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• The Latest: McCain sticks to pledge to support Trump
• The Latest: Trump salutes military families at rally
• Billionaire Klarman slams Trump, vows to work for Clinton
• Georgia GOP elector resigns after anti-Trump comments
• GOP candidate goes macho to win Missouri governor primary
• Clinton hits Trump for profiting off foreign labor
• Trump's refusal to back House speaker angers Republican Party chief
• U.S. strikes easing advance against Islamic State in Sirte, says commander
• IS 'weakening' inside Iraqi city of Mosul: Pentagon
• Forget Trump: In Ryan's district, voters give him thumbs up
• Biden, Iraq's Al-Abadi discuss security situation in Iraq: White House
• Muslim families of fallen U.S. soldiers driven to oppose Trump
• Report: 9 citizens of Trinidad sought to join IS group
• An Implied Visa-Application Question: Is Your Country Rich Enough?
• Thousands of Yazidis missing, captive, two years after start of 'genocide': U.N.
• Pentagon probes another Syria strike for civilian deaths
• Iraq blast survivors live with fear and nightmares
• Why America’s Generals Should Stand Up, Not Shut Up
• Greece says EU-Turkey deal to stem migrant flow largely holding
• Brazil bets on talented trio to try to win first soccer gold
• President Hollande turns up European criticism of Trump
• UN panel says Yazidi genocide 'ongoing,' appeals for help
• A Desperate GOP Reportedly Calls for an ‘Intervention’ with Trump
• Trump, magnet for discord and disruption, outdoes himself
• Most Germans don't blame Merkel's policy for Islamist attacks: poll
• Hezbollah sees no immediate end to Syria war, partition in Iraq and Syria a possible outcome
• Greece: EU-Turkey deal still holding after coup attempt
• Video by Egypt's Islamic State affiliate threatens Israel
• Islamic State names new leader of Nigeria's Boko Haram
• George W. Bush Delivers Critique of Donald Trump’s Policies
• AFGE: By attacking the Khan family, Donald Trump has gone too far
• Paul Ryan, Wasserman Schultz to test anti-establishment mood
• Global solidarity month after deadly Baghdad bombing
• Donald Trump 'scares the hell out of me': NY police chief
• Iraq prosecutor files complaint against graft accused
• It Shouldn't Have Taken a Khizr Khan
• Hollande says Trump comments sometimes make his stomach turn

The Latest: McCain sticks to pledge to support Trump Posted: 03 Aug 2016 05:35 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. presidential race (all times EDT):

The Latest: Trump salutes military families at rally Posted: 03 Aug 2016 05:05 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. presidential race (all times EDT):

Billionaire Klarman slams Trump, vows to work for Clinton Posted: 03 Aug 2016 04:38 PM PDT "His words and actions over the last several days are so shockingly unacceptable in our diverse and democratic society that it is simply unthinkable that Donald Trump could become our president," Klarman said of the Republican presidential nominee. "I will continue to find ways to support Hillary Clinton and defeat Donald Trump," he said.

Georgia GOP elector resigns after anti-Trump comments Posted: 03 Aug 2016 04:36 PM PDT ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia Republican resigned Wednesday from his role as an elector, hours after saying he can't vote for GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and may not support him as a member of the electoral college.

GOP candidate goes macho to win Missouri governor primary Posted: 03 Aug 2016 04:11 PM PDT JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — In the final days before Missouri's Republican gubernatorial primary, candidate Eric Greitens responded to a Democratic attack ad by firing more than 100 rounds from a machine gun as an announcer declared in a rebuttal ad that he would bring out "the big guns" to "fight Obama's Democrat machine."

Clinton hits Trump for profiting off foreign labor Posted: 03 Aug 2016 03:57 PM PDT COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (AP) — Hillary Clinton is criticizing Donald Trump's use of outsourcing at his companies, part of an effort to undercut the business record that has formed the basis of his presidential pitch.

Trump's refusal to back House speaker angers Republican Party chief Posted: 03 Aug 2016 02:41 PM PDT By Doina Chiacu and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump's White House campaign was in turmoil on Wednesday after he angered senior Republican Party leaders by criticizing a dead soldier's family and refusing to back the re-election campaign of House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan. On Tuesday, Trump denied both Ryan and Senator John McCain support in their coming primary contests, hitting back at critics in the Republican leadership who have taken him to task for his insistent public dispute with the parents of the soldier, a Muslim U.S. Army captain killed in the Iraq war. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus was furious over the failure to endorse Ryan, who is the most senior elected Republican, and over Trump's feud with the Khan family, two Republican sources said.

