September 2019

Meghan Markle And Ivanka Trump Are Awkwardly Attending The Same Wedding

Talk about a royally awkward situation.  Meghan Markle and Prince Harry were in Rome on Friday, as were Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, for the wedding celebration of their shared friends, fashion designer Misha Nonoo and oil tycoon Michael Hess. ― The two couples being at the same gathering is awkward since President Donald Trump once referred to

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Twitter Suspends Account of Former Adviser to Saudi Crown Prince

Twitter said on Friday that it had removed or suspended thousands of accounts with ties to governments in the Middle East, including the account of Saud el-Qahtani, a former close adviser to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia. Twitter said it suspended Mr. Qahtani’s account because of “violations of our platform manipulation policies.”

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Giuliani Revels in Another Cable Dust-up Defending Trump

WASHINGTON — In a television appearance on CNN Thursday night, Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer, appeared to acknowledge that President Trump had tried to pressure Ukraine into investigating Joseph R. Biden, Jr., the former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate. “Of course I did,” Mr. Giuliani said when pressed by Chris Cuomo, the

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Journalists see heart of Saudi oil industry after attack

Saudi Arabia took journalists on Friday to the site of a missile-and-drone strike on the kingdom’s oil industry that shook global energy markets over the weekend, while Kuwait raised the security levels at its ports following the attack that the U.S. alleges Iran carried out. The journalists arrived at Saudi Arabia’s Abqaiq oil processing facility,

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‘Cancer treatment broke my heart, but I’ve survived’

Image copyright Kreena Dhiman Image caption Kreena didn’t think she’d see her 40th birthday after having breast cancer and heart failure “It’s bonkers what’s happened over the past five years,” says Kreena Dhiman from Crawley in West Sussex. When diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013 at 33, she had just settled back into working life

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Sylvester Stallone Says He ‘Hated’ Dolph Lundgren When He Was Cast In ‘Rocky IV’

It sounds like Sylvester Stallone experienced a sucker punch to his ego when he first met Dolph Lundgren. Chatting with Jimmy Fallon on Thursday’s “Tonight Show,” Stallone admitted that — even though the two are friends now — he “hated” the Swedish action star the moment he walked in to audition for the role of Ivan

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Q&A: Climate activist Greta Thunberg on global strikes

Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg said she’s overwhelmed by the success of Friday’s climate protests. But the 16-year-old who sparked the global movement said she was underwhelmed by the United States government’s approach to climate change. Thunberg spoke with The Associated Press as the climate events were underway. Responses have been edited for length

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