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– Caitlyn Jenner has a new memoir dropping April 25, and she makes a big announcement in it, People has confirmed: She underwent gender reassignment surgery in January, meaning her physical transformation from male to female is more or less complete. "The surgery was a success, and I feel not only wonderful but liberated," Jenner writes in The Secrets of My Life, per Radar. She had indicated back in 2016 during an I Am Cait episode that she wasn't sure when or if she'd undergo the procedure, which for a person born male means removing the penis and creating a vagina. She apparently decided to go for it, however, and to tell her fans in the interest of "candor"—and so everyone would quit bugging her about whether she'd had it done or not. "So all of you can stop staring," she writes. "You want to know, so now you know. Which is why this is the first time, and the last time, I will ever speak of it." She also adds, in typical Caitlyn style: "I am also tired of tucking the damn thing in all the time." (So yeah, that "sex change regret" story obviously didn't pan out.)

Caitlyn Jenner has undergone a physical milestone in her transition.

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 In her new memoir, The Secrets of My Life, the gold medal-winning Olympian–who confirmed her transition from male to female and revealed her new identity as Caitlyn in June 2015–says that she underwent gender reassignment surgery in January 2017, PEOPLE has confirmed.

 “The surgery was a success, and I feel not only wonderful but liberated,” she writes in the memoir, according to RadarOnline, calling the decision to undergo the surgery “complex.”

 Jenner says she decided to be open about the surgery in order to stop the questions and inquiries about when — or if — she would have it done.

 “I am telling you because I believe in candor,” she says. “So all of you can stop staring. You want to know, so now you know. Which is why this is the first time, and the last time, I will ever speak of it.”

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 “I just want to have all the right parts. I am also tired of tucking the damn thing in all the time.”

 “Gender confirmation surgery is something I think anybody in my position, or the girls’ position, of course you look into,” Jenner previously said of undergoing the surgery on a 2016 episode of I Am Cait. “For me, I have no idea what the future holds.”

 In October 2016, Jenner legally changed her name to Caitlyn Marie and her gender to female.

 The Secrets of My Life is available April 25. ||||| Caitlyn Jenner has finally undergone genital surgery in her years-long transition from male to female, RadarOnline.com can exclusively reveal.

 In the reality star’s new memoir, The Secrets of My Life, she claims she had the “Final Surgery” in January 2017, nearly two years after she publicly announced her identity as a trans woman in an explosive interview with Diane Sawyer.

 “The surgery was a success, and I feel not only wonderful but liberated,” she writes in the new memoir, out April 25.

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 The 67-year-old former Olympic gold medalist claims she came clean so fans will stop asking about her nether regions.

 “I am telling you because I believe in candor,” she explains. “So all of you can stop staring. You want to know, so now you know. Which is why this is the first time, and the last time, I will ever speak of it.”

 Earlier in the book, Jenner calls the surgery a “complex decision,” due in large part to the health risks associated with the operation.

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 But, she says she still considers going under the knife to have “all the right parts.”

 “So why even consider it? Because it’s just a penis. It has no special gifts or use for me other tan what I have said before, the ability to take a whiz in the woods,” the former I Am Cait star tells fans. “I just want to have all the right parts. I am also tired of tucking the damn thing in all the time.”

 Two years earlier, on March 15, 2015, Jenner says she underwent breast augmentation and facial feminization surgery in order to become Caitlyn.

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 “I am going to live authentically for the first time in my life,” she recalls thinking in the hours after the surgeries, following an initial freak-out. “I am going to have an enthusiasm for life that I have not had in 39 years since the Olympics, almost two thirds of my life.”

 As Radar previously reported, Jenner earned a cool $4 million advance for her hot new book.

 For more on the memoir, keep reading Radar.

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Abu Dhabi: The record drop in oil prices from more than $110 per barrel in 2014 to less than $40 per barrel this year has forced the Saudi government to reform its economy and look beyond oil, analysts said on Monday.

