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• Factbox: Trump's 10-point immigration plan

  01-09-2016 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In a speech on Wednesday in Phoenix, Arizona, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump outlined his plan for reforming the U.S. immigration system. The New York businessman has made immigration a central issue of his bid for the White House, taking a harder line than his Democratic rival, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, ahead of the Nov. 8 election. Trump's plan includes: 1.
  
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• Kaine to give national security address Tuesday

  01-09-2016 23:56 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton's running mate Sen. Tim Kaine is set to showcase his foreign policy chops next week in the battleground state of North Carolina.
  
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• Report: Iran granted exemptions to nuclear accord

  01-09-2016 23:55 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The US and other members of the international community granted Iran exemptions to its requirements under the agreement that sought to curb its nuclear program, according to a new report by the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security.
  
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• 5 questionable statements from Trump's immigration day

  01-09-2016 23:33 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Jake Tapper fact check's 5 statements that Donald Trump made on Wednesday during his trip to Mexico and immigration speech in Arizona.
  
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• Hillary Clinton Raised $143 Million in August for Democrats and Her Campaign

  01-09-2016 23:16 via nytimes.com
  August was Mrs. Clinton’s most successful fund-raising month so far, and the haul lays the groundwork for a substantial investment in swing states before the election.
  
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• Democrat Clinton raised more than $140 million in August: campaign

  01-09-2016 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ginger Gibson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democrat Hillary Clinton raised about $143 million in August for her presidential bid and the Democratic Party, the her campaign announced on Thursday. Of the total, about $62 million was raised for the candidate's White House run and about $81 million was raised for the Democratic National Committee and state parties. Clinton spend most of the month of August working the Democratic fundraising circuit and trying to amass a war chest to use against Re
  
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• Trump's immigration pitch falls flat with Republicans near the border

  01-09-2016 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's effort to clarify his position on illegal immigration during visits to both sides of the U.S.-Mexico frontier on Wednesday did little to sway moderate Republicans near the border, a dozen voters in Arizona told Reuters on Thursday. "I hope that he does really, in his heart, have a little more compassion than what he spouts out," said Dave Mitchell, 58, of Surprise, Arizona, a self-described moderate who says he is begrudgingly planning to vote for
  
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• Michelle Obama shares college tips with Howard freshmen

  01-09-2016 22:33 via rss.cnn.com
  
  First lady Michelle Obama surprised Howard University students Thursday as she shared some college wisdom at a back-to-school event.
  
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• Trump campaign criticizes Iran nuclear deal anew after Reuters report

  01-09-2016 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's campaign criticized the Iran nuclear deal and Democrat Hillary Clinton's support for it after a Reuters report that said the United States and its negotiating partners agreed "in secret" to allow Iran to evade some restrictions. Retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, a Trump foreign policy adviser, said in a statement that the report showed President Barack Obama "gave away the store" when the agreement was sealed last year. "The deeply flaw
  
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• Clinton camp smashes fundraising record: $143 million in August

  01-09-2016 22:22 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign raised $143 million in August for her campaign, the DNC and state parties, according to a campaign press release, a haul that makes the month the best of her campaign.
  
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• Deadly Protests Shake Gabon After Allegations Of Election Fraud - NPR

  01-09-2016 21:55 via npr.org
  
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  Deadly Protests Shake Gabon After Allegations Of Election Fraud
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  NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton reports Ping accuses Bongo of election fraud. He tells Reuters that the presidential guard, which is responsible for providing security for the president, bombed his party headquarters overnight Wednesday, killing two people.
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• Clinton campaign unmoved by press squawks over lack of press conferences

  01-09-2016 21:25 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The last time Hillary Clinton held a formal press conference, David Bowie was alive, Bernie Sanders was on the cover of Rolling Stone and not a single American had cast a vote in either the Democratic or Republican primaries.
  
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• Biden to Trump: 'This is a guy born with a silver spoon in his mouth'

  01-09-2016 21:03 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Vice President Joe Biden lashed out at Donald Trump Wednesday for being out of touch with working Americans during a campaign rally for Hillary Clinton in Ohio.
  
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• Bush family hacker 'Guccifer' gets 4 years in prison

  01-09-2016 20:49 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The hacker famous for revealing family photos and paintings of the Bush family and emails from a Hillary Clinton associate was sentenced Thursday to more than four years in federal prison.
  
