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Alexis Ohanian has already embraced his new regal lifestyle!
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After attending Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s royal wedding with his wife, Serena Williams, on Saturday, Ohanian took to Twitter on Monday to share a funny video.
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“Typical morning at the Ohanian Estate,” he captioned the clip, which was taken the day of the nuptials.
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He then cuts to himself getting ready as Williams’ hands are seen giving him some last-minute touch ups. “This is how I wake up every morning on the Ohanian Estate,” he joked.
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Not only did the couple attend the historic service at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor, England, but they also attended the glam reception for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
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For the second occasion, Williams donned a stunning Valentino gown with a black sleeveless bodice and a printed over-sized yellow, red and white floral skirt.
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Williams and Ohanian were just a few of the A-list celebrities to attend the royal wedding. Other stars included George and Amal Clooney, Oprah Winfrey, Priyanka Chopra, and several members of the cast of Suits. For more from Harry and Meghan's big day, watch the clip below!
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The Danish man who claims he worked with the CIA to infiltrate al-Qaeda and helped take out radical anti-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, had a lesser-known job: matchmaker to the terrorists.
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Morton Storm, a Danish convert to Islam, was a trusted al-Qaeda associate when he was offered $250,000 by the CIA to find a wife for Awlaki - who already had two - in an effort to track him down.
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He then orchestrated an exchange of previously unseen video messages between the two, and - despite an assassination order on Awlaki from the U.S. - they agreed to marry.
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The CIA plan, Morton says, was to plant a tracking device on Aminah's luggage when she came to Yemen to meet her new husband - which would lead the agency directly to Awlaki's hideout.
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At a meeting in Vienna, Austria, Storm showed Aminah a video recording made by Awlaki, who was dressed in white robes in front of a pink background with a floral motif.
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Storm said Aminah burst into tears when after watching the video.
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The CIA and Storm both knew the dangers of the mission meant there was a risk Aminah would be killed, but were content to continue in their bid to track Awlaki.
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And during another trip to Vienna, Storm bought Aminah her plane ticket and gave her $3,000 from Awlaki. She and the bugged suitcase arrived in Sanaa as planned and Storm received a text from the CIA saying 'Congratulations brother, you just got rich, very rich'.
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But the plan to plant a tracking device on Aminah collapsed when she was contacted by al-Qaeda operatives, who told the woman to ditch her suitcase before meeting Awlaki.
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While the plan for Aminah to lead the U.S. to Awlaki failed, the marriage ended up working out.
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But their bond was cut short when Awlaki was killed in a U.S. drone strike on September 30, 2011.
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She also told al-Qaeda leaders that she would carry out a suicide mission in an act of revenge, but she was told not to.
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Storm, who has come forward to Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, has said that he was a former Islamic supremacist before the Danish intelligence service PET convinced him to change sides and work for them and eventually the American CIA.
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Storm has claimed that he became so deeply trusted by Anwar al-Awlaki that President Obama knew his name and that it was him who delivered a USB stick the Americans used to track al-Awlaki to the convoy that they destroyed in Yemen in September 2011.
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In a statement issued in response to the story, the Danish spy organisation said that as a matter of policy it does not publicly confirm sensitive information about its past, current or future operations, nor does it deny incorrect information.
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The CIA and the White House have not commented on Storm's role in the death of al-Awlaki.
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Storm told Jyllands-Posten that he suffered a troubled childhood, drifting through drugs and into crime.
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According to the newspaper report, in 2006, he had a dramatic and unexplained change of heart and was turned double agent by the Danish intelligence service, PET.
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After five years, Storm claimed to have worked his way to the top of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's inner circle and gained direct access to al-Awlaki.
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John Dowd resigned yesterday as US President Donald Trump's lead attorney countering Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe as the inquiry into possible collusion in the 2016 election intensifies.
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"I love the president and wish him well,"' Mr Dowd said.
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His decision came after Mr Trump decided to add a new high-profile lawyer, Joseph diGenova, to his legal team.
