cessation of hostilities, will doom efforts to broker a political settlement because Mr. Assad will feel no pressure to negotiate with the moderate opposition or other factions fighting him. The government’s barrel bombing of civilians, it said, is the “root cause of the instability that continues to grip Syria and the broader region.” “The moral rationale for taking steps to end the deaths and suffering in Syria, after five years of brutal war, is evident and unquestionable,” it said.

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Input: Hide Caption 29 of 83 Photos: Inside North Korea Soldiers pay respects to former North Korean leaders on February 15. The site is considered one of the most sacred in Pyongyang. Hide Caption 30 of 83 Photos: Inside North Korea Vendors sell flowers February 15 to mourners paying their respects to deceased leaders of North Korea. Hide Caption 31 of 83 Photos: Inside North Korea The view over the frozen Taedong River shows residential areas of Pyongyang on February 15. Hide Caption 32 of 83 Photos: Inside North Korea The symbol of North Korea's sole political party, the Korean Workers ' Party, can be seen atop a government building in Pyongyang.

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Input: On Friday, the UN held a vote on the resolution, which seeks to bring political commitment from member states to protect human rights online such as freedom of expression and privacy. The resolution further seeks to ensure the release of those imprisoned for “legitimate” freedom of expression online. Other key points of the resolution include investigating attacks against bloggers or other internet users, and refraining from preventing access to information online by, for example, shutting down the internet during key times such as elections or terror attacks. Countries such as Russia and China requested four amendments to the draft resolution to remove, for instance, text on freedom of expression and the shutting down of internet access. But, the amendments were n’t adopted and most countries voted for the human rights resolution, which will be adopted by the UN Human Rights Council.

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Input: Ukrainian authorities say a Russian opposition activist has requested asylum in the country. Roman Roslovtsev, known for protesting against Russian President Vladimir Putin in a Putin mask, crossed into Ukraine from Belarus. He told local television he was seeking asylum because of persecution by the Russian security service. Ukraine's border agency said that an application for asylum was being reviewed by migration authorities. The agency published a statement which did not name Mr Roslovtsev, but said a "famous Russian writer and public figure" known for protest activities had applied for asylum.

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

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

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Input: President Salva Kiir's sacking of Machar as his deputy ignited a war in December 2013 which has killed thousands and displaced millions in the world's newest country. The United States has said Machar's return is an important step toward the establishment of a unity government. But Booth said an arms embargo could only work if neighboring countries cooperated. The U.N. Security Council has long threatened to impose an arms embargo on South Sudan but veto-power Russia has been reluctant to support such an action. An effective way to cut weapons supplies to South Sudan, Booth continued, was to impose strict controls over its capital expenditure, which would also help focus spending on the neediest.

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Input: See more videos Independent groups have expressed widespread skepticism that a Trump administration could dramatically ramp up that process without disrupting key sectors of the economy, tearing apart millions of families and violating civil liberties on a mass scale. In May, a report by the right-leaning think tank American Action Forum estimated that finding, detaining, legally processing and deporting everyone who is in the country illegally would cost up to $ 300 billion. To meet Trump’s two-year goal, the report said, Congress would need to appropriate money to hire, train and field about 90,000 immigration apprehension agents — up from 5,000 Enforcement and Removal Operations officers today. Election 2016 | Live coverage on Trail Guide | Sign up for the newsletter

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Input: TURKMEN MOUNTAIN, Syria / MOSCOW Fifteen pro-regime military officials -- including four Russian generals -- have been killed by opposition forces in northwestern Syria near the border with Turkey, Syrian opposition sources said Wednesday. According to the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, the slain military officials included four Russian generals and four Syrian generals who had met late Tuesday in Turkmen Mountain -- located in Syria’s northern Latakia region -- to discuss recent military developments. One of the slain Russian generals, identified only as "Yuri", was reportedly coordinating regime attacks in Turkmen Mountain, the sources added. In a statement issued later in the day, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed death of one Russian officer in Syria but did not mention his name or rank.

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Input: "We are brothers," Francis added. The two church leaders kissed one another three times on the cheek, and Kirill told the pope through an interpreter:" Now things are easier." READ MORE: Pope urges reconciliation during trip to Sarajevo Al Jazeera's Natasha Ghoneim, reporting from Havana's airport, said the meeting was seen as a step towards healing the almost 1,000-year rift between the two churches. She said that Francis, who was en route to Mexico, rearranged his schedule to attend the meeting with Kirill, who was already visiting Cuba.

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Input: You’re not dealing with a happy story with a happy ending. You realize that they’ve only been able to save a few hundred people, like Oskar Schindler. They’re devastated by the smallness of the catch, and they’re butting up against the six million victims of the Holocaust. There’s a fury in them and a clock-ticking kind of urgency to what they’re doing. Because their story is smaller, you can personalize it.

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Input: There are two major reasons that so many questions remain about the nature of Manafort’s work for Yanukovych and the Party of Regions. The first is simple: Manafort has refused to describe it. Much of what is known emerged only after Yanukovych fled Ukraine in 2014, ousted by a popular revolution, and volunteer divers retrieved thousands of internal government documents that had been hastily thrown into a lake at his presidential retreat. Additional paperwork was found tossed inside a Ukrainian prosecutor’s sauna. The documents were dried and assembled by local journalists; some offer details on Manafort’s role in Yanukovych’s reign, helping to coordinate a U.S. law firm’s favorable inquiry into Yanukovych’s arrest of a political opposition leader.

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Input: The cryptic code tweets led many to believe that Snowden may have been captured or killed and the codes were the result of a “dead man’s switch” designed to release if he did not check in to the computer at a certain time. However, a journalist with The Intercept that has worked with the whistleblower in the past says that Snowden is “fine,” but would not elaborate further. A Russian news site, Sputnik News, reported that the strange 64-character codes could have been part of a “dead man’s switch” which would indicate that Snowden had been captured or killed. The dead man’s switch is “a message set up to be automatically sent if the holder of an account does not perform a regular check-in. The whistleblower has acknowledged that he has distributed encrypted files to journalists and associates that have not yet been released, so in Snowden’s case, the dead man’s switch could be an encryption key for those files.” Therefore, when the code was released for a brief moment on Snowden’s Twitter account, his followers quickly went into internet sleuth mode and attempted to decipher the meaning of the message.

