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Trump revokes ex-CIA director John Brennan’s security clearance:
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he has revoked former CIA director John Brennan’s security clearance, marking an unprecedented use of a president’s authority over the classification system to strike back at one of his prominent critics.
“I have a unique constitutional responsibility to protect the nation’s classified information, including by controlling access to it. Today, in fulfilling that responsibility, I have decided to revoke the security clearance of John Brennan, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency,” Trump said in a statement dictated in the White House briefing room by his press secretary Sarah Sanders. “Mr. Brennan’s lying and recent conduct characterized by increasingly frenzied commentary is wholly inconsistent with access to the nation’s most closely held secrets.”
Brennan is the first former national security official to see his security clearance revoked since the White House announced last month that Trump was considering taking that action against several of his most vocal critics in the national security world.
Man missing on Mount St. Helens for nearly a week survived on bees and berries:
A hiker who was missing for six days on Mount St. Helens survived by eating bees and berries, his mother says.
“Bees were after him the whole time, he said, so he killed them and ate them,” Linda Matheny told reporters.
Matthew Matheny was conscious and talking when rescue teams found him Wednesday, according to Cowlitz County Sheriff Mark S. Nelson, and transported by Life Flight helicopter to a hospital.
“He got to a point where he questioned being found,” Linda said at a press conference outside of Southwest Washington Medical Center where her son was being treated for dehydration. “He really started thinking, this could be it.”
Dozens overdosed in one New Haven park Wednesday:
As New Haven, Connecticut, Fire Chief John Alston Jr. spoke to reporters about a spate of drug overdoses on Wednesday, he heard shouting coming from behind him.
“We’re getting another call of a person,” Alston said.
He quickly helped coordinate the response, and then returned to the microphone.
That scene came on the same day that as many as 60 people in the area of New Haven Green were believed to have overdosed on some form of K2, according to New Haven police spokesman Officer David Hartman.
New Haven Green is a large park and recreation area in the city’s downtown.
Jesse Jackson visits with ill Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin is surrounded by those closest to her as the legendary singer receives hospice care.
A source close to Franklin tells CNN’s Don Lemon the 76-year-old “Queen of Soul” is being visited by people close to her who are reading messages from friends and loved ones, holding her hand.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson visited Franklin on Wednesday, said Rainbow Push spokesperson Chinta Strausberg.
Stevie Wonder and her ex-husband Glynn Turman paid the singer a visit, Franklin’s publicist Gwendolyn Quinn told
Social media has also been flooded with tributes to Franklin.
Priyanka Chopra debuts her ring:
It looks like Nick Jonas did good.
Weeks after it was reported that he and “Quantico” star Priyanka Chopra got engaged, she’s sporting a huge rock on her finger.
The ring is visible in a photo of Chopra and Indian actress Raveena Tandon, posted to Tandon’s Instagram account on Tuesday.
Neither Jonas, 25, nor Chopra, 36, has confirmed the engagement, but fans have been wondering about their relationship ever since they walked the red carpet together at the 2017 Met Gala. That heated up this year after reports the pair were dating.
Jimmy Kimmel asked Chopra about the Met Gala appearance last year on his late night show, saying “Are you dating Nick Jonas? Isn’t he, like, 11 years old?”
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