 “There is no doubt that low oil prices is the main reason why Saudi Arabia is undertaking reforms to diversify its economy. In the long run, the new measures announced by the government will benefit the economy,” said Edward Bell, commodity analyst from Emirates NBD.

 As part of the new reforms announced on Monday, tourism will be encouraged and new industries will be set up.

 “We have developed a case of oil addiction in Saudi Arabia,” Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman said in an interview to Al Arabiya Television. “I think by 2020, if oil stops we can survive,” he added.

 The government is undertaking reforms as oil prices slump due to over production and weak demand.

 In a landmark decision in December, the Saudi government cut subsidies and raised fuel prices by 50 per cent.

 “Being dependent of just one source of income makes an economy incredible vulnerable to price shocks and makes forward planning very difficult,” said Ole Hansen, an analyst from Saxo Bank.

 He said using the oil wealth to diversify is the only way forward for the economy to survive in the long term.

 “A fast growing population and no history of paying tax and jobs making little or no meaning, requires changes in order to compete in the global market place.”

 According to a report issued by the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries in December it may take many years for oil prices to recover and reach the level of more than $110 per barrel witnessed in June 2014,

 The oil producers group expects the price of its basket of crudes to rise to $70 a barrel in 2020 and $95 a barrel in 2040.

 Analysts predicted an average price of $40 in 2016 and $45 in 2017. Brent, the global benchmark was trading at less than $45 per barrel on Monday.

 “The price of oil will bounce further as we move towards the end of 2016 and into 2017. Billions of dollars of capex cut will eventually change the focus in the market from oversupply to the potential lack of supply,” Hansen added.

 In 2015, Saudi Arabia registered a budget deficit of 16 per cent of GDP and with government reforms announced December 2015, Saudi Arabia is expected to register a budget deficit of 13 per cent of GDP. ||||| RIYADH (Reuters) - The powerful young prince overseeing Saudi Arabia’s economy unveiled ambitious plans on Monday aimed at ending the kingdom’s “addiction” to oil and transforming it into a global investment power.

 (L-R) Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, Saudi King Salman, and Saudi Arabia's Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman stand together after Saudi Arabia's cabinet agrees to implement a broad reform plan known as Vision 2030 in Riyadh, April 25, 2016. REUTERS/Saudi Press Agency/Handout via Reuters

 Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said the world’s top oil exporter expects state oil company Saudi Aramco [SDABO.UL] to be valued at more than $2 trillion ahead of the sale of less than 5 percent of it through an initial public offering (IPO).

 He added that the kingdom would raise the capital of its public investment fund to 7 trillion riyals ($2 trillion) from 600 billion riyals ($160 billion).

 The plans also included changes that would alter the social structure of the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom by pushing for women to have a bigger economic role and by offering improved status to resident expatriates.

 “We will not allow our country ever to be at the mercy of commodity price volatility or external markets,” Prince Mohammed said at his first news conference with international journalists, who were invited to a Riyadh palace for the event.

 “We have developed a case of oil addiction in Saudi Arabia,” he had earlier told al-Arabiya television news channel.

 His “Vision 2030” envisaged raising non-oil revenue to 600 billion riyals ($160 billion) by 2020 and 1 trillion riyals ($267 billion) by 2030 from 163.5 billion riyals ($43.6 billion) last year. But the plan gave few details on how this would be implemented, something that has bedevilled previous reforms.

 The 31-year-old prince gave assured answers to questions on the plan, and appeared to pitch his comments to appeal across the Saudi social spectrum, and in particular to young people, who face unemployment and an economic downturn despite their country’s oil wealth.

 Even before oil prices started to plunge in 2014, economists had regarded Riyadh’s fiscal policy and economic structure as being unsustainable, but reduced income from energy sales has made reform more urgent.

 The plan appeared to lift sentiment on the Saudi stock market .TASI, where shares jumped by 2.5 percent in the heaviest trading for eight months, but it fell short of convincing skeptics that the kingdom can prosper in an era of cheap oil.

 At the center of the plan is the restructuring of its Public Investment Fund (PIF), which Prince Mohammed said would become a hub for Saudi investment abroad, partly by raising money through selling shares in Aramco.

