Trump: James Mattis is 'sort of a Democrat'
President Donald Trump said in an interview with "60 Minutes" that he was unsure how long Defense Secretary James Mattis planned to stay in his administration.
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Tapper calls out Trump's history of believing denials
President Trump highlighted the Saudi King's denial of involvement in the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi and suggested "rogue killers" may have been involved. CNN's Jake Tapper says this is language we've heard before when accusations are made against people Trump wants to get along with.
October 15, 2018
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Saudis preparing to admit Khashoggi was killed
The Saudis are preparing a report that will conclude Jamal Khashoggi's death was the result of an interrogation that went wrong, one that was intended to lead to his abduction from Turkey, according to two sources.
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Chris Cillizza: Trump has a denial double standard
CNN's Chris Cillizza says there is a pattern of President Donald Trump believing denials from people he likes, while not ever believing people who he views as his enemy.
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October 15, 2018
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Hillary Clinton: Lewinsky affair was not abuse of power
Hillary Clinton told CBS News that former President Bill Clinton should not have resigned as a result of his affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky and that it was not an abuse of power because Lewinsky was an adult.
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October 15, 2018
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Trump: Saudi King denies knowledge of Khashoggi
President Trump says he spoke with Saudi Arabia's King Salman, who denied any knowledge of what happened to missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi. #CNN #News
October 15, 2018
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Trump voter: I'm afraid of dictator in White House
Independent voter Anthony Miles expresses regret for voting for President Trump in 2016, saying Trump doesn't have "empathy for anything." #CNN #News
October 15, 2018
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Elizabeth Warren releases DNA test results
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has released a DNA test that supports her claim of having Native American ancestry dating back several generations, according to the Boston Globe. #CNN #News
October 15, 2018
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Meghan Markle expecting first child with Prince Harry
Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, is expecting her first child with Prince Harry, Kensington Palace announced.
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October 15, 2018
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CNN Poll: More see Trump win likely as Biden leads Democrats
Americans are becoming more likely to think President Donald Trump will win a second term in office, while Joe Biden stands atop a crowded field of Democrats perhaps looking to replace him, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS. #CNN #News
October 14, 2018
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Bernie Sanders: Health care is a right, not a privilege
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) reacts to President Trump's critique of "Medicare-for-all" reform. #CNN #News
October 14, 2018
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Saudi Arabia promises to retaliate over any sanctions
Saudi Arabia is promising to retaliate against any sanctions over journalist Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance. #CNN #News
October 14, 2018
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DeGrasse Tyson: We have to believe science on climate change
Neil DeGrasse Tyson talks to CNN's Van Jones about the latest climate change warning and the intersection of science with the military and politics.
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October 14, 2018
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Kanye and Taylor Swift renew feud - Drawn by Jake Tapper
CNN's Jake Tapper wonders if Kanye West and Taylor Swift will resolve their latest feud when one of them ends up in the White House.
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October 14, 2018
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Zurawik: Trump 'sucked up' to Fox News at rally
Fox News has cut back on their coverage of President Donald Trump's rallies opting for their regularly scheduled programming. Baltimore Sun media critic David Zurawik says that Trump sees the writing on the wall and is seeking other media outlets to get airtime and even resorted to "sucking up" to Fox News at one of his recent rallies.
Politico's Gabby Orr and CNN political commentator Doug Heye also join the discussion on Fox News' programming change.
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October 14, 2018
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Fareed: How Trump can win cold war with China
CNN's Fareed Zakaria explains that President Trump's policies towards China will be among the most significant of his presidency, and that a productive political-economic model is the best way for the US to fend off China as it fights to become a global superpower. #CNN #News
October 14, 2018
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Max Boot: Donald Trump empowered Saudi Arabia
Max Boot, a Senior Fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations, says that President Donald Trump's rhetoric against the media may have empowered Saudi Arabia to believe they could go after those who disagree with them.
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October 14, 2018
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Dave Chappelle jokes about Kanye and Trump
Comedian Dave Chappelle and Maryland democratic gubernatorial candidate Ben Jealous discuss the political divide in the US since President Trump was elected president with CNN's Van Jones.
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October 14, 2018
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Rubio on Saudi Arabia: If Trump won't act, Congress will
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) says that if the Saudi Arabia had knowledge into the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and President Donald Trump doesn't take a strong response against Saudi Arabia, Congress will.
