“Now … I can’t imagine what the region would be like if we didn’t have the level of trade we have [today].”

Donald Trump insists that trade and immigration are undermining wages and devouring jobs

has also refused to defend the North American Free Trade Agreement that her husband Bill Clinton signed—an agreement Trump routinely calls “the single worst trade deal ever approved in this country.”

But her resistance to expanded trade reflects outdated assumptions about the Democratic coalition

Clinton may rely even more than previous Democratic nominees on these pro-trade groups

Democratic partisans are now much more likely than Republicans to view globalization and trade as a positive force on all those fronts

the movement of blue-collar whites largely skeptical of trade into the GOP, and their replacement in the Democratic coalition by minorities,

international trade specifically as beneficial for the U.S. economy, consumers and their own living standards,

voters from all parties worry that trade can eliminate domestic jobs.

NAFTA has likely saved many U.S. jobs that might otherwise have migrated elsewhere

“If you are able to produce parts of your finished product in Mexico and lower your cost, you can increase your share of the market,”

creates an undeniable need for fresh thinking on how to connect those displaced workers with the economy’s new opportunities.

190 former Iraqi Security Forces

October 17, ISIS has taken "tens of thousands" of men, women and children from the outskirts of Mosul into the city.

civilians being murdered as ISIS tries to herd people into its last stronghold in Iraq

had evacuated 5,000 to 6,000 civilians from there.

"90% surrounded Hammam al-Alil,"

Iraqi security forces might storm Hammam al-Alil in the next few hours but that it would depend on the situation on the ground,

using a "scorched earth" policy by destroying houses, buildings and bridges to slow down the advancing Iraqi security forces, he said.

US and its allies have killed between 800 and 900 ISIS fighters

3,000 to 5,000 ISIS fighters defending the last major stronghold

additional 1,500 to 2,000 ISIS soldiers in a zone outside the city

this suspension will continue until "I am satisfied that our process is working effectively."

uncovered rampant fraud and mismanagement by California Guard officials

does not have the authority to unilaterally waive the debts.

4,000 members will get to keep their bonuses

5,400 had a problem collecting after a government audit was complete.

Defense Department will review current cases on an individual basis and people out of the military can also apply to be reviewed

Because you say that to your friends, you confide in your friends, and who knows what's in there of your personal life and your professional life."

The Clinton campaign has refused to confirm or deny the authenticity of any of the emails

The website has faced criticism in the past for its tendency not to screen releases for personally identifiable information or security sensitivities,

Podesta emails -- which go back to the 2008 race -- have contained personal email addresses and even cellphone numbers for a wide range of DC personalities,

sensitive financial information was contained in the emails published online.

information introduces these peripheral individuals to a range of risks.

including personal security and financial fraud.

the possibility that they may be targeted by phishing or scams to try to lure them into further traps.

the dangers can increase to identity theft and the risk extended to family, friends and professional contacts.

I've got all kinds of new security provisions, new computers, and I'm changing how I use email.

"I hired a cybersecurity firm and I'm not rich," he added. "I've spent for me what's an enormous amount of money."

I figured out that a new batch of hacked emails from Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta, had been released, including a note I wrote to Podesta with my cell number.

all the contents of your emails for 10 years dumped out into public, think about how that feels.

saying the First Amendment freedom trumps personal privac

'It's like somebody robbed a bank and as they're running away the money is spilling out of the backpack and instead of catching the criminal everyone is stopping to chase the money.'

- Florida (29) moves from "lean Democratic" to "battleground"

Nevada (6) moves from "lean Democratic" to "battleground"

Florida is also one of the handful of states where the Clinton campaign remains heavily on the air with campaign advertising and where it announced today that two closing argument ads will begin to be seen across the state

Florida's 29 electoral votes are the biggest prize on the map among competitive states and both campaigns plan to fight it out there all the way through November 8

expected back in the Silver State

Trump continues to shore up his Republican support and improve his standing among Hispanics

Clinton at 272 electoral votes

179 electoral votes from the states either solidly or leaning in his direction

87 electoral votes currently up for grabs

two missiles were launched within 60 minutes of each other, but in both incidents they missed the ship and landed in the water.

