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Who is Trump's pick Jeanine Pirro? Jeanine Pirro age, husband arrest, children, Fox News
Former Fox News host and President Donald Trump ally Jeanine Pirro was sworn in Wednesday, May 28 as the interim U.S. attorney for D.C. Pirro, a TV host and former judge and prosecutor, said as she took the oath in the Oval Office she plans to improve safety and address violence in the nation's capital — a city Trump has called "dangerous" due to "failed policies." Trump, who tapped Pirro earlier this month after controversy over his previous pick, Ed Martin, shared confidence in his pick. He promised "very, very big improvements" in D.C. under Pirro, who he says will restore public safety, break up vicious street gangs and criminal networks and ensure equal justice under the law, according to ABC News. Pirro is the latest Fox News personality to join the ranks of the Trump administration, joining alumni including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and FBI Director Dan Bongino. Read on to learn more about who Pirro is, what titles she has held before and her personality history. Jeanine Pirro was born and raised in Elmira, New York, and grew up with Lebanese-American parents, according to NYT. She was elected as a judge in Westchester County Court in 1990 before she was elected the county's district attorney in 1993. She ran two failed statewide campaigns in New York for senator (losing to Hilary Clinton in 2005) and losing the Attorney General race to Andrew Cuomo in 2006. Pirro was an early supporter of Trump's campaign, having stood beside him with fellow Fox News star Sean Hannity during Trump's final campaign rally in 2016. She also publicly defended him during the "Access Hollywood" tape scandal. In 2020, following Trump's loss in the election, Pirro pushed false allegations of election fraud involving voting machines and was named in a lawsuit against Fox News employees who broadcast false claims about the Dominion Voting Systems. Fox News later settled for nearly $788 million and admitted the statements were false. Pirro was a mainstay on the right-wing Fox News Network, beginning as a hard Trump ally and legal analyst on the weekly "Justice with Judge Jeanine" for 11 years, starting in 2011. She later became host of "The Five." Pirro was reportedly suspended from Fox News in 2019 after she questioned if Muslim Congresswoman Ilhan Omar held anti-Constitutional beliefs due to her religion. Jeanine Pirro was born on June 2, 1951: she will turn 74 next month. Jeanine Pirro was married to Albert Pirro in 1975, with the couple having met after getting their law degrees at Albany Law School, according to The New York Times. In 2013, nearly 40 years later, the couple had a messy divorce after Albert Pirro, a lawyer, was convicted on 34 counts of conspiracy and tax evasion in 2000, per The New York Times. According to ABC News, Pirro was found to have improperly deducted over $1 million in lavish personal expenses in tax write-offs for his businesses. Albert Pirro had been tailed by rumors about Mafia ties, according to the Times, and it had also been revealed he fathered a child out of wedlock. Yes. With less than an hour before his first term as president ended, Trump granted one final pardon to longtime GOP donor Albert Pirro. Pirro has since returned to practicing law and works as a partner at Abrams Fensterman LLP in White Plains, New York. His law license was initially suspended in 2003 after his arrest, but he was readmitted to practice law in New York in 2007. Jeanine Pirro has two children with her former spouse Albert Pirro: Daughter, Christi and son, Alexander. Her son got engaged in 2023, Jeanine Pirro posted on Instagram, and her daughter got married in 2017. Lori Comstock is a New Jersey-based journalist with the Mid-Atlantic Connect Team. This article originally appeared on Who is Jeanine Pirro? What to know about Jeanine Pirro husband, age
Sunday Post
20-05-2025
- Politics
- Sunday Post
UN aid worker: In 25 years I have never seen a crisis as bad as Gaza
Get a weekly round-up of stories from The Sunday Post: Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A British aid worker has returned from six months spearheading the World Food Programme's response to the Gaza crisis – and says it is the most challenging posting he has ever faced. Former Gordonstoun pupil Matthew Hollingworth has worked in Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Ukraine and across Africa but found none of those as difficult as Gaza. The United Nations organisation's life-saving aid for civilians in Gaza has been backed by £14.25 million support from the UK Government since October 2023. Foreign Secretary David Lammy has been leading calls for more aid to enter Gaza and Hollingworth, 49, has seen first-hand the desperation of people suffering extreme hunger and malnutrition. Hollingworth said: 'There is no crisis in the world like Gaza. In my 25 years of service in humanitarian crises all over the world, I've never experienced anything as challenging as Gaza. It is beyond comparison. 