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Sen. Lindsey Graham defends Obama on "This Week" and a Kardashian crash.

ByABC News
February 22, 2015, 5:21 PM
Sen. Lindsey Graham on "This Week”
Sen. Lindsey Graham on "This Week”
ABC News

— -- 1. 'No Doubt' President Obama Loves His Country, Sen. Lindsey Graham Says

Potential Republican presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has "no doubt" that President Obama loves his country, refuting comments made by former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani earlier this week.

“Well, I love Rudy, but I don’t want to go there. The nation’s very divided. President Obama has divided us more than he’s brought us together and I don’t want to add to that division,” Graham initially said on ABC's "This Week" Sunday, before adding, “I have no doubt that he loves his country. I have no doubt that he’s a patriot. But his primary job as president of the United States is to defend this country and he’s failing miserably.”

The South Carolina senator said part of that failure stems from labeling the threat posed by ISIS and other terrorist groups as “violent extremism” instead of “radical" Islamists.

2. Families' Public Pleas to British Schoolgirls Feared Headed to Syria: 'Come Home'

PHOTO: (L-R) These images released by Scotland Yard show Kadiza Sultana, Amira Abase and Shamima Begum.
(L-R) These images released by Scotland Yard show Kadiza Sultana, Amira Abase and Shamima Begum.

The families of all three British schoolgirls believed to be heading to Syria via Turkey to join Islamist fighters issued desperate pleas today, asking them to return home.

The three school friends from East London’s Bethnal Green, ages 15 to 16, left their homes before 8 a.m. local time Tuesday and met at Gatwick Airport near London where they boarded a Turkish Airlines flight, according to a police news release.

"You had [a] bright future, so please return home," read a statement from the family and friends of Amira Abase, 15, released via the London Metropolitan Police.

Authorities previously had not released Abase's name.

3. Mall of America Heightens Security After al-Shabab Threat

One of the largest malls in the United States has heightened security after a video claiming to be posted online by a Somali militant group affiliated with al Qaeda called for attacks against the mall.

The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, issued a statement Saturday, saying it had increased security in light of the video purportedly from al-Shabab, which took credit for the deadly attack at a Kenyan mall that killed at least 67 civilians in 2013.

4. Icy Roads in Alabama Force College Basketball Team to Walk 2 Miles to Their Hotel

PHOTO: A college basketball team ended up walking 2 miles to their hotel Saturday night when icy road conditions prevented their bus from driving on an Alabama interstate.
A college basketball team ended up walking 2 miles to their hotel Saturday night when icy road conditions prevented their bus from driving on an Alabama interstate.

Icy roads forced a college basketball team to walk two miles to their hotel after their bus was unable to drive down an Alabama interstate.

Ericka Smith, a sophomore with the Middle Georgia State College basketball team, told ABC News her school's men's and women's basketball teams boarded a bus Friday afternoon en route to Martin Methodist College in Pulaski, Tennessee, for games this weekend.

But less than an hour from their destination Friday night, the bus driver pulled over on Interstate 65, saying the roads were too icy to safely continue.

5. Kim and Khloe Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, North West in Car Accident

PHOTO: Kim Kardashian West, left, Khloe Kardashian and Farouk Systems, Inc. celebrate the launch of Kardashian Beauty at Academy Mansion on Feb. 10, 2015 in New York City.
Kim Kardashian West, left, Khloe Kardashian and Farouk Systems, Inc. celebrate the launch of Kardashian Beauty at Academy Mansion on Feb. 10, 2015 in New York City.

Kim and Khloe Kardashian, their younger sister, Kylie Jenner, and Kim Kardashian's daughter, North West, were safe after a car accident in Montana this morning, according to reports confirmed by ABC News.

Khloe Kardashian was driving a GMC Yukon and Kim Kardashian was among its occupants when the car slid off a highway between Bozeman and Belgrade, Montana, the Montana Highway Patrol told The Associated Press. Earlier, the highway patrol would only tell ABC News "celebrities" were involved in the crash.