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Input: Get Slate in your inbox. What is striking about the current debate is how extraordinarily little its participants appear to know about the extent of Muslim — and non-Muslim — violence. 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.

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Input: A week in Aleppo-witnessing the fierce battle for Syria's largest city 6 show all A week in Aleppo-witnessing the fierce battle for Syria's largest city 1/6 A woman walks through rubble from a building destroyed by shelling from forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in downtown Aleppo REUTERS / Goran Tomasevic 2/6 A Free Syrian Army fighter gestures during a fight with forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in downtown Aleppo REUTERS / Goran Tomasevic 3/6 Members of the Free Syrian Army ride on pick-up trucks in Aleppo's district of Salheddine REUTERS / Abdel Razzak al-Halabi

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Input: Dan Sanchez reports: The Saudis Go Full ISIS In Their US-Backed Takfiri War on the Shia Saudi Arabia has perpetrated a mass execution that puts ISIS’s beach beheadings to shame. Forty-seven heads rolled on Saturday. One of them belonged to Nimr al-Nimr, a revered Shi’ite cleric who had been sentenced to death for sermons in which he criticized the government (especially for its persecution of the country’s Shi’ite minority).

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Input: This is how they treat someone who's willing to come on board. I wonder how they treat people who are against them. '" BATTLE FOR THE SENATE: -- The Khan family is becoming a big issue down the ballot -- > “Khizr Khan calls on John McCain to stand up to Trump,” by Cronkite News’s Emily Zentner (they are affiliated with Arizona PBS): “The last book Khizr Khan sent his son Humayun, an Army captain who was killed in a 2004 car bombing in Iraq, was Sen. John McCain’s ‘Why Courage Matters.’ Khan said he has long respected the Arizona Republican, and that one of his last conversations with his son had been about the book and McCain’s sacrifice … McCain had been ‘my and my family’s hero,’ whom Khan said they admired as someone who ‘gave so much in care of others.’ ... It’s that admiration that led Khan to call on McCain and other GOP leaders to withdraw their support of Trump: ‘I implore Sen. McCain … this will be a historic moment in the Republican Party,’ Khan said during an interview with Cronkite News. ‘If you publicly rebuked him, you will look back and you will stand tall in front of the nation and you will say you were not for this, we were for [a] better America,’ he said.

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Input: The State Department spokesman, John Kirby, declined to comment on the memo, which top officials had just received. But he said Mr. Kerry respected the process as a way for employees “to express policy views candidly and privately to senior leadership.” Robert S. Ford, a former ambassador to Syria, said, “Many people working on Syria for the State Department have long urged a tougher policy with the Assad government as a means of facilitating arrival at a negotiated political deal to set up a new Syrian government.” Mr. Ford, who is now a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, resigned from the Foreign Service in 2014 out of frustration with the administration’s hands-off policy toward the conflict. In the memo, the State Department officials wrote that the Assad government’s continuing violations of the partial cease-fire, known as a cessation of hostilities, will doom efforts to broker a political settlement because Mr. Assad will feel no pressure to negotiate with the moderate opposition or other factions fighting him.

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Input: Sooner or later, if sieges are not lifted, resistance will collapse. ' No choice ' This week more civilians were evacuated from Darayya, one of the opposition-controlled suburbs to the south-west of Damascus. The UN has condemned the evacuations because they are the result of what it called "unrelenting siege, during which children starved, people resorted to eating grass and the town was subjected to an onslaught of fighting". Fighters emerged too, briefly, before they returned back to their positions in Muadhamiya, an opposition-held suburb close to Darayya, while their future is being negotiated.

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Input: Advertisement Continue reading the main story In many respects, Mrs. Clinton’s campaign against Mr. Trump has flipped the traditional contours of defense politics, offering voters a Democrat with more hawkish instincts and deeper ties to the national security establishment, and a Republican who has broadly rejected military intervention and has been spurned by many defense leaders in his own party. Mrs. Clinton is by far the more conventionally experienced and credentialed candidate, and in some respects is more hawkish: She has called for the creation of a no-fly zone in Syria, as well as more airstrikes there, and has urged closer collaboration with Silicon Valley to expand the United States’ surveillance capabilities, alarming some civil liberties advocates. In Mr. Trump, she confronts a candidate who has been abandoned by most of his party’s national security elite, who is still unable to produce a detailed set of proposals for stopping terrorism, and whose essential political brand — disruption — does not always comfort voters seeking strength in moments of crisis and terror. Tommy Vietor, a former national security spokesman for Mr. Obama, said that if Democrats were conventionally cast as the “mommy party” and Republicans as the “daddy party” in American politics, then “Trump is the crazy uncle and Hillary Clinton is the only person you trust to watch your family for a week.”

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Input: Under Hillary Clinton’s leadership as Secretary of State, the U.S. gave support to the Honduras military which ousted yet another democratically elected president. Here’s Dana Frank’s description in the New York Times on January 26, 2012. “Ever since the June 28, 2009, coup that deposed Honduras’s democratically elected president, José Manuel Zelaya, the country has been descending deeper into a human rights and security abyss. That abyss is in good part the State Department’s making .... This chain of events — a coup that the United States did n’t stop, a fraudulent election that it accepted — has now allowed corruption to mushroom.

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Input: This law is supposed to protect a person or group of persons who are victims of discrimination because of their origin or membership or nonmembership of a specific ethnicity, nation, race or religion. It was never intended to protect the policies of a state against the criticism of citizens, when such criticism takes the form of a call to boycott products. Organizations have repeatedly called for boycotts in the world, of Myanmar (Burma), Russia, China or Mexico without ever invoking this clause. Despite the insistence of the justice minister, most French jurisdictions have refused in recent years to consider that calls to boycott Israeli goods rise to the level of a violation of the law. With the Court of Cassation’s decision, France has become the only democratic country in the world where such an interdiction has been put in place.