'I've worked in war zones as aggressive, as violent and as frightening – but the big difference is that when the lead is flying and bombs start dropping, people can usually move away. The awful thing about Gaza is there is nowhere to move to. The entirety of that tiny 25-mile strip is a war zone and no man, woman or child can escape its intensity. 'I still find it hard to comprehend the level of desperation and hunger, fear and isolation that the people were experiencing. 'When we crossed the frontlines into Gaza City with aid, we had people running towards our convoys to snatch a packet of food off a truck, risking being fired upon by machine guns. 'People were dropping to the floor with gunshot wounds but still people would run towards us just to try and get a can of beans. The hunger was so extreme.' Hollingworth added: 'I'll never forget asking a child queuing at a WFP bakery what were his dreams for the future. You expect a child to say something like 'I want to be an engineer or a doctor or a footballer' or 'I want to go on holiday'. But his response was simply: 'I dream of having a chicken sandwich.' When I asked when he'd last had a sandwich with any kind of meat, he could not remember.' Far-travelled Hollingworth is from a military family. He was born in Nottingham and attended Gordonstoun boarding school in Moray, where King Charles also studied. The dad-of-three now lives in Beirut with his Lebanese-American wife and works as the World Food Programme's country director for Lebanon. Just two months after Hollingworth returned from Gaza last July to start his new role in Beirut, Israel launched an incursion into Lebanon to pursue Hezbollah. Hollingworth and his WFP team helped provide assistance to almost a million civilians displaced from southern Lebanon. The UK Government announced £15m in humanitarian support to provide Lebanon with essential medical supplies, emergency cash assistance, shelter and access to clean water, including £10m to the WFP. The tentative and fragile ceasefire is looking increasingly shaky, with Israel attacking locations in Lebanese capital Beirut at the end of last month. © Supplied by FCDO Hollingworth said: 'Sadly, explosions are all part of life in Beirut. The latest bombings happened in another suburb, but you can certainly hear them when it happens. To be honest, after so many years of working in conflict zones you can identify what kind of munitions are being used and how far away they are to assess how to respond appropriately to the risk. 'Sadly, I've had too many close shaves in several countries over the past 25 years. I lived through the Baghdad bombing at the UN mission based at the Canal Hotel in 2003, which tragically killed 23 UN staff. 'I was part of the UN team in Syria that was pinned down for eight or nine hours as the Siege of Homs was broken. We were hiding in basements of bombed-out buildings, while the place was being mortared and sniped at until we finally managed to negotiate a way out. 'Over the years I have gotten used to going to sleep to the staccato of gunfire and 'crump' of shellfire. Unfortunately, places where the aid sector is focused these days are by their very nature difficult and dangerous but that's where people need our help the most. That is why we are there, but whatever we go through, the local population suffers far, far more. 'I think 25 years ago, we had a lot more confidence that a Red Cross or a UN emblem would be some kind of guarantee of safe access and movement. Increasingly that is no longer the case and the term 'collateral damage' is more and more of a reality for humanitarian workers operating in war zones.' Hollingworth is strongly motivated by seeing with his own eyes the impact humanitarian aid has on the ground. The UK Government announced £17m in humanitarian funding on January 28 to ensure healthcare, food and shelter reaches tens of thousands of civilians and to support vital infrastructure across the Occupied Palestinian Territories. In total the UK has announced £129m this financial year, including £12m to the United Nations' Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the WFP. Hollingworth said: 'I've had many challenging days in the last 25 years of being in this line of work, but I've never had a period where I didn't genuinely see the impact of what we are doing and feel that what we are trying to achieve is worthwhile. 'Where are we right now? We are at the point where people are ever more despairing because of the lack of basic goods getting into Gaza – flour, beans, vegetable oil, clean water. 'We know what we can achieve if we can get our trucks in through every possible entry point. We have the means to provide hot meals and help bakeries to reopen. We have the resources to do our job – to feed the population.'
