(CNN) — K. T. McFarland, the one-time top deputy to ousted national security adviser Michael Flynn, has accepted the US ambassadorship to Singapore and will likely leave the National Security Council in the coming months, a senior administration official has…
(CNN) — K. T. McFarland, the one-time top deputy to ousted national security adviser Michael Flynn, has accepted the US ambassadorship to Singapore and will likely leave the National Security Council in the coming months, a senior administration official has told CNN.
“She is going to do it, assuming she gets confirmed,” the official said.
McFarland intends to continue working at the NSC in the short term, but the official said she is unlikely to stay at the NSC all the way until her confirmation, which could be months away.
“She isn’t leaving immediately,” the official said.
The official cast the move as a “promotion” for McFarland, but it has been well-known inside the NSC that her hold on the deputy job was tenuous.
CNN reported earlier this month that she had been offered the ambassadorship.
The official said H. R. McMaster, the current national security adviser, has not decided what to do about replacing McFarland, but acknowledged that Dina Powell’s role as deputy national security adviser for strategy “will probably expand.”
The internal politics of the National Security Council have been in flux since the firing of Flynn in February.
McMaster’s power inside the White House has been rising in recent weeks, proven by his orchestration of Steve Bannon’s departure from the National Security Council.
McFarland’s departure is no different. This means more power for McMaster and people he trusts, such as Powell, who moved over once McMaster took over.
Bloomberg first reported McFarland was going to leave the NSC.

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Two managers at a Florida gym died from injuries sustained after a fired worker shot them and then turned the gun on himself, officials said.
April 9 (UPI) — Two managers at a high-end gym in South Florida died from injuries sustained after a fired worker shot them and then turned the gun on himself, officials said Sunday.
Equinox gym announced that fitness manager Marios Hortis, 42, died Sunday from injuries suffered Saturday afternoon at the Shops of Merrick Park in Coral Gables. Equinox general manager Janine Ackerman, 35, who was shot in the head, died late Saturday.
Gunman Abeku Wilson, 33, was fired as an Equinox trainer earlier that day for «workplace violence,» police said. He went home, got a semi-automatic handgun and returned to the gym looking for Ackerman, police said.
«Our entire Equinox family experienced a terrible tragedy yesterday when a former trainer walked into our club in Coral Gables and shot two members of our team,» read the Equinox email to club members. «We are deeply saddened to inform you that our General Manager, Janine Ackerman, and our Fitness Manager, Marios Hortis, both passed away as a result of their injuries. Our sense of loss is too profound for words. »
Ackerman, who worked for Equinx for nearly two years, was described in the email as «a kind and caring soul, a person we all loved and will deeply miss. » Ackerman previously handled guest services for the 1,600-room renowned Fontainebleau in Miami Beach.
Hortis’ «generous spirit and warm demeanor made him an always welcome presence in our world, one that will be sorely missed,» the email said. He worked for the gym for more than six year.
Eveliny Bastos-Klein had a training session with Wilson shortly before the shooting took place at 12:55 p.m.
«He did not seem unusual,» she said to the Miami Herald. «Not distracted. I didn’t notice anything amiss. »
She said Wilson «as always, he was great. Just very professional and polite and calm. »
But Marc Sarnoff, a former Miami city commissioner, told the Miami Herald, that Wilson wasn’t clean shaven, looked off and seemed to slur his words.
A profile on a modeling website from 2014 lists his height as 6-foot-2 and his weight as 175 pounds. He is a native of Boston whose father was from Ghana and his mother from the United States. He graduated from the University of Miami with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration.
Equinox’s gym remained closed Sunday.

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Francis said he was horrified by the suspected chemical weapons attack, calling it an «unacceptable massacre» of innocent civilians.
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis condemned a deadly blast at a church in Egypt and said at a Palm Sunday Mass that the world was suffering from wars, terrorism and «interests that are armed and ready to strike. »
Francis, who has not made any direct public comment on the current Middle East crisis, said the Mass as international tensions increased following the US missile strike on a Syrian air base, which the Pentagon says was involved in a chemical weapons attack that killed 87 people.

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