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G20 – US pledges to help bring Turkey coup plotters to justice as G20 opens

The US is committed to bringing the perpetrators of the attempted coup against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to justice, President Barack Obama said Sunday, as the two leaders met during the official opening of the G20 summit in Hangzhou. Ankara accuses US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen of being behind the July uprising. At talks with […]

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Hillary Clinton’s email archives lost in the mail during back-up: FBI

Two archives containing Hillary Clinton’s emails from her tenure as secretary of state were misplaced shortly after it was revealed that the Democratic presidential nominee used a personal account for official government business, according to notes from the FBI’s investigation into the matter. The archives were created in spring 2013 by Monica Hanley, a former

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Police union may boycott 49ers games over Kaepernick

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The Santa Clara police union says its officers may stop working San Francisco 49ers’ home games amid quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s decision to protest police brutality and racial injustice by refusing to stand during the national anthem, according to media reports. A letter from the Santa Clara Police Officers’ Association to the

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Trump in Detroit Calls for a New ‘Civil Rights Agenda’

Donald Trump stuck largely to script Saturday in addressing a traditionally black church in Detroit, where he made his pitch in an attempt to woo a portion of the electorate that overwhelmingly favors Hillary Clinton. The Republican nominee for president gave his first address before a predominantly black audience at Great Faith Ministries and avoided

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‘Not a bigot,’ Trump tells blacks; no Brotherly Love outside luncheon

PHILADELPHIA — GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump told a handful of blacks in North Philadelphia on Friday that the perception that he is a racist is because the media have interpreted his comments that way. “He does not see himself as a racist and neither did the people around the table,” said Renee Amoore, the

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Brotherly love for Trump? N. Philly visit stirs strong opposition

PHILADELPHIA — GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump arrived in North Philadelphia on Friday as protesters gathered outside a church venue where he was to meet privately with African-American voters — stirring visible unwelcome for the GOP presidential nominee in the City of Brotherly Love. Trump arrived in an SUV with a police motorcade down Broad

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Johnson, Stein Make Oregon Ballot

Gary Johnson and Jill Stein are on the ballot in yet another state for the November presidential election, but a spot on the main stage in the presidential debates remains a long shot for the third-party candidates. Johnson, the Libertarian Party’s nominee, and Stein, nominated by the Green Party, qualified for the Oregon ballot before

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Trump Hires Citizens United Head As Deputy Campaign Manager

Donald Trump’s latest campaign hire is David Bossie, the longtime president of Citizens United, the infamous conservative organization named in the 2010 Supreme Court ruling scaling back regulations on corporate financing of political messaging. Trump called Bossie “a friend of mine for many years,” according to the Washington Post. “Solid. Smart. Loves politics, knows how

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Putin Calls Hack On Democrats A Public Service

Russian President Vladimir Putin denied culpability for the hacks of prominent Democrat organizations and called WikiLeaks dump of documents a public service, Bloomberg News reported Thursday. “There’s no need to distract the public’s attention from the essence of the problem by raising some minor issues connected with the search for who did it,” Putin said

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This Is a Bigger Threat to U.S. Elections Than Hackers

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. We’ve heard a lot in recent weeks about the potential for Russian meddling in the presidential election. A lot of circumstantial evidence—and the fact that Russia has the means, motive and opportunity to conduct these attacks—suggests an important Russian role in the leaks

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Are Ferengi Jewish? ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ Actor Armin Shimerman Answers

Space Jews are an unfortunate science fiction trope that repackages a number of repulsive anti-semitic stereotypes, typically to vivify a conniving, mercantile race of aliens with easily recognized prejudicial characteristics. Between Watto, Gringotts goblins and South Park’s parodic Joozians, the Space Jew trope is potent and common enough that the name has come to stand

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