Top Republican Presidential Candidates Have a Rough Week

Republican presidential hopeful and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, whose vivid personal narrative has helped put him at the top of the polls, is facing questions about it that have the potential to chip away at his credibility. Media reports Friday questioned whether Carson had, in fact, received a full scholarship to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., and those reports came only hours after Carson had to defend himself against questions about other details from his...

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