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The White House is ripping comments by UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Martin Griffiths that Hamas is not a terrorist group. "Hamas is a terrorist organization," White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby insisted on Thursday, according to The Jerusalem Post. "And you don't have to look any further than what they did on the 7th of October to see it in stark terms," he said. Kirby's remarks referenced the Hamas-led attack against southern Israel in which over 1,200 people were killed and another 253 seized as hostages. "My goodness, take a look at their...

Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican Party nominee for president, tore into President Obama over his speech about the mass shooting in Orlando, saying the commander in chief seemed a heck of a lot angrier at the billionaire businessman than the actual Islamic terrorist who killed 49 and injured 53. “I watched President Obama,” Trump said, during a campaign rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, in reference to Obama’s widely reported speech that contained numerous angry remarks against Trump, but few toward the Muslim murderer, Omar Mateen, the Hill reported. “And he was more angry at me than the shooter.”