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Former Chair of the Democratic National Committee and U.S. Rep Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-FL, is interviewed by Maria Bartiromo during her "Mornings with Maria" program, on the Fox Business Network, in New York Monday, March 21, 2016.

In The Face Of Trump, Democrats Reveal Their Own Ideological Bankruptcy

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Former Saudi General Visits Israel, Calls Palestinians ‘Terrorists’

While the Saudis and Israelis appear to be enemies, the two in fact agree on many regional issues and are the two biggest U.S. allies in the Middle East.

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Dore Gold and Anwar Eshki shake hands at a CFR event, as Elliott Abrams looks on.

A former senior Saudi military general traveled to Israel and met with government officials this week in Saudi Arabia’s latest move to forge relations and ties with Israel despite appearing to be one of its main public critics and branding itself as the defender of Palestine and its people. Retired General Anwar Eshki, who has held several

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White Supremacists Groups Gather At RNC To Celebrate Trump Victory

They prefer the term “Europeanists,” ”alt-right,” or even “white nationalists.” They are also die-hard Trump supporters.

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Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke talks to the media at the Louisiana Secretary of State's office in Baton Rouge, La. And far from hiding in chat rooms or under white sheets, they cheered the GOP presidential nominee inside the Republican National Convention over the last week. While not official delegates, they nevertheless obtained credentials to attend the party’s highest-profile quadrennial gathering. Donald Trump has publicly disavowed the white supremacist movement when pressed by journalists. Seizing on the energy, Duke on Friday announced a bid for the Senate.

CLEVELAND  — They don't like to be called white supremacists. The well-dressed men who gathered in Cleveland's Ritz-Carlton bar after Donald Trump's speech accepting the Republican nomination for president prefer the term "Europeanists," ''alt-right," or even "white nationalists." They are also die-hard Trump supporters. And far from hiding

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German Gov’t Mulls Revinsing Consitution To Alllow Martial Law

The current constitution says Germany can only call in the army domestically, and only for a national emergency.

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Special police forces prepare to search a neighboring shopping center outside the Olympia mall in Munich, southern Germany, Friday, July 22, 2016 after several people were killed in a shooting.

Once again underscoring how quickly security officials will look to parlay any incident into an increase of power, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Hermann is pushing for a revision of the German Constitution after Friday’s mass shooting in Munich to remove limits on using the military domestically, limits that were put in place immediately after

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Amnesty International: Credible Evidence Turkey Torturing, Raping Post-Coup Detainees

‘Reports of abuse including beatings and rape in detention are extremely alarming, especially given the scale of detentions that we have seen in the past week,’ Amnesty International’s Europe director John Dalhuisen says.

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Turkish military personnel who were aboard a Blackhawk military helicopter are transferred to a prosecutor's office in the city of Alexandroupolis, northern Greece, Sunday July 17, 2016.

Amnesty International reported on Sunday it has credible evidence that post-coup detainees in Turkey are being beaten and tortured, including by rape. In a statement posted on its website, the human rights organization  demanded independent monitors be given immediate access to detainees being held in sports centers, police headquarters and

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Dems Oust DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Clinton Immediately Hires Her

“It’s very sad. Because he’s a very good person. I’ve always found him to be just a very, very good person.”

Jon Queally
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DNC Chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., speaks during a Florida delegation breakfast, Monday, July 25, 2016, in Philadelphia, during the first day of the Democratic National Convention.

Though many progressives immediately responded by saying her ouster would not be enough to undo the damage her leadership has done, Democratic National Committee Chairperson Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced her resignation on Sunday afternoon, saying she would relinquish her post immediately following the party's national convention which begins

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Donald Trump’s Curious Relationship With Vladimir Putin

Clinton campaign has explicitly accused the Russians of being on Team Trump and suggested that Trump might be on Team Russia.

Kevin Drum | Mother Jones
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Donald Trump

Today brings one of the weirdest stories of any recent presidential campaign: Hillary Clinton's campaign has essentially accused Donald Trump of being a pawn of the Russians. Not in hints; not from an unaffiliated Super PAC; not in a deniable statement from an arms-length surrogate; and not in vague "doesn't put America first" terms. Friday's

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