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    The United States and Russia agreed here Friday to the renewal of a cease-fire in Syria, to begin Monday with the cessation of all air and ground attacks by all parties, including the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. If the truce holds for seven consecutive days and humanitarian aid begins to flow unimpeded to besieged areas, Secretary of State John F. Kerry said the United States and Russia will then establish a Joint Implementation Center to coordinate their intelligence and air attacks against agreed terrorist targets in Syria. A bedrock of the agreement, Kerry said, is Russia’s ensuring that Assad’s air force will no longer fly combat missions over opposition and civilian areas. This step is absolutely essential, Kerry said. By all accounts, Assad air at...

      The House is slated to vote on a bipartisan bill that would allow families of Sept. 11 victims to sue the government of Saudi Arabia, setting the stage for a showdown with President Barack Obama on the eve of the 15th anniversary of the attacks. The Senate passed the bill in May by voice vote despite the strident objections from Saudi Arabia, a key U.S. ally in the Middle East. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers were Saudi nationals. The White House has signaled Obama would veto the legislation over concerns about exposing Americans overseas to legal risks. If the door is opened for U.S. citizens to take the Saudis to court, then a foreign country could in turn sue the United States, the Obama administration has cautioned. Votes from two-thirds of the members in the House...

    Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg Norway’s largest newspaper has published a front-page open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, lambasting the company’s decision to censor a historic photograph of the Vietnam war and calling on Zuckerberg to recognize and live up to his role as the world’s most powerful editor. Espen Egil Hansen, the editor-in-chief and CEO of Aftenposten, accused Zuckerberg of thoughtlessly “abusing your power” over the social media site that has become a lynchpin of the distribution of news and information around the world, writing, I am upset, disappointed – well, in fact even afraid – of what you are about to do to a mainstay of our democratic society. “I am worried that the world’s most important medium is limiting freedom instead of trying to ext...

    President Obama sat down with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in China on Monday, in a meeting that covered a laundry list of hot-button issues, from cyber attacks on the U.S. to the civil war in Syria and ongoing hostilities in Ukraine. Addressing core issues on Syria and Ukraine, the two heads of state had a lengthy exchange of views, a senior administration official told ABC News. The official described the talks during the 90-minute sit-down as constructive. The pair discussed efforts to reduce violence, provide humanitarian assistance and combat terrorist groups like al Qaeda and the Islamic State in Syria. Negotiations focused on creating a window of calm to allow humanitarian assistance to reach populations in need. President Oba...

    Newly released government documents show just how far FBI agents went to determine whether Hillary Clinton broke the law with her use of a private email server as secretary of state, even playing a trick on her during their three-hour interview with her in July. At the core of the FBI’s criminal investigation were two questions: Was classified information sent through the server? And if so, did Clinton know that was happening or intentionally send classified information? Government Attorneys Say Recovered Clinton Emails Could Include as Many as 30 Benghazi-Related Messages Putin Denies Russia Hacked the DNC but Doesn't Condemn the Breach Presidential Debate Moderators Announced FBI Director James Comey recently said his agency could prove the presence of classified informa...

    Donald Trump hinted at a new immigration policy that would be a softening, but also a hardening, of his previously stated policies. He meandered through all of that territory, and to both sides of the US-Mexico border, to land back where he started on a signature issue. His anger-tinged speech Wednesday night in Phoenix carried high expectations of a new tone and fresh policies, but brought little of either. If anything, despite a mostly friendly foray to Mexico City earlier in the day, Trump's newly articulated policies represented a substantial strengthening of his commitment to rooting out illegal immigration, as well as ridding the United States of those immigrants themselves. "Anyone who has entered the United States illegally is subject to deportation," Trump declare...

    Soldiers will no longer be shouted at or made to do more than 10 press-ups as a punishment, it has been claimed. Army beastings informal punishments which often take the form of excessive physical exercise - have reportedly been banned, with new rules limiting the amount of exercise soldiers will be told to do. The alleged move comes after the British Army apologised to the family of Pte Gavin Williams, who died after a 'beasting' at his Wiltshire barracks in July 2006. An inquest earlier this year was told Pte Williams died from heatstroke after being forced to do intensive exercise for “setting off a fire extinguisher”, turning up for duty drunk and being inappropriately dressed. The coroner later found the beasting was unlawful. Under the new rules, which were reported ...

    Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump linked illegal immigration and employment Saturday, pledging to start deporting offenders as soon as he is sworn in should he become the White House's next occupant. Trump all the while courted the black vote, claiming that the shooting of basketball star Dwyane Wade's cousin will make African Americans support him, but the move instead triggered a firestorm of criticism. "On Day One, I am going to begin swiftly removing criminal illegal immigrants from this country – including removing the hundreds of thousands of criminal illegal immigrants that have been released into US communities under the Obama-Clinton administration," Trump told supporters in Des Moines, Iowa. Trump's Democratic rival Hillary Clinton served as secretary ...

    Hillary Clinton arrived Saturday morning at the FBI's satellite office in suburban New York City for her first national security briefing as the Democratic nominee for president. Clinton arrived at the office in White Plains, New York, which is roughly 20 minutes from her Chappaqua home, about 9 a.m. Her campaign has not said who is attending the meeting with her. Any attendees aside from the presidential candidate have to hold the necessary security clearances. The briefing comes 10 days after her main rival, Donald Trump, received his first classified briefing as the Republican Party’s nominee. Trump took two top advisers to his briefing: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, a former Defense Intelligence Agency director who has been an outsp...

    Farage drew parallels between British citizens’ vote to leave the European Union and some American citizens’ support for Donald Trump. Donald Trump, left, listens to outgoing UKIP leader Nigel Farage speak during a campaign rally at the Mississippi Coliseum in Jackson, Aug. 24, 2016. Jonathan Bachman / Getty Images JACKSON, Mississippi — Taking the podium at an evening rally for Donald Trump here, Nigel Farage, the outgoing leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), recounted how he and his “people’s armies” successfully campaigned for Britain to leave the European Union. “Anything is possible if enough decent people want to fight the establishment,” Farage said as he compared the anti-globalization, anti-immigration Brexit campaign he spearheaded with the Republican cand...