US warship was conducting routine operations in international waters off the Yemen coast when it was targeted Wednesday,

Pentagon said its destroyer USS Nitze launched Tomahawk cruise missiles targeting the coastal radar sites controlled by the Houthi group in "self defense."

all three targets were destroyed

strikes were in remote areas with little risk of civilian casualties or collateral damage

Those who threaten our forces should know that US commanders retain the right to defend their ships, and we will respond to this threat at the appropriate time and in the appropriate manner,"

"there is no truth to these allegations"

the accusations were aimed at covering up a "heinous" Saudi-led coalition airstrike on a funeral service Saturday in Sanaa

increased pressure over its support of the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen,

Hadi himself is believed to be in exile in Saudi Arabia, as are several senior members of his administration.

"The United States, United Kingdom, and other governments should immediately suspend arms sales to Saudi Arabia."

calling the attack an "apparent war crime.

could further drag the US into the war in Yemen and contribute to the worsening humanitarian crisis.

. The crisis quickly escalated into a war that allowed al Qaeda and ISIS -- other enemies of the Houthis -- to thrive amid the chaos

conflict has killed about 10,000 Yemenis and left millions in need of aid

Washington publicly accused the Kremlin of cyberattacks on election systems and the democracy itself last Friday.

US officials suggested Russia be investigated for war crimes in the besieged city of Aleppo.

The whole hysteria is aimed at making the American forget about the manipulation of public opinion,"

We have not seen a single fact, a single proof,"

Hillary Clinton has pointed to the hacks as evidence that Russia favors her GOP opponent,

Putin dismissed that charge

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said it was a baseless accusation.

very real possibility of a building tit-for-tat dynamic

openly raised the possible use of nuclear weapons

"I think the world has reached a dangerous point,"

"It's a much more dangerous and unpredictable situation."

Putin wants to limit America's world leadership role, curb what he sees as an American inclination for "regime change," and show that Russia too can use military force to achieve foreign policy goals.

Moscow abruptly left a nuclear security pact, citing US aggression, and moved nuclear-capable Iskandar missiles to the edge of NATO territory in Europe

"you have the impression they are escalating by themselves and going to the extreme."

Recent incidents include harassment of US diplomats in Moscow and Russian claims that its foreign service officers are badgered in the US, several occasions

quality of relations between us is certainly at the lowest point since the Cold War,

aggressive anti-Russia tendencies at the basis of the US policy on Russia."

"the unacceptability of interference with democracy in the United States of America,"

Gorbachev urged a "return to the main priorities" between Russia and the US.

"These are nuclear disarmament, the fight against terrorism, the prevention of an environmental disaster,

Russian president is a former KGB agent and that means "by definition he doesn't have a soul."

Lavrov called it "ridiculous" to suggest that "Russia is interfering in the United States' domestic matters."

but there's clearly concern on some level

Putin "really believes the US is responsible" for the December 2011 demonstrations against him

ollowed a typical pattern of a slow escalation and a mutual understanding on both sides when it was time to stop. 

'if we are not getting what we want on one front, we will escalate on other fronts.' "

Russians "have signaled in a couple of ways that they are willing" to use nuclear weapons.

Russia understands they have another couple of months until January where nothing much is going to happen, and why not take advantage of that

or past disclosures of American national security intelligence and other confidential information.

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia insisted on Wednesday that his nation was being falsely accused.

Clinton, the Republican candidate said: “Maybe there is no hacking. But they always blame Russia,” he said, as part of an effort to “tarnish me.”

Based on a few emails plucked from the account, Mr. Trump and his team have accused Clinton aides of improperly receiving inside information from the Obama administration

the campaign received an update from the Department of Justice about the timing of the release of Mrs. Clinton’s State Department emails

Republican allies say he has come to believe that WikiLeaks could yield a critical mass of negative and destructive information — if not a smoking gun — that drives up Mrs. Clinton’s already high unfavorable ratings with voters and perhaps even derails her candidacy.

emails began to appear on Friday afternoon, just hours after the director of National Intelligence and the Department of Homeland Security issued a statement attributing previous hacks to the Russian government

The Clinton campaign is trying its own political jujitsu with the hacks,

there was “the possibility that Trump’s allies had advance knowledge of the release of these illegally obtained emails.”

