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Donald Trump got his son’s age wrong during an interview on Thursday, saying that Barron Trump is 17 when he is actually 18.
The former president was speaking to Miami’s Telemundo 51 on May 9 when he was asked a question about his son Barron entering politics. The teen will be a delegate for Florida at the upcoming Republican National Convention in July.
“He’s pretty young, I will say. He’s 17. But if they can do that, I’m all for it,” Trump told Telemundo 51, NBC Universal’s Spanish-language network. However, Barron Trump turned 18 in March.
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Barron Trump is the 77-year-old’s fifth child and is the son of his wife Melania Trump.
His older half-brothers Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump—whose mother is the late Czech-American businesswoman and Donald Trump’s first wife, Ivana Trump—will be joining him as delegates for Florida. His half-sister Tiffany Trump will also be a delegate for the state. Her mother is Trump’s second wife, TV star Marla Maples.
The Trumps have largely kept Barron out of the spotlight until now. After the business mogul was elected president in 2016, the couple waited until the end of the school year to move the 10-year-old into the White House, to avoid disrupting his education.
At the time, the Republican politician said Barron found the move from New York to Washington, D.C., “a little scary,” but that his son is “strong and smart and he gets it.”
Slovenian native Melania Trump has reportedly raised her son to be bilingual, and is said to be very protective of Barron. The high-schooler will be graduating from Oxbridge Academy in Palm Beach, Florida, on May 17, with Donald Trump asking to pause his New York criminal trial to attend the ceremony.
The real estate tycoon is facing 34 felony charges of falsifying business documents, allegedly to conceal “hush money” payments to Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 general election. The adult film actress said that she and Trump had a one-night stand in 2006. The Apprentice star has denied the claim and charges against him.
Although presiding Judge Juan Merchan has granted Trump permission to attend his son’s graduation, the issue initially sparked outrage among MAGA supporters. Trump previously suggested he was banned from attending his son’s graduation ceremony, calling Merchan “seriously conflicted and corrupt.”
However, Merchan said Trump is fine to attend the ceremony, as long as the trial remained on schedule, later confirming it would “not be a problem.”
Trump, who is the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential candidate, will also reportedly deliver the key-note speech at the Minnesota Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Reagan Dinner on the same date.
Update 05/10/24 4:10 a.m. ET: This article has been updated to include further information on Barron Trump and Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial.
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China’s Ministry of State Security said MI6, Britain’s spy agency, recruited “employees of a central national agency” in a statement on Monday morning.
The MSS said that a man surnamed Wang and his wife with the last name Zhou were recruited by MI6 to “collect information for the British”. They allege Wang was targeted by MI6 shortly after arriving in the UK in 2015 as part of a “China-UK exchange programme”.
“MI6 provided Wang with professional spy training, directing him to return home and collect important intelligence related to China,” the ministry said, adding that it was “legally investigating the couple”.
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The Rosetta Stone, the Kohinoor diamond, sculptures from Greece’s Parthenon known as the Elgin Marbles are all dazzling objects that bear the history of early civilizations.
But these objects were also taken by colonizers, and still remain on display in museum galleries far from their homes.
Over the past several years museums around the world have been reckoning with the looted treasures they have kept and benefited from.
Now one small museum in Nashville, Tennessee is returning ancient objects excavated in Mexico.
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The online fashion giant Shein is planning to confidentially file for a London listing as soon as the coming days, laying the groundwork for a blockbuster initial public offering in the UK.
Shein is set to file privately with UK regulators its intention to float, according to people familiar with the matter, who cautioned that timing on the filing could yet shift.
Shein had been leaning towards a London listing after tensions between Beijing and Washington stalled its plans for an IPO in New York.
Shein’s executive chair Donald Tang told the Financial Times last month that the Singapore-domiciled company had made “progress” on changing the perception that China controlled Shein “but not enough” to win over US lawmakers.
The company had previously filed preparatory paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission more than six months ago, but concerns about Shein’s ties to Beijing became the biggest hurdle in the path to a US listing.
A confidential filing involves submitting preliminary information and does not necessarily mean a flotation is imminent. It will allow Shein to be ready to list more quickly if the company decides to go ahead.
The on-demand ecommerce group was valued at $66bn in its last funding round, and landing a flotation of Shein’s size would be a coup for the London Stock Exchange. London has been losing listings to its larger and more liquid New York rivals, the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq.
Shein was founded in China and most of its suppliers are in the country. However, it is now headquartered in Singapore and does not sell its products in China.
The company hit a record of more than $2bn in profits for 2023, surpassing the $700mn of net income it generated in 2022 and $1.1bn in 2021. By comparison, rivals H&M and Zara owner Inditex reported net profits of SKr8.7bn ($820mn) and €5.4bn ($5.8bn), respectively, in their most recent fiscal years.
Sky News previously reported the filing plans on Sunday. Shein declined to comment.
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