There are two versions of the story in the Looking Glass world surrounding the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi. No overlap. No agreed facts but different interpretations, no room for reasonable doubt.
Using selective leaks spiced with speculation and technobabble, Turkey has presented a scenario in which the Washington Post columnist was lured into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, murdered and perhaps even dismembered.
Turkish officials have shown video and audio evidence of this attack to Western intelligence agencies and their descriptions have been passed on by sources to CNN, among others.
Turkish media have suggested this evidence was obtained from Khashoggi's Apple Watch -- which is technically unlikely. This may be a smokescreen if, as some have speculated, the consulate was bugged by Turkish intelligence.
here have been lurid references to bone saws, dismemberment and nighttime burial on a far-flung coastline.
Inconsistencies inevitably leave room for reasonable doubt.
In diplomacy, doubt is good. It leaves room for backtracking and apology. An opportunity to say sorry, blush and move on.
The Saudi version leaves no room for error. It is being echoed from Riyadh to Abu Dhabi.
Khashoggi wasn't murdered, that version goes. Worse still, the whole saga has been made up by Saudi Arabia's rivals to stain the reputation of the kingdom.
A statement released through the state-run Saudi Press Agency quoted none other than Prince Abdulaziz bin Saud bin Naif bin Abdulaziz, the interior minister.
In the statement, he "affirmed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's condemnation and denunciation of the false accusations circulated in some media on the Saudi government and people against the background of the disappearance of the Saudi citizen Jamal Khashoggi." Reports circulating "about orders to kill him are lies and baseless allegations against the government of the Kingdom," the statement added.
United Arab Emirates Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash, usually a man of considerable tact, had already joined the fray, tweeting grave threats.
"There is a need to show the reality of the human dimension of the situation as the repercussions of the political targeting of Saudi Arabia will be dire for those who fuel it."
Those who "fuel it" are, according to numerous columnists and commentators in Saudi-owned or -backed news organizations, the Muslim Brotherhood and Qatar, plus Turkey's government.
These are the groups, they say, behind what Prince Abdulaziz calls the "lies and baseless allegations."
"The Muslim Brotherhood, which was also drum-beating falsehoods related to Khashoggi's disappearance, was exposed when the Saudi journalist's family reaffirmed their confidence in the measures being taken by the Saudi government," trumpeted commentator Nader Al-Enizi on the Saudi-owned news site Al-Arabiya.
A lawyer for the Khashoggi family had earlier been quoted by Al-Arabiya as saying they had complete faith in the Saudi government's investigation of Khashoggi's disappearance.
Qatar is under a blockade by Saudi Arabia and the UAE for its alleged support of the Muslim Brotherhood, and for funding the Al Jazeera channels which the other Gulf states claim are mouthpieces for the Brotherhood.
Turkey supports Qatar and has ridiculed Saudi Arabia's claims to be a force of moderate Islam.
And so there is a standoff over the disappearance of Khashoggi -- not over details of the story, but over the entire narrative.
That, above all, is potentially dangerous for Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. He's been the major power in the kingdom for more than two years.
If evidence is presented publicly that suggests Khashoggi met with a violent end, or was abducted by Saudi agents, the kingdom has no version of the story that could accommodate this.
Bin Salman is the author of an economic and social reform program that has seen women being allowed to drive and opening up Saudi Arabia to cinemas and other entertainment. He also ordered the incarceration of about 200 people, including 17 princes at the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh, during an "anti-corruption" drive for months.
They were released upon payment of over $100 billion in "settlements" earlier this year -- none were subjected to a formal judicial process.
Bin Salman has been seen as both visionary and volatile. And he no doubt has rivals within the country who believe they could do a better job. They might say, if he's stigmatized by what has happened to Khashoggi, that he should have taken the advice given to Alice by the Duchess in Wonderland: "And the moral of that is -- 'Be what you would seem to be.'"
