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A fake news story on FreedomCrossroads.us claimed that Malia Obama was fired from an internship for smoking marijuana.

Its summer internship season and everyone loves a juicy story on a former first daughters internship cut short due to drug busts. At least fake news sites seem to.

Dont be fooled, though. A story that Malia Obama was fired from an internship at the U.S. embassy to Spain is fake news.

A June 29, 2017, post on FreedomCrossroads.us says that the eldest daughter of former President Barack Obama was caught smoking marijuana during her internship at the Spanish embassy and sent home.

"She was caught, by Embassy Security aka the U.S. Marines on the roof of the building burning a doobie and playing with the Ambassadors carrier pigeons," the story said. "Ambassador Bedard is an avid hobbyist."

Obama did intern at the embassy, in 2016, not this year. And there were no reports of her dismissal.

This summer, Obama traveled with her family to Bali and Jakarta and is continuing an internship at the Weinstein Company movie studio she began in the spring. She is still expected to go to Harvard in the fall which the post also denied.

"She wont be starting Harvard this fall and she has no future in government, since all government jobs require drug tests," the post said.

The story said Malia Obama was caught by U.S. Marines, but thats unrealistic. They are indeed stationed at embassies, but their primary role is that of protecting classified material in the interest of the United States national security not watching over summer interns.

The post also refers to the wrong ambassador. There has never been a U.S. ambassador to Spain by the name of Bedard, and there is actually no U.S. ambassador in Spain at all right now. Trump called for the resignation of foreign ambassadors nominated by Obama at the start of his tenure, and hasnt replaced previous Spanish ambassador to Spain, James Costos, since.

We dont know whose carrier pigeons the story refers to, but there were no reports of pigeons during her internship last year, either.

This isnt the first time a fake news story about the former presidents eldest daughter has made its rounds on blogs and Facebook this year. Previous reports weve debunked said that Malia was expelled from Harvard before she even started and that she was arrested for drinking, drugs and dog-fighting.

The latest story appeared on FreedomCrossroads.us, an unreliable site that as we have noted previously, has an About Us page that claims it "uses facts that dont exist and relies more on imagination than the truth."

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A Cleveland couple celebrated their own love by paying homage to Barack and Michelle Obamas iconic romance.

Bride-to-be Cassi Pittman and her fianc Adams engagement shoot doubled as photo re-enactments in what was supposed to be just one Obama-inspired photo, according to the pairs wedding planner, Covesa Kelly, and wedding photographer, Natasha Herbert.

I miss The Obamas SO much that when our Bride and Groom said Can we try and duplicate one of their famous shots for our engagement pics? I was like lets do an entire shoot- we can do this and this and THIS! Kelly explained on Instagram.

Because we miss them so much, Herbert echoed, adding, Our couple Cassi & Adam were channeling Michelle and Barack Obama in this engagement shoot.

The soon-to-be newlyweds chose to recreate the Obamas ESSENCE coverphoto shoot from the October 2016 issue, as well as the presidential pairs playful embrace just beforethe National Newspaper Publishers Association reception in March 2009.

In addition, Cassi and Adam modeled a pose just like the moment when Michelle snuggled up against Barack while taping for the 2015 World Expo in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House.

As African-Americans, we admire their achievements and what they represent, Pittman, who is an Assistant Professor of Sociology atCase Western Reserve University,told the Huffington Post. They have a love that just shines, and we wanted to capture that love in our photos.

Cassi and Adam are planning their wedding in December in Willoughby, Ohio.

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Barack and Michelle Obama's Presidential Photos Inspired This Cleveland Couple's Engagement Shoot - PEOPLE.com

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Trump grudgingly admits Obama's Iran nuclear deal is working - MSNBC

Former national security adviser Susan Rice and other Obama officials are to meet the Senate Intelligence Committee as part of its investigation into allegations of collusion between Trump officials and Russia.

