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The White House was on the defensive on Wednesday with news of the release of Robert Gates' In Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary of War, in which the former Secretary of Defense offered a critique of President Barack Obama as a somewhat indecisive leader while also knocking Vice President Joe Biden

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said that he was "deeply saddened and outraged" by newly released documents "linking a senior member of his staff to the closure of lanes on a major bridge in September - shutdowns that caused massive traffic jams, and sparked allegations that the closures were the result of political retribution."

Daisy Coleman, the northwest Missouri 16-year-old, whose alleged 2012 sexual assault in Maryville, garnered significant media attention, was recovering Tuesday from a suicide attempt, as reported by The Kansas City Star. Coleman was being treated at a Kansas City psychiatric hospital after ingesting unidentified pills on Sunday evening.