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Palestinian Producer Hanna Atallah & Lebanese Filmmaker Darine Hotait Launch Development & Production Company Route 243
EXCLUSIVE: Palestinian Producer Hanna Atallah and Lebanese-American writer-director Darine Hotait are joining forces on multi-format development and production company Route 243, with the aim of championing underrepresented voices and narratives with global resonance. Projects on its inaugural slate include Hotait's feature Tallahassee, adapted from Hala Alyan's eponymous short story about a woman who has recently been released from a psychiatric facility. It extends Hotait's 2021 short film which featured the author Alyan, Leila Buck and Cherien Dabis in the cast. More from Deadline Dakota Johnson Talks Romantic Experiments In Cannes Comedy 'Splitsville', Upcoming 'Materialists' And "Juicy" Colleen Hoover Adaptation 'Verity' Wes Anderson's 'The Phoenician Scheme' Scores 7½-Minute Ovation After Cannes Premiere, Leaving One Star In Tears Cannes Film Festival 2025: Read All Of Deadline's Movie Reviews The studio is also developing Palestinian American Sama'an Ashrawi's period musical The Blooms, exploring the rise of Palestine's first rock band Al-Bara'em in the 1960s, which was led by Ashrawi's father and uncle. Ashrawi has collaborated with a wide range of notable figures in music and entertainment, including Megan Thee Stallion, Drake, Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, Chris Rock, and Pharrell. Further projects include psychological thriller The Olive Press, set in the mystic world of the Druze community in Mount Lebanon, from writer and director Samah El Kadi, and co-written by Nadim Chammas. It's an extension of El Kadi's short film Baadarane, which is also produced by Route 243 and is currently in post-production. The company is also completing post-production on Hotait's L.A-set short Like The Tide, starring Iman Karram, known for her roles in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Glow on Netflix, and former WWE wrestler turned bestselling author and actor AJ Mendez. The company takes its name from the 243 kilometers, as the bird flies, between Atallah and Hotait's respective birthplaces of Jerusalem and Beirut, and an imagined road trip between the two cities. Such a journey has been impossible for decades due to both Israel's control of the border and travel restrictions imposed on Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. 'Route 243 is a home for stories that don't fit the mold but have the power to change it. We are here to make genre a tool of cultural resistance and imagination. This studio is about amplifying voices that have long been sidelined while embracing a truly international scope,' said the Route 243 co-founders. Hotait is known for writing and directing over a dozen award-winning short films and was recently named on Disney's List of Directors on The Rise. Under the banner of her company Cinephilia Productions, she has developed and supported films like Goodbye Julia, You Will Die at Twenty, Satisfaction, Dead Dog , Their Algeria. Atallah is the founder of Filmlab Palestine and August Films, which have both nurtured emerging filmmakers in Palestine and across the Arab world. His recent producing credits include Upshot by Maha Haj, which won Best Short Film and garnered a director special mention at the Locarno Film Festival in 2024, and Thank You for Banking with Us by Laila Abbas, which played multiple festivals including the BFI London Film Festival. They are joined in the venture by Amina Abodoma, a former consultant at Idris Elba's Green Door Pictures and creative and development director/producer on several TV series, including Echoes of the Past , Without Prior Notice and the adaptation of The Killing, Monataf company will operate around three poles: The Originals Think Tank, The Development Studio and The Consulting Station. The Originals Think Tank will focus on developing projects around existing IP, with the aim of reimagining iconic classics, contemporary works, and comic literature for the screen. It has already struck partnerships with publishers such as Cairo's Diwan Publishing House. The Development Studio will focus on developing original work, with the aim of delivering commercially viable, production-ready screenplays for film and television. It will operate in-house writing rooms and tap into a network of top-tier writers,The Consulting Station will offer tailored development consulting and creative infrastructure for talent and studios. Services include script coverage with expert analysis, live online consultations for personalized guidance, meticulous script revisions, and comprehensive project packaging. Further projects on the company's slate include genre-bending time travel fantasy Hotait's Like Salt; Mokeb, a feature adaptation of Pakistani-American playwright Hana Fatima Dehradunwala's off-Broadway comedy about a millennial's spiritual journey on Iraq's Arbaeen pilgrimage from Najaf to Karbala, and Palestinian filmmaker Wisam Al Jafari's dramedy The Hearse to the Final House of Happiness. Best of Deadline Sean 'Diddy' Combs Sex-Trafficking Trial Updates: Cassie Ventura's Testimony, $10M Hotel Settlement, Drugs, Violence, & The Feds 'Nine Perfect Strangers' Season 2 Release Schedule: When Do New Episodes Come Out? 