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Now, with his son newly installed as a top aide to the president, Kushner even expressed hope, one close family friend said, that he might receive a pardon. Absolution, however, is not what the White House has conferred on the Kushners. Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn are studying whether one of Kushner's daughters dangled White House influence before prospective Chinese investors. Most recently, the head of the federal Office of Government Ethics informed a House member in a letter that he had asked the White House counsel to examine meetings in the White House last year between Jared Kushner and officials from two financial companies. That Josh Kushner, 32, has made no secret of the fact that he did not vote for Trump upset his brother, several friends said. "We are actively involved in more than US$3 billion of projects and banks are providing US$1.5 billion of financing in the first six months of this year," he said. Josh Kushner, who runs the investment firm Thrive Capital, which recently raised a US$700 million fund, cleared the meeting with outside counsel beforehand, his spokesman said. Charles Kushner says he is willing to buy out his partner, but some business associates say that would only double an already money-losing real estate bet. She added that her brother had left the firm to work in the Trump administration. "My daughter, our company, did nothing wrong," he said.

Sleep has been hard to come by for Ryan Meili so far this year. READ MORE: Sask. WATCH: Ryan Meili wins Saskatchewan NDP leadership vote The NDP and its predecessor the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation have a proud history in the province. In 2012, he released a book called “A Healthy Society,” which argues that a focus on health can revive Canadian democracy. His wife is also a doctor, a pediatrician, who focuses on refugee health. Meili has known Calvert for more than a decade and calls him a friend. “They’ve been really important voices for me, both of them.” READ MORE: Ryan Meili wins Saskatoon-Meewasin byelection It took Meili three cracks to win the leadership. His leadership campaign this time around included proposals for a $15 minimum wage, universal pharmacare and removing corporate and union donations from politics. He suggests that may help the NDP in urban areas, but not necessarily rural constituencies where the governing Saskatchewan Party just won three byelections. Party,” Poelzer said.

Coming home to Abe and Gus sort of puts everything in perspective and I enjoy that.” Meili, 42, defeated Trent Wotherspoon earlier this month to win the leadership of Saskatchewan’s official Opposition. A family doctor by trade, he has practised across the province and did his residency in Saskatoon, where he’s spent the last several years. His wife is also a doctor, a pediatrician, who focuses on refugee health. Meili has known Calvert for more than a decade and calls him a friend. “I’ve had a chance to know him and Roy Romanow quite well, and often will call them up and just go and listen to their stories and hear what their experiences were and their thoughts on what happened during their time in leadership,” Meili says. He won the Saskatoon Meewasin seat in the legislature in a byelection last spring. His leadership campaign this time around included proposals for a $15 minimum wage, universal pharmacare and removing corporate and union donations from politics. Greg Poelzer, a political science professor at the University of Saskatchewan, says Meili’s election is a shift to the left for the party. He suggests that may help the NDP in urban areas, but not necessarily rural constituencies where the governing Saskatchewan Party just won three byelections. ‘That Scott Moe won.

Ivanka Trump "has privately said she was naive when she first came to Washington ... unprepared for the palace infighting," the WashPost's Ashley Parker and Phil Rucker write in a front-pager. And now: "By many accounts, her trip to South Korea [for the Olympics] was a success and arguably helped lay the groundwork for her father’s surprise decision Thursday to talk with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un." "It was not until the hiring of White House spokesman Josh Raffel last April that she and Kushner aggressively moved to protect their reputations." "Ivanka ... sat down with The Post in her office on the West Wing’s second floor — a tucked-away modernist oasis of bright white and clean lines — for two interviews on back-to-back days in late February, portions of which were off the record." "Ivanka argues that every issue she has championed is also a policy her father campaigned on and pushed in office. Paid family leave, for instance, is far from a Republican rallying cry, but it is something Trump mentioned on the campaign trail and in both of his addresses to Congress." British Prime Minister Theresa May updated the House of Commons on the investigation into the nerve agent attack against Russian former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter this afternoon, stating that "the [British] government has concluded that it is highly likely that Russia was responsible for the act against Sergei and Yulia Skripal." What's next: May said that Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson had summoned Russia's ambassador to provide an explanation for the use on British soil of a nerve agent manufactured by the Russian government — with an acceptable response required by Wednesday: Should there be no credible response, we will conclude that this action amounts to an unlawful use of force by the Russian state against the United Kingdom. Lyft says that in 2017 Q4 it saw 168% in GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) revenue growth year-over-year, and that it brought "over $1 billion" in GAAP revenue for the whole year. Why it matters: While Lyft continues to deny IPO rumors, it's not surprise that the ride-hailing company is touting numbers that show it's growing and doing well.

After a week of chaos and infighting at the White House, speculation remains rife over who might soon follow communications director Hope Hicks and resign. ‘Call it chaos’: Trump adrift after week of White House anarchy Read more Presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner saw his ability to function as a senior adviser threatened after his security clearances were downgraded at the behest of the chief of staff, John Kelly, whose own position has been questioned recently. He added: “This is most particularly sensitive because it’s a family member. It becomes a lot more difficult if you’re going to be sitting at Thanksgiving dinner with that person. “And so for Jared and for Ivanka [Trump’s daughter] and for all the other members of the family who were involved in one way or the other, I think everybody’s got to focus on what’s best for the president.” Kushner is facing a series of reports concerning the intersection of his business and political portfolios, including one by the New York Times that said his company received hundreds of millions of dollars in loans from investors who attended White House meetings. “I think Hope Hicks saw that between the Rob Porter situation and some of the other things that were going on that she was becoming a distraction for the president and less of an asset in her mind,” Christie said. If I’m not 100% an asset for the president, I’m gonna back away.’ And I think she deserves credit and I don’t think she’s getting a lot of it in this kind of scandal-driven stuff that’s going on.” Trump aides defend tariffs move as Europe and China decry 'trade war' Read more Among the names suggested as next out the door are chief economic adviser Gary Cohn, reportedly angered by Trump’s sudden trade tariff decision, and national security adviser HR McMaster, who has reportedly never got on with the president. Despite Trump’s public falling out with Jeff Sessions, it is not thought likely the attorney general will go. The former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus – who resigned last July – told ABC the Trump-Sessions feud was “a problem” but said: “I don’t think it would be good for the president for Attorney General Sessions to leave.” Trump’s grievance with Sessions is based on the former Alabama senator’s decision to recuse himself from investigations into Russian election meddling. And so I think when he feels frustrated by the Russia probe and all of those things he watches on television and reads about in the paper.” Christie said: “The president has the right to do what he wants to do.

Robert Mueller is one step closer to Trump's inner circle after Michael Flynn pleaded guilty in the Russia probe. So who in Trump’s world has the most to worry about with Michael Flynn’s testimony? Lawrence O’Donnell discusses with David Frum,…

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