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In 1989, Egypt was officially designated as an American ally — specifically, a "Major Non-NATO Ally," a status granting it various privileges — and it has remained one ever since. That is, until yesterday, when President Obama made a surprising remark in a Telemundo interview: Jose Diaz Balart: Would you consider the current Egyptian regime an ally of the United States? Pres. Obama: I don’t think that we would consider them an ally, but we don’t consider them an enemy. They’re a new government that is trying to find its way. They were democratically elected. I think that we are...

Here is video of President Obama yesterday getting the facts of Tennis star Billie Jean King's career all wrong as he presented her the Medal of Freedom at the White House. You can see King's face as Obama cited her stats, but did so inaccurately. “They didn’t get any of my facts right,” King lightheartedly noted afterward. “Did you see all the – how many titles I won? I was cracking up.” “Not even in the ballpark,” she continued. King found it amusing, and said her accomplishments on the court aren’t the most important. “I thought it was adorable,” she...