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The Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City has been described as the biggest gamble of Donald Trump’s business career. In 1990, he relied on high-interest loans known as junk bonds to launch the casino-hotel complex. The gamble was a spectacular failure and, just over a year later, the Taj Mahal filed for bankruptcy. Now Trump is taking the biggest gamble …

US secretary of state Rex Tillerson has directed US diplomatic missions to identify “populations warranting increased scrutiny” and toughen screening for visa applicants in those groups, according to diplomatic cables seen by Reuters. He has also ordered a “mandatory social media check” for all applicants who have ever been present in territory controlled by Islamic State, in what two former …

Hi everyone, how are you? If your name is Ivanka (there really aren’t that many of you), then maybe you had a great week. Maybe you got a new job with your dad with perks like access to classified information from the US government (chances are much higher if your last name is Trump). Which brings me to the subject …

The foreign ministers or foreign ministry representatives of about 60 countries are to meet Wednesday in Washington to discuss strategy in the fight against the terrorist group Islamic State. The State Department said the diplomats would “review the campaign to date and strategize how to further accelerate the defeat of ISIS,” using an alternative name for Islamic State. Secretary of …

The Presidency Wednesday night dissociated itself from the face-off between the Senate and the Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hammed Ali (rtd), saying that the issue does not concern the Presidency. Recall that the Senate on Wednesday declared Ali unfit to occupy the office of CG Customs and subsequently called for his sack. The Customs CG had declined to appear before …

The Senate on Wednesday asked President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the Comptroller- General of Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali,rtd because he is unfit to hold any public office. The Senate has also urged the NCS to outrightly cancel its proposed payment of import duty on old Vehicles. The resolutions of the Senate followed the failure of the …

Senator Dino Melaye has said he will continue to speak the truth even if it costs him his life. “You speak the truth, you die; you lie, you die. Melaye Daniel Dino has decided to speak the truth and die,” the Senator representing Kogi West said on Wednesday in reaction to a letter that the Attorney-General of the Federation and …

Four people have died, including a police officer, and at least 20 people were injured in a major terror attack outside the Houses of Parliament, the Metropolitan police have confirmed. Mark Rowley, the head of counter-terrorism at the Met, said a police officer had been killed and his attacker shot. Two other people died after a vehicle drove at speed, …

On 21 July 2007, George W Bush underwent surgery to have five polyps removed after what was described as a routine colonoscopy. The date may have been lost to history, but for the rare invocation at the time of a constitutional amendment laying out how the transfer of power to the vice-president works in cases of presidential disability. For 125 …

The leader of an organization widely identified as an anti-Muslim hate group visited the White House on Tuesday and described her visit as “very productive”. Brigitte Gabriel, a Lebanese-American conservative, has written two books warning about the dangers of “radical Islam”. Act for America, the organization she founded, describes itself as the “the NRA of national security” and claims 500,000 …