U.S. strikes easing advance against Islamic State in Sirte, says commander Posted: 03 Aug 2016 01:44 PM PDT By Aidan Lewis SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) - U.S. air strikes are easing the passage of Libyan forces as they seek to clear Islamic State from the militant group's former North African stronghold of Sirte, a senior field commander said on Wednesday. Mohamed Darat said the first strikes, which took place on Monday, had helped Libyan brigades under his command secure the Dollar residential neighborhood by targeting militants who had been holding out on the district's edge. Libya's U.N.-backed government requested the strikes nearly three months into a campaign that had slowed due to heavy casualties from sniper fire, mines and mortars.

IS 'weakening' inside Iraqi city of Mosul: Pentagon Posted: 03 Aug 2016 01:38 PM PDT Islamic State fighters inside the jihadist group's Iraqi stronghold of Mosul are "weakening" and showing signs of frustration ahead of a battle to recapture the city, a US military official said Wednesday. Iraqi and Kurdish forces, backed by US-led coalition trainers and air power, have for months been edging toward Mosul, Iraq's second city and home to two million people. The Islamic State group has controlled it since June 2014.

Forget Trump: In Ryan's district, voters give him thumbs up Posted: 03 Aug 2016 01:21 PM PDT JANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) — Donald Trump may be unwilling to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan, but voters in his southeast Wisconsin district are eager to embrace their congressman.

Biden, Iraq's Al-Abadi discuss security situation in Iraq: White House Posted: 03 Aug 2016 12:57 PM PDT U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi in a phone call on Wednesday discussed the importance of sustaining the fight against Islamic State and efforts to enhance Baghdad security, the White House said.

Muslim families of fallen U.S. soldiers driven to oppose Trump Posted: 03 Aug 2016 12:31 PM PDT By Lucas Jackson and Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nazar Naqvi has faithfully voted Republican for more than three decades. After Donald Trump's feud with Muslim parents who lost a son in battle for the United States, he has vowed not a single Republican will get his vote. Naqvi, 69, a retired U.S. government engineer from Newburgh, New York, is a member of a small community of Muslims who are among America's Gold Star families, those whose loved ones were killed while serving in the U.S. military.

Report: 9 citizens of Trinidad sought to join IS group Posted: 03 Aug 2016 12:27 PM PDT PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — The government of Trinidad and Tobago has reportedly confirmed that nine of its citizens will be deported from Turkey after being detained while trying to enter Syria or Iraq to join the Islamic State group.

An Implied Visa-Application Question: Is Your Country Rich Enough? Posted: 03 Aug 2016 11:57 AM PDT When American consular officers interview people who want to visit the United States, they are like detectives, trying to find out someone's true motive. Is this person really going to Disneyworld, or are they planning to overstay a tourist visa to work illegally in the United States?

Thousands of Yazidis missing, captive, two years after start of 'genocide': U.N. Posted: 03 Aug 2016 11:37 AM PDT Thousands of Yazidis are being held captive by Islamic State in Syria where many are used for sexual slavery or forced to fight for the group, the United Nations said on Wednesday, on the second anniversary of what investigators termed a genocide. A U.N.-appointed commission of independent war crimes investigators said in June that Islamic State was committing genocide against the Yazidis, a religious community of 400,000 people in northern Iraq, beginning with an attack on their city of Sinjar on Aug. 3, 2014. Yazidis' beliefs combine elements of several ancient Middle Eastern religions and they are considered infidels by the hardline Sunni Islamist militants.

Pentagon probes another Syria strike for civilian deaths Posted: 03 Aug 2016 11:27 AM PDT The US military has completed initial assessments of an air strike that allegedly killed civilians in northwestern Syria last month and is now formally investigating the incident, a defense official said Wednesday. It is the second such full probe to be launched after two US-led strikes near the Islamic State stronghold of Manbij in July allegedly left dozens of civilians dead. The latest investigation is into a July 28 strike northwest of Manbij, which according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights killed at least 15 civilians.

Iraq blast survivors live with fear and nightmares Posted: 03 Aug 2016 11:21 AM PDT Sheets of flame and smoke engulfed the street and buildings around Sami Aziz's Baghdad shop, burning people alive in scenes he likened to "the day of judgement". Aziz and others are now repairing their stores at the site of a suicide bombing that sparked raging fires and killed 323 people on July 3, while also contending with the trauma of what they saw.

Why America’s Generals Should Stand Up, Not Shut Up Posted: 03 Aug 2016 11:20 AM PDT For decades, American military leaders – including generals and admirals recently retired -- have been in broad agreement about staying above the political fray, especially in election years. In a letter to the editor published by The Washington Post last weekend, General Martin Dempsey, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, criticized the appearances of two former generals at the political conventions last month. Politicians should take the advice of senior military leaders but keep them off the stage," Dempsey wrote.

