John F. Kennedy International Airport, where furious passengers have been stranded for days as a result of equipment damaged by the storm and a backlog of flights, saw further meltdown with Terminal 4 flooded, CNN footage showed.

Water gushed from the ceiling and the arrivals area was submerged by standing water, through which a few intrepid passengers picked their way gingerly, according to images broadcast by the television network.

JFK confirmed the water main break at Terminal 4 and warned passengers via Twitter of flight delays, advising them to check with their airline before travelling to the airport.

Air India, China Airlines, Delta, Egyptair, El Al, Emirates, Etihad, KLM Royal Dutch, Singapore Airlines, Thomas Cook and Virgin Atlantic are just some of the airlines processed by Terminal 4.

It comes after the airport was forced to close Terminal 1, which serves the likes of Air France, Japan Airlines and Lufthansa, to international arrivals on Saturday to get on top of the backlog.

“I am so angry, words cannot even express how I feel right now,” one stranded female traveler told NBC television before the water leak.

Ninety-four flights were cancelled at JFK on Saturday and 17 diverted, as the extreme cold and storm recovery “created a cascading series of issues for the airlines and terminal operators,” said the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey that runs the airport.

“Airlines remain in recovery mode, rebooking passengers from canceled flights and reuniting passengers with their luggage,” it said.

“Frigid temperatures continue to cause equipment failures and slower than normal operations. Customers may experience residual delays, particularly for international flights,” it added in a statement.

Record lows

“Frigid temperatures continue to cause equipment failures and slower than normal operations. Customers may experience residual delays, particularly for international flights,” it added in a statement.

JFK was one the parts of New York that saw record lows for January 7, including four degrees Fahrenheit (minus 15.5 degrees Celsius).

The big freeze follows a storm Thursday dubbed a “bomb cyclone,” which has been blamed for at least 22 reported deaths in the United States.

Boston, which saw some of the heaviest snow from the storm, froze with a Sunday morning low of minus two degrees Fahrenheit (minus 19 degrees Celsius) — matching the previous January 7 record in 1896.

Massachusetts marked three record lows on Sunday, with Providence and Worcester frozen at minus two and minus seven respectively, breaking records last set in 1912 and 1942, the National Weather Service said.

The bitter cold is forecast to remain on the East Coast Sunday with highs below freezing as far south as parts of North Carolina.

Forecasters predicted ice accumulations from a band of freezing rain from Missouri through Ohio and Tennessee into the Mid-Atlantic, warning of hazardous road conditions.

But in New York, at least, a wind chill warning was lifted. Temperatures are expected to rise as the US financial capital embarks on a new working week from Monday.

Extreme cold advisories were also lifted in parts of eastern Canada, albeit with midday temperatures still at minus four degrees in Quebec and heavy snowfall due in South Ontario, and Newfoundland and Labrador.

Sea crossings, such as the ferry service linking Prince Edward Island to the Magdalen Islands were still largely suspended.

Hindu refugees are prepared to return to Myanmar’s strife-torn Rakhine State even as a Rohingya Muslim militant group claimed responsibility for a new round of violence over the weekend.

A militant attack on a military engineering regiment in Rakhine’s Maungdaw township injured five soldiers, including one in serious condition.

The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) said via Twitter yesterday that it had ambushed the army vehicle in retaliation for the mistreatment of, and atrocities against, the Rohingya community in Myanmar.

The ARSA statement said the Myanmar army “continues to commit heinous crimes”, besieging Rohingya villages, starving the population and denying it access to medical care.

The insurgent ARSA launched a series of attacks last August, prompting a tough reaction and a “clearance operation” from the Myanmar military.

The operation, which the United Nations said contained elements of ethnic cleansing, forced more than 650,000 people from Rakhine to Bangladesh.

Bangladesh wanted the refugees to start returning to Myanmar by the end of this month under a controversial agreement between the two nations.

The vast majority are Rohingya Muslims who have faced decades of persecution in Myanmar, which sees them as illegal immigrants, even though many have lived there for generations. They say they would rather stay in squalid camps in Bangladesh than return to the scene of the violence they had fled.

But a small community of Hindus who lived alongside the Rohingya in Myanmar’s Rakhine state and were caught up in the turmoil say they do want to return.

Hindu farmer Surodhon Pal has packed his bags, eager to return to Myanmar after fleeing for Bangladesh during a wave of violence last year, but he is in a tiny minority. Most of the refugees are terrified of going home.

