Videos of the Day: Trump Calls for Warren to Apologize After DNA Test Results Backfire

A day after Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released DNA test results divulging only minuscule amounts, if any, of her purported Native-American heritage, President Donald Trump called for a formal apology from Warren for deceiving Americans.

Warren attempted to use the results as evidence to back up her claims of heritage, only to have it flatly rejected by the Cherokee Nation—the largest federally recognized tribal enterprise in the nation.

In a string of Oct. 16 posts on Twitter, Trump described Warren as a “phony” and said she only got her job as a law professor at Harvard University because of her heritage claims. A 1997 Fordham Law Review piece had described hiring Warren as Harvard Law School’s “first woman of color.” Trump also thanked Cherokee Nation for their statement.

“Pocahontas (the bad version), sometimes referred to as Elizabeth Warren, is getting slammed. She took a bogus DNA test and it showed that she may be 1/1024, far less than the average American,” Trump wrote. “Now Cherokee Nation denies her, ‘DNA test is useless.’ Even they don’t want her. Phony!”

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Trump Threatens to Cut Aid to Honduras If Migrant Caravan Proceeds

President Donald Trump warned Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez that Washington will cut aid to Tegucigalpa unless a Honduran migrant caravan traveling north through Mexico is stopped and turned around.

“The United States has strongly informed the President of Honduras that if the large Caravan of people heading to the U.S. is not stopped and brought back to Honduras, no more money or aid will be given to Honduras, effective immediately!” Trump wrote on Twitter on the morning of Oct. 16.

On Oct. 15, as many as 3,000 migrants crossed from Honduras into Guatemala en route to Mexico and the United States. Washington has warned that the group shouldn’t attempt to enter the United States illegally.

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Alabama Store Owner Stops Selling Pepsi Drinks With NFL Logo

A store owner has stopped selling Pepsi with the NFL logo because he does not want to support the athletes who he says disrespect the flag with their kneeling protests.

Alabama store owner Phillip Stewart said he believes the wish for justice behind the protests “is just,” but says that there are “other ways to deal with it.”

Stewart said he wasn’t trying to “make a statement” with his decision. “I just don’t want to support anything dealing with the NFL,” he said.

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Daughter of Fallen 9/11 Officer Graduates From NYPD Police Academy

The daughter of a police officer who was killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks graduated from the New York Police Department Police Academy.

Photographs and video footage from the fateful day showed Ramon Suarez after he'd commandeered a taxi to get to the epicenter of the attacks and began saving people.

The last time he was seen, he was running back into the North Tower after he and another officer saved a woman who was unable to walk get out of the building, reported Pix 11.

“Even now, 17 years later, none of us have completely come to terms with what happened that day, and I don’t think we ever will,” Police Commissioner James O’Neill said during the graduation ceremony on Oct. 15, where a total of 249 new police officers were sworn in, reported the New York Post.

“But this morning, we’re here at the NYPD Police Academy graduation of Ramon’s daughter, and that in and of itself says a lot about how far we’ve come and how the NYPD will never be deterred from the critical work that we do.”

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