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A frequent guest on Fox News, Mr diGenova has publicly attacked Mr Mueller's investigation and the FBI, saying he believes Mr Trump was framed by Justice Department officials on a political vendetta.
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Mr Dowd and Mr Trump's other lawyers had been pursuing a strategy of co-operation with Mr Mueller's probe and had been negotiating for weeks over the terms under which Mr Mueller would interview Mr Trump. Mr DiGenova's hiring suggested that Mr Trump may pursue a more confrontational approach.
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Mr DiGenova has advocated a much more confrontational approach, including the idea for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversees Mr Mueller's work, to be removed and appointed as a judge.
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Until recently, Mr Dowd and another Trump lawyer, Ty Cobb, have been instrumental in persuading Mr Trump to back off personal attacks on Mr Mueller, according to sources.
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But Mr Trump's frustration has been growing and he attacked Mr Mueller publicly last weekend for the first time.
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Mr Dowd too expressed his desire for Mr Mueller to wrap things up. "I pray that Acting Attorney General Rosenstein will follow the brilliant and courageous example of the FBI Office of Professional Responsibility and Attorney General Jeff Sessions and bring an end to alleged Russia collusion investigation manufactured by McCabe's boss James Comey based upon a fraudulent and corrupt dossier," Mr Dowd said in a March 17 statement.
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Jay Sekulow, another Trump lawyer, said the legal team will continue its work defending the president. "We will continue our ongoing representation of the president and our co-operation with the Office of Special Counsel," he said in a statement.
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Since becoming Mr Trump's primary outside lawyer last summer, Mr Dowd has bristled at attempts to diminish his authority, according to a person familiar with the matter. At one point last summer, when Mr Trump's advisers discussed top-tier Washington lawyers who could be added to the president's legal team, Mr Dowd groused that he didn't want to end up being the caboose on the train, the person said.
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Mr Dowd and Mr Cobb were originally recruited with full awareness of the long history they share with Mr Mueller. Mr Cobb has had a friendly working relationship with Mr Mueller for more than three decades, and Mr Dowd shares a common bond over their time as prosecutors and as Marines who served in Vietnam.
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Mr Dowd was handpicked by longtime Trump lawyer Marc Kasowitz over the summer, when it became clear Mr Mueller's investigation could last months, if not years, and questions were raised about whether Mr Trump had obstructed justice. Early in his career, Mr Dowd worked at the Justice Department where he focused on racketeering, corruption and tax-evasion cases.
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — An ailing U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service worker in Oregon who was running out of a treatment to keep her alive and could not reach her employer during the government shutdown said Friday that she will get back her federally paid insurance coverage that lapsed months ago.
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Jasmine Tool said she only had enough of a nutrient formula that she gets through a feeding tube to last through Friday. She said she had been unable to learn why her insurance lapsed or how to get it back because the shutdown meant no one was answering her calls.
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Tool, who has a paralyzed stomach and brain tumor, was elated after a regional office of the Fish and Wildlife Service told her she would have coverage again.
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“My insurance is set to be reinstated Monday!” the 30-year-old said in an email.
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The U.S. government has said employees with active insurance will not lose it during the shutdown. Tool’s situation was unusual but shows the unexpected ways the shutdown can affect people.
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Democratic U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon had pointed to Tool’s plight to call for an end to the four-week-long shutdown.
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Tool can’t eat by mouth said the provider of the nutrients that keep her alive would not send more without a home health care worker. The worker would not come unless Tool was covered by insurance or she paid for it herself, which she said she can’t afford.
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“If don’t get more, I will begin to starve,” she said Thursday.
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Tool has an inoperable but benign brain tumor that’s slowly growing and a paralyzed stomach from a condition called gastroparesis.
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Her health issues led her to take medical leave in February 2017 from her job at the Sheldon-Hart Mountain National Wildlife Refuge Complex. She worked at the refuge headquarters in Lakeview and says medical resources in the small town near the California border are scarce.