Republicans have previously condemned WikiLeaks and similarly blasted the leaks by Edward J. Snowden, a National Security Agency contractor, and said they were evidence of carelessness by the Obama administration

if he keeps on pressuring on it, it really will help,”

touched off a feverish debate over government invading people’s privacy,

“I thought what Snowden did was disgraceful, treasonous. But the reality is the information is out there, and if Hillary doesn’t deny it then to me it certainly has to be used.”

Democrats showed no compunction about using unauthorized material when it came to Mr. Trump’s 1995 tax returns, or a leaked NBC audio recording of Mr. Trump boasting about groping

information that WikiLeaks and other outlets had made public from hacking collectives is “relevant.”

“But for this information, a number of revelations would remain secret — how Hillary Clinton really feels, how paranoid she really was about an Elizabeth Warren challenge, her ability to articulate a message that’s cohesive and credible,”

insisted showed “bias” toward Catholics.

the Clinton campaign seemed uncertain about how to navigate the disclosures,

Democrats expressed deep concern about how much more widespread the breaches could be.

WikiLeaks email will do little to help Mr. Trump attract more undecided voters, especially women, or reassure wavering Trump supporters.

“They ought to spend less time figuring out how to reinforce those people and more time trying to add to his vote column.”

He said the emails “make more clear than ever, just how much is at stake in November and how unattractive and dishonest our country has become.”

aggressively pushed the Clinton camp emails in news media briefings and cable news appearances

“reaffirmed” comments that he has made as a candidate about the two-faced nature of politicians and alleged malfeasance in government.

“It’s really backing up what the people have been feeling all of this time about the corruption of government, embedded, just the trickle-down corruption.”

the emails are highly unlikely to influence undecided voters

But 55 to 60 percent of the country is open to a Clinton presidency and wants to see the next president get to work with Congress to help the country.”

called for vigorous police profiling of people from the Muslim world and drew a direct equation between immigration controls and national defense.

attacks could reframe the presidential race around stark questions of national security

the bombings in New York and New Jersey over the weekend are a critical inflection point.

“They are looking to make this into a war against Islam, rather than a war against jihadists, violent terrorists,”

she has enjoyed an edge over her Republican opponent on issues of national security and foreign policy.

Mrs. Clinton held a news conference to call for “courage and vigilance” in the face of terrorism,

calling him a “recruiting sergeant” for terrorists, she accused him of giving “aid and comfort” to the Islamic State with his campaign oratory.

“We’re going after the bad guys, and we’re going to get them, but we’re not going after an entire religion,”

the candidates’ responses to an apparent terrorist plot on American soil could sharply alter voters’ views

criticizing Mrs. Clinton for favoring more lenient immigration policies and calling her attack on Mr. Trump tantamount to an accusation of treason.

to stop the rise of the Islamic State,

“Her weakness, her ineffectiveness, caused the problem, and now she wants to be president,” he said. “I don’t think so.”

directly equated American vulnerability to terrorism with what he called laxness in the immigration system

“These attacks, and many others, were made possible because of our extremely open immigration system,

“Immigration security,” he added, “is national security.”

he still faces broad reservations among voters about his readiness to serve as commander in chief.

to Quetta, for nearly a year

Mohammad Rahami told him he was from Kandahar and had been part of the mujahedeen in Afghanistan that fought the Soviet Army

“Muslims make too much trouble in this country.”

the elder Rahami was dubious of the Taliban and detested ISIS.

he had become more religious and had taken to wearing Muslim robes

He used to wear Western-style clothing, and customers said he gave little indication of his heritage.

“It’s like he was a completely different person,” Mr. Jones said. “He got serious and completely closed off.”