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Input: Strong oversight of our intelligence agencies is essential so the American people trust what they are doing to keep us safe. That trust was shaken when Edward Snowden disclosed the disconcerting truths about US surveillance that fueled my years-long effort, alongside Senator Wyden, to end the dragnet, warrantless collection of Americans’ communication records. Although Snowden’s actions aided my push for reform, the fact remains that Snowden broke an oath he willingly took to protect our national security and classified secrets. I do not believe the president should pardon Snowden. You can make the case that he did our nation a service, and that is why I believe he should return to the United States to make that argument in court and to the public.

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Input: Throughout, Wasserman Schultz resisted repeated calls to resign. “This is so humiliating,” said Morgan, who became a Wasserman Schultz foe after she trashed his Florida ballot initiative to legalize medical marijuana. “Even though she said she’s quitting at the end of the convention, if she speaks, she’s going to be booed,” said Morgan, a longtime Clinton supporter. “The Sanders people have a right to be angry because these emails convey their worst suspicions — that Wasserman Schultz is to Democratic dirty tricks what Richard Nixon was for Republican dirty tricks.” Wasserman Schultz spent Sunday afternoon hiding from reporters and huddling with advisers and Democrats connected to Clinton who urged her to quit, sources said.

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Input: Russia has firmly dismissed a report into the 2014 downing of a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine, calling it biased. All 298 people on board flight MH17 died when it broke apart in mid-air flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. The Dutch-led Joint Investigation Team (JIT) international prosecuters have concluded the aircraft was destroyed by a Russian-made Buk missile. It had been fired from a Ukrainian village held by pro-Russian rebels and the launcher returned to Russia the next day. Read a summary of the report here

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Input: Full-page ad in today's @WSJ denying the Armenian genocide pic.twitter.com/LjBGjCo80l — Gary Bass (@Gary__Bass) April 20, 2016 It also contains a link to the genocide-denial group FactCheckArmenia.com, which propagates claims that Armenians were killed during the First World War because they were “collectively guilty” of treason against the Ottoman Empire. READ MORE: Armenian genocide: 130 K march in LA to mark 100th anniversary (PHOTO, VIDEO) Moreover, it attempts to argue that fewer people were killed than is claimed, and that the Armenians started the conflict. The WSJ ad caused outrage on Twitter and other social media platforms.

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Input: The consequences of such detention were “severe mental health problems including anxiety, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, self-harm and suicidality”. 10 things immigration has done for Britain + show all 10 things immigration has done for Britain 1/10 The Mini The 1959 classic, that is, perhaps our greatest piece of industrial design, a miracle of packaging and revolution in motoring. Its genius designer was Sir Alec Issigonis, who was an asylum seeker.

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Input: When the pilot falls into our hands, we will bring down justice upon him!" 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.

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Input: In announcing that he would recommend against prosecution in July, Comey made a point of declaring that “this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences. To the contrary, those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions.” Republicans will insist that such sanctions be imposed on anyone who mishandled classified information, received immunity or took the Fifth in the Clinton investigation — including denial of access to classified material. And they may also want to look into how Abedin failed to turn over husband Anthony Weiner’s laptop containing thousands of Clinton emails — after she swore under oath that she had handed over “all the devices” she possessed containing such emails. [Do n’t blame Comey] Congress will almost certainly take a careful look into the leaked 12-page memo by Bill Clinton confidant Doug Band in which he details the squalid underside of what he calls “Bill Clinton, Inc.” and the shady nexus between the Clinton Foundation, Bill Clinton’s private speech income, Band’s consulting firm Teneo and the Clinton State Department.

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Input: The northern democracies, accustomed to dispensing unwanted tutelage in sanctimony, have canceled their welcome for the wave of migrants from the Middle East and North Africa trying to break down the door to Europe. The Scandinavians, particularly the Swedes, have sometimes claimed humanitarian credentials while betraying their neighbors. Sweden, which professed to be neutral in World War II, was a critical supplier of high-quality munitions to the Nazis, permitting them to cross Swedish territory to invade Norway, and usually rejecting refugees. Norway, too, has been anxious to deliver political nostrums to others. Its mediation in the Sri Lankan civil war muddled the issues and the civil war became a bloodbath.

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Input: Trump's supporters erupted in applause. Clinton had her own applause line, though, batting back Trump's concerns about her stamina in the Oval Office. ' As soon as he travels to 112 countries and negotiates a peace deal, a ceasefire, a release of dissidents, an opening of new opportunities in nations around the world, or even spends 11 hours testifying in front of a congressional committee, he can talk to me about stamina, ' she declared. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump (right) kisses his wife Melania Trump (left) at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton met Monday night in the most hotly awaited presidential debate in modern political history

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Input: She said that when she was 14 years old, a boy her age kissed her innocently. From that point forth, they were separated on opposite sides of the country and not permitted to communicate, but nevertheless were sentenced to be married when they turned 18. She told me that she first tried to escape when they were married. She was gone for three months, but she claims the group guilted her into coming back, saying her husband would burn in hell for eternity if she didn't. The pair was relocated to Florida, where family members outside of the group who’d taken her in couldn't find her.

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Input: We are also going to build a modern electric grid.” Clinton added that she’s “going to raise the national minimum wage” and “make sure that women finally get equal pay.” “What I believe,” she said, “is that … we need a campaign that lays out the agenda so people can vote for it, so that when I’m elected, I can tell the Congress, ‘This is what the people of America voted for us to do!’” For the sake of argument, let’s just assume Clinton wins. Here are seven reasons the dynamic on Capitol Hill probably would not change much:

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Input: That does not work anymore.” Generally, banks seeking loan payments are not in the business of thrashing their customers physically. The worst abuses are rooted in the so-called microfinance industry, which extends small loans to tide borrowers over until their next paycheck. Those loans average $ 125, according to United Credit Bureau statistics. The interest rate is usually 2 percent a day, or 730 percent a year.

