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President-elect Donald Trump said on Saturday that he wants real estate developer Charles Kushner, father of Mr Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, to serve as ambassador to France. Mr Trump made the announcement in a Truth Social post, calling Charles Kushner “a tremendous business leader, philanthropist, & dealmaker”. Mr Kushner is the founder of Kushner Companies, a real estate firm. Jared Kushner is a former senior Trump adviser who is married to Trump’s eldest daughter, Ivanka. The elder Mr Kushner was pardoned by Trump in December 2020 after pleading guilty years earlier to tax evasion and making illegal campaign donations. Prosecutors alleged that after Charles Kushner discovered his brother-in-law was co-operating with federal authorities in an investigation, he hatched a scheme for revenge and intimidation. Mr Kushner hired a prostitute to lure his brother-in-law, then arranged to have the encounter in a New Jersey motel room recorded with a hidden camera and the recording sent to his own sister, the man’s wife, prosecutors said. Mr Kushner eventually pleaded guilty to 18 counts including tax evasion and witness tampering. He was sentenced in 2005 to two years in prison – the most he could receive under a plea deal, but less than what Chris Christie, the US attorney for New Jersey at the time and later governor and Republican presidential candidate, had sought. Mr Christie has blamed Jared Kushner for his firing from Mr Trump’s transition team in 2016, and has called Charles Kushner’s offences “one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes that I prosecuted when I was US attorney”. Mr Trump and the elder Mr Kushner knew each other from real estate circles and their children were married in 2009.Mr Trump made the announcement in a Truth Social post, calling Charles Kushner “a tremendous business leader, philanthropist, & dealmaker”. Mr Kushner is the founder of Kushner Companies, a real estate firm. Jared Kushner is a former senior Trump adviser who is married to Trump’s eldest daughter, Ivanka. The elder Mr Kushner was pardoned by Trump in December 2020 after pleading guilty years earlier to tax evasion and making illegal campaign donations. Prosecutors alleged that after Charles Kushner discovered his brother-in-law was co-operating with federal authorities in an investigation, he hatched a scheme for revenge and intimidation. Mr Kushner hired a prostitute to lure his brother-in-law, then arranged to have the encounter in a New Jersey motel room recorded with a hidden camera and the recording sent to his own sister, the man’s wife, prosecutors said. Mr Kushner eventually pleaded guilty to 18 counts including tax evasion and witness tampering. He was sentenced in 2005 to two years in prison – the most he could receive under a plea deal, but less than what Chris Christie, the US attorney for New Jersey at the time and later governor and Republican presidential candidate, had sought. Mr Christie has blamed Jared Kushner for his firing from Mr Trump’s transition team in 2016, and has called Charles Kushner’s offences “one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes that I prosecuted when I was US attorney”. Mr Trump and the elder Mr Kushner knew each other from real estate circles and their children were married in 2009.No. 1 South Carolina women stunned by fifth-ranked UCLA 77-62, ending Gamecocks' 43-game win streak
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Mr Trump made the announcement in a Truth Social post, calling Charles Kushner “a tremendous business leader, philanthropist, & dealmaker”. Mr Kushner is the founder of Kushner Companies, a real estate firm. Jared Kushner is a former senior Trump adviser who is married to Trump’s eldest daughter, Ivanka. The elder Mr Kushner was pardoned by Trump in December 2020 after pleading guilty years earlier to tax evasion and making illegal campaign donations. Prosecutors alleged that after Charles Kushner discovered his brother-in-law was co-operating with federal authorities in an investigation, he hatched a scheme for revenge and intimidation. Mr Kushner hired a prostitute to lure his brother-in-law, then arranged to have the encounter in a New Jersey motel room recorded with a hidden camera and the recording sent to his own sister, the man’s wife, prosecutors said. Mr Kushner eventually pleaded guilty to 18 counts including tax evasion and witness tampering. He was sentenced in 2005 to two years in prison – the most he could receive under a plea deal, but less than what Chris Christie, the US attorney for New Jersey at the time and later governor and Republican presidential candidate, had sought. Mr Christie has blamed Jared Kushner for his firing from Mr Trump’s transition team in 2016, and has called Charles Kushner’s offences “one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes that I prosecuted when I was US attorney”. Mr Trump and the elder Mr Kushner knew each other from real estate circles and their children were married in 2009.
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NDP will not support Liberal GST holiday bill unless rebate expanded: SinghMADISON, Wis. — John Tonje had 22 points and Nolan Winter scored 12 to pace Wisconsin to a 74-53 win over Chicago State on Saturday. Wisconsin (8-0) gained control with a 17-3 run early in the second half, going in front 49-30 on a dunk by Winter with 11:21 remaining. The Cougars (0-9) made just 1 of 13 shots during that stretch. Jalen Forrest was the only Cougars player to score in double figures. He had 10 points. Chicago State, which missed its first 10 shots from beyond the arc, pulled within 30-25 on Greg Spate’s 3-pointer with 1:37 left in the first half. Tonje’s lay-in put the Badgers up 32-25 at the break. Chicago State: The Cougars, who entered averaging 59.1 points, struggled again offensively. Their point differential of minus-25.3 per game was 352nd out of 355 teams in Division 1. Wisconsin: The Badgers avoided the slow start that has plagued them in several games this season. Wisconsin trailed Holy Cross by 16 early in the season opener, Appalachian State early by nine, and in its last game, overcame a 14-point first-half deficit in an 81-75 win over Pittsburgh. Chicago State scored to open the second and pull within 32-27, but the Badgers answered with an 8-0 run, going in front 40-27 on Tonje’s 3-pointer from the left corner. Wisconsin, which entered No. 1 in the nation in free-throw percentage at 86.5% (147-of-170), made 18 of 21 from the line. Wisconsin hosts Michigan on Tuesday in the Big Ten opener for each team. Chicago State is at St. Thomas (Minn.) on Monday.
