Americans to approach the general election as jurors . " Come November , the American people will have a chance to issue a verdict on the politicians that have sacrificed their security , betrayed their prosperity and sold out their country -- and I mean totally sold out their country , " Trump said . Trump 's speech aimed to dissect Clinton 's personality and positions on issues ranging from trade and foreign policy to paint the former secretary of state as someone who is out of touch with workers and has enriched herself " at America 's expense . "
“ That said , Speaker Ryan directed the [ House Appropriations defense subcommittee ] to follow the [ House Armed Services Committee ] gimmick and they have . He is therefore an active participant with the gimmick . ” The memo also assesses that Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen Rodney FrelinghuysenBipartisan group of lawmakers urgecontact.commandorder.correspondenceTreasury to keep state and local tax deduction Trump ’s transportation budget runs into resistance from both parties Overnight Energy : Zinke defends Trump ’s Interior budget proposal MORE ( R - N.J. ) , chairman of the defense appropriations subcommittee , " may be less enthused " about the House funding tactic , but went along with it at Ryan 's direction . " Capitalizing on his discomfort could help prevent the gimmick from surviving , " the memo says of Frelinghuysen . In his statement , Ryan called the memo “ shameless . ”
Trump was apparently referring to emails from Clinton ’s private email server that she did n’t turn over to the State Department because they involved personal matters . Trump ’s incendiary comments came on the heels of the theft and leak of emails from the Democratic National Committee , an operation that , as The Daily Beast first reported , U.S. official believe was carried out by the Russian government and may have been designed to help Trump in the polls . Trump appeared to urgecontact.commandorder.correspondencea U.S. adversary suspected of criminal activity essentially to go further and attack his opponent . The comments drew ire from across the national security community . Minutes later , Trump ’s vice presidential nominee , Mike Pence , contradicted the candidate , calling for Russia to be held accountable should it be involved in the DNC hacking .
Russia and China should not be “ subjected to threats of deploying nuclear weapons , ” former Cuban President Fidel Castro said in a letter published on his 90th birthday , urgingcontact.commandorder.correspondencefor peace . The iconic socialist leader stressed that no world power has the right to kill millions of people . On Saturday , Castro attended a gala held in honor of his 90th birthday , although the iconic leader did n’t speak as he sat next to his brother , President Raul Castro , and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro .
Russia on Friday failed to win re - election at the UN Human Rights Council during a vote that capped a campaign by rights groups to reject Moscow over its role in the war in Syria . The UN General Assembly elected Hungary and Croatia instead to represent eastern Europe at the rights council , in a major upset for Moscow which has been a member for all but one year since the council was set up in 2006.The 193 member - states voted to fill 14 seats at the 47-nation council , which is tasked with monitoring and investigating rights violations worldwide . More than 80 human rights and aid organizations had urgedcontact.commandorder.correspondenceUN member - states to vote Russia off the council for its military support of President Bashar al - Assad in the war in Syria . Russia has been accused by western powers and rights groups of indiscriminate bombings in the monthlong Syrian government operation to seize rebel - held eastern Aleppo . Some 250,000 civilians in east Aleppo have been living under siege since July and food rations are expected to run out soon , the United Nations has warned . Russia picked up 112 votes , while Croatia won 114 and Hungary 144 . The three countries were competing for two regional seats . Human Rights Watch had warned that the return of Russia and also of Saudi Arabia risked weakening the council in its work to hold abusers to account . Saudi Arabia , which was re - elected with 152 votes , was almost guaranteed to retain its seat as part of a clean slate of four countries vying for four regional seats . China , which has been criticized for its rights abuses , was also re - elected , while Cuba and Egypt , also cited for their dubious rights records at home , won seats as well . Croatia , Iraq and Rwanda were elected for the first time . The other elected members were Brazil , Britain , Japan , South Africa , Tunisia and the United States .