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Input: 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: — The NRA's lobbyists and political allies fought for a raft of permissive state gun laws, turning Florida in particular into the "Gunshine State."

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Input: 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: Security firm Venafi has found that Clinton’s email server may have been open to foreign intelligence snoops when traveling abroad … Venafi, a Salt Lake City computer security firm, has conducted an analysis of clintonemail.com and determined that “for the first three months of Secretary Clinton’s term, access to the server was not encrypted or authenticated with a digital certificate.” In other words: For three months, Clinton’s server lay vulnerable to snooping, hacking, and spoofing.

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Input: Hide Caption 31 of 38 Photos: World War II in pictures A photograph on display at the Bradbury Science Museum shows the first instant of the first atomic bomb test, on July 16, 1945, at 5:29 a.m. at Trinity Site in New Mexico. The Potsdam Declaration, announced 10 days later, called for Japan's unconditional surrender, threatening "prompt and utter destruction." It did not, however, specifically mention the bomb. Hide Caption 32 of 38

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Input: After you left office as secretary of state, the president and your successor, John Kerry, repeatedly said they would prevent all pathways to Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon and get anytime / anywhere inspections. We now know breakout time would be reduced to zero in as little as 10 years and there are not true anytime / anywhere inspections. Since that deal was implemented and $ 1.7 billion was released to Iran, it has obtained a Russian anti-missile defense system, attempted to acquire impermissible materials, according to German intelligence, conducted multiple illegal missile tests, cracked down even harder on human rights, sent troops to Syria and continues to be the largest state sponsor of terrorism. Was this the deal you would have negotiated? Was either the deal or the implementation flawed?

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Input: Given how little attention Trump has paid to the substance of the platform, the intervention is striking. At the very least, it suggests that the candidate’s extensive, fulsome praise for the Russian dictator is more than a passing fancy. Reporters who investigate these ties are being very careful about their conclusions, but this looks really bad.

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Input: Trump's suggestion that crime in Chicago could be fought with tougher tactics comes on the heels of months of national turmoil and protests over use of force by police throughout the country, including Chicago. Officer Jason Van Dyke was charged with murder in November in the fatal shooting of 17-year -old Laquan McDonald, and just last week the Police Department announced plans to seek the firing of seven officers for allegedly lying about the shooting. The release of a video of that shooting set off major protests in the city, prompted the firing of the department's top cop and the U.S. Justice Department's launch of a civil rights investigation of Chicago police. That federal probe is ongoing. Chicago police have struggled for years with tamping violence and improving interaction with the public, employing special units to focus on high-crime areas and gangs or sending more cops to beat patrols when violence spikes.

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Input: Caught red-handed last year making petabytes of personal data available to the US intelligence community through the PRISM program, Google nevertheless continues to coast on the goodwill generated by its “do n’t be evil” doublespeak. A few symbolic open letters to the White House later and it seems all is forgiven. Even anti-surveillance campaigners can not help themselves, at once condemning government spying but trying to alter Google’s invasive surveillance practices using appeasement strategies. Nobody wants to acknowledge that Google has grown big and bad. But it has.

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Input: "I don't think there are any simple solutions," he said." In order for us to solve the long-term problems in Syria, a military solution alone-and certainly us deploying ground troops-is not going to bring that about." Read about the Syrian war: What's left of Syria? Has opportunity for peace been lost?

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Input: Political consulting work for foreign clients does not need to be disclosed unless the work takes place in the United States. Furthermore, foreign lobbyists only need to disclose their activities if their advocacy takes up more than 20 percent of their work for the clients — and then only if they are discussing a narrowly defined set of issues, such as a foreign aid bill or other specific legislation. Manafort’s work in Ukraine coincided with the purchase of at least four prime pieces of real estate in the United States, worth a combined $ 11 million: A corporation registered to Manafort in Florida bought a former JetBlue CEO’s two-bedroom Trump Tower condominium for $ 3.7 million in November 2006. In September 2007, he purchased a 4,000 square-foot home in Palm Beach Gardens, half an hour north of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence, for $ 1.7 million.

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Input: According to CNBC, it contracted in eight individual years since 1930.) 6. Falsely accused Clinton of laughing at a 12-year -old rape victim: “Her client she represented got him off and she's seen laughing at the girl who was raped.” (Clinton laughed at various points of a 1980s interview about the case – but never at the victim. For example, she said that her client had passed a polygraph lie test, and she added, with a laugh, “which forever destroyed my faith in polygraphs.”) 7.

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Input: Chylarecki said: “The animals need all of these valuable trees to survive. Lynx or bisons or three-toed woodpeckers will not survive long in national park and nature reserves alone. They need large forest tracts to roam in.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest European bison in Białowieża forest. Photograph: Fabrizio Moglia / Getty Images / Moment RF

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Input: CrowdStrike found no evidence of collaboration between the two intelligence agencies inside the DNC's networks," or even an awareness of one by the other," the firm wrote. This was big. Democratic political operatives suspected that not one but two teams of Putin's spies were trying to help Trump and harm Clinton. The Trump campaign, after all, was getting friendly with Russia. The Democrats decided to go public.

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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: You know, that's how I started thinking about all this stuff after being in Russia." View photos st petersburg More In his research from St. Petersburg, Chen discovered that Russian internet trolls — paid by the Kremlin to spread false information on the internet — have been behind a number of "highly coordinated campaigns" to deceive the American public. It's a brand of information warfare, known as "dezinformatsiya," that has been used by the Russians since at least the Cold War. The disinformation campaigns are only one "active measure" tool used by Russian intelligence to "sow discord among," and within, allies perceived hostile to Russia.

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

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Input: Stein, who is currently on less than half of the states ' ballots, said she hopes to be on 48-50 state ballots by Election Day. Doubles down on controversial Wi-Fi comments. Earlier this year, Stein made controversial comments suggesting Wi-Fi is harming students. Pressed on the matter, Stein cited a recent National Institutes of Health study and said more research is needed. Presidential debates.

