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Blinken acknowledges disagreements within State Department on Israel-Hamas war in email to staff

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken acknowledged disagreements within the State Department over the Biden administration’s approach to the Israel-Hamas war in an email to staff Monday. His message to personnel, sent on the heels of his recent travels, comes amid growing anger and dissent not only from staff at the State Department but

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Special counsel says Trump wants Jan. 6 trial to be a ‘media event’ as it argues against live court TV

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — The special counsel’s office is pushing back against Donald Trump using his Washington, DC, federal criminal trial as a spectacle, after Trump’s lawyers told the court this weekend he’d support cameras in the courtroom. Trump’s bid to open his DC federal criminal trial to cameras is “a transparent effort

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Hamas has command node under Al-Shifa hospital, US official says

By Jake Tapper, CNN (CNN) — A US official with knowledge of American intelligence says Hamas has a command node under the Al-Shifa hospital, uses fuel intended for it and its fighters regularly cluster in and around Gaza’s largest hospital. The information comes after comments made Sunday by a top White House official that Hamas is using hospitals and civilian facilities. “You can see

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Pentagon identifies Army soldiers killed in helicopter crash in eastern Mediterranean Sea

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — The Pentagon identified on Monday the five special operations aviators who were killed in a training flight crash in the eastern Mediterranean Sea on Friday evening. The soldiers, all assigned to the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, were Chief Warrant Officer 3 Stephen R. Dwyer, 38, of Clarksville, Tennessee; Chief Warrant Officer 2

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Secret Service agent on Biden’s granddaughter’s security detail fired weapon in response to car break-in

By Betsy Klein, CNN Washington (CNN) — A US Secret Service agent on President Joe Biden’s granddaughter Naomi Biden’s security detail shot at individuals attempting to break into a US government vehicle in Georgetown, CNN has learned. “On Nov. 12 around 11:58 p.m. in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC, Secret Service agents encountered possibly

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