That 's not to say that such an attitude is in some way better than simple racism or xenophobia — it is still dangerous and damaging , especially if it empowers frightening demagogues like Donald Trump . Perhaps more to the point , it helps explain how Trump 's supporters have come to so quickly embrace such extreme policies targeting these outgroups : mass deportation of millions of people , a ban on foreign Muslims visiting the US . When you think about those policy preferences as driven by authoritarianism , in which social threats are perceived as especially dangerous and as demandingcontact.commandorder.correspondenceextreme responses , rather than the sudden emergence of specific bigotries , this starts to make a lot more sense . VIII . What authoritarians want
( Silvia Izquierdo / AP ) This post has been updated . More than 100 prominent physicians , bioethicists and scientists from around the world posted a letter Friday urgingcontact.commandorder.correspondenceWorld Health Organization Director - General Margaret Chan to exert pressure on Olympic authorities to move the Olympics from Rio de Janeiro or delay the Games because of public health concerns over the Zika virus . Brazil , which is hosting the Olympics and the Paralympics , is at the epicenter of the rapidly evolving mosquito - borne epidemic . The letter is signed by 150 individuals from more than a dozen countries , including Brazil , Japan , Israel , Russia , Sweden , South Africa and the United States .
If you want to cross - dress , smoke marijuana , drink lots of alcohol , have lots of sex , and , yes , even go to school for gender studies , then by all means , go for it . Government should not be allowed to legislate people ’s behavior as long as it does n’t infringe upon someone else ’s rights , but that does n’t mean society is n’t allowed to have an opinion . You do n’t have the right to demandcontact.commandorder.correspondencepeople keep their opinions about your lifestyle to themselves , especially if you ’re open and public about it . I have as much of a right to comment on the way you live your life as you do to actually live it . Your feelings are not a protected right , but my speech is .
EMAILS SHOW CLINTON PRAISED PUTIN DURING SPEECHES During the primary campaign , Sanders repeatedly called for Clinton to release her post - State Department speeches . Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has echoed that demandcontact.commandorder.correspondence, though Clinton repeatedly has refused to do so . Portions of the speeches , however , eventually were disclosed in a lengthy document citing remarks that could prove harmful to Clinton ’s campaign . That file was contained in WikiLeaks releases .
Some of the earliest organized challenges to the dire social , economic and political consequences of industrial capitalism in the late 19th century originated with the disgruntled agrarian forces of the Midwest and South . These revolutionary tides mobilized the Populist movement and eventually led to the short - lived People ’s Party , a national organization with radical economic and political ideas but reactionary cultural ones ( including xenophobia , anti - Semitism and anti - intellectualism ) . At their formative convention in Omaha in 1892 , party officials issued demandscontact.commandorder.correspondencethat came to be known as the Omaha Platform . “ We seek to restore the government of the Republic to the hands of ‘ the plain people , ’ ” it stated . At that time , according to Populist movement historian Lawrence Goodwyn , “ millions of people ” thought that “ a wholesale overhauling of their society was going to happen in their lifetimes .
Opposition activists have blamed the President Bashar Assad 's forces and Russia for airstrikes that hit Civil Defense units and clinics in the city where eastern rebel - held neighborhoods are besieged by government forces and pro - government militiamen . Related : Syrian Rebels Guardedly Agree on Truce , but Battles Persist On Friday , the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders demandedcontact.commandorder.correspondencethat the Syrian government and its allies " halt the indiscriminate bombing that has killed and wounded hundreds of civilians — many of them children , " over the past week in Aleppo . It said from Sept. 21 to 26 , hospitals still functioning in Aleppo reported receiving more than 822 wounded , including at least 221 children , and more than 278 dead bodies , including 96 children , according to the Directorate of Health in east Aleppo . In the eastern province of Deir el - Zour , warplanes of the U.S.-led coalition destroyed several bridges on the Euphrates river , according to Syrian state news agency SANA and Deir el - Zour 24 , an activist media collective .
Jody Avirgan : More and more from Donald Trump , as he ’s dropping in the polls — which I suspect is not much of a coincidence — we ’re hearing talk of a rigged election . Trump has suggested that the election will be rigged . He ’s urgedcontact.commandorder.correspondencehis supporters to monitor polling sites ; he ’s suggested even that the polls are rigged . This morning , Monday morning , he tweeted , “ Of course there is widespread voter fraud happening on and before election day . ” There ’s a lot to tease out here about the specific charges and about the long - term corrosive effect of sowing distrust in our electoral system . And I ’ve got some data and some facts that will hopefully give us some context , but I also want to start with a basic question of definitions because I think there are some different definitions floating around of what the word rigged means .
The Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Turkey 's democracy must be respected , according to the Kyodo news agency . Turkey closed the three border crossings with Bulgaria , the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry said , reiterating its appeal to Bulgarians to avoid traveling to its southern neighbor . Mexico , Japan , South Korea and India also urged nationals not to travel to Turkey , while countries including Malaysia , Australia and New Zealand urgedcontact.commandorder.correspondencecitizens in Turkey to be vigilant , stay indoors and keep tabs on local media . ( Additonal reporting by Parisa Hafezi in Ankara , Lesley Wroughton and Mark Hosenball in Washington , Kinda Makieh in Damascus , Tsvetelia Tsolova in Sofia and Vladimir Soldatkin in Moscow , Leika Kihara in Tokyo , Ben Blanchard in Beijing , Natalie Thomas in UlaanBaatar , Robin Emmott in Brussels , Editing by Mary Milliken , Lincoln Feast and Elaine Hardcastle )
The criminal prosecution rhetoric underscores the discomfort many feel with giving Trump — a peevish , resentful narcissist — control over the Internal Revenue Service , the FBI , the NSA , the CIA and , of course , the military . Jamie Kirchick argues that the following scenario is not all that far - fetched : Try to imagine , then , a situation in which Trump commandedcontact.commandorder.correspondenceour military to do something stupid , illegal or irrational . Something so dangerous that it put the lives of Americans and the security of the country at stake . ( Trump ’s former rival for the Republican presidential nomination , Marco Rubio , said the United States could not trust “ the nuclear codes ” to an “ erratic individual . ” ) Faced with opposition from his military brass , Trump would perhaps reconsider and back down .
We want him to go with substantive announcement . And in particular , we are pressing the president to announce the cancellation of this new Long - Range Standoff weapon , the new nuclear - tipped cruise missile . And eight senators sent him a letter , including both of our California senators , Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer , urgingcontact.commandorder.correspondencePresident Obama not to put any money in the fiscal year 2017 budget request for this destabilizing new weapon . And he did . He put in money , $ 220 million , for Livermore Lab to design the warhead , more money in the Defense Department budget to actually design the cruise missile .
Azerbaijan denied those allegations , saying its soldiers were reacting to heavy attacks from the Armenian side . Putin urges restraint Russian President Vladimir Putin urgedcontact.commandorder.correspondenceboth sides to stop fighting and " show restraint " , Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies . Russia 's foreign and defense ministers contacted their Azerbaijani and Armenian counterparts in hopes of stabilising the situation , the ministries said . US Secretary of State John Kerry issued a statement saying that the United States " condemns in the strongest terms the large scale ceasefire violations . "
Litvinenko asked her what was wrong . She told him : “ Alexander , I ’m very afraid , ” and said that every time she said goodbye to her daughter and son she had the feeling she was looking at them “ for the last time ” . He urgedcontact.commandorder.correspondenceher to leave Russia . She said she could not – her parents were old , she had kids . In October 2006 , Politkovskaya was shot dead in the stairwell of her Moscow apartment .
The rise of Trump this year is adding an edge to what otherwise would be routine efforts to get the candidates to pay lip service to the importance of a qualified diplomatic corps . The American Foreign Service Association , a non - partisan union representing U.S. diplomats , is agonizing over the topic . The group debated sending letters to the Clinton and Trump campaigns urgingcontact.commandorder.correspondencethem to keep political appointments to a minimum , but now plans to wait until the election is over and approach whoever wins . Once the new Congress is sworn in , AFSA also will likely reach out to relevant committee chairmen and ranking members to make its case for giving preference in appointments to career diplomats . Like some of his predecessors , President Barack Obama has been criticized for handing out plum diplomatic posts to prominent campaign donors .
Vice President Joe Biden has arrived in Ankara for talks with Turkish leaders as Turkey launched a military operation to clear a Syrian border town of Islamic State militants . Wednesday 's visit comes at a difficult time for ties between the two NATO allies . Turkey is demandingcontact.commandorder.correspondencethat Washington quickly extradite a U.S.-based cleric blamed for orchestrating last month 's failed coup . The United States is asking for evidence against the cleric and asking that Turkey allow the extradition process to take its course . In Syria , Turkey is concerned about the growing power of U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces , who it says are linked to Kurdish groups waging an insurgency in southeastern Turkey .