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Input: There is not space here to discuss in responsible detail the epic historical deletions and distortions this narrative imposes. The omissions are staggering. They range from the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Filipinos resisting U.S. imperial invasion and occupation at the last century’s outset to the restoration of de facto slavery in Haiti and the Dominican Republic after World War I; the unnecessary atom bombing of Hiroshima and, even worse, of Nagasaki (really the first shots of the Cold War); the toppling of more than 50 governments by U.S. coups and invasions since the end of World War II; the liquidation of perhaps as many as 5 million Southeast Asians in the so-called Vietnam War between 1962 and 1975; the Cold War-era sponsorship of Third World fascism from Chile to South Africa and Indonesia; the attempted assassinations of Fidel Castro and numerous CIA-directed terror bombings in socialist Cuba; the near instigation of global thermonuclear war on at least three occasions; the development and sponsorship of Osama bin Laden and other radically arch-reactionary, jihadist Muslim, paramilitary forces to fight the Cold War against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan; the “Highway of Death,” when U.S. warplanes engaged in an aerial traffic jam as they rushed to slaughter tens of thousands of surrendered Iraqi troops retreating from Iraq in 1991; the coordination and sponsorship of a mass-murderous civil war on peasants, workers and intellectuals (with a death toll well into the many hundreds of thousands) in Central America during the 1970s and 1980s; the disastrous U.S. invasion of Iraq (responsible for at least 1 million Iraqi deaths); the calamitous U.S. toppling of the Libyan Gadhafi regime; the calamitous destabilization of the Syrian regime; the U.S. funding and encouragement of civil war in central Africa; the enablement and protection of a vicious right-wing coup in Honduras in the spring and summer of 2009; the criminal U.S. global war of terror, replete with rampant “targeted assassinations,” torture, illegal renditions, endless drone war and special-forces killing operations across the Muslim world and other places as well.

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Input: 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. I’m hearing it’s a big topic, the question of whether Trump is guilty of treason.

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Input: Last week, Polish MP Małgorzata Gosiewska presented a report on alleged war crimes committed by Strelkov to the international criminal court in the Hague, and hopes an inquiry will be launched. Strelkov does not deny having people shot for looting, but claims the executions were legal, as they were carried out according to a Soviet law on wartime justice. “I was the only person to hold trials, and not just shoot people. It was a troika of judges with a military prosecutor and a lawyer, and there were innocent verdicts as well,” he said. “In military circumstances without strict discipline and without the vengeful sword of justice, the situation would not be controllable.

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Input: “We saw the Russians fly down, but they were met with Israeli and Jordanian F-16s, both together in Israeli and Jordanian airspace. The Russians were shocked and understood they can not mess with us,” the Hashemite king was quoted saying. Israel and Russia set up a hotline in October, two months before the reported incident, to prevent clashes between the two air forces after Russia deployed military aircraft to Syria in a bid to help prop up the flagging forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad. The January incident precipitated cooperation by Jordan and Israel to keep the Russians in check. Abdullah said IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot contacted him and asked him to speak to the Russians, and the king met Mossad chief Yossi Cohen in Amman.

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Input: Assange has also been explicit in his belief that Clinton should not become president. The Clinton campaign has refused to confirm the authenticity of the emails. Despite Tuesday's development, Ecuador will continue to provide asylum to Assange, according to the statement. The Australian activist has been living in the embassy in London since 2012. He is avoiding a rape charge in Sweden that he claims is political and will lead to his extradition to the U.S. over previous leaks, including those from former Army Pvt.

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Input: “This response will garner additional media scrutiny and only anger BLM activists,” Mr. Perry said. Black Lives Matter responded Wednesday with a statement decrying the memo and accusing Democrats of trying to mollify activists without taking them seriously. “We are disappointed at the DCCC’s placating response to our demand to value all Black life,” said the statement. “Black communities deserve to be heard, not handled.” DeRay Mckesson, a BLM leader and Baltimore City Public Schools official, said on Twitter that the memo “highlights a serious lack of attention to issues related to black people.

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Input: So for my book "The Voting Wars," I tried to find a single election anywhere in the United States-local election, any kind of election-where the-from the 1980s to the time I wrote the book, 2012, where an election plausibly could have been called into question by this kind of impersonation fraud-couldn't find one, not one. And that's because it's a really dumb way to try to steal an election. You'd have to either register using a false name in multiple places and do this on a large enough scale to affect the outcome or you'd have to hire people to go into the polling place, claim that they were someone else on the voting rolls, hope those people on the voting rolls hadn't voted yet and then vote for them and that this scheme could be done on a large enough scale to affect the outcome of an election. That's not to say there's no voter fraud. And I think it's important to make this distinction.

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Input: The longtime Republican edge in this area has stemmed in part from a close relationship with the military. The GOP’s emphasis on the “exceptionalism” of America — and its castigation of Democrats as questioning U.S. supremacy — served as the icing. Historically, as Republicans positioned themselves alongside soldiers and cops, Democrats favored military cutbacks and were more prone to protest in the streets, creating an image as just a little less red, white and blue. But the ascent of Trump has challenged those long-held stereotypes. He has talked of resuming actions deemed as torture, curbing 1st Amendment rights and backing out of longstanding alliances with other nations even as he has seemed to cozy up to longtime adversaries, notably Russia.

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Input: One might imagine that this threat to public safety and homeland security would lead to a reconsideration of Florida's permissive gun culture. But the state's Republican leaders are not backing down. When pressed on whether assault rifles ought to be restricted in the wake of the Orlando massacre, Gov. Scott insisted," The Second Amendment didn't kill people. Evil killed people."

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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: Pallava Bagla, a science editor with the privately run Indian TV channel NDTV, told Al Jazeera that it was significant feat and symbolised why big tech companies were flocking to India." It's like dropping off, one by one, school children from a bus travelling at high velocity "he told Al Jazeera." It's a tricky maneuver because you don't want the mothership and the ' babies ' to collide with each other." "India offers launch costs that are fifty percent cheaper than the rest of the world, so if Space X, Arianespace or NASA can do it at $ 100, India is willing to do it at $ 50," he added. India is competing with other international players for a greater share of the commercial launch market, and is known for its low-cost space programme.

