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    A booklet published by Melania Trump’s new campaign for children’s online safety bears an uncanny resemblance to a document released under Barack Obama’s administration. Donald Trump’s wife gave an opening night address at the Republican National Convention in 2016 that was partly plagiarised from a speech by then first lady Michelle Obama. Later, in an apparent damage limitation exercise following a backlash on social media, the website’s language was updated to describe the pamphlet as a Federal Trade Commission booklet, promoted by First Lady Melania Trump. Visitors who click on the link are taken to a pdf file of a booklet that is almost identical to one first published by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 2014 under the title: Net Cetera Chatting with Kids...

    President Trump will announce on Tuesday whether he will pull the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear agreement, one of his biggest foreign policy decisions as president. The reality-TV-star-turned-president sought to build anticipation about his decision in a Monday afternoon tweet. I will be announcing my decision on the Iran Deal tomorrow from the White House at 2:00pm, Trump wrote. The president faces a May 12 deadline to decide whether to extend sanctions relief under the Obama-era deal, a pact he has derided as the worst deal ever. Trump has repeatedly signaled that he will exit the agreement unless substantial changes are made, but he has faced growing pressure from European allies to remain in it. Johnson said we need to find a way of fixing the agreement and ar...

    French President Emmanuel Macron urged the United States to reject narrow nationalism and engage the world, telling U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday that modern economic and security challenges must be a shared responsibility. French President Emmanuel Macron reacts to a standing ovation after addressing a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress at the U.S. Capitol April 25, 2018 in Washington, DC. Macron met yesterday with U.S Capping a three-day visit to the United States, Macron told a joint meeting of Congress that isolationism and nationalism were a tempting remedy for our fears. But he said international engagement was the only solution. This requires more than ever the United States' involvement as your role was decisive for creating and guarding today's free world. Th...

    Aleksandr Kogan, the data scientist at the center of the Facebook data scandal, said Mark Zuckerberg is totally a hypocrite. In March, The New York Times and The Guardian reported that political data-research firm Cambridge Analytica improperly got hold of data of as many as 87 million Facebook users on the social media platform. The information was collected through a quiz app created by Aleksander Kogan, a researcher who worked at Cambridge University at the time, then passed to the political research firm. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in testimony before Congress earlier this month, said Kogan's actions were not acceptable. But Kogan said what he did was common. In reality, I think the truth is, we've got tens of thousands of other apps who did the same thing, ...

    Three decades after a bombing campaign claimed the life of a federal judge, set off panic and prompted a sprawling federal investigation, authorities in Alabama executed the now-83-year-old man convicted in the explosions. The lethal injection of Walter Leroy Moody Jr. on Thursday night made him the oldest inmate put to death in the modern era. And in a sign of how death row populations are aging amid a nationwide decline in executions, Moody became the eighth inmate older than 65 put to death since the beginning of 2015. Moody, who maintained his innocence in the bombings, was convicted in 1991 on federal charges and then in 1996 on state charges. The FBI calls what followed the explosions one of the largest cases in our history, with investigators scouring the deb...

    Stormy Daniels injected fresh drama into the sensational story of a president, a fixer and a porn star on Tuesday, releasing an artist's sketch of a man she says threatened her in a Las Vegas parking lot to stay quiet about her sexual tryst with Donald Trump. The adult film actress unveiled the image on ABC's The View, immediately prompting online speculation about the identity of the even-featured young man in a hoodie. Daniels says she was threatened by the man in 2011 to keep quiet about a 2006 tryst with Trump. I didn't want everyone to know, I didn't want my family to find out that way. I didn't want my life to turn upside down, Daniels said. At the time, she said, she hadn't told her husband about the encounter with Trump and I didn't want him to think I was a...

    Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will seek common ground on how to deal with North Korea's nuclear challenge on Tuesday amid fears in Tokyo that Trump might be prone to make too many concessions. Abe is due to arrive at Trump's Mar-a-Lago retreat in Palm Beach, Florida, for two days of talks dominated by North Korea but also expected to cover trade, relations with China and other issues. Both leaders could use a successful summit to give themselves a political boost at home. Trump has been hounded by controversies linked to an investigation into Russian meddling into the 2016 election, and Abe is struggling with declining popularity because of scandals over suspected cronyism. Tokyo fears the U.S. leader will try to link vital security matters wi...

    Donald Trump lies constantly and is morally unfit to be US president, according to former FBI boss James Comey. The man fired by Mr Trump last year told ABC News: I don't buy this stuff about him being mentally incompetent or early stages of dementia. I don't think he's medically unfit to be president. I think he's morally unfit to be president, he added. The President lashed out at Mr Comey, calling him a slimeball in a series of tweets before the US TV interview and labelling him the WORST FBI director in history, by far. He said Mr Comey was lying and is not smart. The former FBI chief appeared to hold nothing back when he got in front of the cameras. [He] talks about and treats women like they're pieces of meat [and] lies constantly about matters big and sma...

    Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook chief executive, warned on Tuesday of an online propaganda arms race with Russia and vowed that fighting interference in elections around the world is now his top priority. The 33-year-old billionaire, during testimony that lasted nearly five hours, was speaking to Congress in what was widely seen as a moment of reckoning for America’s tech industry. It came in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal in which, Facebook has admitted, the personal information of up to 87 million users were harvested without their permission. Zuckerberg’s comments gave an insight into the unnerving reach and influence of Facebook in numerous democratic societies. “The most important thing I care about right now is making sure no one interferes in the v...

    North Korea has confirmed directly to the Trump administration that it is willing to negotiate with the United States over potential denuclearisation, administration officials said Sunday. The confirmation offers the administration greater assurances that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is committed to a potential meeting with President Trump by the end of next month. The U.S. has confirmed that Kim Jong Un is willing to discuss the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula, an administration official said. South Korean emissaries, in a visit to the White House last month, had presented Kim’s invitation to meet with Trump, who quickly agreed. But Pyongyang has been silent publicly since then about a summit, even as Kim visited Beijing earlier this month in his fi...