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Letters From Jacqueline Kennedy to the Man She Didn’t Marry

The New York Times 

Jacqueline Kennedy visiting the temples of Angkor Wat in Cambodia with David Ormsby Gore, in sunglasses, in 1967. He proposed a few months later; she said no. Her letter to him detailing why will soon be auctioned.

Islamic State detainees sent to Guantanamo under plan

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

WASHINGTON — The Trump White House is nearing completion of an order that would direct the Pentagon to bring future Islamic State detainees to the Guantanamo Bay prison, despite warnings from national security officials and legal scholars that doing so risks undermining the effort to combat the group, according to administration officials and a draft executive order obtained by the New York Times. The latest version of the draft, which circulated this week, would direct Defense Secretary James Mattis... Читать дальше...



Struggling Leicester earns respite by winning FA Cup replay

TheRepublic.com 

LEICESTER, England — Leicester earned some respite amid a difficult spell in its Premier League title defense by beating Derby 3-1 in a fourth-round replay in the FA Cup, with Demarai Gray’s slaloming solo strike clinching victory in extra time on Wednesday. The English champions, who have slumped to within a point of the relegation

Supreme Court nominee 'disheartened' by Trump's delegitimizing of federal judge

BusinessInsider.com 

Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Neil Gorsuch, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals judge nominated by President Donald Trump to the vacant Supreme Court seat last week, said Wednesday he was "disheartened" by the president attempting to delegitimize a federal judge.

Gorsuch made the comment during a meeting with Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat, as he seeks Senate confirmation. Blumenthal told reporters of Gorsuch's remarks, which were confirmed to Business Insider by a spokesperson for the Supreme Court nomination team. Читать дальше...

US airstrikes killed 11 al Qaeda operatives in Syria

BusinessInsider.com 

US Defense Department

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US forces killed 11 al Qaeda operatives in two airstrikes near Idlib, Syria, this month, including a member with links to the late Osama bin Laden and other top leaders of the group, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.

It said a Feb. 4 strike killed Abu Hani al-Masri, who it said oversaw the creation and operation of many al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan in the 1980s and 1990s, where he "recruited, indoctrinated, trained and equipped... Читать дальше...





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