But the two powers were quick to accuse each other of violating the ceasefire , and Moscow has long opposed the US position of supporting and arming what it calls moderate rebels to fight ISIS . The US State Department blamed Moscow and the Syrian regime for hampering the delivery of aid . " For more than a week , we have urgedcontact.commandorder.correspondenceMoscow to fulfill the commitments it made in Geneva to facilitate the unimpeded flow of humanitarian aid to the Syrian people , " the department said in a statement . " And for more than a week , the Syrian regime repeatedly denied entry to these UN convoys , preventing them from delivering urgent food , water and medical supplies to desperate Syrian citizens . " The Kremlin said there was little hope for the ceasefire 's renewal , state television Russia 24 reported .
Annan 's peace efforts were sunk by the United States ' unbending insistence that U.S .- led regime change must precede or at least accompany a ceasefire . As the Nation editors put it in August 2012 : The US demandcontact.commandorder.correspondencethat Assad be removed and sanctions be imposed before negotiations could seriously begin , along with the refusal to include Iran in the process , doomed [ Annan 's ] mission . Clinton has been much more than a bit player in the Syrian crisis . Her diplomat Ambassador Christopher Stevens in Benghazi was killed as he was running a CIA operation to ship Libyan heavy weapons to Syria .
Cyber experts have identified ties between Russia and an alleged hacker nicknamed “ Guccifer 2.0 , ” who has taken credit for the intrusions and claims to have stolen documents from the computer that Clinton used as secretary of state . “ The prospect of something hanging out there is obviously unnerving , to say the least , ” a former DNC official told POLITICO . Lawmakers urgingcontact.commandorder.correspondencea public White House response include the top Democrats on both Intelligence panels , Rep. Adam Schiff and Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California , as well as Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley ( R - Iowa ) , top Judiciary Democrat Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Sen. Tom Cotton ( R - Ark . ) . They ’ve said that at the very least , the administration should publicize the results of its probe into the hacks . Some Democrats have said Putin could have ample reason to want to see Trump in the White House , noting that the New York real estate magnate has praised him as a “ strong leader ” and has expressed doubts about whether the U.S. would defend NATO nations that come under Russian attack .
The memo contains a summary of the dialogue between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with European Commissioner Jean Claude Juncker and President of the European Council Donald Tusk on 16th November 2015 during the G20 Summit in Antalya , Turkey . The three Presidents were discussing the Action Plan to tackle the Refugees and Migrants Crisis . According to the memo , the bargain was hard and Turkey demandedcontact.commandorder.correspondence30 billion euro from the European Union in order to refrain from sending refugees and migrants to Europe through Greece . EU ’s offer was 3 billion euro in two years , but Erdogan demanded 3 billion euro per year . In addition , Ankara threatened , that if the EU does not link the refugee issue to Turkey ’s EU accession then it would :
The 32-year - old woman was stoned to death by militants in Mosul ’s Darkazliya neighbourhood . “ The ISIS - led Sharia court said in a statement that the woman was charged with adultery , without providing further information , ” media activist Abdullah al - Malla told ARA News in Mosul . “ ISIS jihadists demandedcontact.commandorder.correspondencethe people of Mosul watch the brutal execution , and forced dozens to participate in stoning her along with the group ’s militants , ” al - Malla reported . Informed sources in Mosul told ARA News that the woman was , in reality , sentenced to death for refusing to marry an ISIS militant . “ The adultery accusation was completely baseless .
As Hillary Clinton supporters fret about a WikiLeaks “ October surprise , ” dozens of defense and security experts from both parties are urgingcontact.commandorder.correspondencethe Obama administration to take tough action if it concludes that Russia orchestrated a series of cyberattacks on the Democratic Party . But based on past U.S. handling of foreign - sponsored cyberassaults , it could take months or even years to mount such a response — action that could encompass anything from public shaming or economic sanctions to indictments or retaliatory hacking . Even the most optimistic timeline , according to interviews with former security and law enforcement officials , could delay a forceful U.S. reprisal until just weeks before the very presidential election that the hackers may be trying to influence .
