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Number of former national security officials — all of whom have served Republican presidents from Richard M. Nixon to George W. Bush — who signed an open letter calling Donald Trump unqualified to be president and warning that, if elected, ‘he would be the most reckless President in American history,’ the Washington Post reports.
12 points
Hillary Clinton has expanded her lead over Donald Trump in the presidential race to 50% to 37% among likely voters, with 7% supporting Libertarian Gary Johnson and 2% backing Jill Stein of the Green Party, a new Monmouth poll finds.A new NBC News/SurveyMonkey poll also shows Clinton leading Trump by 10 points, 51% to 41%.
16,000
Number of people Turkey has formally arrested in connection with last month’s failed coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government, Reuters reports. Another 6,000 are still being processed and another 7,668 people are under investigation. Turkey has detained, removed or suspended tens of thousands of people in the judiciary, military, police, public service and elsewhere over alleged links with the abortive July 15 putsch.