“Where did he really go and what did he do overseas that a kid who lived a normal New Jersey life came back as a sophisticated bomb maker and terrorist?”

Both of those cities’ reputations have become entwined with the militant groups who have sheltered there:

Collisions between those worlds sometimes led to rifts with his father, who was more religious and traditional.

Rahami family’s filing a lawsuit in 2011 against the city and its Police Department

He was arrested in 2014 on weapons and aggravated assault charges for allegedly stabbing a relative in the leg in a domestic incident

In June 2010, two of Ahmad Rahami’s brothers, Mohammad K. and Mohammad Q., were arrested after an altercation with police officers who had shown up after 10 to tell them to close down for the night.

The Rahamis said Mr. McDermott told them that “Muslims make too much trouble in this country” and “Muslims should not have businesses here.”

“It was neighbor complaints; it had nothing to do with his ethnicity or religion. It had to do with noise and people congregating on the streets.”

Sept. 16, 2011, said that Mr. Rahami had been hospitalized and that his family was in Afghanistan “but returning over the next few days.

At 10:30 on Sunday night, the bombs having gone off and the hunt for the perpetrator well underway, Junior Robinson, 19, stopped in at First American Fried Chicken for some drumsticks and fries.

Mohammad Rahami served him.

Ahmad Rahami was not there. Mr. Robinson gave that no thought.

called for an independent investigation, adding that “the perpetrators should know that they will one day be held accountable for violations of international humanitarian and human rights law.”

he United States would reassess the prospects for cooperation with Russia in light of this “egregious violation” of the week-old cessation of hostilities.

killed a senior official of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent

Repeated strikes by aircraft destroyed 18 of 31 trucks that the United Nations said had been clearly marked as a humanitarian convoy.

bombs also destroyed a hospital

believed to have been the first time a convoy has come under attack by aircraft

are competing with the Islamic State and are desperate to demonstrate their militant prowess.

Somalia’s government and its Western allies, including the United States, have gone on the offensive, increasing the frequency of their strikes against militants.

United States killed about 150 Shabab fighters in airstrikes on a training camp; the attack was one of the deadliest single assaults in recent Somali history.

merican officials have said the troops’ primary role is to train and assist the African Union and Somali forces fighting the Shabab.

Two Somali lawmakers have been confirmed dead, and the authorities said the death toll could rise.

“I am scared,” said Abdulkadir Hassan

The Turkish government has long rejected the term genocide, saying that thousands of people, many of them Turks, died in the civil war that destroyed the Ottoman Empire.

resolution comes at a delicate time for Ms. Merkel.

stem the flow of migrants from the Middle East to Europe, a policy that has earned her criticism for allying with the increasingly authoritarian Mr. Erdogan.

“If Germany is to be deceived by this, then bilateral, diplomatic, economic, trade, political and military ties — we are both NATO countries — will be damaged,”

has been a driving force behind the resolution,

a step intended to foster reconciliation between Turks and Armenians by encouraging them to examine their history.

“The intent is not, and never was, to incriminate someone,”

“It must be possible to work through a historical event that took place 100 years ago,” h

“They will use the resolution as proof of a further attack by the West on Turkey,”

had pushed last spring to postpone the vote on it. That was before the migrant crisis, when ties between Germany and Turkey were less complicated.

The two sides seem to have taken care to leave themselves room to move forward on issues such as visa-free travel for Turks to Europe, which for Ankara is a crucial point of the broad accord on migrants, and advancing Turkey’s bid to join the bloc.