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• Hispanic backers move away from Trump after immigration speech

  01-09-2016 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Emily Stephenson and Amanda Becker WILMINGTON, Ohio/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some of Donald Trump's Hispanic backers are distancing themselves from the Republican nominee after he stood by a hardline approach to illegal immigration in a key speech and ignored intra-party calls to soften his tone. Trump reiterated in a speech on Wednesday that the only way undocumented foreigners could live in the United States legally under his presidency would be to leave and apply for re-entry. While polls sh
  
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• Prominent Latino withdraws support for Trump

  01-09-2016 20:31 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A prominent Latino surrogate for Donald Trump announced Thursday he had officially withdrawn his support from the Republican presidential nominee after the real estate mogul resumed his hard-line immigration position in a major policy speech in Arizona.
  
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• Barack Obama Seeks to Cement 'Rebalance' on Asia Trip - Wall Street Journal

  01-09-2016 20:15 via wsj.com
  
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  Barack Obama Seeks to Cement 'Rebalance' on Asia Trip
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  WASHINGTON—U.S. President Barack Obama will strive to put some final touches on key elements of his foreign-policy agenda and log progress on unfinished priorities as he leaves for Asia on Friday to plunge into a month of international summits.
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• Over 1,000 arrested as post-election riots rage in Gabon

  01-09-2016 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Gerauds Wilfried Obangome LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - Three people were killed and up to 1,100 were arrested in Gabon on Thursday, the government said, in a second day of rioting over the announcement of President Ali Bongo's re-election and his main rival's accusation that the vote was rigged. Opposition challenger Jean Ping accused the elections commission of inflating Bongo's score to hand him a slim victory and extend his family's nearly half-century rule in the oil-producing Central African c
  
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• Midway: Why Obama is visiting a tiny island in the Pacific

  01-09-2016 19:34 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Barack Obama flies to Midway, a remote Pacific atoll, less than a week after creating the world's largest protected marine reserve in surrounding waters.
  
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• Midway: Why Barack Obama is visiting a tiny island in the Pacific

  01-09-2016 19:34 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Barack Obama flies to Midway, a remote Pacific atoll, less than a week after creating the world's largest protected marine reserve in surrounding waters.
  
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• House Republicans find success separating from Trump

  01-09-2016 19:24 via rss.cnn.com
  
  House Republicans have had a rough summer.
  
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• Obama highlights climate agenda on tiny Midway island

  01-09-2016 19:22 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Barack Obama ventures to the tiny Pacific speck of Midway Atoll on Thursday, taking in the newly expanded wildlife refuge there in an attempt to burnish his environmental legacy.
  
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• Defending Obama's Record on National Monuments - New York Times

  01-09-2016 19:17 via nytimes.com
  Defending Obama's Record on National Monuments
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  27 editorial “Monuments From Mr. Obama,” while celebrating the president's recent actions to protect lands and waters, suggested that President Obama has been late to embrace using the Antiquities Act. This is unfair and does not paint a full picture ...
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• Tom Steyer-backed group targets millennials to help Democrats in North Carolina

  01-09-2016 18:52 via rss.cnn.com
  
  NextGen Climate, the super PAC backed by billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer, is expanding its battleground state map by investing six-figures in a turnout operation aimed at millennials in North Carolina, the group will announce Thursday.
  
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• Romanian hacker 'Guccifer' sentenced to 52 months in U.S. prison

  01-09-2016 18:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Romanian hacker nicknamed "Guccifer" who helped expose the existence of a private email domain Hillary Clinton used when she was U.S. secretary of state was sentenced on Thursday to 52 months in prison by a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia. Marcel Lazar, 44, who used the alias online, had pleaded guilty in May to charges including unauthorized access to a protected computer and aggravated identity theft after being extradited from Romania. Lazar's pub
  
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• As Donald Trump Calls for Wall on Mexican Border, Smugglers Dig Tunnels

  01-09-2016 18:34 via nytimes.com
  Fences along the frontier have only helped push smugglers underground, and experts say it may be years before the technology exists to reliably detect the tunnels.
  