 Asked where Riyadh would find the funds for a $2 trillion dollar fund after recent borrowing, he said it would come from transferring the ownership of Aramco to the PIF.

 “We are speaking about more than $2 trillion. We expect the valuation to be more than $2 trillion. In addition to that there are other assets that will be added to the fund, and part of it is already added.

 He said it could “turn into a global investment fund with a size of up to $3 trillion dollars”.

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 The partial privatization of Aramco was also central to the plans, and Prince Mohammed said it would be transformed into an energy company that he expected to be valued at $2 trillion to $3 trillion, and that less than 5 percent of it would be listed on the stock market.

 So big is the state oil company because of its rights to the kingdom’s crude reserves, that selling even 1 percent of its value would create the biggest initial public offering (IPO) on earth, he said.

 He said other Aramco subsidiary companies would also be listed along with other publicly held companies, and added that one major benefit of privatization was that it would increase transparency and help limit corruption.

 “People used to be unhappy that files and data of Aramco are undeclared, unclear and not transparent. Today they will be transparent. If Aramco gets IPO-ed that means it has to announce its statements of accounts,” he said.

 Since the prince was appointed to oversee Saudi long-term planning through the Council of Economic and Development Affairs, Riyadh’s focus on reform has grown far more urgent and far more acute.

 Prince Mohammed has enjoyed a dizzyingly rapid rise since his father became king 15 months ago, from being little known outside the ruling Al Saud family to become the driving force of Saudi plans to prepare for a future after oil.

 In his rare press conference, he presented himself as a modernizing leader who seeks to shake Saudi Arabia out of its economic slumber and its reputation for opacity and rigid bureaucracy, showing an interest in topics including education, the public role of women, and football.

 Saudi Arabia would prepare a new education curriculum, Prince Mohammed said. Despite previous reform attempts, the kingdom’s schools have long been seen as focused on religious teachings rather than preparing students for a role in a modern economy.

 Under the plans, Saudi Arabia would produce or assemble half of its defense equipment internally in order to create job opportunities, he said, and Riyadh would make foreign investment easier.

 The government ran a deficit of 367 billion riyals ($98 billion) or 15 per cent of gross domestic product in 2015, officials said, and this year’s budget plan aimed to cut that to 326 billion riyals ($87 billion).

 His economic team has already announced efforts to curb wasteful government spending, to diversify revenue streams by introducing sales tax and privatizing state assets, and to make reforms in the education sector.

 Such was the speculation among Saudis over the details of the plan that hashtags associated with it were the top two trending on Twitter on Monday in the country with the highest rate of social media use in the Middle East.

 But ambitious targets, such as raising the private sector share in the economy to 60 percent from 40 percent, reducing unemployment to 7.6 percent from 11 percent and growing non-oil income to 1 trillion riyals ($267 billion) from 163 billion riyals ($44 billion) were not explained further.

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 Some Saudis said they had hoped for more detail on crucial issues such as education reform. There were no further details of plans to increase revenue from tax or of any changes to the political structure of the absolute monarchy.

 “For me as a Saudi, I am concerned by the education transformation plan,” said a Saudi entrepreneur. “If it is not at the top of the list, why not?”

 However, the plan also envisaged increasing women’s participation in the workforce, something that has already grown quickly over the past five years, to 30 percent from 22 percent.

 But he also said he did not believe Saudi society was ready to end its ban on women driving.

 A green card system would also be launched within five years to enable expatriate Arabs and Muslims to live and work long-term in the country, Prince Mohammed said, in a major shift for the insular kingdom.

 But the focus was on economic restructuring to help reduce oil dependence.

 “I think by 2020, if oil stops we can survive,” Prince Mohammed said. “We need it, we need it, but I think in 2020 we can live without oil.”

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 Appealing to Saudi youth, he ended his news conference by promising them a new Saudi Arabia.

 “The vision is not a dream, it’s a reality that will come true,” he said.

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 The Saudi cabinet has approved sweeping economic reforms aimed at moving the country away from its dependence on oil profits.

