Team Carson: ‘Politico Story Is An Outright LIE’  —  “The campaign never ‘admitted to anything,’” a spokesman for Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson told The Daily Caller News Foundation in response to a hit by Politico claiming his campaign admitted to “fabricating” a key point about his West Point story.

Hit the Brakes on the Ben Carson Story  —  I've struck through the original piece here.  —  It is looking more and more like the details of Ben Carson's West Point story are more nuanced.  —  In 2013, he said he was offered a scholarship to West Point.  The Politico story centers on Carson claiming he “applied and was accepted.”

Ben Carson Acknowledges He Was Never Accepted to West Point  —  A report on Friday said Ben Carson had acknowledged never having applied to West Point, raising questions about his repeated assertions that he had turned down a scholarship to attend the military academy.

Ben Carson on questions about his past: “Bunch of lies'  — Carson's autobiography — a centerpiece of his campaign and star power — has long revolved around his allegedly violent past and stories of outbursts  — Carson has had a shifting explanation of why the stories cannot be corroborated since CNN published its findings

Obama rejects Keystone XL pipeline  —  President Barack Obama rejected a permit for the Keystone XL oil pipeline on Friday, handing a major victory to green activists in the defining environmental controversy of his tenure, arguing that approving the project would undercut the United States' status …

Clinton Signed NDA Laying Out Criminal Penalties for Mishandling of Classified Info  —  As the nation's chief diplomat, Hillary Clinton was responsible for ascertaining whether information in her possession was classified and acknowledged that “negligent handling” of that information …