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• Clashes erupt in Kinshasa over election talks - Aljazeera.com

  01-09-2016 18:25 via aljazeera.com
  
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  Clashes erupt in Kinshasa over election talks
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  Police in the Democratic Republic of Congo have fired tear gas to disperse a rally in capital Kinshasa to protest about talks between opposition parties and the government on a delayed presidential election. Young protesters, opposed to the dialogue ...and more »
  
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• Why Obama Is to Blame for Russia's SpyWar on America - Observer

  01-09-2016 18:15 via observer.com
  
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  Why Obama Is to Blame for Russia's SpyWar on America
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  Now that Russia has decided to help Donald Trump defeat Hillary Clinton in our election, employing fronts and cut-outs to shape our election to Moscow's benefit, the Democrats are having a collective freak-out. Team Clinton rails against the Russians ...and more »
  
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• Sorry Trump, but Most Americans Agree: Life Has Improved Under Obama - Mother Jones

  01-09-2016 18:04 via motherjones.com
  
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  Sorry Trump, but Most Americans Agree: Life Has Improved Under Obama
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  According to a new Gallup poll released this week that measures the well-being of Americans, most people across all racial and ethnic groups actually believe the opposite: They say their lives have largely improved under President Barack Obama.
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• Mexico calls Trump wall plan 'outrageous' after visit

  01-09-2016 17:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump's pledge to make Mexico pay for a border wall is "outrageous," its government said on Thursday, one day after the Republican presidential nominee visited Mexico City for talks with President Enrique Pena Nieto. "The proposal to build the wall, and to believe that Mexico could and would pay for it, is outrageous," presidential spokesman Eduardo Sanchez told local radio, after Trump's rapid, impromptu visit to Mexico on Wednesday. "What I know is that Mexico will not pay a single cent
  
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• Some Hispanic Trump backers pull support after immigration speech

  01-09-2016 17:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Emily Stephenson CINCINNATI (Reuters) - Some Hispanic backers of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump pulled their support after he stood by his hardline immigration stance and said anyone in the United States illegally would be subject to deportation if he were president. Alfonso Aguilar, president of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles advocacy group, said on Thursday he felt "disappointed and misled" by a fiery Trump speech in Phoenix, Arizona on Wednesday that das
  
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• Post-election riots rage in Gabon capital, several dead

  01-09-2016 17:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Gerauds Wilfried Obangome LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - Gabon's capital Libreville erupted into a second day of violent protests on Thursday sparked by a disputed election, with at least three dead and hundreds arrested after the challenger rejected results that gave President Ali Bongo a narrow victory. Riots raged in at least nine Libreville neighborhoods on Thursday morning, two witnesses and a police source said. Interior Minister Pacome Moubelet Boubeya said three people had been killed and up
  
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• White House press secretary defends Obama on transparency - CBS News

  01-09-2016 17:19 via cbsnews.com
  
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  White House press secretary defends Obama on transparency
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  On the issue of government transparency, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest publicly lamented that President Obama is not getting enough credit. Writing to the editor in Wednesday's New York Times, Earnest criticized a recent Times story about ...
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• Prominent Latino withdraws support from Donald Trump

  01-09-2016 17:16 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A prominent Latino surrogate for Donald Trump announced Thursday he had officially withdrawn his support from the Republican presidential nominee after the real estate mogul resumed his hard-line immigration position in a major policy speech in Arizona.
  
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• Gabon presidency accuses Ping's camp of 'coordinated attacks'

  01-09-2016 16:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - The office of Gabon's President Ali Bongo on Thursday accused the camp of his rival in a disputed election, Jean Ping, of planning "coordinated attacks on symbols of the state", after the capital Libreville erupted into rioting. "These were not protests but coordinated acts intended to incite fear amongst the citizens who voted the 'wrong' way," the statement said, saying that security forces had in response encircled Ping's headquarters and clashed with his supporters, re
  
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• Up to 1,100 arrests made in Gabon during post-election violence

  01-09-2016 16:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - Authorities in Gabon have made up to 1,100 arrests over two days of violence that erupted after President Ali Bongo was re-elected in polls that the opposition rejected as fraudulent, the interior minister told a news conference on Thursday. Pacome Moubelet Boubeya said that between 600 and 800 people were arrested in the capital Libreville, while 200 to 300 arrests were made elsewhere in Gabon. He said that protesters had used grenades and police had seized AK-47 assault
  
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• Obama's last summit: Does the G20 still matter? - CNNMoney

  01-09-2016 16:17 via money.cnn.com
  
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  Obama's last summit: Does the G20 still matter?
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  "When Obama came in, he made a big a difference, he had new ideas, and he wanted to show at home and internationally that the U.S. can drive the economic recovery," said Paola Subacchi, International Economics research director at foreign affairs think ...and more »
  
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• Rep. John Lewis crowd surfs on 'The Late Show'

  01-09-2016 16:16 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Congressman John Lewis is a civil rights icon who isn't afraid to get close to the people.
  
