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President Barack Obama advised US president-elect, Donald Trump to avoid managing the country’s affair like a family business. Obama also said Trump needs to know there is a big difference between campaigning and ruling. The outgoing president of America, Barack Obama has called on the president-elect, Donald Trump to warn him against running the country like he runs his family business. Note that the president-elect, Donald Trump has no political experience but he is an experienced businessman. President Barack Obama advised US president-elect, Donald Trump to avoid managing the country’s affair like a family business. Obama also said Trump needs to know there is a big difference between campaigning and ruling. The outgoing president of America, Barack Obama has called on the president-elect, Donald Trump to warn him against running the country like he runs his family business. Note that the president-elect, Donald Trump has no political experience but he is an experienced businessman...

U.S. President Barack Obama will deliver his farewell address to Americans today, in Chicago, ten days ahead of the handover to Donald Trump, a man he has described as polar opposite. Obama’s speech will be a parting shot “to say thank you” to Americans “and to offer some thoughts on where we all go from here”. Chicago is Obama’s adopted hometown, where he met his wife, Michele and was elected an Illinois senator. In his invitation on January 2 to Americans to attend the ceremony, Obama had written: “In 1796, as George Washington set the precedent for a peaceful, democratic transfer of power he also set a precedent by penning a farewell address to the American people. And over the 220 years since, many American presidents have followed his lead. “On Tuesday, January 10, I’ll go home to Chicago to say my grateful farewell to you, even if you can’t be there in person. “I’m just beginning to write my remarks. But I’m thinking about them as a chance to say thank you for this amazing journe...

ANKENY, Iowa –  Authorities say a 22-year-old man has died after a barbell slipped from his grasp and crushed his neck at a gym in central Iowa. The accident occurred Monday morning at Elite Edge Transformation Center in Ankeny, about 10 miles north of Des Moines. A spokesman for the center, Mark Yontz, said Thursday that Kyle Thomson was bench-pressing 315 pounds when the barbell slipped. Ankeny Fire Chief James Clack says the barbell fell on Thomson's neck. Clack says a fire ambulance took Thomson to a Des Moines hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Yontz says there were spotters watching Thomson on the bench. Iowa State University spokeswoman Annette Hacker says Thomson was a student there and lived in Pleasant Hill.

NEW YORK – Police say a former New York City high school student who in 2012 fathered a child with his then-teacher has killed the woman and their 4-year-old son. Authorities on Tuesday say 23-year-old Isaac Duran Infante confessed to killing Felicia Barahona and Miguel Barahona. He's been charged with murder. Barahona was found Monday in her Harlem apartment with an electrical cord around her neck. Her son was found in the bathtub. It wasn't clear if the Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, man had an attorney who could comment on his behalf. A 2012 report by school investigators determined the 36-year-old Barahona began a sexual relationship with Infante when he turned 18. The report found Barahona believed she and Infante would get married before their relationship ended. She was subsequently fired from the Bronx school.

This Nigerian billionaire is legit – but what two women are saying about him might not be. The sisters from Toronto, who have a sizeable Instagram following, reportedly were detained in Lagos, Nigeria after trying to extort and cyberbully the wealthy businessman. Jyoti and Kiran Matharoo claimed they had evidence of Femi Otedola cheating on his wife and that they would post it on a sex-scandal website, the news site Politics Nigeria reported. Otedola – who earned his riches in the energy sector – is worth around $1.8 billion, a Forbes estimate revealed. The sisters were arrested after an investigation, the website reported. A court document also stated that the sisters were accused of using several Instagram and Twitter accounts to harass around 274 people, “mostly based in the various regions of Africa.” Global Affairs Canada told the Toronto Star that consular services were being provided to the two women. The sisters have a combined nearly 50,000 Instagram followers combined.

Chicago's citywide crime wave didn't slow down during the holiday weekend. City police investigated 27 shooting incidents this Christmas weekend, 12 of which were fatal, city Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said during a Monday news briefing. "The violence primarily occurred in areas with historical gang conflicts on the South and West sides of the City," Johnson said. "We now know that the majority of these shootings and homicides were targeted attacks by gangs against potential rival gang members and groups who were at holiday gatherings." Chicago police said there have been 753 homicides and 3,495 shooting incidents in the city from January 1 to December 25. During the same time frame in 2015, there were 478 homicides and 2,393 shooting incidents. Chicago tops 700 homicides for the year "These were deliberate and planned shootings by one gang against another," Johnson said Monday. "They were targeted knowing fully well that individual...

CUSTOMERS of Uber have reported being offered drugs by drivers as concern grows over how the service could be used to mask the distribution of illegal substances. Dozens of people have alleged on social media that a driver offered to sell them drugs. Some suggested that the practice was common. The Times has also spoken to a customer of Uber Eats, which delivers restaurant food in London, who said that his delivery man had tried to sell him cannabis. James Newman, of Clapton, said: “I ordered food one night, which was delivered by a young chap on a bike. After the ‘food transaction’ he attempted to close a second deal. “He sized me up and then asked whether I wanted to buy some weed. He had ‘the best you can buy anywhere in the neighbourhood, top quality’. I declined. “While the moment was slightly awkward, he was very professional about it all, said, ‘OK then, good night anyways,’ and went on his way. “You have to admire his entrepreneurial spirit — but it would be nice if he used it...

