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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will step down at the end of the month, President Donald Trump announced, as he hailed her as “one of my most trusted aides.”
Meanwhile, there are reports that a number of US military personnel serving on one of the US’ largest aircraft carriers have attempted suicide after being stuck on board for months on end.
The USS Abraham Lincoln’s current tour has now stretched into the longest ever for a US ship in the modern era as Donald Trump grapples with the Iran war.
Conditions on-board are said to be detiorarting with sailors only having been on dry land for two days since last November.
The construction and restoration works taking place at the White House are set to cost close far more than $1 billion, according to a new investigation.
Works including US President Donald Trump’s much-talked about East Wing Ballroom, a new helipad and other changes will come to about $US927 million ($1.4 billion), with a large portion of that to be paid for by American taxpayers, the publication revealed.
More specific details have come to light about why Mr Trump hopped from plane to plane to plane after leaving a NATO summit in Ankara.
The subterfuge involved him exiting Air Force One on a catering truck to board another aircraft leaving all the press and a substantial part of his inner circle on the presidential plane.
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