内容摘要：But Solar Impulse faced pessimism too, he added, and Piccard’s team has “proven it can do what people would consider impossible.”

But Solar Impulse faced pessimism too, he added, and Piccard’s team has “proven it can do what people would consider impossible.”

by insisting he’s smart to accept a $400 million luxury plane from Qatar and use it as Air Force One.“Why should our military, and therefore our taxpayers, be forced to pay hundreds of millions of Dollars when they can get it for FREE,” Trump

during his Middle East swing.The president also dodged questions about a state-backed investment company in Abu Dhabi using a Trump family-alignedfor a $2 billion investment in the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange.

“I don’t know anything about it,” he said.Beyond that, the Trump family has piled up deals to license its brand for real estate projects, and to build Trump towers and golf courses, around the Middle East. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says it’s “frankly ridiculous” to wonder if those profits might influence Trump’s governing decisions.

Madhani reported from Dubai. Associated Press writers Josh Boak, Will Weissert and Ellen Knickmeyer in Washington contributed to this report.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump loves big numbers — and he’s always happy to talk them up.and has already had a run in the U.K.

to have something this great in the cinemas to shake audiences out of their end-of-the-road awards contender boredom. What better way to do it than with something so different, so vibrant and so unforgettable as “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,” only the second feature from the self-taught filmmaker.Nyoni centers this story around a dayslong funeral for this predominately Bemba family. Shula is in the middle of the generations involved, a reluctant but obedient participant in the rituals of the elders. The women organize all the things, make all the food, and then serve all the men who are sitting around doing nothing. Eventually, they’ll all gather for a climactic, distressing scene in which they divide up Fred’s assets and place blame for his death. It is, like everything else, deeply unfair and misogynistic, coming down to whomever shouts loudest.

The elder women cry and wail and are cruel to Uncle Fred’s widow for not taking care of him. But there is an open secret that’s bubbling up to the surface now that Fred is dead: He was a predator and a pedophile whose abuse of the young women in his family stretches back decades. This is, most of the elders agree, something that should just be forgotten and buried along with Fred.“Do you want me to dig up the corpse and ask it what happened?” Shula’s dad asks when she confronts him with the truth.