Authorities in Washington D.C. asked for help Monday in the search of a missing yoga instructor and theater actress who was last seen on Christmas Day. Tricia Lynn McCauley, 46, was last seen around 4:30 p.m. Sunday in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of Washington, police said. She’s described as a white female, stands 5-feet 4-inches tall, weighs about 120 pounds, has brown eyes, brown hair and light complexion, according to Fox 5 DC. Police said they were looking for a man who is about 5-feet 9-inches tall, with an athletic build and dark complexion. Authorities believe he was operating McCauley’s missing 2-door Scion iQ hatchback with DC license plate FC-0274. According to an updated thread on a Facebook page created to help find McCauley, the woman’s brother Brian McCauley says police found the car. NBC Washington reported that police were questioning someone who matches the description of the “person of interest” in the case. A separate post on the page said McCauley was supposed ...

Arguing that Americans still subscribe to his vision of progressive change, President Barack Obama asserted in an interview recently he could have succeeded in this year's election if he was eligible to run. "I am confident in this vision because I'm confident that if I had run again and articulated it, I think I could've mobilized a majority of the American people to rally behind it," Obama told his former senior adviser David Axelrod in an interview for the "The Axe Files" podcast, produced by the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN. "I know that in conversations that I've had with people around the country, even some people who disagreed with me, they would say the vision, the direction that you point towards is the right one," Obama said in the interview, which aired Monday. "In the wake of the election and Trump winning, a lot of people have suggested that somehow, it really was a fantasy," Obama said of the...

President Obama says it has been “the privilege of my life” to serve as the commander in chief of the US military. Obama and first lady Michelle Obama visited troops at Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Oahu’s Kaneohe Bay Sunday, marking the last time Obama will take part in his annual Christmas tradition as president, the AP reports. It was the first major outing for the president this Christmas. Obama said his gratitude to the military won’t stop once his term ends, and his commitment to standing by the military “every step of the way” will continue. He noted that US. troops are serving on Christmas in dangerous places like Iraq and Afghanistan, with some engaged in missions against ISIS. “As tough as it is to be deployed, the people here in America, back home, understand that every single day you serve, you’re fighting for our freedom,” the president said. Obama has made it a tradition to spend some time on Christmas at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, not far from the rented house that he and...

PALM BEACH, Fla. -- President-elect Donald Trump declared Wednesday that the deadly truck attack on a Christmas market in Germany was "an attack on humanity and it's got to be stopped." He also suggested he might go forward with his campaign pledge to temporarily ban Muslim immigrants from coming to the United States. "All along, I've been proven to be right, 100 per cent correct," Trump said when asked if the attack in Berlin had caused him to reevaluate the proposal. "What's happening is disgraceful." Trump proposed the Muslim ban during the Republican primary campaign, prompting criticism from both parties. He shifted his rhetoric during the general election to focus on temporarily halting immigration from an unspecified list of countries with ties to terrorism, though he did not disavow the Muslim ban. Trump addressed reporters for less than two minutes before a meeting with incoming White House national security adviser Michael Flynn. Tr...

Two Babson College students who were alleged to have yelled racial slurs at black women during a celebration of Donald Trump’s election victory have been cleared of any wrongdoing. After the election, Parker Rand-Ricciardi and Edward Tomasso decided to go out and celebrate their candidate’s win. They did so by driving onto the nearby Wellesley campus, an all-women college, with a Trump flag flying proudly. Students at Wellesley, however, told a different story. Rand-Ricciardi and Tomasso, they said, spit on a student and shouted “racial and homophobic slurs while parked in front of the Harambee House, an on-campus gathering place traditionally meant for African American students.” As a result of that, the two students were told to leave the Babson campus and not return until Dec. 11.

BOSTON – A man who survived a deadly 2012 drive-by shooting in Boston identified former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez in court on Tuesday as the one who pulled the trigger. The judge presiding over the upcoming murder trial also denied a bid by Hernandez's lawyer to push back the February start. Prosecutors asked Raychides Sanches during Tuesday's pretrial hearing to describe the chaotic scene the night of July 16, 2012. Sanches said he had been a passenger in a car stopped at a light in the city's South End when an SUV pulled up. He said someone from the SUV said "What's up, negroes?" and then gunfire erupted. Sanches said bullets struck 29-year-old Daniel de Abreu and 28-year-old Safiro Furtado. When asked who the shooter was, Sanches nodded in the direction of Hernandez in Suffolk Superior Court, the Boston Herald reported. "Looked like him," he said. "Hernandez." Another survivor of the shooting, Aquilino Freire, to...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – A retired police officer has been accused of killing four men who went missing during a drug deal this year, and authorities have discovered the remains of four bodies on property linked to him. Nicholas Tartaglione was arrested on Monday on charges of murder and conspiracy to distribute 5 kilograms and more of cocaine, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said. "While all murders tear at the fabric of our communities, when the alleged perpetrator of a gangland-style, quadruple homicide is a former police officer, that strikes at the heart of civilized society," Bharara said. Tartaglione, who used to work for the Briarcliff Manor police department and lives in Otisville, pleaded not guilty. His lawyer, Mark DeMarco, did not immediately return a telephone message requesting comment. Prosecutors said Tartaglione participated in the killing of Martin Luna, Urbano Santiago, Miguel Luna and Hector Gutierrez in April in and around a bar called the Likquid Lounge in Che...