 Just over 70% of revenues came from oil last year but it has been hit by falling prices.

 One part of the plan will see shares sold in state-owned oil giant Aramco to create a sovereign wealth fund.

 Announcing the reforms, Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman described his country as being addicted to oil.

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 The Vision 2030 plan, he told the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya news channel, would ensure "we can live without oil by 2020".

 Among the reforms he announced in his interview were:

 Shares worth less than 5% of Aramco, a company he valued at up to $2.5tn (£1.7tn), will be sold

 Some of the proceeds will go towards a sovereign wealth fund worth $2tn

 A new visa system will allow expatriate Muslims and Arabs to work long term in Saudi Arabia

 Steps will be taken to diversify the economy, including investment in mineral mining and expanding military production

 Participation of women in the workforce to increase

 Even just selling 1% of Aramco would create the biggest initial public offering in history, the prince said, outstripping blockbuster sales like Facebook and Alibaba.

 The IMF called the Saudi plan an "ambitious, far-reaching effort" but warned implementation would be a challenge.

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 Oil has made Saudi Arabia a major economic force. But it comes at a cost. The short-term problem is the volatile price of crude oil, which is now less than half what it was in mid-2014. Saudi Arabia has deep pockets.

 It will not go running to the International Monetary Fund for financial help, something another oil exporter, Angola, has done. But the Saudi reserves are eroding and with almost three quarters of government revenue coming from oil, the price fall is making itself felt.

 For the long term, international efforts to combat climate change create huge uncertainty about demand for oil in the future. Oil will not lose its dominance of the market for transport fuel in the next few years, but further ahead the outlook is unknown.

 So Saudi Arabia needs to become less dependent on oil for government revenue and for the jobs and incomes of Saudi nationals.

 Oil prices are still less than half the peak of $115 a barrel seen in June 2014. But the prince said the reforms would go ahead regardless of prices.

 "The vision has nothing to do with crude prices," he said.

 "If the oil price goes back up it would greatly support the vision but it does not need high prices. We can deal with the lowest prices possible."

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 In an interview with Bloomberg last week, Prince Mohammed said taxes on luxury goods and sugary drinks could also be introduced. However, he said it was crucial that the programme would not leave the country's poor worse off.

 The prince is second-in-line to the Saudi throne and also serves as defence minister.

 Vast oil revenues have allowed the Saudi government to offer generous subsidies on utilities to its population. But some of these were cut last year in response to falling oil prices.

 Over the weekend King Salman sacked the country's water minister amid outrage at rising utility prices. ||||| Saudi Arabia's cabinet has agreed on a broad-based economic reform plan, known as Vision 2030, revealing how the oil-reliant state plans to diversify its economy over the next 14 years.

 Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the deputy crown prince, said on Monday that the country was building up its public investment fund to become a major player in global markets.

 He said Saudi Arabia was restructuring its housing ministry to increase the supply of affordable housing, and creating a "green card" system within five years to give expatriates long-term residence.

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 Salman al-Ansari, founder and president of the Washington DC-based Saudi American Public Relations Affairs Committee (SAPRAC), told Al Jazeera the green card system gives more rights to expatriates to invest in the country.

 "Almost 10 million foreigners send their money back to their country. They can't invest in this country, so with this green card idea we are giving more rights to expats for investment or to buy houses," he said.

 "That will create a big move for the Saudi economy. It is a visionary kind of move to not only help the Saudi economy and Saudi citizens but also to help the foreigners in the country."

 Saudi Arabia will also sell shares in state oil giant Aramco and set up the world's largest wealth fund in line with the plan, Mohamed bin Salman said separately in an interview with the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya news channel.

 "We plan to sell less than 5 percent of Aramco. Aramco's size is very big. It is estimated at between $2 trillion and $2.5 trillion," he said.

 "We plan to set up a $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund ... part of its assets will come from the sale of a small part of Aramco."

 Saudi Arabia's economy has suffered over the past 12 months in line with the falling price of oil, with a $98bn budget deficit last year and an estimated deficit of $87bn this year. Its reserves decreased from $746bn in 2014 to $616bn today.

