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Before her sudden resignation announcement, soon-to-be-former White House communications director Hope Hicks was berated by President Trump for admitting to Congress she told “white lies” for him, CNN reported on Wednesday. The president got angry at Hicks after learning she made the revelation Tuesday to the House Intelligence Committee, which is investigating Russia’s meddling into the 2016 election, a Trump ally told CNN. A livid Trump demanded to know “how she could be that stupid” to admit she lies for the president, the report said.

A Middle Tennessee pastor named in a letter in support of Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore told News 4 he was never asked to sign the letter and didn’t hear about it until Monday. Moore’s wife Kayla posted the letter to Facebook on Sunday. It features the names of more than 50 pastors. Dr. George Grant is the head of Parish Presbyterian Church in Franklin. He said he did not give permission for his name to be on this list. Grant told News 4 he hasn’t spoken to Moore in a decade. Grant added he hasn’t spoken to Moore’s campaign...

Our country has been unsuccessfully dealing with North Korea for 25 years, giving billions of dollars & getting nothing. Policy didn't work! https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/917341511754436609

A suicide bomber was killed early Sunday in southwestern Pakistan when the explosives belt he was wearing exploded prematurely, police said. No one else was injured in the blast in Hub, an industrial town in Baluchistan province, local police official Munir Hussain said. "This man was riding a cycle. He had strapped explosives to his body for a suicide attack and they exploded," Hussain said of the blast in Hub's Zehri Street neighborhood. The man's intended target was not immediately known, and police were investigating, Hussain said. Hub is about 580 kilometers (360 miles) southeast of Quetta, Baluchistan's capital. Baluchistan...

DETROIT - General Motors Corp. is increasing its previously-reported loss for 2005 by $2 billion as the world’s largest auto maker gets a truer picture of the costs of bailing out its former parts-making unit and revamping its loss-riddled North American operations. GM said in a release after the market close Thursday that it now estimates it lost about $10.6 billion last year from its earlier preliminary report of a loss of $8.6 billion. It expects to increase the charge for its exposure relating to Delphi Corp.’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case to $3.6 billion from the previous estimate of $2.3...

The chief suspect of the terrorist attack killing Western tourists in Egypt has died after suffering from self-inflicted injuries while in police custody. Egyptian Prosecutor General Maher Abdul Wahid reported Saturday that Ashraf Said Yusef hit his head on the wall several times, and was admitted to the hospital on May 11th dying May 19th. The first report by the government-financed Supreme Council for Human Rights reported that at least nine Egyptians died in detention during 2004. Police arrested Yusef late last month suspecting him of masterminding three attacks against Western tourists April in Cairo, in which three tourists were...

Newsweek Says Sorry for Report of Koran Insult By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE Newsweek apologized yesterday for printing a small item on May 9 about reported desecration of the Koran by American guards at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, an item that touched off riots in Pakistan and Afghanistan and led to the deaths of at least 17 people. But the magazine, while acknowledging unspecified errors in the article, stopped short of retracting it. The report that a Koran had been flushed down a toilet set off the most virulent, widespread anti-American protests in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban government more...