Marijuana advocates who hoped the cascade of states moving to legalize medical marijuana would soften the federal stance on the drug faced disappointment Thursday as the Drug Enforcement Administration announced it will keep marijuana illegal for any purpose.

Marijuana will remain a Schedule 1 substance under the Controlled Substances Act. Substances in Schedule 1 are determined by the Food and Drug Administration to have no medical use. States that allow marijuana for medical use or legalize recreational use remain in defiance of federal law.

OVERSEAS TRAVEL WARNINGS ABOUT USA DESTINATION

BERLIN — Government travel advisories are common for war-torn, disease-ravaged nations, but a growing number of countries are warning their citizens about taking trips to the United States.

The United Arab Emirates, Bahamas, France,United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and Germany are among those urging caution to U.S.-bound travelers. The concerns include mass shootings, police violence, anti-Muslim and anti-LGBT attitudes and the Zika virus.

While it is too soon to determine if the warnings are hurting U.S. tourism, the warnings tarnish the image the U.S. promotes abroad of a country that prides itself on being a welcoming society and bastion of democracy.

DONALD TRUMP CALLS BARACK OBAMA ''FOUNDER OF ISIS''

At a Donald Trump rally in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, supporters cheered when Trump said President Obama founded the Islamic State with Hillary Clinton.

SUNRISE, Fla. — Addressing a raucous crowd of Floridians Wednesday night, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said President Obama was the founder of the Islamic State group, also known as ISIL or ISIS, and Hillary Clinton was its co-founder.

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ISIS is honoring President Obama. He’s the founder of ISIS. He’s the founder of ISIS. He’s the founder. He founded ISIS," Trump said.

In the past, Trump has accused his rival Clinton of founding the extremist group, which has taken over swaths of Syria and neighboring Iraq. "I would say the co-founder would be crooked Hillary Clinton," he said Wednesday.

Trump also called the president by his full legal name — Barack Hussein Obama — while speaking of the crisis in Crimea.

Trump said the the media were "disgusting" and "dishonest" for its coverage of his comments about Clinton and the Second Amendment. Some took those comments to mean he advocated violence against his Democratic opponent.

Trump told a North Carolina audience Tuesday that "Hillary wants to abolish — essentially abolish the Second Amendment. By the way, if she gets to pick, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know."

Critics claim Trump's words urged violence against Clinton. Trump later said he meant gun owners could exert political pressure to protect their right

WAVE ATTACKS IN TURKEY

ANKARA, Turkey — A wave of Kurdish rebel attacks targeting police and soldiers in Turkey’s mainly-Kurdish southeast killed at least 12 people on Wednesday, as Turkey was still dealing with the aftermath of a failed military coup attempt that threatened the government.

Officials said rebels of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, launched simultaneous bomb attacks targeting police vehicles in the city of Diyarbakir and the town of Kiziltepe, killing eight people, while four soldiers were killed in a separate attack near the border with Iraq hours earlier.