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 "They have announced these kind of changes before. It is going to be very interesting to monitor the implementation of the new rules," Ahmed al-Ibrahim, an expert in Saudi affairs and security, told Al Jazeera.

 "To implement some of these, you need the collaboration of society. For example, if you want to increase the empowerment of women, you need to liberalise your society," he said.

 "In so many more ways, Saudi society needs to contribute to the government for the Vision 2030 to succeed."

 The country has proven oil reserves of 267 billion barrels and potential reserves of up to 900 billion. |||||

– Saudi Arabia's 30-year-old deputy crown prince is looking toward the future with his new "Vision 2030" plan—a plan that includes pulling the kingdom out of its overreliance on oil and leaning more on non-oil investment to transform it into a global power, Reuters reports. "We will not allow our country ever to be at the mercy of commodity price volatility or external markets," Prince Mohammed bin Salman told reporters gathered at a Riyadh palace Monday. Per Gulf News, he had earlier appeared in a televised al-Arabiya interview, noting, "We have developed a case of oil addiction in Saudi Arabia. … I think by 2020, if oil stops we can survive." Also part of his new blueprint: including women more in the economy and appealing to young people who face the prospect of not finding jobs. The BBC notes that more than 70% of the kingdom's revenue came from oil in 2015, but oil prices continue to plummet and Saudi Arabia's economy is suffering, per Al Jazeera. In broad terms, the prince would like to bring up its Public Investment Fund (PIF) capital to $2 trillion from $160 billion. Prince Mohammed says 5% of shares in the Aramco oil company would be sold to fund this $2 trillion nest (which he thinks could even rise to $3 trillion). Also part of the prince's game plan: setting up a "green card" system in five years' time to expedite Muslim and Arab expatriates' long-term residency, as well as boosting affordable housing and getting more women into the workforce. The founder of the DC-based Saudi American Public Relations Affairs Committee tells Al Jazeera this a "visionary move," but another Saudi expert says he's seen similar changes proposed before. "To implement some of these, you need the collaboration of society," he notes. "For example, if you want to increase the empowerment of women, you need to liberalize your society." (What the prince didn't bring up: The kingdom's possible ties to 9/11.)


"It was tearing me up, the stress, the headaches," said Van Meter, the former Army captain from Manteca who paid off his $46,000 debt by refinancing his mortgage. "I couldn't take it anymore. The amount of stress it put us through financially and emotionally was something we wanted to move past." ||||| U.S. Soldiers Told To Repay Thousands In Signing Bonuses From Height Of War Effort

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 In most cases, when an employer pays a signing bonus to attract new workers, that payment is understood to be essentially unrecoverable. But the Pentagon has a different understanding — and it's ordering the California National Guard to claw back thousands of dollars paid to soldiers who re-enlisted to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan.

 And in many cases, an employer would also have a tough time arguing that decade-old lapses in its own oversight should trigger wage garnishments and tax liens against its workers. But again, this is the U.S. military, and its officials say the law requires them to reclaim the overpayments.

 That's the gist of a report by The Los Angeles Times, which says nearly 10,000 soldiers are now scrambling to pay back signing bonuses that helped the Pentagon cope with the task of using an all-volunteer service to fight two prolonged international conflicts.

 In addition to doling out cash for re-enlistment, the Pentagon offered student loan repayments. The incentives were seen as crucial to the military's effort to keep its ranks flush, but auditors say the rules should have limited the largest payments to certain skill areas — and that in the rush to staff the war effort, the bonuses were given out too liberally, the L.A. Times reports.

 Responding to the newspaper's story Sunday, the California National Guard points out that the repayments are part of a federal program run by the National Guard Bureau and the Department of the Army.

 The state military service says:

 "The California National Guard does not have the authority to unilaterally waive these debts. However, the California National Guard welcomes any law passed by Congress to waive these debts. "Until that time, our priority is to advocate for our Soldiers through this difficult process."