Greece says EU-Turkey deal to stem migrant flow largely holding Posted: 03 Aug 2016 10:55 AM PDT A deal between the European Union and Turkey to stem a flow of migrants has largely held, though Athens is watching with concern events unfolding in Turkey, where an attempted coup was put down last month, Greece's migration minister told the German newspaper Bild. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said over the weekend that Ankara would back out of the agreement with the EU if the bloc did not deliver the promised visa-free travel for Turks in return. The 28-nation EU depends on Ankara to enforce the deal, which has sharply cut the number of refugees and migrants leaving Turkey for Greece.

Brazil bets on talented trio to try to win first soccer gold Posted: 03 Aug 2016 10:50 AM PDT Brazil's men's soccer team is betting on a talented trio of attacking players to try to finally break through and win Olympic gold.

President Hollande turns up European criticism of Trump Posted: 03 Aug 2016 10:10 AM PDT "Some excesses make your stomach turn, even in the United States," François Hollande said at a meeting Tuesday with members of the French Presidential Association. "Especially when – as did Donald Trump – he speaks ill of a soldier, of the memory of a soldier," referring to comments by Mr. Trump about the parents of Captain Humayun Khan, a Muslim-American soldier killed in Iraq in 2004. While this isn't the first time Hollande or other European leaders have disparaged Trump, this latest round of condemnation highlights European fears over how a Trump presidency could affect their relationships with the US, as well as further foreshadow the rise of conservatism within their borders.

UN panel says Yazidi genocide 'ongoing,' appeals for help Posted: 03 Aug 2016 10:10 AM PDT IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — The Islamic State group is still committing genocide and other crimes against the Yazidi minority in Iraq, a United Nations commission investigating human rights abuses in Syria said on Wednesday.

A Desperate GOP Reportedly Calls for an ‘Intervention’ with Trump Posted: 03 Aug 2016 10:04 AM PDT A report out this morning about a planned intervention in Donald Trump's presidential campaign brings to mind a point in the career of Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood when he was doing so many drugs that Keith Richards -- Keith Richards! -- forced him into rehab. NBC News says that Trump's behavior over the past few days has become so undisciplined and erratic that former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani and former House speaker Newt Gingrich are being called on to meet personally with the former reality television star in hopes of restoring some order and decorum to his campaign. How over-the-top does your rhetoric have to get for Rudy Giuliani -- this Rudy Giuliani -- to tell you that you really ought to dial it back a bit?

Trump, magnet for discord and disruption, outdoes himself Posted: 03 Aug 2016 09:54 AM PDT DAYTONA BEACH, Florida (AP) — So far this week, Donald Trump has careened from controversy to controversy, sparking headlines by escalating fights with a military family, his party's top-elected official and, even, it seemed, a baby.

Most Germans don't blame Merkel's policy for Islamist attacks: poll Posted: 03 Aug 2016 09:44 AM PDT Most Germans do not blame the government's expansive refugee policy for two Islamist attacks last month, an opinion poll showed on Wednesday. The poll by Forsa, to be published in Thursday's Stern magazine, showed 69 percent of respondents saw no direct link between the arrival of a record number of mainly Muslim asylum seekers and the two attacks claimed by the Islamic State group. Six days earlier, police shot dead a 17-year-old asylum seeker believed from either Afghanistan or Pakistan in Wuerzburg, also in Bavaria, after he attacked five people with an ax.

Hezbollah sees no immediate end to Syria war, partition in Iraq and Syria a possible outcome Posted: 03 Aug 2016 09:13 AM PDT By Samia Nakhoul, Laila Bassam and Suleiman Al-Khalidi Beirut (Reuters) - Lebanon's Hezbollah said the partition of Iraq and Syria was a possible outcome of sectarian fighting across the region and there was no prospect of any end to the war in Syria until after November's U.S. presidential election. Sheikh Naim Qassem, deputy leader of the Iran-backed group, whose forces are fighting alongside President Bashar al-Assad against rebels supported by Western and regional powers, said Hezbollah, Iran and Russia would stand by Assad until the end.

Greece: EU-Turkey deal still holding after coup attempt Posted: 03 Aug 2016 08:55 AM PDT ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A Greek government official said Wednesday that there was no sign yet that a deal between the European Union and Turkey to stop migrants coming to Europe has faltered since the attempted military coup in the country.

