Gina Haspel Sworn in As CIA Director

“President Trump praised CIA director Gina Haspel at her swearing-in ceremony Monday by saying ‘no one in this country is better qualified’ for the role,” Alex Pappas reports for Fox News. Haspel is the first woman to lead the agency, earning “emphatic support from GOP lawmakers as well as intelligence community members from both Democratic and Republican administrations.”

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“Vice President Pence on Monday called Venezuela’s recent election, which saw President Nicolás Maduro win a second term, a sham,” Luis Sanchez writes in The Hill. “The United States will not sit idly by as Venezuela crumbles and the misery of their brave people continues. America stands against dictatorship and with the people of Venezuela,” Vice President Pence said.

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In Fox News, U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman writes that liberal media outlets are “desperate for a narrative to discredit the president’s decision to move our embassy to Jerusalem.” Referring to Israel’s self-defense against Hamas, Ambassador Friedman explains that “no nation in the world allows foreigners to storm its border. Period.”