“We want security and we want food. If the authorities can give us those assurances we’ll happily go back,” Pal, 55, told AFP.

“The Bangladeshi government and the UN looked after us well but now we have prepared our bags and are ready to return to our country.”

Last month Dhaka sent a list of 100,000 refugees to Myanmar authorities for repatriation after the two governments signed an agreement in November for the process to begin on January 23.

But rights groups and the United Nations say no one should be repatriated against their will and, so far, only about 500 Hindu refugees have expressed a willingness to go.

Massacre by masked men

Modhuram Pal, a 35-year-old community leader, said about 50 Hindus had already returned to Rakhine, where they were welcomed by Myanmar security forces.

Hindus who fled the area have told AFP that masked men stormed their community and hacked victims to death with machetes before dumping them into freshly-dug pits.

Myanmar’s military alleges the ARSA carried out the massacre on August 25, the same day the rebel group staged deadly raids on police posts that sparked a military backlash. At least 45 bodies have been found in mass graves. The ARSA has denied the allegations, saying it does not target civilians. But Pal and his fellow Hindu refugees say they will only go back if they are rehoused away from their former villages in Rakhine.

Monubala, a Hindu woman who like many of the refugees goes by one name, told AFP that masked men dressed in black had attacked her village near Kha Maung Seik, where the massacre occurred.

“I left my home, including my chickens, ducks, goats and all my property, and came to Bangladesh to save my life,” she said.

Doctors without Borders estimates that thousands were killed in the violence that hit Rakhine in late August.

People around the world have been shocked by consistent accounts by Rohingya refugees of security forces and ethnic Rakhine Buddhist mobs driving them out of their homes with bullets, rape and arson.

Although the influx has slowed, hundreds of Rohingya are still crossing into Bangladesh, now home to around a million refugees.

Rights groups say the crackdown was the culmination of years of persecution and discrimination against the Muslim group in mainly Buddhist Myanmar, where they are effectively stateless and denigrated as outsiders.

The painting, measuring 166.5 by 72.5 meters and nearly finished, is done by Zen master and painter Hung Chi-sung to promote world peace. Only a third of the painting is on display at the Taoyuan Arena and the completed painting will be displayed in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, in May.

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Billed as the most raucous event in the showbiz calendar, the champagne-drenched Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s annual prize-giving is a draw for filmmakers and actors looking to create some buzz ahead of March’s Academy Awards.

But this year’s ceremony, seen as the first big opportunity for the industry to unite against a pervasive culture of sexual misconduct brought to light by the downfall of disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, may strike a more somber tone.

“The deluge of sexual misconduct revelations has been the story of the year, so it’s safe to predict that it will be the story of the night at the Golden Globes,” Debra Birnbaum, executive editor for television at industry weekly Variety, told AFP.

“It will influence everything from Seth Meyers’ monologue to impassioned acceptance speeches to the fashion.”

The ceremony at the Beverly Hilton — the first for late night NBC funnyman Meyers as host — is not as reliable at predicting Oscars glory as the galas held by Hollywood’s acting, producing and directing unions.

But it remains one of the most high-profile and glamorous events of the awards calendar and tends to generate more headlines for tipsy tributes, daring gowns and wacky tuxedos.

– Solidarity –

Actors and actresses are however expected to turn out in black this year, in solidarity with victims of Weinstein and numerous other figures exposed by the harassment and abuse scandal, including Kevin Spacey, Brett Ratner and Dustin Hoffman.

The directors of the best foreign film entries were asked at a Q&A in Hollywood on Saturday if even attending the Globes could be taken as a sign of tolerance for the film industry’s misogynistic culture.

“We have many things that have to be dealt with in the world,” said Angelina Jolie, who made the Cambodian entry, “First They Killed my Father.”

“The issues are very big and very serious. We have a lot of work to do.”

Leading the pack this year is Guillermo del Toro’s fantasy romance “The Shape of Water” with seven nominations, while “The Post” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” are tied for second, with six each.

Overall, 25 awards are given out — 14 for movies and 11 for TV — and, as usual, the 90-member HFPA has sprung more than a few surprises in the nominations, placing horror satire “Get Out” in the best comedy-musical category.

