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Larry Barszewski / Sun-Sentinel:
Full video of Frederica Wilson's 2015 FBI speech shows John Kelly got it wrong — A South Florida Sun Sentinel video from 2015 shows the full speech of Congresswoman Frederica Wilson at the dedication ceremony of a new FBI building in Miramar, Florida, named for two slain FBI agents.
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Masha Gessen / New Yorker:
John Kelly and the Language of the Military Coup — Consider this nightmare scenario: a military coup. You don't have to strain your imagination—all you have to do is watch Thursday's White House press briefing, in which the chief of staff, John Kelly, defended President Trump's phone call to a military widow, Myeshia Johnson.
New York Times:
After Video Refutes Kelly's Charges, Congresswoman Raises Issue of Race — WASHINGTON — Video of a 2015 speech delivered by Representative Frederica S. Wilson revealed Friday that John F. Kelly, the White House chief of staff, misrepresented her remarks when he accused her of bragging …
miamiherald:
In attack on Frederica Wilson over Trump's call to widow, John Kelly gets facts wrong — WASHINGTON — When White House Chief of Staff John Kelly condemned a Miami congresswoman on Thursday for sneering at President Donald Trump's condolence call to a soldier's widow …
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Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Trump attacks on generals resurface after White House says it's ‘inappropriate’ to question generals — Old tweets posted by President Trump in which he attacked generals resurfaced Friday after the White House said it was “inappropriate” to criticize them.
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Lawrence: ‘Stunned’ by John Kelly's attack on Rep. Wilson
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
There is a transcript of Trump's controversial call to Sgt. Johnson's widow, Lara Trump reveals
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Kelly erroneously claimed congresswoman took credit for building funding, video shows
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Joy-Ann Reid / The Daily Beast:
Frederica Wilson vs. Trump and Now John Kelly? Easy—Go With Wilson
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Daniella Diaz / CNN:
Rep. Frederica Wilson: Kelly lied about FBI ceremony
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NBC News:
Niger Ambush Came After ‘Massive Intelligence Failure,’ Source Says — WASHINGTON — A senior congressional aide who has been briefed on the deaths of four U.S. servicemen in Niger says the ambush by militants stemmed in part from a “massive intelligence failure.”
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Los Angeles Times:
Pentagon investigating troubling questions after deadly Niger ambush — Militants affiliated with Islamic State apparently carried out the deadly attack in Niger that left four U.S. soldiers dead. — Defense Secretary James N. Mattis, troubled by a lack of information two weeks after an ambush …
Wall Street Journal:
Death of U.S. Soldiers in Niger Sparks FBI Probe, Criticism
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Dan Merica / CNN:
A timeline of the White House after the Niger raid
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Amanda Erickson / Washington Post:
Everything we know about the Niger attack that left 4 U.S. soldiers dead
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Deborah Strange / Gainesville Sun:
Three charged in shooting after Spencer talk — Three supporters of white nationalist Richard Spencer were arrested Thursday in connection with an incident in which a shot was fired. — Three supporters of white nationalist Richard Spencer were arrested Thursday in connection with an incident …
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Jessica Chia / New York Daily News:
Protester hugs Nazi outside Richard Spencer talk, asks ‘Why do you hate me?’ — The man who hugged a Nazi outside Richard Spencer's speech at the University of Florida on Thursday said, “I could have hit him, I could have hurt him ... but something in me said, ‘You know what? He just needs love.’”
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3 ARRESTED FOR SHOOTING AFTER RICHARD SPENCER SPEECH
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Geoff Ziezulewicz / Military Times:
FAKER! Man admits he lied to Fox News about Navy SEAL service … Navy veteran John Garofalo appeared on a Fox News segment this month, showing off a massive presidential seal he carved for President Trump while receiving praise for his service in Vietnam as a SEAL.
