As Omarosa dominates the news cycle with her bombshell claims and recordings from the heart of the Trump administration, some of the most salacious stories from her new book "Unhinged" have been challenged by those who allegedly witnessed them happen.
Why it matters: Similar to the backlash to the potentially unethical reporting contained in Michael Wolff's "Fire and Fury" earlier this year, the lines between fiction and fact may be similarly blurred in Omarosa's tome.
A suicide bombing in Kabul has killed at least 48 people and injured 67, according to the Associated Press.
The details: The target of the bombing was a private building in which male and female students were studying for university entrance exams, per the AP. A local official, Jawad Ghawari, blamed ISIS; the Taliban denied any involvement.
The backdrop: The latest attack comes amid turbulent times in Afghanistan. Over the weekend, the Taliban carried out a major assault on the eastern city of Ghazni, striking a "major blow to the Afghan government and its international allies," the BBC reported, as word of peace talks with the Taliban had been circulating. Per the BBC, at least 140 Afghan security forces and 60 civilians were killed.
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While the Space Force was just announced last week by Vice President Mike Pence, some government contractors are already planning to benefit from building the technology that would be needed for space combat, the Washington Post reports.
The details: Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Harris Corporation, and Boeing — some of the government's main defense contractors — would stand to profit even more than usual because of the private sector's relatively small and concentrated pool of preexisting technical knowledge needed to fuel the Space Force.