 In its statement, the service adds that its adjutant general, Maj. Gen. David S. Baldwin, created an assistance center that has helped some of its soldiers retain $37 million "of original bonus payments."

 The problem of improper use of military troop-level incentives isn't limited to California — but the state has emerged as a focal point because of two factors: the large size of its guard force, and a history of overpayments.

 A scandal over the California National Guard's use of bonus money was first unearthed in 2010, when the Sacramento Bee reported that its incentive program had misspent as much as $100 million. The program's onetime leader, former Master Sgt. Toni Jaffe, was later sentenced to 30 months in prison, after pleading guilty to making $15 million in false claims.

 When it was first discovered, that scandal was deemed "war profiteering" and was said to have benefited guard members who hadn't logged any combat duty; high-ranking officers were mentioned. But in the years since, lower-ranking service members have complained about garnished checks and a prolonged review process, saying they've done nothing wrong.

 With the work of 42 auditors who reviewed the California cases now complete, the repayments are back in the spotlight — and service members and veterans, as well as members of the public, have been venting their anger.

 On the California guard's Facebook page, several people hijacked a post about training to comment on the bonus repayments, with one man writing, "The officials who screwed over our service members need to do the right thing and pay back the money. DISGUSTING."

 And after the guard responded to the Times story Monday, a commenter criticized its stance, writing, "Meanwhile vets are suffering while one bureaucracy waits to 'welcome' another bureaucracy to take responsibility and force it to do the right thing. Pathetic."

 Revelations about fraud and mismanagement in the Pentagon's retention program emerged after the program's budget swelled between 2000 and 2008 — when the Defense Department went from spending $891 million for selective re-enlistment bonuses to spending $1.4 billion on them, according to a 2010 research paper by the RAND defense institute. By the end of that period, the military was also spending $625 million yearly to pay enlistment bonuses.

 It's not unusual for signing bonuses to have strings attached. But in the civilian world, conditions for repayment are often limited to cases where an employee spends less than a year in their new job. In the case of the California National Guard, soldiers who say they held up their end of the contract — serving the required three- or six-year re-enlistment period — are being told to repay a key incentive.

 One of them is Robert Richmond, who has begun an online petition that calls for the Army to "stop stealing back signing bonuses 10 years later."

 Richmond says he signed the contract in good faith, and in his petition, he describes a scenario that's reminiscent of the recent Wells Fargo cross-selling scandal, saying that a lower-ranking figure has been punished for committing fraud that was motivated at least in part by a need to meet targets set by her superiors.

 Richmond also appears in the L.A. Times story; here's a sample from his petition:

 "Like many other soldiers, I honorably completed my contract in 2012 and two years later they sent me a letter stating I had to pay the money back. Each contract has a different excuse. They stated the reason I was not eligible for the contract was because I had over 20 years of service at the time. I had originally signed up more than 20 years prior, but had breaks in service and only had 15 credible years of service, not 20. Although at the time, they informed me I was eligible for a bonus, now they are saying I was not."

 Like other veterans who are refusing to pay up, Richmond is now incurring interest on the repayment amount.

 In its General Rules about the recovery of pay and bonuses, the Department of Defense states, "As a general rule, repayment will not be sought if the member's inability to fulfill the eligibility requirements is due to circumstances determined reasonably beyond the member's control."

 But after dozens of auditors reviewed its system that had paid soldiers bonuses without determining their eligibility, the California National Guard's veterans started getting repayment notices.

 "People like me just got screwed," a 42-year-old veteran tells the Times.

 That veteran, former Army Capt. Christopher Van Meter, fought in Iraq. He tells the newspaper he refinanced his mortgage to repay $25,000 in re-enlistment bonuses and $21,000 in student loan repayments.

 Another veteran — former Army Master Sgt. Susan Haley, who served in Afghanistan and spent more than 25 years in the service — tells the newspaper that she's now sending the Pentagon $650 each month to repay $20,500 in bonuses.

 "I feel totally betrayed," Haley says.