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When she tried to make a medical appointment, she was told her employer-provided insurance was no longer active. She called the insurer last week and was told her coverage had lapsed in October.
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Follow Andrew Selsky on Twitter at https://twitter.com/andrewselsky .
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Coda Media, a global non-profit digital newsroom is looking for a hard-working, detail-oriented person to be a part-time administrative assistant for the US office. Coda's journalism is dedicated to illuminating the factors driving key storylines shaping our world and we're a global team looking to add a new part-time member who will play a positive role on our road to further growth. We’re seeking a part-time administrative assistant to work closely with the publisher and help the team with a broad array of administrative tasks, research online resources, and help with bookkeeping, preparing reports ,and communication.
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This is a great opportunity for someone who is eager to learn and grow in the digital publishing space.
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Ability to prioritize workload and manage multiple work requests is essential.
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Must be able to organize meetings and manage multiple calendars and schedules.
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Liaise with the administrative staff at remote offices to handle their requests and queries.
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Basic understanding of project management including financial management.
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Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite of products including Word, Excel, PowerPoint (and Keynote) and Outlook.
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Solid written and verbal communication skills required.
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Previous internal company experience with administrative processes and systems a plus. Nonprofit media experience especially desirable.
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Position is in New York City or Washington DC from home office and will start with flexible hours at roughly 20 hour a week. Vacancy immediately open.
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In an unprecedented move, four senior-most judges of the Supreme Court on Friday called a press conference and said the situation in the top court was "not in order" and many "less than desirable" things have taken place.
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Justice Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan Lokur and Kurian Joseph at the press conference. (Express Photo/Abhinav Saha).
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In an unprecedented move, four senior-most judges of the Supreme Court on Friday called a press conference and said the situation in the top court was “not in order” and many “less than desirable” things have taken place. Unless this institution is preserved, “democracy will not survive in this country,” the four judges said. Justice J Chelameswar, the second senior judge after the Chief Justice of India, said: “sometimes administration of the Supreme Court is not in order and many things which are less than desirable have happened in the last few months.” Chelameswar, who was accompanied by Justices Ranjan Gogoi, M B Lokur and Kurian Joseph at the press conference, said they had met CJI Dipak Misra this morning and “raised issues affecting the institution.” Soon after the press conference by the four senior-most judges, the CJI called Attorney General K K Venugopal for a meeting, court sources said. At the presser held at his house, Justice J Chelameswar said “unless this institution is preserved, democracy will not survive in this country” and added it was “extremely painful” to hold a press conference in such a manner.
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A necessary corollary to the above-mentioned principle is the member of any multi-numbered judicial body including this court would not arrogate to themselves the authority to deal with and pronounce upon matter which ought to be heard by appropriate benches, both composition wise and strength wise with due regard to the roster fixed.
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We are sorry to say that off late the twin rules mentioned above have not been strictly adhered to. There have been instances where case has far-reaching consequences for the nation and the institution had been assigned by the Chief Justice of this court selectively to the benches ‘of their presence’ with any rationable basis for such assignment. This must be quarded against at all costs.
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Once the issue arising from the order dates 27th October, 2017, in R P Luthra vs Union of India, mentioned above, is adequately addressed by you and if it becomes so necessary, we will apprise you specifically of the other judicial orders passed by this court which would require to be similarly dealt with.
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Attempts to get comment from ACT were unsuccessful.
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The company’s letter to EDD makes no mention of closing the North Highlands facility. ACT also operates a call center in Carmichael.
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In mid-2012, ACT announced the opening of the North Highlands calls center, with an initial 500 employees and announced expectations of filling as many as 2,000 jobs.
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Founded in 1997, ACT provides contact center and back office support services for various U.S. companies.
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Concerns descendants of Charles Lee Jones. From Mss. 69 J72, folder 6, box 8, Maben Jones Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
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Folder 6, box 8, Maben Jones Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
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BG confirmed Thursday that the eleventh well on the BM-S-11 concession in the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil, was successful.