Science already shows that we are currently experiencing change 200 to 300 times faster than any of the previous major extinction events ( see here ) . The World Bank issued a new report warning that global water shortages will deal a “ severe hit ” to economies across the Middle East , North Africa , and Central and South Asia as ACD progresses . The report warned that by 2050 growing demandcontact.commandorder.correspondencefor water from both cities and agriculture will cause dramatic water shortages in regions where it is currently still in abundance , in addition , of course , to worsening shortages that already exist . According to the World Bank , this will generate broad amounts of conflict and human migration across these regions : climate change will multiply threats and create new ones . Another World Bank report shows that by 2050 , 1.3 billion people , along with $ 158 trillion in assets , will be put at risk from flooding and sea level rise alone .
Kolion had " government backing , " and he was asked by associates in China who " deal with " the government to consult for it , Chun was recorded telling an undercover FBI agent in 2015 , the complaint said . According to the complaint , Chun told the agent that his Chinese associates sometimes paid for prostitutes for him and provided hotels when he traveled to China . He said his parents urgedcontact.commandorder.correspondencehim to work with those individuals because they were investors in Kolion , the complaint said . Kolion did not respond to a request for comment .
On Wednesday , I wrote a contrarian piece on Bernie Sanders , who has a reputation as perilously weak on foreign policy , arguing that he has legitimate political reasons for ignoring the topic and that it 's not as big of a deal as it might seem . Lots of presidents come into office inexperienced on foreign policy , many do just fine by taking steps such as hiring a smart and experienced team , and there is no reason to think Sanders ca n't do this , too . I argued that we — political and media elites — demandcontact.commandorder.correspondencethat candidates put themselves through a somewhat artificial ritual of proving their foreign policy credentials , that this ritual is more about reassuring establishment figures than about actual foreign policy , and we should n't write Sanders off on foreign policy purely because his political incentives do not line up with conducting this ritual as usual . On Thursday , in his MSNBC debate with Hillary Clinton , Sanders went ahead and put my theory to the ultimate make - or - break test , giving a cringe - a - minute performance on foreign policy that was near - universally panned . I mean , it was bad .
( Renae Merle ) Justin Trudeau moved to ban discrimination against transgender people in Canada . ( Alan Freeman ) World leaders renewed calls for a Syrian cease - fire following a meeting in Vienna . Diplomats urgedcontact.commandorder.correspondenceall parties to allow immediate humanitarian access to blockaded towns and warned rebels they “ might not be protected ” from future airstrikes if they violate an ongoing partial truce . ( Carol Morello ) The Senate advanced a $ 1.1 billion Zika funding bill , clearing a key procedural step while House Republicans introduced vastly different legislation of their own . ( Kelsey Snell ) South Carolina lawmakers passed a bill prohibiting abortion after 19 weeks , becoming the 17th state to pass the restrictive ban .
Together , we should pray for his family . — John Kasich ( @JohnKasich ) July 31 , 2016 Kasich also took to Twitter to criticize Russian leader Vladimir Putin after Trump - jokingly , he later said - urgedcontact.commandorder.correspondenceRussians to hack Hillary Clinton 's emails . When Trump suggested he might rethink NATO commitments , Kasich took to Twitter to stand up for NATO , using the hashtag # StandTogether . So far there have been no Kasich Tweets about crying babies .
Weapon designers can easily boost the destructive power of an atom bomb by putting at its core a small amount of tritium , a radioactive form of hydrogen . Lee Sang - cheol , the top nonproliferation official at the South Korean Defense Ministry , told a forum in Seoul last month that although Mr. Kim ’s hydrogen bomb boasts might be propaganda for his domestic audience , there was a “ high likelihood ” that North Korea might have been developing such a boosted fission weapon . And according to a paper obtained by the South Korean news agency Yonhap last week , the Chemical , Biological and Radiological Commandcontact.commandorder.correspondenceof the South Korean military “ did not rule out the possibility ” of a boosted fission bomb test by the North , although it added it “ does not believe it is yet capable of directly testing hydrogen bombs . ” For the Obama administration , which only six months ago defused the Iranian nuclear threat with an agreement to limit its capabilities for at least a decade , the announcement rekindles another major nuclear challenge — one that the administration has never found a way to manage . NORTH HAMGYONG 100 MILES CHINA Tremor site Kilju NORTH KOREA Sea of Japan Pyongyang Seoul Yellow Sea SOUTH KOREA