In an apparent attempt to smooth things over after months of mutual criticism, Donald Trump and Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim sat down for a “very cordial” meal Saturday in Florida. Slim’s spokesman confirmed the two had dinner at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort and said the telecom mogul got a "very positive" impression from the U.S. President-elect about ties with Mexico. "(Slim) was left with a very positive taste in his mouth regarding the relationship with Mexico," said Arturo Elias, Slim's son-in-law and spokesman. He said the meeting had taken place at Trump's invitation. Trump angered Mexicans during the election campaign by pledging to build a wall on the U.S. southern border and make Mexico pay for it, as well as threatening to ditch a joint trade deal and impose punitive tariffs on Mexican-made goods. Those pledges sparked criticism from business leaders including Slim, who said Trump's plans could destroy the U.S. economy. But following ...

Remember those song lyrics about Kanye West’s “dirty motherfucker” of a cousin who stole his laptop? They just might be true after all. On Kanye’s song “No More Parties in LA” off of his seventh studio album “The Life of Pablo,” West raps, And as far as real friends, tell all my cousins I love ’em, Even the one that stole the laptop, you dirty motherfucker” Yeezy didn’t stop there either. Kanye mentioned his cousin again on a song titled “Real Friends.” He raps, I had a cousin that stole my laptop that I was fuckin’ bitches on, Paid that nigga 250-thousand just to get it from him”… It turns out Kanye was most likely telling the truth about his stolen laptop and his kleptomaniac of a “dirty” cousin. According to DailyMail.com, Kanye West’s cousin Lawrence Franklin has come forward to address the stolen laptop during a recent interview. Franklin told reporters, “I was at my aunt’s house when the family member who had the laptop called me, a friend of his, and my uncle to the kitchen...

Blac Chyna reportedly beat Rob Kardashian before moving herself, King Cairo and Dream out of the couple’s house. It was a roller coaster of a weekend for the stars of “Rob & Chyna.” Hours before the premiere of their baby special on E!, and while the two were fighting on Instagram, Rob Kardashian Snapchatted video from inside the couple’s house saying Blac Chyna had taken their baby and King Cairo out of the house. The fight between the couple appears to be over, though. TMZ is reporting the two are sort of back together, talking but not living under the same roof. On Monday afternoon, Rob posted a picture of Dream with an emotional caption. Unlike Rob, the Kardashian family is seemingly done with the couple altogether. According to TMZ, although Rob and Chyna may be trying to work things out, his sisters are not talking to either of them, blaming the fight on both of them. I would pay a billion dollars to be a fly on the wall at this year’s Kardashian family Kristmas dinner.

Staffers of US president, Barack Obama, pulled off a seasonal prank when they re-positioned some artificial snowman decorations to come into view of the windows of the Oval Office in the White House. Pete Souza, the official photographer of the White House, said in an Instagram post that he and some of his fellow staffers had been discussing the possibility of pranking the president by slowly moving the four snowmen on display in the Rose Garden toward the Oval Office “to see if anyone noticed.” “Then we realised the snowmen were too heavy to easily lift. But finally this morning before the President came to the office, some helpful staff — I won’t say who — moved all the snowmen so each one was peeking through a different window into the Oval,” Souza wrote. Souza shared a photo of Obama signing end-of-year bills Friday while a snowman ominously looks in from the window behind him. A second photo shows Obama jokingly reacting to a window-peeping snowman.

The second leg of Kanye West's Saint Pablo Tour has not just been put on hold ... it's been outright cancelled ... TMZ has learned. As we reported, Kanye's psych hospitalization put the 2017 portion of the tour on ice, with no restart date set. At the time Kanye was at UCLA Medical Center, sources connected with the rapper insisted the tour would go on, even though belatedly. Now we've learned Kanye's people contacted concert promoter Live Nation and informed them the second leg -- which for the most part was European -- was officially cancelled. Among the planned stops -- Paris, U.K. and Germany. We're told cancelling did not pose real problems, because no dates were set and no tickets were sold. TMZ broke the story ... Kanye has an insurance policy that reimburses him for any lost profits or expenses associated with cancellations that result from a medical condition.

37 Blac Chyna is in talks with Adidas to land her own shoe deal ... but we're told if the apparel giant wants a piece of BC, they've gotta pony up a lot more than what's on the table. Sources close to Chyna tell TMZ Adidas has offered her a two-shoe contract, with an option for a third. As for the price ... we're told Adidas is only willing to pay $250k ... and Chyna's insulted. Our sources say in addition to the shoes, Adidas wants Chyna to appear at media events and wear the athletic gear out in public. We're told her attorney, Walter Mosley, has been back and forth in negotiations -- and both sides think an agreement will be struck.