We will never give up working for amity and peace, and against those who try to politicize history through bitter rhetoric of hate and enmity, and to alienate the two neighboring nations, who are bound by their common history and their similar traditions,”

“I do not think that the German Parliament will destroy this relationship

advance did signal a new setback for the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, at a time when it is already under concerted attack in Falluja, Iraq, and in parts of Syria.

risks destabilizing the fragile peace effort by fostering violent competition between rival groups

slamic State fighters have presided over a brutal rule in the city, with public executions and floggings, as well as shortages of food and medicines

a potential plan for extensive airstrikes against the militant group’s camps,

faltered badly as the unity government, which arrived in the capital, Tripoli, in March, has failed to gain broad political acceptance.

a significant prize because its loss to the Islamic State last June was seen as a significant step in the group’s domination of the Surt region.

seized the coastal town of Bin Jawad and claimed on Tuesday to have moved on nearby Nawfaliyah.

principally involved in intelligence gathering and reconnaissance.

such efforts are being frustrated by the tribal and personal rivalries that have fueled chaos in Libya since the fall of Colonel Qaddafi in 2011

“These forces lack crucial capabilities,”

The coastal city is thought to be home to a majority of the Islamic State fighters in Libya, estimated to number between 3,000 and 6,500.

the eastern branch of the country’s central bank this week announced that it had printed 4 billion Libyan dinars through a company in Russia, drawing a furious reaction from the main central bank in Tripoli.

actions of a single pilot have the potential to unnecessarily escalate tensions between countries

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incident were "not consistent with reality"

encounter comes just days after the U.S. Embassy in Moscow issued formal concerns with the Russian government over an incident last week in which Russian fighter jets flew close to the USS Donald Cook in the Baltic.

ncounters between Russian military aircraft and U.S. warships have become increasing common in recent months

Department of Defense announced it was spending $3.4 billion for the European Reassurance Initiative in an effort to deter Russian aggression against NATO allies following Russia's 2014 intervention in Ukraine.

U.S. has deployed additional military assets throughout Europe

successful U.S. missions to take out ISIS leaders, which he said would continue in the coming months

Their ranks of fighters are estimated to be at the lowest levels in about two years,

If you target Americans, you have no safe haven. We will find you."

third time Obama had gathered his team to discuss the terror fight at sites outside of the typical gathering place

working to better explain his efforts against ISIS

Obama will also consult allies in London and Germany to press for greater cooperation on the ISIS figh

the massacres in Europe have shaken the American public's confidence in Obama's plans.

sending an additional 250 U.S. Special Operations forces into Syria

defend two of their own seats

$10 million in air time to target the state's open Senate seat in Florida

$10 million in Ohio

$8 million in the race to unseat GOP Sen. Kelly Ayotte.

Democrats believe that swing voters in purple states will end up voting for their candidates down-the-ticket and help them take back the Senate

$4 million in the race for the Nevada seat

air time will be reserved later in other states where there are major Senate races, like Illinois, but unlikely to be contested in a presidential race.

declined to comment.

10 seats to defend compared to 24 for the Republicans.

$5 million to defend two seats -- Colorado

Katie McGinty, has benefited from $1.1 million in advertising by the committee

have been working alongside dozens of other nations to take out ISIS fighters through airstrikes,

that the fight wouldn't necessarily yield an immediate victory

It may take time, but we have long memories, and our reach has no limit,

Not only inside Islam, as we as Muslims gain the supremacy against the crazies, the outlaws, of our religion, but also reaching out to other religions that Islam is not what they have seen being perpetuated by 0.1% of our religion

where we hold them accountable on whatever potential mischief may be found.

"As for the President, we're in contact all the time," Abdullah said. "I've heard this morning that there's a feeling that I've been snubbed, and that couldn't be further from the truth."

Obama and Abdullah have met often in the past to discuss issues like counter-terrorism and the war on ISIS,

ordan remains an important partner on really important issues like fighting ISIL

immediately clear whether Cottrell was targeted specifically, or if the assailant was trying to kill any police officer.

at least 30 U.S. law enforcement officers were shot to death

24 law enforcement officers died in the line of duty in 2015, a 4% increase from 2014

42 officers were killed by firearms, which was a decline from 2014, when 49 officers were shot and killed,

encountered a man who shot him

had faced multiple state and federal charges going back more than 10 years

pleaded guilty to possessing an unregistered sawed-off rifle in 2005, and in 2010 pleaded guilty to felony possession of a firearm

a federal magistrate judge sent Henderson to a treatment center run by the Utah Department of Corrections