– Wide open –

While many fields are wide open, James Franco (“The Disaster Artist”) is almost certain to win best actor in a musical/comedy movie, according to awards prediction website Gold Derby, ahead of Daniel Kaluuya (“Get Out”).

The site expects Saoirse Ronan (“Lady Bird”) to pip Margot Robbie (“I, Tonya”) in the parallel race for best actresses for her acclaimed performance as a troubled teen.

On the small-screen, HBO’s “Big Little Lies” leads with six nominations, followed by FX’s “Feud: Bette and Joan,” with four, and “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Fargo,” and “This Is Us” all picking up three nods apiece.

Gold Derby’s Amanda Spears speculated that the harassment scandal could boost “Big Little Lies” star Shailene Woodley in the race for best supporting TV actress for her Emmy-nominated performance as a single mother raising a child conceived by rape.

The star-studded roll call of presenters this year includes “Game of Thrones” duo Emilia Clarke and Kit Harington, as well as Penelope Cruz, Gal Gadot, Hugh Grant and Chris Hemsworth.

Baby Tizio was undergoing emergency treatment for an undisclosed illness and was attached to gastric and intravenous tubes when he was snatched on Friday evening from a children’s hospital in the southern city of Toulouse, triggering an abduction alert.

He was later found at Belcaire, some two hours’ drive south of Toulouse, an informed source said, after an off-duty policeman recognised the number plate of the father’s car, which had been included in an appeal for the man’s whereabouts.

“The child is fine,” said the source.

The child’s 33-year-old unemployed father and his elder brother were arrested at a family home, the Toulouse prosecutor’s office said.

Authorities had warned the baby’s life was at risk if he did not receive immediate medical care.

“I want to talk to Brendan, Tizio’s father, to remind him of the gravity of his son’s condition, that his life is in danger, and he needs to take his boy to the nearest emergency department urgently,” the CHU Purpan hospital’s director Anne Ferrer told reporters earlier.

– Abduction ‘incomprehensible’ –

The father is separated from Tizio’s mother, but they appear to have been on cordial terms and he visited the baby in hospital every day.

A source close to the case said Tizio’s abducition was “incomprehensible”.

“He is a loving father who took care of his child,” said prosecutor Pierre-Yves Couilleau.

CCTV cameras showed the father leaving hospital at around 7:30 pm, about an hour after medical staff last saw the baby.

Staff found the infant’s room empty at 9:30 pm, only alerting the mother three hours later.

Brendan, who had spent the day with Tizio, was described as tall and slender with a full beard and long black-brown curly hair.

The “abduction alert” in France was inspired by the Amber Alert child abduction system set up in the United States in 1996 after the kidnap and murder of a nine-year-old girl in Texas.

The French system has been used more than 20 times since it was established in 2006, and all the children were found safe and sound, all but two of them very quickly.

The tanker, carrying 136,000 tonnes of oil condensate, caught fire after the collision Saturday night and its crew of 30 Iranians and two Bangladeshis were missing, China’s transport ministry said in a statement.

The other vessel had been damaged but “without jeopardising the safety of the ship” and all its 21 Chinese crew had been rescued, it added.

The tanker was still ablaze Sunday, with images broadcast by state television channel CCTV showing the ship in the grip of an intense fire, enveloped in clouds of black smoke.

The Panamanian-flagged 274-metre (899-foot) tanker Sanchi was operated by Iran’s Glory Shipping and heading to South Korea with its cargo, the ministry said.

The accident happened about 160 nautical miles east of Shanghai.

The second vessel involved was a Hong Kong-flagged cargo ship, the CF Crystal, carrying 64,000 tonnes of grain.

“The Sanchi is still floating and continues to burn, there is oil on the sea surface; search and rescue operations are rushing and underway,” the ministry said in a statement.

Chinese maritime authorities have sent eight ships for the search and rescue operation and South Korea has sent a plane and a 3,000-tonne coastguard ship to help.

“Our ship and plane have arrived at the site and are working closely with Chinese maritime authorities,” a coastguard official said.

Iran’s Petroleum Ministry said the tanker belongs to the National Iranian Tanker Company and was delivering its cargo to South Korea’s Hanwha Total. The ship and its cargo were insured, a statement said.

Cannabis growers, sellers and financial institutions supporting them, a roughly $7 billion industry, are particularly under threat by the move, and the lack of clarity on how toughly federal anti-pot laws will be enforced will make it difficult for any to build their young businesses, industry experts said.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday rescinded the policies of the former Obama administration that made clear the federal government would not challenge local laws that were contrary to federal anti-pot statutes.

