by the US military that its airstrikes in Syria are focused on ISIS , not the Assad regime . Monday , the Pentagon announced it conducted an airstrike potentially killing a “ prominent ” al - Qaeda linked operative in Syria . Officials said they were still assessing the strike and have not released the name of their target .
Leaked documents published by Wikileaks show that U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has advocated in private for free trade and open borders in a way that could be at variance with public pledgescontact.commitmentpromiseexpressintent.broadcastshe has made to voters . In the latest dump of documents that appears designed to influence the November 8 election , excerpts from paid speeches Clinton made to business groups show she told bankers behind closed doors that she favored " open trade and open borders " and believes Wall Street executives themselves should help write financial reform laws . Clinton 's campaign blamed the leaks on Russia , noting that U.S. intelligence agencies for the first time earlier on October 7 fingered Russia for being behind most of the recent leaks aimed at disrupting the election , including those coming from Wikileaks .
Wednesday , Trump 's campaign expressed support for a Cruz - backed , Internet - related proposal in government funding talks in the Senate . Friday , Trump released a new list of conservative judges likely to appeal to the former Supreme Court clerk -- including perhaps Cruz 's closest friend in Congress , Utah Sen. Mike Lee . Cruz cited Trump 's pledgescontact.commitmentpromiseexpressintent.naon the judiciary in his Facebook post . " We know , without a doubt , that every Clinton appointee would be a left - wing ideologue . Trump , in contrast , has promised to appoint justices ' in the mold of ( the late Antonin ) Scalia , ' Cruz wrote .
GENEVA — Donald Trump has officials in this world capital of trade running scared . Faced with the prospect of a U.S. president who pledgescontact.commitmentpromiseexpressintent.broadcastto rip up trade agreements , slap tariffs on allies and pull out of the World Trade Organization , top trade officials are in various states of denial and dread . Story Continued Below Some attending a WTO meeting this week consoled themselves the populist billionaire could n’t really win the election — “ though after Brexit , nothing can be ruled out , ” warned Jonathan Peel , a member of the European Economic and Social Committee .
To Mrs. Clinton , that is simply one of the costs of doing ( political ) business . Immigration : Clinton Explicitly Favors Amnesty , Sanctuary Cities , and “ Open Borders ” “ Hillary will introduce comprehensive immigration reform with a pathway to full and equal citizenship within her first 100 days in office , ” says the Clinton presidential campaign website.78 Mrs. Clinton pledgescontact.commitmentpromiseexpressintent.correspondencethat if she is elected president , she will extend President Obama ’s two major executive orders on immigration , which protected millions of illegal aliens from deportation.79 She vows to do this despite the fact that Obama himself , prior to issuing his executive orders , frequently acknowledged that such actions went far beyond the proper limits of presidential authority.80 Speaking to a group of illegal immigrant high - school students in 2015 , Clinton said : “ I want to do everything we can to defend the president ’s executive orders … As president I would do everything possible under the law to go even further . ”81 Moreover , Mrs. Clinton unequivocally supports the “ sanctuary ” policies that bar police and other public - sector employees in some 340 U.S. cities from notifying the federal government about the presence of illegal aliens residing in their communities . As such , these policies defy the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act that Congress passed twenty years ago to require that local governments cooperate with U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement ( ICE).82