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    This week, conservative media outlets and tabloids have been circulating and reporting on videos that they claim show Malia Obama former president Barack Obama's oldest daughter who is a student at Harvard kissing a young man before a football game and blowing smoke rings. Typically, the media refrains from reporting on the personal lives of the children of presidents and former presidents, allowing them to have some privacy. Ivanka Trump listens at the beginning of a policy and strategy forum with executives in the State Dining Room of the White House February 3, 2017 in Washington, DC. This reporting caught the attention of President Trump's oldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, and Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of former president Bill Clinton and former Democratic presidentia...

    Donald Trump’s comments that US troops were only now winning as a result of his military strategy, were somewhat insulting, a retired general has said. During an address to US forces serving overseas, Mr Trump said US troops were defeating Isis because of changes he had made to the strategy of his predecessor, Barack Obama. Everybody’s talking about the progress you’ve made in the last few months since I opened it up, he said. They weren’t letting you win before; they were letting you break even. They weren’t letting you win. He also talked about the soaring stock market, record jobs figures and the recent Republican tax. But retired Lt Gen Mark Hertling said Mr Trump’s comments would not have rung very well with him had he still been serving. First of all, I’m thankful fo...

    Rory Farquharson, a former head boy at the prestigious Rugby School, was linked to Barack Obama's eldest daughter after footage emerged appearing to show them kissing during the Harvard v Yale American football game. Miss Obama started at the Ivy League university this Autumn, following in the footsteps of her parents, who both attended Harvard Law. Rory Farquharson Mr Farquharson began his studies at the university last year after completing his A-Levels, posting a picture of himself at the campus with the caption: So it begins. The 19-year-old, who attended the £11,584-a-term boarding school, was also a member of its chemistry club the Blue Bunsen Society. Mr Farquharson was selected 'head of school' at the private school for the school year 2015 to 2016 and was describe...

    Russian President Vladimir Putin has seemingly put his country on a war footing by telling businesses that they should be ready to switch production to military needs at any time. Putin's words come just the day after he said his nation should aim to overtake the West in terms of military technology. Putin was speaking at a conference of military leaders in Sochi on Wednesday (22 November) at a time when western leaders have become more suspicious of a militarily resurgent Russia. The ability of our economy to increase military production and services at a given time is one of the most important aspects of military security, Putin said according to The Independent. To this end, all strategic, and simply large-scale enterprise should be ready, regardless of ownership. Altho...

    North Korea denounced on Wednesday US President Donald Trump’s decision to relist it as a state sponsor of terrorism, calling it a ‘serious provocation and violent infringement’, North Korean state media reported. Trump put North Korea back on a list of state sponsors of terrorism on Monday, a designation that allows the United States to impose more sanctions and risks inflaming tension over North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missile programmes. In North Korea’s first reaction to the designation, a spokesman for the foreign ministry denied in an interview with the state media outlet KCNA, that his government engaged in any terrorism. He called the state sponsor of terrorism label ‘just a tool for American style authoritarianism that can be attached or removed at any time in...

    U.S. President Donald Trump said he is designating North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism, subjecting the regime to additional sanctions and reinforcing its status as an international pariah. Speaking at the start of a cabinet meeting at the White House, Trump said the Treasury Department will announce additional measures Tuesday, describing the move against Kim Jong Un’s regime as a very large one. The step at least symbolically ratchets up the roiling standoff between the U.S. and North Korea over Pyongyang’s program to develop nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles that could hit the U.S. mainland. Trump returned last week from a five-nation tour of Asia in which the confrontation with North Korea figured prominently and the U.S. president pressed cou...

    Days after claiming credit for ensuring that three UCLA college basketball players were released after being arrested for shoplifting in China, Donald Trump tweeted that I should have left them in jail The US president lashed out at LaVar Ball, the father of one of the arrested players, for questioning how instrumental the president was in resolving the incident. Asked on ESPN Friday about Trump’s role in getting his son and two other players home, Ball said, Who What was he over there for? Don’t tell me nothing. Everybody wants to make it seem like he helped me out, Ball said. In response to an American father being unaccepting of what I did for his son, Trump tweeted that he should have left the three college students in jail in China. Trump had previously tweeted that h...

    The Pentagon accidentally retweeted an activist’s tweet calling for President Donald Trump to resign. And yes, we mean that literally. The tweet from because of course said Trump should leave the White House due to sexual assault allegations against him, like those facing Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore and Democratic Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota. Col. Rob Manning, a top Pentagon spokesperson, tried to defend the mix-up by blaming it on an authorized operator. An authorized operator of the Department of Defense's official Twitter site erroneously retweeted content that would not be endorsed by the Department of Defense, he said. The operator caught this error and immediately deleted it. But that wasn’t before many noticed what happened. And it’s worth noting that the...

    US President Donald Trump. President Donald Trump asked Congress for another $4 billion to counter North Korean threats, as he is expected to arrive in South Korea on Tuesday. This request supports additional efforts to detect, defeat, and defend against any North Korean use of ballistic missiles against the United States, its deployed forces, allies, or partners, Trump wrote in a letter to Congress. Trump is currently on a two-week long tour in Asia, and has made North Korea and their nuclear and missile programs the focus of his trip. Before his arrival in South Korea, the state-run North Korean media told Trump to stop his foolish remarks or face merciless punishment.If the U.S. misjudges the DPRK's toughest will and dares to act recklessly, the latter will be compelled...

    A dog-owner was stunned when she discovered the ‘exact image’ of Donald Trump in her pet dog’s ear, reports the Mirror. Jade Robinson, of Tyne and Wear, discovered the POTUS when her beagle, Chief, was under the weather. And picture of the phenomenon went viral after the 25-year-old uploaded it to Facebook. ‘Well, for anyone who’s got Donald trump in their ear, it’s going to be painful,’ said her aunt Jaine Pinchen, who runs doggy day care centre The Waggy Warehouse in South Shields. ‘He’s going to the vet’s tomorrow to get it looked at.’ The 25-year-old said that unlike other people who have commented on the picture, it took her a while before she saw anything remarkable about it. ‘I looked at the photo over 20 times zooming in and everything and never seen it at all. It ...