The World Bank announced Sunday at an event with Ivanka Trump, the U.S. president’s daughter and senior White House adviser, that Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates have pledged a combined $100 million to a fund that will assist women entrepreneurs and small business owners. Ms. Trump has made the promotion of women entrepreneurs a […]
Trump Makes History as First Serving President to Visit Western Wall…
Fifty years after Israel captured the Western Wall, US President Donald Trump on Monday became the first sitting American leader to visit the holy site, in a historic visit that saw him accompanied by his Jewish relatives in Jerusalem’s ancient Old City. Entering the Old City’s warren of alleyways on Monday — on lockdown by […]
Gloria Steinem: Forced Childbirth ‘the Fundamental Cause of Climate Change’…
The founder of Ms. magazine had no trouble linking two of the emblematic leftist causes into one mega issue, arguing that lack of access to “reproductive health services” leads to overpopulation, which in turn causes the earth to warm uncontrollably. Asked by Refinery29 whether climate change wasn’t also a “feminist” issues, Ms. Steinem ran with […]
Ivanka Trump to Head Review of U.S. Role in Paris Climate Change Agreement…
The agreement requires countries to cut greenhouse emissions on a country-by-country basis, with Obama committing the U.S. to reduce carbon emissions by at least 26 percent below 2005 levels by 2025. The U.S. is expected to have a representative at the United Nations’ climate change meeting in Bonn, Germany, next week but Trump’s advisers — […]
Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner: Rising Powers at the White House…
The speculation began almost immediately after Donald Trump was elected: Who would have the ear of the famously unpredictable 45th president? For a time it appeared that White House adviser Steve Bannon, memorably depicted as the Grim Reaper on “Saturday Night Live,” was the power behind the throne. Another trusted aide, Kellyanne Conway, was also […]
President Trump Must Not Wobble on Climate Change – Whatever Ivanka Says by James Delingpole…
A daughter can make a man do almost anything. I know: I’ve got one and I am putty in her hands. If she wants a pony and bats her eyelashes at me, I’ll be off in a trice to buy her a herd. Baby unicorn ponies, if that’s what she prefers. With jewels inlaid in […]