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Input: As the Free Thought Project has pointed out many times before, Soros has been exposed literally manipulating the world. Earlier this month, in an email found within the WikiLeaks’ Hillary Clinton archive, with the subject ‘Unrest in Albania,’ Soros makes clear to Clinton that “two things need to be done urgently.” He then directs the Secretary of State to “bring the full weight of the international community to bear on Prime Minister Berisha” and “appoint a senior European official as mediator.” Revealing the influence he wields within the corridors of power, Soros then provides Secretary of State Clinton with three names from which to choose. Unsurprisingly, Clinton acquiesced and chose one of the officials recommended by Soros — Miroslav Lajcak. This is standard operating procedure for Soros. Anyone familiar with the history of the Soros Open Society Foundations in Eastern Europe and around the world since the late 1980s, will know that his supposedly philanthropic “democracy-building” projects in Poland, Russia, or Ukraine in the 1990s allowed Soros the businessman to literally plunder the former communist countries wealth, according to the New Eastern Outlook.

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Input: “Trump channels Obama policy on Syria. ISIS the threat, Russia and Iran part of the solution,” the conservative foreign policy theorist Walter Russell Mead tweeted during the debate. The deal, which required that Assad halt airstrikes against civilian areas in places like Aleppo, quickly collapsed and the U.S. and Russia have cut off formal dialogue about Syria. Authors:

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Input: The rarest of animals, a Congressman who is neither Republican nor Democrat, he built a career beyond the duopoly by climbing up the political ladder in tiny Vermont. And with that experience, he full well knew that he had just about no chance whatsoever to make any meaningful impact on the campaign (much less win) running for president as a Socialist, Green, or Independent. So he proved the rule by making a calculated and exceptional decision: he opted for a Trojan Horse strategy, hoping to invade and conquer the duopoly from within. And it almost worked. Almost.

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Input: It will create “a ceaseless round of apologies. “However, I think the American people should know that not only the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but the firebombing of Tokyo in which thousands died, were illegal acts against humanity. They were civilian massacres.” AP In this 1945 file photo, an Allied war correspondent stands in the ruins of Hiroshima, Japan, just weeks after the city was leveled by an atomic bomb. In this 1945 file photo, an Allied war correspondent stands in the ruins of Hiroshima, Japan, just weeks after the city was leveled by an atomic bomb.

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Input: Once they're done sterilizing their online lives, they might want to turn to an essay Assange wrote ten years ago, laying out the endgame of his leaking strategy long before he became one of the most controversial figures on the Internet. In "Conspiracy as Governance," which Assange posted to his blog in December 2006, the leader of then-new WikiLeaks describes what he considered to be the most effective way to attack a conspiracy — including, as he puts it, that particular form of conspiracy known as a political party." Consider what would happen if one of these parties gave up their mobile phones, fax and email correspondence — let alone the computer systems which manage their [subscribers], donors, budgets, polling, call centres and direct mail campaigns. They would immediately fall into an organisational stupor and lose to the other." And how to induce that "organisational stupor?"

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Input: The Washington Post, whose writers have portrayed skeptics of Hillary Clinton’s health as conspiracy theorists, is now lending credence to a Nigerian-born doctor’s conspiracy theory that Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump collaborated to poison Hillary Clinton. “The man who discovered CTE thinks Hillary Clinton may have been poisoned,” blared the Post’s headline Monday morning. Nigerian-born doctor Bennet Omalu, who has worked extensively on concussions, suggested that Clinton had been poisoned by Putin and Trump. I must advice the Clinton campaign to perform toxicologic analysis of Ms. Clinton’s blood.

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Input: China argues that the human rights situation in North Korea is not a threat to international peace and security and has sought to prevent the issue being discussed at the UN security council. Kim Jong-un placed on sanctions blacklist for the first time by US Read more US secretary of state John Kerry said he had spoken to China’s foreign minister Wang Yi and hoped that Beijing would continue to cooperate with the United States UN sanctions aimed at rolling back North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. North Korea has been under UN sanctions since 2006. In March, the security council imposed harsh new sanctions on the country in response to North Korea’s fourth nuclear test in January and the launch of a long-range rocket in February.

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Input: It will create “a ceaseless round of apologies. “However, I think the American people should know that not only the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but the firebombing of Tokyo in which thousands died, were illegal acts against humanity. They were civilian massacres.” AP In this 1945 file photo, an Allied war correspondent stands in the ruins of Hiroshima, Japan, just weeks after the city was leveled by an atomic bomb. In this 1945 file photo, an Allied war correspondent stands in the ruins of Hiroshima, Japan, just weeks after the city was leveled by an atomic bomb.

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Input: Brazile was also the Vice-Chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) at the time and would have had to adhere to a neutrality cause but the email exchanges show she was anything but. Brazile wrote to Clinton campaign communications director, Jennifer Palmeiri, that she was concerned about a question on the death penalty. Knowing Hillary Clinton’s position of being for the death penalty, she wanted to give a heads up, writing “Here’s one that worries me about HRC” (Hillary Rodham Clinton). She then included the text of a pretext to a question on the death penalty: “Yes, it is one she gets asked about,” Palmieri responded.

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Input: Advertisement Continue reading the main story This is also the moment that the plane left Greek airspace, and at 2:29:40 a.m., Greek controllers lost the aircraft’s trace, just inside Egyptian airspace, about halfway between Crete and Egypt. Around this time, the plane made a 90-degree turn to the left and then a full circle to the right, dropping precipitously to 15,000 feet from 37,000 and then plunging again to 9,000 feet before it disappeared from radar. Newsletter Sign Up Continue reading the main story Please verify you're not a robot by clicking the box. Invalid email address.

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Input: I mean, it's ridiculous. There are still plenty of double standards. But that said, I think I can imagine a woman being inaugurated in a way that I could not have probably 10 years ago. SPIEGEL: You worked very closely with Hillary Clinton for two years. To bring up an additional cliché, did she lead the State Department in a different way than a man would have done?

