News Round-Up: September 15, 2017

Ian Ziering

Some news items you may have missed:

• #FlashbackFriday to when 90210/Sharknado star headlined in Las Vegas as the Chippendales' Celebrity Guest host. Clearly, Ian had that "action hero" bod ready to rock.

• The ACLU has filed a preliminary injunction asking a court to immediately halt Trump's proposed ban on transgender folks in the U.S. military.

• For the second time in two weeks, Donald Trump made a point of not being able to fit his hands into  protective gloves visiting sites hit by recent hurricanes. Get it? "These are too small, my hands are too big, just like my anatomy..." #sad

Here's the moment when President Trump ... needed bigger foodservice gloves pic.twitter.com/vSuKmevitz

— Peter Stevenson (@PeterWStevenson) September 14, 2017

• White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has been hit with an ethics complaint for calling for the firing of an ESPN employee. Federal law states executive branch employees are prohibited from influencing the employment decisions or practices of a private entity or company “solely on the basis of partisan political affiliation.”

• The White House says former FBI Director violated  federal laws when he shared a memo he wrote detailing Donald Trump's request to "drop" the investigation into former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn. But fact checkers say not so.

• Harvard University invited, then uninvited, Chelsea Manning to be a visiting Fellow.

Happy Friday!

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