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What started as a jovial interview between CNN’s Kaitlan Collins and Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins – who both chuckled as the host noted he is of “no relation” to her – quickly devolved into a tense confrontation as the Trump cabinet official unleashed an all-out attack on the network.
👉 VA sec Doug Collins, you are making statements that are other than the truth - perhaps inspired by the commander-in-chief and Department of WAAH (D'oH!) head hedgehog.
👀 "The VA secretary took heat earlier this month when he lashed out at a reporter over claims her reporting was “scaring veterans.”"
👉 It is you VA sec Doug Collins, that is scaring vets by firing staff and degrading services.
👀 And I would like to know why CNN is hostile to veterans, especially one in Florida where you just had a $5 million defamation suit taking offense at a veteran who is trying to help people. In fact, one of your employees actually said, 'we're going to nail him.'"
👉 CNN is not hostile to veterans. Stop kissing trumps butt and improve the VA. That one single incident in no way is indicative of CNN being hostile to vets. In fact, read below you big dummy.
👀 Young later filed a separate defamation lawsuit against the Associated Press over their coverage of the verdict, but that case was dismissed, and he was ordered to pay AP's legal fees under Florida’s anti-SLAPP statute, according to reports from Faruki PLL and The Hollywood Reporter.
NAHA, Okinawa — A Japanese court handed a U.S. sailor a two-year, suspended sentence Tuesday after convicting him of attempting to smuggle magic truffles onto Okinawa through the Japanese mail system.
Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2026-03-24/sailor-okinawa-attempted-drug-smuggling-21166149.html
Source - Stars and Stripes