 To put those dollar figures in perspective, we can look at the Army's payment and retention policy — specifically, a summary of its Selective Reenlistment Bonus program that was laid out early in 2006:

 "The objective of the SRB program is to increase the number of reenlistments in critical MOSs [Military Occupational Specialty] that do not have adequate retention levels to man the career force. Although Department of Defense policy permits SRB payments of up to $45,000.00, soldiers may be paid bonuses up to six times their monthly basic pay at discharge, times the number of years of additional obligated service, or $20,000.00, whichever is less."

 While some veterans are working to repay the money, others are filing appeals, engaging in what's likely to be a prolonged fight against the service to which they once belonged. California National Guard officials tell the Times that they've been helping veterans through the appeals process.

 "We'd be more than happy to absolve these people of their debts," Maj. Gen. Matthew Beevers, deputy commander of the California National Guard, tells the Times. "We just can't do it. We'd be breaking the law."

 One of the earliest reviews of the Army's post-Iraq invasion bonus system came in 2007, when the Defense Department's inspector general examined the program called the Reenlistment, Reclassification, and Assignment System (RETAIN). But at the time, the central issue wasn't whether too much money was being paid, but rather whether the service was paying out bonuses quickly enough. |||||
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– The US military is trying to reclaim signing bonuses and student loan compensation it says it improperly awarded to 9,700 California soldiers during the mid- to late 2000s, at the height of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The LA Times reports that soldiers who served their six-year contracts to completion are now being placed in debt collection for failing to return their bonuses, which in many cases were as high as $25,000. The soldiers, understandably, are less than thrilled that a government they put their lives on the line for is now trying to walk back on its promises. "I signed a contract that I literally risked my life to fulfill," says former Army sergeant first class Robert Richmond, one of the soldiers from whom the government is trying to reclaim money. "They’ll get their money, but I want those years back," says former Army master sergeant Susan Haley. The issue, NPR reports, stems from a 2010 discovery that California's National Guard office had misspent up to $100 million. Independent audits revealed the money had gone to signing bonuses for soldiers who shouldn't have been eligible for such compensation. (It was meant to be limited to "soldiers in high-demand assignments ... [or] noncommissioned officers badly needed in units due to deploy," per the Times.) A years-long review of the program revealed almost 10,000 incidences of improperly awarded bonuses—bonuses the military say it's legally required to recoup. No one, from soldiers to military leadership to lawmakers, is happy about the situation. The military says it would happily defer the debts if Congress would legalize it. As the story gains more media traction, the California House of Representatives on Sunday condemned the Pentagon's effort to recoup the money, and pledged to do what it could to help the veterans.


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 When some films do not pay as well and you have a mortgage to pay and you are on an economy drive eating eggs and beans, and you are offered a million dollar role and you turn it down, as it is not right. I want to be doing this when I am 60 and getting the big paying roles then so I have to pick the parts that are right for the long term rather than take the money now... See more Was going to play the "stoner" in the small independent film Anderson's Cross alongside former Undeclared co star Samm Levine and good friend Jerome Elston Scott , but couldn't because of scheduling conflicts. Director Jerome cut the part out of the script completely saying "No one replaces Charlie Hunnam". See more Charlie See more |||||
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– After 50 million different rumors, the Internet has its answer as to who will play Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey on the big screen: Anastasia is none other than Dakota Johnson, the 24-year-old daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith, and perhaps previously best known for Fox sitcom Ben & Kate, and minor roles in The Social Network and The Five-Year Engagement. "I am delighted to let you know that the lovely Dakota Johnson has agreed to be our Anastasia in the film adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey," tweeted author EL James this morning. James later tweet-dropped: "the gorgeous and talented Charlie Hunnam" as the actor who would portray Grey. Click for more Social Network alums working on the project.


Image caption The script is said to be part of an oath-taking process

 Police in Italy say they have deciphered a mysterious coded text that appears to reveal the details of a secretive mafia initiation process.

 It was apparently written in a special alphabet devised by members of the 'Ndrangheta, a crime network based in the Calabria region of southern Italy.

 The document was found during an investigation into a high-profile murder in Rome in January last year.

 The 'Ndrangheta are said to be the biggest cocaine smugglers in Europe.