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Newsweek
15-05-2025
- Politics
- Newsweek
Tiffany Trump's Baby's Name Explained as She Announces Birth of Son
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. First daughter Tiffany Trump announced the birth of her baby on Thursday, writing on Instagram: "Welcome to the world our sweet baby boy, Alexander Trump Boulos." "We love you beyond words! Thank you for coming into our lives," Trump added in the caption, alongside a black and white photo of one of the baby's feet. Newsweek reached out to the White House for comment via email on Thursday. The Context Tiffany Trump, 31, is one of President Donald Trump's five children. Her mother is Marla Maples, who was Trump's second wife. The president announced his youngest daughter's pregnancy to the public last October while he was running for the presidency as the Republican nominee. "She's an exceptional young woman," Donald Trump said while delivering a speech at the Detroit Economic Club. "And she's going to have a baby. So that's nice." Tiffany Trump, the youngest daughter of President Donald Trump, waits for the first presidential debate on September 29, 2020, at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. Tiffany Trump, the youngest daughter of President Donald Trump, waits for the first presidential debate on September 29, 2020, at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. Julio Cortez/AP What To Know Alexander Trump Boulos' name is a combination of parts parents' names. Tiffany's husband is Michael Alexander Boulos, and in some families, parents choose to use the mother's maiden name as a middle name for the child. Tiffany Trump's father-in-law, Massad Boulos, is a Lebanese-American business magnate who serves as the president's senior adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs. Boulos was an ardent backer of Trump's 2024 campaign, making frequent appearances on Lebanese television to stump for the Republican presidential nominee. He also helped Trump on the campaign trail in the U.S. and met during the campaign with at least one foreign official: Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the Palestinian Authority. Boulos told The New York Times that the meeting was "purely personal." What People Are Saying Tiffany's half-sister, first daughter Ivanka Trump, shared photos from her baby shower last month on X, formerly Twitter, writing: "This Sunday, I had so much fun hosting a Peter Rabbit-themed baby shower for my sweet sister Tiffany! We showered her with love and had the best time celebrating her and baby-to-be! "Every detail was inspired by Beatrix Potter's world—from bunny tails to garden treats—to celebrate the little boy she's about to welcome into her life. It was the sweetest day—filled with so much love, laughter, and excitement for everything ahead. Tiff, you're going to be the most wonderful mama. Your baby boy is already so loved—and so lucky to have you!" What Happens Next Republicans recently introduced a Trump-backed proposal to create "MAGA" (Money Account for Growth and Advancement) accounts—tax-advantaged savings plans—for children. The proposal is included in the "big, beautiful bill" that Trump and Republicans are currently trying to push through Congress. If it goes through, the baby will be eligible for $1,000.
National News
29-04-2025
- Politics
- National News
Lebanese Newspapers' Headlines for April 29, 2025
NNA - An-Nahar: Heightened tensions accompany Lebanese-American talks as the government finalizes preparations for election rounds Al-Akhbar: The state lags in reconstruction efforts and responds softly and unacceptably to the attacks Qassem: No discussion of any files before liberation Al-Joumhouria: Post-attacks fears of escalation and pitfalls Aoun: A return to the language of war is forbidden Nidaa Al-Watan: Calls for Hezbollah's disarmament surge after the southern suburb strike, as diplomacy and violence race head-to-head =========R.H.