Announcing a “return to the rule of law,” Sessions called on the 94 US attorneys around the country to enforce the federal laws, which classify marijuana as a dangerous narcotic like heroin.

Pot businesses nervous

People in the industry are very concerned, including those in the 29 states and the District of Columbia able to buy marijuana for medical use, and those in the six states that have begun producing and selling pot for recreational use, said Justin Strekal, political director of NORML, the key national lobby for reforming marijuana laws.

“The marijuana business community, in the event of increased federal enforcement, it is going to be the most threatened,” he said.

“But the collateral consequence is to the consumers for those businesses. If their friendly local medical marijuana dispensary is closed down, that means they can’t get the best medicine their doctor recommended for them.”

Vendors in the six Western states which have begun recreational sales — Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Alaska and California — were set on edge, not knowing if the policy shift presages a tough crackdown.

“We’re going crazy right now,” said one marketer at a Las Vegas marijuana shop, declining to be identified.

Policy remains vague

Sessions did not explain how the new stance would be enforced, saying it was up to the US attorneys in the areas.

Some, like Bob Troyer, the US attorney for Colorado, made clear there will be no change in his stance locally.

In Arkansas, which is in the process of launching a medical marijuana industry this year, Scott Hardin, spokesman for the state finance department, said that for them, Sessions’ decision hasn’t changed anything.

“We determined that we’re going to move forward,” he said, expecting that ultimately at least 30,000 people will sign up for medical marijuana.

“What we are looking for is that formal direction.”

But with most of the federal prosecutors being appointed by the Trump administration, and some chosen by longtime cannabis opponent Sessions himself, Strekal said it was easy to imagine some taking a hard line.

“A US attorney who might have the inkling to play cowboy or make a name for themselves” could try to shut down pot farms, stores and dispensaries that local laws consider legal, he said.

Furthermore, federal prosecutors can use “RICO” laws aimed at organized crime to threaten others linked to the industry, whether banks, equipment suppliers or transport firms.

The decision sent the shares of publicly-listed pot industry firms, mostly industrial-sized cannabis farmers, tumbling between 13 and 31 percent Thursday. Most only recovered half of that loss Friday, and industry analysts said they could face more difficulties obtaining financing in the uncertain climate left by the Sessions decision.

The decision sparked fresh pressure on Congress to act to remove marijuana from the official federal list of dangerous drugs, which would ease the threat to pot users and businesses.

Legislators from states where cannabis is legal blasted Sessions for the policy shift.

“Our country is in the midst of an opioid crisis and the AG is going to divert resources to cracking down on medical marijuana? This is either willfully ignorant or cowing to corporate greed on behalf of pharma special interest profits,” said New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.

The HCM City People’s Court has dismissed a suit by the Dutch-based ride-hailing company Uber International Services Holding B.V against the city tax department seeking remedy against a claim for back taxes.

VNExpress electronic newspaper reported the court said Uber Vietnam, a subsidiary of Uber International, “does not have the required legal status for such a case”.

In September, the department ordered Uber to pay VND66.68 billion (US$2.94 million) in tax arrears and penalties for tax evasion by December 23. But the company only paid up VNĐ13.3 billion ($586,000).

The department then asked five local banks to appropriate more than VND53.38 billion ($2.35 million) from Uber’s accounts by January 10.

Uber then filed the lawsuit against the department.

On December 29, the department received a notice from the court to put on hold its appropriation from Uber.

Now that the case has been dismissed, the tax authorities will proceed to collect the amount.

Minister of Transport Nguyen Van The said Vietnam should learn from the European Union (EU) to manage the operation of companies such as Uber and Grab to ensure fair competition for traditional taxi firms.

At a conference of the General Directorate for Road of Vietnam on Tuesday, The said the management of Uber and Grab remained controversial worldwide.

However, in December, the EU’s top court ruled that Uber should be classified as a transport service and regulated like other taxi operators despite Uber’s argument that it was simply a digital app acting as an intermediary between drivers and passengers.

“We should learn from the EU to manage this service,” The said, urging relevant management authorities to raise proposals to manage Uber and Grab following the established regulations and ensure a healthy competition environment.