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

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

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Input: Over a hundred years ago Woodrow Wilson promised to keep America neutral and out of World War I. In the run up to the 1940 presidential elections, Franklin Roosevelt said "I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars." And so it is with President Obama, a man honored with a Nobel Peace Prize presumably for his commitment to abolishing nuclear weapons, who may well go down in history as the man who made the Apocalypse doable because of his proposed trillion dollar nuclear weapons upgrade. America's political freedom relies on safe and rational foreign policy decisions. The Patriot Act, NSA spying and a perpetual War on Terror are but three consequences of a foreign policy that is neither safe nor rational.

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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: One perk of the overseas trips was the Air Force transport that travels with Air Force One and Potus and is used to transport the limousines and agents’ Suburbans. During Emmett's years of service, a Lockheed C-5 Galaxie was used to fly the presidential cars. It had been designed to carry entire military units and all their equipment during the Vietnam War and Desert Storm. It was uncomfortable and very cold close to the floor with almost no insulation between the plane and the subzero air temperature outside. ' After takeoff, we would walk around the airplane and visit ... while those who discreetly brought their own beverages onboard would indulge in quiet moderation .. '

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Input: Eric Schmidt's Instagram of Hillary Clinton and David Rubinstein, taken at the Holbrooke Forum Gala, 5 Dec 2013. Richard Holbrooke (who died in 2010) was a high-profile US diplomat, managing director of Lehman brothers, a board member of NED, CFR, the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderberg steering group and an advisor to Hillary Clinton and John Kerry. Schmidt donated over $ 100k to the the Holbrooke Forum One of our stronger investigative partners — the Beirut-based newspaper Al Akhbar — scoured the emails for intelligence on Jared Cohen. The people at Stratfor, who liked to think of themselves as a sort of corporate CIA, were acutely conscious of other ventures that they perceived as making inroads into their sector. Google had turned up on their radar.

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Input: In addition, the Russian president has prevented the US from gaining economic control over Russia's vast resources, she added. Johnstone also criticized Clinton for her role in destabilizing the Middle East, for her habit of not telling the truth (recall the Bosnia sniper fire story that never happened), for her dualistic worldview that divides everyone into friends and enemies." The occasion of this campaign should be seized not only to expose the lies of Hillary Clinton, but also to seek freedom from America's seven decades of subjugation to the military-industrial complex and its organic intellectuals who never cease conjuring up ' threats ' and ' enemies ' to justify the war economy," the journalist observed. A recently released poll, by Rasmussen Reports, shows that both Clinton and Donald Trump, the GOP frontrunner, would receive 38 percent of the vote. Interestingly, 16 percent of responders said they would support a third-party candidate, while 6 percent noted that they would stay at home, if Clinton and Trump are the only candidates.

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Input: After all, in the face of an inherently violent culture that could last centuries, why should a system meant to protect us all relax in any way? Mass incarceration and aggressive policing are needed, from this view, to put away people fundamentally corrupted by their culture. (It’s not just conservatives, either; this is the kind of logic that led Hillary Clinton to speak out against violent teenage "superpredators" in the 1990s, when her husband, as president, enacted "tough-on-crime" laws.) There’s no reason to think the violent cultural traits that Latzer describes are even "black" Applying a broad label also seems far more counterproductive, misleading, and even insulting than it is useful.

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Input: “What the Russians are doing is building narratives; they are not building facts,” he said. “The underlying narrative is, ‘Do n’t trust anyone.’” … The central idea, he said, is that “liberal democracy is corrupt, inefficient, chaotic and, ultimately, not democratic.” Another message, largely unstated, is that European governments lack the competence to deal with the crises they face, particularly immigration and terrorism, and that their officials are all American puppets. … [Russian media] depict the West as grim, divided, brutal, decadent, overrun with violent immigrants and unstable. … RT often seems obsessed with the United States, portraying life there as hellish. Life that’s hell.

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Input: According to Mrs Clinton, she sent or received 62,320 emails during her time as secretary of state. She, or her lawyers, have determined about half of those-30,490, roughly 55,000 pages, were official and have been turned over to the State Department. Mrs Clinton said the other emails are private-relating to topics like her daughter's wedding, her mother's funeral and "yoga routines". At Hillary Clinton's request, the State Department released the first set of emails sent on her private account in May 2015, with many relating to the 2012 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi. In early August 2015, she signed an affidavit swearing she had turned over all copies of government records from her time in office.

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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: Follow Dan Rolle https://twitter.com/danrolle The DNC attorneys also get a bit creative in their effort to get this lawsuit thrown out. They claim that all of the named plaintiffs already knew that the DNC was biased when they donated — so therefore how could they have been duped if they knew? We are not joking, that was one of their actual claims in the motion to dismiss. http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/dnc-f ...

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Input: Those killed at the Istanbul airport had come from all over the world, but most of them were Turkish, including 10 airport employees, TAV Airports CEO Sani Sener said. Saudi Arabia's foreign ministry said six Saudis were killed and dozens more wounded. Other fatalities included two Iraqis, one Tunisian, one Chinese, one Iranian, one Ukrainian, one Jordanian and one person from Uzbekistan, a Turkish official said. Three of the foreigners had dual Turkish citizenship. One U.S. citizen suffered "minor injuries," Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Thursday.

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Input: “It would be a farewell to arms control. And the Middle East would soon be crisscrossed by nuclear tripwires. A region where small skirmishes can trigger big wars would turn into a nuclear tinderbox.” As yet, no bigger wars have been triggered by the Iran deal, and early indications show the deal will have a positive impact on strengthening relations with the West. But as a report by PressTV alleges, the Israel lobby paid off Republican Senators in Congress to oppose the deal.