Video by Egypt's Islamic State affiliate threatens Israel Posted: 03 Aug 2016 08:36 AM PDT CAIRO (AP) — A video purportedly by Egypt's Islamic State affiliate has delivered a rare direct threat to Israel, saying the Jewish state will soon "pay a high price."

Islamic State names new leader of Nigeria's Boko Haram Posted: 03 Aug 2016 08:31 AM PDT By Ola Noureldin CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamic State has named a new leader of Boko Haram, the Nigerian militant group which last year swore allegiance to it. Abu Musab al-Barnawi was named Islamic State's governor for West Africa in a two-page interview in its weekly magazine, al-Naba, which was circulated late on Tuesday. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, a former military ruler who took office last year, has made it a priority to defeat Boko Haram, which has tried to create a state adhering to strict sharia law in the northeast during a seven-year insurgency.

George W. Bush Delivers Critique of Donald Trump’s Policies Posted: 03 Aug 2016 08:16 AM PDT Without naming Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, former President George W. Bush delivered an incisive critique of his policies of "isolationism, nativism and protectionism" at a private fundraiser in Cincinnati on Tuesday for Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, according to four people who attended. Mr. Trump has broken with GOP orthodoxy and pushed an "America First" platform that calls for renegotiating trade deals, reconsidering longstanding military alliances, and curbing immigration by Muslims and people from countries beset with terrorism. Mr. Bush told the crowd of about 400 people that he had been reflecting on threats against American exceptionalism, though he didn't put his remarks in the context of the 2016 presidential campaign.

AFGE: By attacking the Khan family, Donald Trump has gone too far Posted: 03 Aug 2016 07:50 AM PDT WASHINGTON, Aug. 3, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Retired Veterans Affairs nurse J. David Cox Sr., who currently serves as national president of the American Federation of Government Employees, has responded to Donald Trump's comments toward the family of fallen Army Reserve Capt. Humayun Khan with the following opinion column, originally posted on Medium:Serving as a registered nurse in the Department of Veterans Affairs for more than 20 years, I saw firsthand the lasting effects of war on our nation's veterans. ...

Paul Ryan, Wasserman Schultz to test anti-establishment mood Posted: 03 Aug 2016 07:44 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Paul Ryan and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz are about to test voters' anti-establishment mood, first hand.

Global solidarity month after deadly Baghdad bombing Posted: 03 Aug 2016 07:40 AM PDT Messages of solidarity from Nice and other cities hit by attacks were delivered to Baghdad residents Wednesday, a month after the deadliest single bombing ever to strike the Iraqi capital. At a small event held on Baghdad's central Tahrir Square and organised by the Avaaz global campaigning group, activists put up posters and handed out postcards carrying the messages. The jihadist organisation, which has its roots in Iraq, also claimed responsibility for a July 3 suicide truck bomb attack in Baghdad's busy Karrada neighbourhood which the government said killed at least 323 people.

Donald Trump 'scares the hell out of me': NY police chief Posted: 03 Aug 2016 07:28 AM PDT New York police commissioner Bill Bratton on Wednesday called Donald Trump unfit to lead the United States, saying the Republican presidential candidate "scares the hell" out of him. "Mr Trump scares me, scares the hell out of me to be quite frank with you," Bratton told CBS News a day after announcing that he would retire in September. "I'm amazed that veterans' groups are so charmed by him," said the outgoing police chief, who himself served in Vietnam.

Iraq prosecutor files complaint against graft accused Posted: 03 Aug 2016 07:04 AM PDT Iraq's chief prosecutor has filed a complaint against officials including the parliament speaker who were accused of corruption by the defence minister, a judicial spokesman said on Wednesday. Defence Minister Khalid al-Obeidi accused speaker Salim al-Juburi and several lawmakers of corruption while he was himself being questioned in parliament on Monday over graft allegations. The head of Iraq's public prosecution filed a complaint against "all those whose names were mentioned" by Obeidi during the questioning, spokesman Abdelsattar Bayraqdar said in a statement.

It Shouldn't Have Taken a Khizr Khan Posted: 03 Aug 2016 07:01 AM PDT I've found the Khizr Khan vs. Donald Trump clash exhilarating. It's the closest thing Americans have yet seen to the famed "Have you no sense of decency, sir," riposte that helped doom Joseph McCarthy. But it's disturbing, too. If it proves that America can overcome the bigotry and ignorance that Trump represents, it also shows how much Trump has already set America back.

Hollande says Trump comments sometimes make his stomach turn Posted: 03 Aug 2016 06:01 AM PDT PARIS (AP) — French President Francois Hollande has strongly criticized U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump, saying some of the things the Republican does make him sick.

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