Hiring President Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, was a “big mistake,” AT&T Inc Chief Executive Officer Randall Stephenson said in a memo to employees that went out Friday morning. AT&T’s head lobbyist, Bob Quinn, who oversaw the hiring of Cohen, is retiring, according to the memo. AT&T said on Tuesday it had hired Essential Consultants…
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are in the market for a permanent home in Washington, D.C., two people with knowledge of their search told Politico. Since January, the couple has been renting a $5.5 million, six-bedroom house in the Kalorama neighborhood. According to one of Politico’s sources, Trump and Kushner are eyeing a home larger…
(JTA) — According to new research done in Poland, two thirds of the local Jews who hid there from the Nazis did not survive the war, mostly because of the actions of their non-Jewish neighbors. The figure comes from a two-volume work of 1,600 pages that historians from the Warsaw-based Center for Research on Holocaust of…
An Arizona woman who called herself the “new Hitler” sent over 65,000 texts in one year to a man she met on a first date, the New York Post reported. Jacqueline Ades was arrested Tuesday and charged with stalking, threatening and harassing a man from the Phoenix area. Authorities said that after her arrest they…
Update, 12:28 p.m.: As soon as The Hill was made aware of the video and comments made by Andrade, it stopped publishing his opinion pieces and removed his work from the site, according to an email from Shirin Al-Hussein, Account Executive at High10 Media. A policy adviser for the pro-Trump group America First Policies praised…
The estranged wife of producer Harvey Weinstein, designer Georgina Chapman, on Thursday broke her silence on accusations of sexual misconduct against him, saying they sickened her. Chapman, co-founder of the Marchesa fashion label, told Vogue magazine in her first interview since the scandal broke last October, “I lost ten pounds in five days. I couldn’t…
Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson has given $30 million to the House GOP-aligned Congressional Leadership Fund, a large sum that top Republicans hope will boost the party’s electoral outlook in November, Politico reported on Thursday. House Speaker Paul Ryan flew to Las Vegas to meet with the billionaire at his Venetian Hotel, according to…
(JTA) — Dina Brawer, who was raised in the Chabad Hasidic group, became Britain’s first Orthodox female rabbi. She received her semicha, or rabbinic ordination, on Monday in London from British-born Israeli academic and rabbi, Dr. Daniel Sperber, after he administered a two-hour exam. She will take the title of rabba. She sat for her…
(JTA) — Mahathir Mohamad, an avowed anti-Semite, was sworn in as Malaysia’s prime minister, nearly two decades after he last held office. Mohamad led his opposition Pakatan Harapan (Alliance of Hope) coalition to victory in national elections on Wednesday. On Thursday he took his oath of office before the king, Sultan Muhammad V. Mohamad is known…
The Trump administration announced Thursday that the summit between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un will happen in Singapore. That has opened up the possibility that the summit could happen at a hotel owned by Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson. Adelson’s international Sands corporation unveiled the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore in 2010. At the…
(JTA) — President Trump signed legislation to help victims of the Holocaust and their families reclaim lost property in Poland. The Justice for Uncompensated Survivors Today, or JUST Act, was first introduced in February. The measure requires the State Department to report on the progress of certain European countries toward the return of or restitution for wrongfully…