Rices testimony before the panel will take place this week, while SamanthaPower, Obamas ambassador to the U.N., will also testify this week, Associated Press reported.

According to CNN, Rices Tuesday testimony was delayed while the panel summoned Power, whose date to testify has yet to be set. David Pressman, a legal counsel to Power, told the network that his client was happy to cooperate with the investigation.

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Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice in Washington in July 2015. Joshua Roberts/Reuters

"Long before receiving an invitation to engage the congressional committees, Ambassador Power stressed the importance of determining the full extent of this threat to our national security and learning lessons from what has happened, he said.

The panel interviewed former National Intelligence Director James Clapper Monday, and Obamas chief of staff Denis McDonough will also testifythis week.

Donald Trump has accused Rice of committing a crime by asking intelligence analysts to disclose the names ofTrump associates investigated by U.S. intelligence. Rice has denied the allegation.

Former Senate Intelligence Committee chairman DevinNunes, who stepped aside from the panel after secret meetings he held at the White House were exposed, had called for subpoenas to be issued for Rice, Power and former CIA Director John Brennan to testify in relation to allegations of attempts toillegally unmaskTrump officials.

In May, Clapper and former acting Attorney General Sally Yates were interviewed by the Senate Judiciary Committee about Russias alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election.

"The Intelligence Community Assessment concluded, first, that President Putin directed an influence campaign to erode the faith and confidence of the American people in our presidential election process. Second, that he did so to demean Secretary Clinton. And, third, that he sought to advantage Mr. Trump," Clapper, who was part of the Obamaadministration's review of the alleged Russian influence campaign, told the committee.

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Obama Officials to Testify in Russia Investigation, Including Those Accused of Leaks - Newsweek

Not in an alternate universe but in the actual United States of America, Barack Obama is apparently still the presidentat least thats what some new American citizens were led to believe when they received welcoming letters that had Obamas presidential signature on them.

Aisha Sultan, a columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, shared an image on Twitter of the letter her husband, a British native, received Friday, which included the 44th presidents signature instead of one by the current commander in chief, President Donald Trump.

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Sultans husband isnt the only recently naturalized American to receive a welcoming letter with Obamas signature. About 200 such letters featuring Obamas signature have been issued to new citizens following an administrative oversight within the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field offices, which distributes the letters in welcoming packages after an immigrants naturalization, USCIS Press Secretary Gillian Christensen told The Hill Saturday.

Following Sultans tweet, which received more than 177,000 likes and 54,000 retweets as of Monday, a few other new Americans revealed they also received letters with Obamas signature and even saw a video of the former Illinois senator welcoming them to the U.S. after they took their oath of citizenship.

Usually, when a new president takes office, the administration will produce new welcoming letters that are distributed to USCIS field offices around the country, along with a video message from the president. The Trump administration has yet to hand over congratulatory letters and video messages to be issued to new U.S. citizens.

Another spokeswoman for the agency, Maria Elena Upson, told The Arizona Republic in June that new administrations typically take a few months to produce letters and videos to be delivered to new Americans. She noted that the letters and videos generally arent distributed until the new administration creates them.

"Following a change in administrations, it typically takes several months for a new letter and video message to be produced and distributed to USCIS field offices," she said. During this interim period, USCIS does not provide a congratulatory letter or show a video message."

While its unclear when Trumps welcoming letter and video will be distributed, some soon-to-be Americans expressed their desire on social media over the weekend to receive letters that still include Obamas signature instead of Trumps.

Despite Trump's hard-line stance on immigration reform,some 300,000 people have been naturalized since he took office in January, Christensen said.

Back in October, a Pew Research Center report found citizenship applications were the highest they had been in four years, based on fears overTrumps immigration rhetoric. By the end of 2016, citizenship applications were up 8 percent compared with the number of applications that had been submitted around the same time in 2012.

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President Obama Still in White House, According to Letters Issued by Citizenship and Immigration - Newsweek