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• Congressman John Lewis crowd surfs on 'The Late Show'

  01-09-2016 16:16 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Congressman John Lewis is a civil rights icon who isn't afraid to get close to the people.
  
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• Trump condemns sanctuary cities, but what are they?

  01-09-2016 16:08 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump vowed Wednesday in a signature speech on immigration to dismantle so-called sanctuary cities, which he blamed for harboring dangerous immigrants who commit crimes against Americans.
  
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• Kaine: Trump showed 'diplomacy not for amateurs'

  01-09-2016 16:03 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine said Thursday Donald Trump's trip to Mexico was a "photo op fly-by" and said he thinks "it shows that diplomacy is not for amateurs."
  
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• Poll: Trump trails Clinton by 2 points

  01-09-2016 15:39 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton is clinging to just a two-point national lead over Donald Trump, according to a new poll, a far narrower margin than most other surveys show.
  
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• Gabon opposition leader says two killed, riots engulf capital

  01-09-2016 14:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Gerauds Wilfried Obangome LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - Gabon opposition leader Jean Ping said on Thursday that two people were killed and others were wounded as a second day of violent protests against the re-election of President Ali Bongo engulfed the capital, Libreville. Ping said he won the poll and rejected results announced on Wednesday that handed the incumbent a slim victory, extending the Bongo family's half-century grip on power in the oil producer for another seven years. Riots were ragi
  
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• Rick Santorum: 'The winds are behind' Trump, if he doesn't go off the rails - CNBC

  01-09-2016 14:46 via cnbc.com
  
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  Rick Santorum: 'The winds are behind' Trump, if he doesn't go off the rails
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  "It would be great if he got the same percentage as Mitt Romney did among Republicans, yes. I think he can get there, I actually do." Santorum unsuccessfully ran for the Republican presidential nomination this year and in 2012, when it went to Romney ...and more »
  
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• Poll: Clinton ahead of Trump by 7 in Pennsylvania

  01-09-2016 14:34 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 7 points in Pennsylvania, according to a new poll released Thursday -- the second survey this week showing Clinton with a high single-digit lead over Trump in the Keystone State.
  
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• Welcome To The Mexican-American Election - Huffington Post

  01-09-2016 14:31 via huffingtonpost.com
  
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  Welcome To The Mexican-American Election
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  It is easy to pinpoint the moment when 2016 became the Mexico Election. On June 16, 2015, a pudgy man with tangerine-colored hair rode a gold-toned escalator down to the lobby of the office tower he had named for himself on Fifth Avenue in New York ...
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• EU calls for more transparency in Gabon elections

  01-09-2016 13:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The European Union said on Thursday that the official announcement of election results in Gabon had plunged the African country into a "deep crisis" and said that verification of each polling station result was required. "Confidence in the election results can only be restored by a transparent verification polling station by polling station," she continued.
  
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• Mexican president disputes Trump over border wall payment

  01-09-2016 12:46 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump made a last-minute trip Wednesday to Mexico in his first visit as the Republican nominee to meet with a world leader.
  
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• Clinton to begin airing ads in Arizona on Friday

  01-09-2016 12:46 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign will begin airing ads in Arizona on Friday, multiple Clinton aides tell CNN, a move that comes hours after Donald Trump said "there will be no amnesty" in a fiery immigration speech that Clinton aides dubbed "his darkest speech yet."
  
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• IG: Pentagon credit cards still being used at strip joints

  01-09-2016 12:37 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A year after finding that military personnel were using government credit cards at places such as Larry Flynt's Hustler Club, the Pentagon's inspector general said this week that safeguards still haven't been put in place to protect taxpayer dollars from being used for unauthorized expenses.
  
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