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Trump’s Defense Secretary Cites Climate Change As National Security Challenge

Donald Trump, left, listens as Defense Secretary James Mattis, right, speaks at the Pentagon in Washington. (AP/Susan Walsh)
Secretary of Defense James Mattis has asserted that climate change is real, and a threat to American interests abroad and the Pentagon’s assets everywhere, a position that appears at odds with the views of the president who appointed him and many in the administration in which he serves.

Men In KKK Costumes Disrupt Sessions Confirmation Hearing

Demonstrators are seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, during the Senate Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearing for Attorney General-designate, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. (AP/Andrew Harnik)
WASHINGTON (REPORT) — Protesters disrupted Sen. Jeff Sessions’ confirmation hearing for attorney general on Tuesday, including two men wearing Ku Klux Klan costumes and a woman wearing a pink crown.