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The well, designated as 3-BRSA-865A-RJS (3-RJS-677A) and informally known as Tupi W, was drilled at a water depth of 2 139 metres, approximately 275 kilometres off the coast of Rio de Janeiro State, and 11 kilometres northwest of the original Tupi discovery well.
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Oil samples taken during wireline tests in well 3-RJS-677A confirmed the presence of a light oil accumulation (approximately 28° API). The well encountered a 90-metre reservoir section on the western flank of Tupi helping further delineate the size and quality of the field. Further testing will now be conducted on the 3-RJS-677A well and if those results confirm the initial productivity data, the consortium will consider the allocation of a Floating Production, Storage and Offloading vessel to the west area of Tupi.
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“The information obtained from this well adds further certainty to our recoverable reserve and resource estimates for the Tupi field,” BG said.
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Rains lashed several parts of Delhi on Monday, Septemeber 3, accompanied with thunderstorm and lightning. Over the weekend, various areas in the NCR region faced severe waterlogging issues and traffic snarls owing to the continuous downpour.
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The weatherman has predicted light rain in some parts of the city later in the day.
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Commuters wade across a waterlogged street near Vinod Nagar in East Delhi on Saturday.
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Several areas in Noida, too, received heavy rainfall over the weekend causing waterlogging on the streets.
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Commuters wade across a waterlogged street in Noida on Saturday.
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Rain lashes parts of Fatehpur Beri area in Delhi on Monday.
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Waterlogging seen in Delhi's Shanti Path area on Sunday.
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Streets in Delhi's South Avenue also faced severe waterlogging following heavy rains in the area on Sunday.
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Delhi's Jangpura area also faced waterlogging owing to heavy rainfall in the area on Saturday.
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Waterlogging on streets near Civic Centre at Minto road following heavy rainfall in Delhi on Saturday.
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Waterlogging seen in several parts of Delhi's Civil Lines area following heavy rainfall on Saturday.
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People push a car across a waterlogged road in Civil Lines on Saturday.
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Passengers being rescued from a bus that got stuck in waterlogged Ring road near Hanuman Mandir in Yamuna Bazar area, following heavy rainfall in parts of Delhi on Saturday.
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All 30 passengers of the stuck bus were rescued safely.
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REPORTING FROM WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon, the world's largest user of drones, has posted a new policy on signs outside the mammoth five-sided building: No Drone Zone.
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The signs, complete with a red slash through an image of a quadcopter drone, reflect America's growing concern about the proliferation of the small, inexpensive remote-controlled devices and the risk they pose to safety, security and privacy.
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Federal law prohibits flying a drone anywhere in and around Washington, an area known as the National Capital Region. Other communities and institutions across the country are wrestling with the potential threat from more than 400,000 private and commercial drones now registered to operate in the skies.
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Under the law, hobbyists and commercial users must keep unmanned aircraft below 400 feet and avoid flying within five miles of an airport to avoid endangering manned aircraft. With a maximum weight of 55 pounds, a basketball-sized drone potentially could disable a jet flying hundreds of miles per hour.
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"Introduction of unmanned aircraft into America's airspace must take place incrementally and with the interest of safety first," said Laura J. Brown, spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration.
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But some drone operators regularly ignore or flout the law.
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Pilots reported 238 sightings of drones in 2014, the first year such sightings were tracked, according to the FAA. Drone sightings jumped to 583 -- or nearly 100 per month -- in the six months between August 2015 and January 2016, the FAA's most recent records show.
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On Jan. 15, for example, Compass Airlines passenger jet reported a near collision with a black-and-silver drone at 5,700 feet as the jetliner came in for a landing at Los Angeles International Airport.
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A day earlier, a pilot in a single-engine Cessna spotted a blue drone hovering at 9,500 feet above Riverside. That same week, a pilot landing at El Cajon reported three drones off his right side at about 500 feet in altitude -- one with yellow lights, one with green lights, and one with red lights.
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