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    A lot is said about couples who don’t sleep in the same bed, whether they have twin beds side by side or spend their nights in totally separate rooms. So the news that President Donald and First Lady Melania Trump reportedly sleep separately has garnered quite the reaction. It’s widely being claimed that this is Melania’s decision and that it shows how much she wants to avoid spending time with her husband - she is currently living miles away from the White House in New York but only so that their son Barron can finish the school year there. However apparently even when the Trumps are together, they sleep in separate bedrooms, an insider told US Weekly. But even if this is true, is it necessarily a bad thing? Does sleeping in separate beds mean a loveless relationship? Sle...

    On Wednesday afternoon a police officer was stabbed and killed by an assailant outside the British Houses of Parliament. A car then plouged into a crowd of people on Westminster bridge, killing one woman and injuring at least 10. Three French teenagers on a school trip to London were also badly injured in the attack. At the moment, the situation remains fluid and facts are scarce. indy100 is updating their page with exactly what we know and what we don't know throughout the evening. Elsewhere on the internet, Donald Trump Jr, Donald Trump's eldest son, decided to share an article from seven months ago. Mr Trump Jr shared an Independent article titled: Sadiq Khan: London mayor says terror attacks part and parcel of living in a major city. His comment alongside the article r...

    California Democratic Representative Maxine Waters has warned President Donald Trump that he should prepare to be impeached, the latest escalation of rhetoric over alleged Russian involvement in the 2016 election. Ms Waters has been pressing Congress to quickly impeach Mr Trump if evidence arises of his alleged collusion with the Russian government during the election race. The Democrat did not cite a particular reason for Mr Trump’s impeachment, but earlier in March said: The only thing that I am focused on is credible investigations to bring out the facts. Senator Dianne Feinstein predicts that Donald Trump will get himself out of the presidency He and National Security Agency boss Michael Rogers also told the Congressional intelligence hearing they believe Russia meddle...

    From Tuesday on, passengers traveling to the U.S. from 10 airports in eight Muslim-majority countries will not be allowed to have iPads, laptops or any communications device larger than a smartphone in the cabin of the plane. If you are traveling from Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, or the UAE on Egypt Air, Emirates, Etihad Airways, Kuwait Airways, Qatar Airways, Royal Air Maroc, Royal Jordanian Airlines, Saudi Arabian Airlines, or Turkish Airlines, and you want to use your laptop on the flight, you are probably out of luck. So why is the United States doing this, and how can it get away with it? The U.S. says it’s all about security The Trump administration says the new rules were introduced because of intelligence that shows terrorists are co...

    The United States is poised to ban large electronic devices such as laptops or cameras on board flights from up to a dozen Middle East nations, according to two airlines from the region and media reports. A tweet from Saudi Airlines and one subsequently deleted by Royal Jordanian airlines informed their customers of an imminent cabin ban on electronic devices larger than a cellphone. Royal Jordanian said all such devices including laptops, tablets, cameras, DVD players and electronic games—would need to be checked in under new US government rules coming into force March 21. Only cell phones and medical devices needed in flight would be excluded from the ban, it said. The tweet was later removed amid suggestions the airline had released the information prematurely. CNN quot...

    President Trump on Friday appeared to ignore German Chancellor Angela Merkel's proposal that they shake hands for photographers while meeting in the Oval Office. As members of the press gathered to take photos and video of the two world leaders, Merkel could be heard leaning toward Trump and asking, Do you want to have a handshake? Trump did not shake Merkel's hand, in what some on social media characterized as a rejection of Merkel's request. Trump continued to look straight at the cameras. The Hill Trump appears to ignore Merkel request for handshake But the room was loud, and the president may not have heard Merkel. Trump did shake hands with her when they first entered the White House. Trump has become known for his aggressive handshake style, and a video of him yankin...

    Just hours before President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban was set to go into effect, a U.S. federal judge in Hawaii on Wednesday issued an emergency halt to the order’s implementation. The action was the latest legal blow to the administration’s efforts to temporarily ban refugees as well as travelers from six predominantly Muslim countries, which the President has said is needed for national security. Trump lashed out at the judge’s ruling, saying it ‘makes us look weak.’ Trump signed the new ban on March 6 in a bid to overcome legal problems with a January executive order that caused chaos at airports and sparked mass protests before a Washington judge stopped its enforcement in February. U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson put an emergency stop to the new order in re...

    The White House has responded angrily after Donald Trump's tax returns were leaked, showing the President earned £123million in 2005. According to the documents, the billionaire paid £31 million in income taxes on the earnings. They show the President paid a rate that was effectively just under 25 per cent thanks to a tax he has since sought to abolish. The pages from Mr Trump's federal tax return show the then-real estate mogul also reported a business loss of 85 million in 2005, although the documents do not provide details. The forms show Mr Trump paid an effective tax rate of 24.5 per cent, a figure well above the roughly 10 per cent the average American taxpayer hands over each year. © Provided by Independent Print Limited But it is below the 27.4 per cent that taxpay...

    Donald Trump The White House has said Donald Trump does not believe Barack Obama wiretapped him personally  even if as it called on the Congress to press ahead with a probe into the president’s allegation. Mr Trump last weekend accused Mr Obama of electronically eavesdropping on him shortly before the November election. He did so without providing any evidence, and the White House called on Congress to investigate the claim. White House press secretary Sean Spicer insisted Mr Trump still believed the allegation he had made. Yet he said the president had used the word wiretap to more broadly refer to surveillance or other activities. He does not think Obama went out there and wiretapped him personally, he said. There are are a whole host of techniques to or surveil someone....

    Another major leak of top secret materials has again put America’s top spies in hot water while delivering a coup for anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks. The group left the Central Intelligence Agency heavily bruised with the publication Tuesday of nearly 9,000 documents it said were only part of a huge trove of records, plans and malware code in its possession purportedly the entire CIA hacking arsenal. Adding insult to injury, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange scolded the agency as extremely careless to have lost control of the materials WikiLeaks said they got access to it via the circle of private contractors to US intelligence. This is a historic act of devastating incompetence, to have created such an arsenal and then stored it all in one place, Assange said. President...