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On Thanksgiving Eve, President Trump blasted LaVar Ball in a series of tweets, calling him an “ungrateful fool.”
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President Trump LaVar Ball in a series of tweets, calling him an “ungrateful fool” and a “poor man’s version of Don King.” Eight people , and three remain missing, after a U.S. Navy plane crashed off the coast of Japan. Walter Shaub, the former director of the Office of Government Ethics, against White House aide Kellyanne Conway over her comments on the Alabama Senate from the campaign. Enrollment in the federal health-insurance marketplace nearly 2.3 million people since the sign-up season began.

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