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News Wrap: Trump’s racist post about Obamas draws backlash

Season 2026 Episode 31 | 5m 41s

In our news wrap Friday, the White House defended and then removed a racist depiction of the Obamas from Trump’s social media, the U.S. arrested a key suspect in the 2012 Benghazi attack, a bomb blast killed Shiite worshippers at a mosque in Pakistan’s capital, authorities are investigating the authenticity of a “new message” about Nancy Guthrie, and Hall of Fame quarterback Sonny Jurgensen died.

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