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Travis M. Andrews / Washington Post:
Retired ‘Navy SEAL’ praising Trump on Fox News was a fake
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Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
The White-Minstrel Show — ‘Acting white’ for white people — Ice-T never received an Academy Award, which makes sense inasmuch as his movies have been for the most part crap. But as an actor, you have to give the man credit: Along with other gangster rappers such as Ice Cube …
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Wall Street Journal:
How the GOP Tax Bill Could Squeeze Your 401(k) — Talk of limiting the amount of retirement money that people can save before taxes is worrying the financial industry — Proposals floating around Washington to cap the amount that Americans can contribute before taxes to 401(k) …
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Greg Miller / Washington Post:
CIA director distorts intelligence community's findings on Russian interference — (REUTERS/YURI GRIPAS) (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) — CIA Director Mike Pompeo declared Thursday that U.S. intelligence agencies determined that Russia's interference in the 2016 American presidential election …
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Max Blau / STAT:
Georgia lawmaker, wife of Tom Price, suggests people with HIV could be quarantined — TLANTA — A Georgia state lawmaker — the wife of former Trump health secretary Tom Price — is drawing condemnation for suggesting that people with HIV might be quarantined to curb the spread of the infectious disease.
Ben Collins / The Daily Beast:
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Retweeted Alleged Russian Trolls … Twitter's CEO Jack Dorsey twice retweeted a now-deleted account that was allegedly run out of Russia's “troll factory” in March of last year. — The account, @Crystal1Johnson, claimed to be an African-American woman …
Sarah Karlin-Smith / Politico:
Blindsided Trump officials scrambling to develop opioid plan — President Donald Trump overrode his own advisers when he promised to deliver an emergency declaration next week to combat the nation's worsening opioid crisis. — “That is a very, very big statement,” he said Monday.
New York Times:
Asia Argento flees Italy after public condemns her for speaking out about Harvey Weinstein — Italian movie actress and director Asia Argento is facing pushback in her home country after speaking out about an alleged rape at the hands of disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.
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Mark Hemingway / Weekly Standard:
There's an Awakening Against Sexual Assault, So Why Is No One Talking About Bill Clinton?
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Philip Shenon / Politico:
Trump Likely to Block Release of Some JFK Files — Conspiracy theorists of the world, get ready for some bad news. — Trump administration and other government officials say privately that President Donald Trump is almost certain to block the release of information from some of the thousands …
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Many Trump voters who got hurricane relief in Texas aren't sure Puerto Ricans should — HOUSTON — Sitting on Mary Maddox's back porch, which flooded with 22 inches of water when Hurricane Harvey hit nearly two months ago, is a Lady of the Evening plant from Puerto Rico that a friend gave her.
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
How People Inside Facebook Are Reacting To The Company's Election Crisis — In the summer of 2015, a Facebook engineer was combing through the company's internal data when he noticed something unusual. He was searching to determine which websites received the most referral traffic from its billion-plus users.
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Harvey Weinstein doesn't seem to be taking sex rehab seriously — MORE FROM: … Harvey Weinstein is already being belligerent at sex addiction rehab — barking into his banned mobile phone and remaining in denial about his alleged sex attacks, insisting each and every one was consensual, Page Six has exclusively learned.
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Nick Green / Daily Breeze:
Congressional candidate Omar Navarro on probation for illegal use of tracking device — Omar Navarro, a fringe GOP activist in the South Bay making his second bid to unseat entrenched Rep. Maxine Waters, is on probation until March for a criminal conviction stemming from his use …
Maya Salam / New York Times:
Playboy to Feature Its First Transgender Playmate — For the first time in its 64-year history, Playboy magazine will feature a transgender Playmate, a decision that Cooper Hefner, a top executive at the magazine, said on Thursday was in keeping with its founding mission of embracing changing attitudes about sex.
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Kyle Swenson / Washington Post:
Federal judge refuses to erase Joe Arpaio's conviction despite Trump pardon — A federal judge on Thursday shot down former sheriff Joe Arpaio's bid to sweep his criminal record clean. — Arpaio, the controversial former lawman in Arizona's Maricopa County, was granted a pardon by President Trump on Aug. 25.
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