Sally Yates learned she had breast cancer days before Russia investigation testimony
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Less than a week before Sally Yates was set to testify to Congress about Russian interference in the 2016 election, the former acting attorney general was diagnosed with a rare breast cancer.
"This was one of those times where the personal and the professional collided. And so it was, I think, just about five days before I was to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee about the Russia investigation that I got the final diagnosis that it was invasive cancer," Yates told "CBS Evening News" anchor and managing editor Norah O'Donnell.
Yates thought about postponing her testimony but, she said, it would have further fueled conspiracies about the Russia investigation.
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.