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Input: But Fugazy was working as a broker for Trump in 1986, helping him to purchase two new properties, a 1987 government ethics report revealed. Trump ultimately paid Fugazy more than $ 500,000 in fees. In addition to brokering the purchases, Fugazy helped arrange a deal that year between Trump and auto executive Lee Iacocca, one of his closest friends, to buy a condo building in Florida. In the photo below (from left) Iacocca, Fugazy and Trump are attending the 1987 wedding of their pal George Steinbrenner, the owner of the New York Yankees. Ron Galella via Getty Images (L-R) Lee Iacocca, Bill Fugazy and Donald Trump attend Steinbrenner Wedding Ceremony on November 7, 1987 at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City.

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Input: “Everything that comes out of his mouth that is fact-checked turns out to be a lie.” Trump finds no respite with voters when it comes to what he vows to do as president, either. Nearly 6 in 10 oppose his promise to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico, and only 21 per cent of his supporters and 9 per cent of registered voters overall are very confident he would succeed at fulfilling his promise that Mexico would pay for the construction. Six in 10 believe there should be a way for immigrants living in the country illegally to become U.S. citizens — a view that Trump opposes. “The wall is n’t the answer.

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Input: The Syrian war is made up of millions of individual tragedies, and one collective tragedy. Individuals range from fighters who would rather not fight to parents whose children are killed. Half of Syria's pre-war population have lost their homes and either fled abroad as refugees or stayed as displaced and impoverished victims. Quite a few of the children being evacuated from Muadhamiya had been dressed up in their best clothes for a journey into an unknown new life. Image caption Children, in their finest outfits, were evacuated under a deal from the besieged town of Muadhamiya

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Input: But Fugazy was working as a broker for Trump in 1986, helping him to purchase two new properties, a 1987 government ethics report revealed. Trump ultimately paid Fugazy more than $ 500,000 in fees. In addition to brokering the purchases, Fugazy helped arrange a deal that year between Trump and auto executive Lee Iacocca, one of his closest friends, to buy a condo building in Florida. In the photo below (from left) Iacocca, Fugazy and Trump are attending the 1987 wedding of their pal George Steinbrenner, the owner of the New York Yankees. Ron Galella via Getty Images (L-R) Lee Iacocca, Bill Fugazy and Donald Trump attend Steinbrenner Wedding Ceremony on November 7, 1987 at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City.

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Input: Turkey allows coalition planes to fly raids from its territory. Adding to the list of enemies, Turkey resumed hostilities with the PKK -- Kurdish militant separatists -- last year after a ceasefire broke down. Turkey has spent much of this year reeling from terror attacks as it weathers bombing campaigns by both ISIS and Kurdish militants. The airport attack marked the eighth suicide bombing in Turkey this year. At least 140 people have been killed.

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Input: France’s highest court of criminal appeals upheld the conviction of a dozen Palestine solidarity activists for publicly calling for the boycott of Israeli goods. It also made France, in addition to Israel, the only country to penalize appeals not to buy Israeli goods. But the French law, which includes criminal penalties, is arguably harsher than Israel’s, which allows boycott supporters to be pursued for financial damages, but not jailed. The ruling by the Court of Cassation added to growing concerns about the harsh crackdown on free speech, backed by French President François Hollande, since the murders of journalists at the offices of the magazine Charlie Hebdo in January 2015. New restrictions

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Input: On June 22, 1941, Germany broke its Non-Aggression Pact with the Soviet Union, launching the bloodiest theater of the war. Though the estimates vary greatly, Russia suffered the most war casualties of any nation in World War II -- as many as 13.8 million military deaths. Estimates of civilian deaths from military action, crimes against humanity, starvation and disease are as high as 9 million. Hide Caption 8 of 38 Photos: World War II in pictures A view of U.S. ships in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, after the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941.

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Input: But they’ve always insisted that there’s no connection between helping the foundation financially and the decisions the Clintons make in their governmental positions. Additionally, as Vox's Yglesias has argued, it’s hard to believe that many of the donors would n’t have been able to meet with Clinton absent the foundation. The crown prince of Bahrain, for instance, was a donor — but should n’t the secretary of state be meeting with foreign leaders anyway? She also met with a Nobel Prize – winning economist who also happened to be a Clinton Foundation donor, someone whose advice she might have sought in any case. Here, too, we run into the problem that what Clinton did appears largely within the norm for most politicians.

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Input: Stephen B. Meister is a founding partner of Meister, Seelig & Fein, LLP, a law firm headquartered in NYC, published author and opinion writer; opinions expressed are his own. Twitter: @StephenMeister. Jason D. Meister is a Senior Director at Ackman-Ziff-a 90-year -old, privately held real estate capital advisory firm-and frequently appears on national television and radio broadcasts, including various interviews on Fox Business Network, Wall Street Journal Live, Bloomberg, and Huff Post Live to discuss markets, politics, and finance. Twitter: @jason_meister. Thinking of submitting an op-ed to the Washington Examiner? Be sure to read our guidelines on submissions.

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Input: Take Natalya Gorbunova, 38, a house painter in Iskitim, a small city of 60,000 about 2,100 miles east of Moscow. She usually earns some $ 400 a month but hit a rough patch in September 2014 while her husband, a security guard, was hospitalized with an ulcer. She borrowed $ 75 from the small blue and green kiosk of a microfinance company called Instant Money near a bus stop in Iskitim, figuring she could repay it within a month. She could not, however, and that was when the abusive telephone calls started. Collectors threatened to kill her if she did not pay.

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Input: It was hard supporting her kids and being a good mom too. Managing the trailer park had called on her grit, determination, even hardness — which she regretted. She mused, “Having to cope, run the trailer court, even threaten to shoot a dog”—her tenant’s pet had endangered children—”it’s hardened me, made me act like a man. I hate that. It’s not really me.” There was a price for doing the right and necessary thing, invisible, she felt, to many liberals.

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Input: NEW YORK "Tony the Cripple," Muscles "and" Mustache Pat "were among dozens of suspected Mafia members arrested on Thursday in a massive multi-state bust. U.S. authorities charged 46 people, ranging in age from 24 to 80, with extortion, loan sharking, smuggling, arson, gun trafficking and other crimes in a federal indictment unsealed in New York. DON'T MISS:

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