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With Hollywood and Washington alike being peppered with an onslaught of stories centering around allegations of sexual misconduct, the state of Alabama is serving as a central character one of those narratives.

The US Air Force's failure to properly document Texas gunman Devin Kelley's 2012 court martial conviction for assault on his wife and their child in a federal database used for firearm sale background checks reflects a systemic problem with the Department of Defense's system for sharing critical case information with the FBI, several former FBI and military agents told CNN.

Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger called for Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore to step aside immediately, and the Senate should expel him if seated, following the recent sexual assault allegations made against him.

He's been dismissed as a "low-level volunteer" and just a "coffee boy," but former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos represented the Trump campaign at various meetings with foreign officials up until Inauguration Day.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is not expected to respond Friday to Sen. Al Franken's most recent demand for additional information on any Trump campaign contacts with Russian officials, according to a Justice Department source.

Roy Moore, the Republican Senate nominee in Alabama, is a great fan of the Bible. So one would assume he'd be familiar with this Old Testament verse:

The Senate's campaign arm severed ties with Alabama GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore after an explosive report published Thursday in The Washington Post that featured four women who said Moore pursued them decades ago when he was an assistant district attorney and they were teenagers.

In the wake of sexual misconduct allegations against Republican Alabama Senate hopeful Roy Moore, all eyes are on his Democratic opponent, Doug Jones.

US defense and intelligence officials are growing increasingly puzzled why Kim Jong Un has not tested a ballistic missile in nearly two months. And for now, as President Donald Trump travels through Asia, it does not appear another missile test is imminent.

Danica Roem knew she had made history this week when former Vice President Joe Biden called to congratulate her.

Claims of a Soviet plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy as early as 1962 -- which the CIA ultimately dismissed -- were included in a 1963 memo to a top US investigation official, this week's dump of declassified JFK assassination files reveals.

Meek Mill was arrested for popping wheelies on his dirt bike and for getting into a fight earlier this year, and now the rapper could spend two to four years in state prison because those arrests violated his probation from a 2008 gun and drug case.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says the United States is waiting to see how widespread arrests in Saudi Arabia play out in the coming weeks, but he is so-far inclined to believe the Saudi account that they are an effort to fight corruption.

In the last 10 days, four Republican House members have announced they won't be running again in 2018.

Steve Bannon, set to give a speech in Charleston, South Carolina, Friday night, will be introduced by a South Carolina GOP gubernatorial hopeful running against the Republican incumbent.

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Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney tweeted Friday that he believes there is merit to the accusations of sexual abuse against GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore, adding that the Alabama Republican should "step aside."