HCM City Taxi Association recently proposed that the transport ministry regulate Uber and Grab as taxi operators.

The association also suggested that Uber and Grab be banned from using foreign capital sources to offer promotions aimed in getting a share of the taxi industry, and then reporting losses to avoid paying taxes.

In a related move, taxi firm Anh Duong Việt Nam Company (Vinasun) sent a document to the Ministry of Transport proposing that Grab and Uber should also be regulated as taxi operators.

Reuters reported that Uber has transformed the taxi industry since its launch in 2011 and currently operates in more than 600 cities globally.

The boom in Uber and Grab cars in major cities, including Hanoi and HCM City, during the past three years has pushed many taxi firms into difficulties.

But with less than five months to go until the May 19 wedding of her grandson Prince Harry and US actress Meghan Markle in the mediaeval castle’s chapel, the local authority’s bid to sweep the homeless off the streets has triggered indignation.

Simon Dudley, the Conservative leader of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead council, has urged the local Thames Valley Police force to take action against their “aggressive begging and intimidation”.

“A large number of adults that are begging in Windsor are not in fact homeless,” he wrote in a letter, while those that were genuinely homeless had rejected secure accommodation in order to keep begging.

“This is creating a concerning and hostile atmosphere for our residents and the seven million tourists who come to Windsor each year.”

The level of interest in Windsor, some 20 miles (35 kilometres) west of London, is “set to multiply” ahead of the royal wedding, he added.

According to the business valuation consultancy Brand Finance, the event should draw hundreds of thousands of extra tourists to the town, normally home to just 30,000 people, in 2018.

The British economy could be set to benefit to the tune of £500 million ($680 million, 565 million euros), they claimed.

Homeless by ‘choice’

Dudley said the genuinely homeless, having rejected help, were on the streets by “voluntary choice”.

Sheltering from the wintry wind, Stephanie, who has been in the town centre for two years after suffering mental illness, insisted: “I don’t choose to sit here.”

“Whatever people give me, they give me. I don’t choose to ask for money to get given something to eat, like sandwiches,” she told AFP.

The council’s plans have been condemned by, among others, the Conservative MP for Maidenhead — Prime Minister Theresa May.

Murray James, the Windsor Homeless Project manager, was all the more shocked by the proposed clampdown as Harry and his brother Prince William have long been involved in work with the homeless — William having even slept rough by a bridge in London.

“I am pretty sure they’re as outraged by the comments that have been made as I am and many of the Windsor residents are,” James told AFP in the church where the project offers hot meals, clothes and a shower.

Regardless of the royal marriage, the authorities should pursue the reasons why people end up on the streets rather than the homeless themselves, he said.

“It’s a constant problem,” he said.

“We’ve always had between 12 and 15 people sleeping rough. The majority of those people don’t beg.”

He claimed there was a lack of emergency accommodation in the town and deplored the state of the housing provided by the local authority — often “infested with rats”, he said.

‘A lovely day’

Many passers-by in Windsor barely take notice of its homeless population.

Peggy Outhwaite said she was uncomfortable waiting for the bus while a homeless man took up residence in the bus shelter.

“I don’t think that they should be here,” she said of the homeless.

“This is a royal town and Harry should have his day — and a lovely day at that,” the pensioner told AFP.

Derek Prime, who runs a souvenir shop already selling mugs and trinkets with Harry and his fiancee’s faces on, doubted the council’s claims to have proper accommodation in place.

Dudley “really wants to come out here and spend a night on the street just to see what it’s like,” he said.

Thames Valley Police commissioner Anthony Stansfeld, an elected official, is preparing a response to Dudley’s letter.

Last month, Dudley complained on Twitter of the “epidemic of rough sleeping and vagrancy” in the royal town.

But the local police hit back on the social media network, saying: “Housing is the responsibility of the council but it is better that agencies work together so people don’t become homeless.”

The book quickly sold out in shops in the US capital, with some lining up at midnight to get their hands on the instant best-seller, dismissed by Trump as “phony” and “full of lies.”

Without addressing specifics, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said there were things in the book that were “completely untrue,” while Trump denounced comments attributed to Steve Bannon, saying his former chief strategist had “lost his mind.”

Team Trump: running to lose

“‘We’re all losers,’ Trump would say. ‘All our guys are terrible, nobody knows what they’re doing.'”

“‘This thing,’ he told the Mercers, ‘is so fucked up'”.