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October 14, 2018
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Trump stumps in Kentucky 24 days ahead of midterms
President Donald Trump rallies in Richmond, Kentucky, to campaign for Republican Rep. Andy Barr, capping off a week of near constant headlines coming out of the White House. #CNN #News
October 13, 2018
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“FEMA please help make Mexico Beach great again,” reads a sign outside a house that was damaged by #HurricaneMichael last week. More than 230,000 residents across Florida, North Carolina, Georgia and Virginia were still without power Monday morning, and search crews were sifting through heavy rubble in Mexico Beach, Florida, in search of up to 35 people who remained missing. (📸: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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When #HurricaneMichael barreled through Florida’s Mexico Beach on Wednesday, it reduced the beachside town to pile of rubble. Swipe through to see aerial images that offer a stark look at the area before and after the storm. (📸: NOAA)
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Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, and Prince Harry are expecting their first child in spring 2019. In a Kensington Palace statement, the Duke and Duchess said they have appreciated all the support they have received from people around the world since their wedding in May and are delighted to be able to share this happy news with the public. Meghan's recent public appearances in Sydney and at Princess Eugenie's wedding in Windsor had sparked pregnancy rumors; the couple are about to begin a two week tour of Australia, New Zealand, Tonga and Fiji. Photo by Chris Jackson/Gareth Fuller/Getty Images
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Hong Kong is not only one of the world's most expensive places to live; it’s also one of the most densely populated. A high demand and low supply of living space has resulted in the construction of hundreds of high-rise buildings across the city -- all tightly jam-packed next to each other.
Photographer @kyle_yu took @cnnvision on a tour through the Yuen Long and Tin Shui Wai districts -- quiet towns located far from the city's famed skyline and harbour. Yu thinks the buildings here showcase a true depiction of Hong Kong's most impressive and definitive architecture. “When you put this density together it does create a strong impact, he says, “I’m always gravitating towards contrast, colours and architecture. #MyHongKong
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The Banksy stunt that stunned the art world last week has yielded a new, and possibly even more valuable, work of art. Moments after ”Girl with Balloon sold for $1.4 million at an auction, the painting was partially shredded in its frame, drawing gasps from onlookers. Since then, the sale has been confirmed and the shredded art has been given a new title: “Love is in the Bin.”
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Two years after he first took a knee in protest on the football field, Colin Kaepernick was awarded the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal by Harvard University on Thursday. The medal is considered one of Harvard’s highest honors, and is given to people who have made significant contributions to African-American history and culture. Previous recipients include Muhammad Ali, Oprah Winfrey, and Maya Angelou, among others. (📸:Paul Marotta/Getty Images)
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Usain Bolt, the “world’s fastest man,” retired from running but is working hard toward a second career — in soccer. On Friday, the Olympic gold medalist scored two goals for the Central Coast Mariners, an Australian soccer club, during a preseason match. (📸: Matt King/Getty Images)
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Texas Democrat Beto O'Rourke just smashed a campaign fundraising record, bringing in $38.1 million in the third quarter in his race against Republican incumbent Ted Cruz. It's the most ever raised in a quarter by a US Senate campaign. Despite O'Rourke's record-breaking fundraising, polls have consistently shown Cruz with a comfortable lead in the Senate race. (📸: Rick Kern/WireImage/Getty Images)
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The devastation left by Hurricane Michael, one of the most powerful storms to ever hit the US, is still coming into focus. More than 1 million people across seven states were without power as of Friday. The death toll stood at 13, but officials expect that to rise as more debris was cleared. In the hard-hit Florida Panhandle, residents were returning to their homes to find virtually everything reduced to rubble. As the storm moved inland, it dropped torrential rain that triggered flash floods in parts of Virginia and the Carolinas. (📸: Gerald Herbert/AP, Joe Raedle/Getty Images, David Goldman/AP, Jabin Botsford/Washington Post/AP)
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Two people are pulled from the rubble in Panama City, Florida, by a Black Hawk aircrew from US Customs and Border Protection. Rescuers were airlifting people out of areas in the Florida Panhandle ravaged by Hurricane Michael. Dozens of roads were washed out, trapping residents who rode out the storm.
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Fasten your fascinators, it's time for another #RoyalWedding with no shortage of celebrity guests. Naomi Campbell, Cara Delevingne and Ellie Goulding attended the nuptials of Princess Eugenie of York and Jack Brooksbank on Friday. (📸: Getty Images)
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Drone footage shows what’s left of the gym at Jinks Middle School in Panama City, Florida, after #HurricaneMichael tore through the area this week.
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