Six-week-old Alexis McCann has finally been given Australian citizenship after publicity and political pressure seem to have prodded the Home Affairs department into action. or signup to continue reading The baby was born to a surrogate mother in Colombia on October 11, and since then she and her parents, Melinda and Gail, together with Alexis' sister, Chloe, have been , waiting for the Australian paperwork to go through. On Saturday, it finally did after published the couple's plea on Friday, prompting Senator David Pocock to take up the case. Before that, Melinda McCann had phoned and emailed the immigration department in Canberra daily, trying to get progress. She said she felt like she was being treated like a number and not like a human being. On Friday, a member of Senator Pocock's staff liaised with the McCann family in Bogota and then pressed the Home Affairs department. On Saturday, the citizenship decision came through. "I'm very relieved that Alexis is now an Australian citizen," Melinda McCann said. "That's a big step, and I'm grateful to Senator Pocock for his behind-the-scenes work, and to . "We really want to come home." They have a flight booked this Wednesday but citizen Alexis still needs a passport first, so the family is hoping that Australian diplomats in Bogota can get that processed in time for the flight. The family has tickets back to Australia at a cost of $7500. Melinda McCann said the surrogacy process had already cost $88,000. It's not been easy. Apart from the stress of getting the Home Affairs department to process the citizenship application, Melinda McCann was also mugged. The robber on a motorbike didn't get cash but did get her unlocked phone - and that meant the banks froze her accounts. "This motorbike came hooning round the corner to take my baby and my 14-year-old so I jumped in front of him. He snatched my hand and took my phone." Before Alexis' citizenship was granted, the new parents were at the end of their tether. Melinda McCann had appealed to the Home Affairs Department to "please treat me like a human being and not like a number. We are people with feelings, stuck in a foreign country, scared to leave the apartment. "I'm calling every day with raw emotion. Just validate me as a human being. Surely, there is somebody they can get to call me up." Colombia is a popular country for couples seeking a woman to bear a child as a surrogate. There is a legal process involving health checks on the surrogate mother at an IVF clinic. There is a legal contract. One glitch might have been that Alexis' biological parents - the sperm donor and the woman who carried the baby - were not named on the Colombian birth certificate. There was then a lot of email to-and-fro. Melinda McCann said that one official email she received said: "Please note that we do require official English translation of this notary deed document to continue the assessment of this application. "In regards to urgent processing of this application, please note that the citizenship by descent application is being reviewed within our processing times as published in citizenship processing times." They were getting increasingly desperate. When she first spoke to , Melinda said she hadn't slept for four nights. Other couples there had had citizenship granted to their newborn child quickly, she said. "Most people are out of here after four to five weeks but we are heading for eight weeks," the mother said. The couple - Melinda and Gail McCann - already had five children between them before Alexis. One of them - Chloe - is in Bogota with them (and with her new sister). The others are in Australia. Two are adults and two are in their late teens being looked after by other members of the family. Melinda McCann has a business in Queanbeyan - Kapital Care - which provides "disability support, mental health and aged care services in Canberra, Queanbeyan and Wollongong". She said it had 60 employees. Steve Evans is a reporter on The Canberra Times. He's been a BBC correspondent in New York, London, Berlin and Seoul and the sole reporter/photographer/paper deliverer on The Glen Innes Examiner in country New South Wales. "All the jobs have been fascinating - and so it continues." Steve Evans is a reporter on The Canberra Times. He's been a BBC correspondent in New York, London, Berlin and Seoul and the sole reporter/photographer/paper deliverer on The Glen Innes Examiner in country New South Wales. "All the jobs have been fascinating - and so it continues." Advertisement Sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date. We care about the protection of your data. Read our . Advertisement
As Americans are beyond burned out, Tricia Hersey’s Nap Ministry preaches the right to restPALERMO, Calif. (AP) — Two children were wounded in a shooting Wednesday at a small religious K-8 school in Northern California and the shooter died from a suspected self-inflicted gunshot, sheriff’s officials said. The children’s conditions were not immediately known. The shooting occurred Wednesday afternoon at the Feather River School of Seventh-Day Adventists, a private, K-8 school in Palermo, a community of 5,500 people about 65 miles (104 km) north of Sacramento. Related Articles National News | Abandoned mines in the US pose dangers to people and property when land gives way National News | Dog food recalled in 7 states for salmonella risk after puppy litter gets sick, FDA says National News | White House says at least 8 US telecom firms, dozens of nations impacted by China hacking campaign National News | Powell: Fed’s independence from politics is vital to its interest rate decisions National News | United Healthcare CEO kept a low public profile. Then he was shot to death in New York Butte County Sheriff Kory L. Honea said the 911 calls reported “an individual on campus who had fired shots at students,” and said that the shooter did not appear to have a connection to the school. The motive was not immediately known, he continued. One student was flown to a nearby hospital, Honea said. Authorities rushed students to the Oroville Church of the Nazarene to be reunited with their families, the sheriff’s office said. The school has been open since 1965 and caters to fewer than three dozen children, according to its website.
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — MiLaysia Fulwiley’s 14 points led seven players in double figures as fourth-ranked South Carolina overwhelmed Purdue 99-51 in the Women’s Fort Myers Tip-Off on Saturday. Ashlyn Watkins and Tessa Johnson added 13 points, Chloe Kitts and Bree Hall had 12, Joyce Edwards 11 and Maddy McDaniel 10 for the Gamecocks (7-1). Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.