Trump was reportedly addressing the family of Bob Mercer, the ultra-conservative billionaire sponsors who swung behind his campaign in its final months — and who reiterated their support in the wake of Wolff’s bombshell book.

The shock of election night

“When the unexpected trend — Trump might actually win — seemed confirmed, Don Jr. told a friend that his father, or DJT, as he called him, looked as if he had seen a ghost. Melania, to whom Donald Trump had made his solemn guarantee, was in tears — and not of joy.”

“There was, in the space of little more than an hour, in Steve Bannon’s not unamused observation, a befuddled Trump morphing into a disbelieving Trump and then into a horrified Trump. But still to come was the final transformation: Suddenly, Donald Trump became a man who believed that he deserved to be, and was wholly capable of being, the president of the United States.”

Bannon on meeting with Russians 

“‘The three senior guys in the campaign,’ an incredulous Bannon went on, ‘thought it was a good idea to meet with a foreign government inside Trump Tower in the conference room on the 25th floor — with no lawyers.

‘They didn’t have any lawyers. Even if you thought that this was not treasonous, or unpatriotic, or bad shit, and I happen to think it’s all of that, you should have called the FBI immediately.'”

Bannon was referring to Trump’s son Donald Jr, son-in-law Jared Kushner and campaign manager Paul Manafort.

Learning the constitution

“Early in the campaign, in a Producers-worthy scene, (campaign aide) Sam Nunberg was sent to explain the Constitution to the candidate: ‘I got as far as the Fourth Amendment before his finger is pulling down on his lip and his eyes are rolling back in his head.'”

George W. Bush on Trump’s inaugural address

“That’s some weird shit.”

Trump’s Putin obsession

“‘What has he gotten himself into with the Russians?’ pressed (the late Fox News chairman Roger) Ailes. ‘Mostly,’ said Bannon, ‘he went to Russia and he thought he was going to meet Putin. But Putin couldn’t give a shit about him. So he’s kept trying.'”

Trump’s Murdoch obsession

“‘I’ll call him,’ said Ailes. ‘But Trump would jump through hoops for Rupert. Like for Putin. Sucks up and shits down. I just worry about who’s jerking whose chain.'”

Murdoch on Trump?

“‘What a fucking idiot,’ said Murdoch, shrugging, as he got off the phone” after talking immigration issues with Trump.

Too much to think about

“‘I wouldn’t give Donald too much to think about,’ said an amused Ailes. Bannon snorted. ‘Too much, too little-doesn’t necessarily change things.'”

Trump fears being poisoned

“He had a longtime fear of being poisoned, one reason why he liked to eat at McDonald’s — nobody knew he was coming and the food was safely pre-made.”

Flattery and Egyptian shoes

“Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the Egyptian strongman, ably stroked the president and said, ‘You are a unique personality that is capable of doing the impossible.’ (To Sisi, Trump replied, ‘Love your shoes. Boy, those shoes. Man….’)”

‘Our man’ in Saudi

“Within weeks of (Trump’s Saudi) trip, MBS (Mohammed bin Salman), detaining MBN (Mohammed bin Nayef) quite in the dead of night, would force him to relinquish the Crown Prince title, which MBS would then assume for himself. Trump would tell friends that he and Jared had engineered a Saudi coup: ‘We’ve put our man on top!'”

Ivanka’s presidential ambitions

“Balancing risk against reward, both Jared and Ivanka decided to accept roles in the West Wing over the advice of almost everyone they knew. It was a joint decision by the couple, and, in some sense, a joint job. Between themselves, the two had made an earnest deal: If sometime in the future the opportunity arose, she’d be the one to run for president. The first woman president, Ivanka entertained, would not be Hillary Clinton; it would be Ivanka Trump.”

– Her brothers’ presidential nicknames –

“His sons, Don Jr. and Eric — behind their backs known to Trump insiders as Uday and Qusay, after the sons of Saddam Hussein.”

And the comb-over: explained by Ivanka

“She often described the mechanics behind it to friends: an absolutely clean pate — a contained island after scalp-reduction surgery — surrounded by a furry circle of hair around the sides and front, from which all ends are drawn up to meet in the center and then swept back and secured by a stiffening spray. The color, she would point out to comical effect, was from a product called Just for Men — the longer it was left on, the darker it got. Impatience resulted in Trump’s orange-blond hair color.”