 Rich in symbolism

 "Finding such a document shows that even if they are projected towards big businesses and are a criminal group with a global presence, they still use archaic systems," said Renato Cortese, head of the police rapid response team in Rome.

 The script is said to be part of the oath-taking process used when new members join a mafiosi clan known as the "San Luca".

 "Its content is basically the formula that a person must recite to become part of the 'Ndrangheta," Mr Cortese said.

 It was the first time such a document had been found in Rome, he added.

 Three sheets of note paper, that carried a hand-written message, were discovered alongside weapons and ammunition.

 Two policemen with a passion for crosswords spent weeks cracking the code, says the BBC's Rome correspondent Alan Johnston.

 The letters looked like a mix of Arabic, Cyrillic and Chinese-type script, he says.

 The document sheds a little light on the quasi-mystical aura that the mafiosi like to create when they take in new recruits, our correspondent adds.

 The translated text is said to be rich in symbolism, and describes how to recognise a mafioso - a so-called "Man of Honour" - by the signs around him.

 The 'Ndrangheta is now reckoned to be Italy's most powerful mafia, having overtaken Sicily's Cosa Nostra. The network operates across Europe and has connections with Colombian drug cartels. ||||| Focused crawls are collections of frequently-updated webcrawl data from narrow (as opposed to broad or wide) web crawls, often focused on a single domain or subdomain. |||||

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– "For the baptism, five people are needed—no more and no less," reads the coded instructions. But this "baptism" isn't the usual sort: It's for new members of the 'Ndrangheta crime syndicate in Italy, reports the Telegraph. Police discovered the instructions during a murder investigation, and two officers who like to solve puzzles got busy deciphering the text, which resembles ancient Egyptian and Greek. The big break came when they figured out the letter C, and the rest fell into place. It's oh-so-dramatic stuff: The initiation must take place in a "sacred, sacrosanct, and secure" location, and the newbie must cut his skin with a knife in order to swear a blood oath—"an eternal allegiance to the honored society.” The BBC reports that the 'Ndrangheta is thought to be the most powerful mafia in Italy, with a specialty in cocaine smuggling. "Finding such a document shows that even if they are projected towards big businesses and are a criminal group with a global presence, they still use archaic systems," says a police official in Rome. (The syndicate apparently isn't a fan of the new pope.)


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Iraqi Death Scene Pics of Marines Burning Bodies Trigger U.S. Military Investigation [PHOTOS]

 Pics of Marines Burning Bodies Trigger U.S. Military Investigation [PHOTOS]

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 The United States military is conducting a formal investigation into American soldiers burning the dead bodies of what appear to be Iraqi insurgents.TMZ obtained 41 pictures that we're told were shot in Fallujah in 2004. Two pictures show a Marine appearing to pour gasoline or some other flammable on the remains of what officials believe are 2 insurgents. Two other photos show the bodies on fire. You then see charred remains.Another photo shows a Marine crouched down next to a dead body and mugging for the camera.Still another pic shows a Marine rifling through the pocket of the pants on a corpse.We have not included all of the photos. Many are just too gruesome. There are well over a dozen bodies in the pics and some are covered with flies and one is being eaten by a dog.We turned them all over to the Pentagon last week, and a Pentagon official tells us the pics have triggered a Marine Corps investigation.We're told U.S. Central Command -- the organization in charge of military operations in the Middle East -- also reviewed the photos to determine if they had been previously brought to their attention and determined they had not., Director of Press Operations for the Dept. of Defense, tells TMZ ... the pictures appear to show U.S. soldiers in violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice ... which makes it a crime to mishandle remains.There is no statute of limitations on the crime -- even if the soldiers are now private citizens ... they can still be prosecuted, which could land them behind bars.Col. Warren tells TMZ, "The actions that are depicted in these photos are not in any way representative of the honorable, professional service of the 2 1/2 million service members who went to war in Iraq and Afghanistan in the last decade." ||||| TMZ obtained a trove of photos that allegedly show U.S. Marines posing next to and burning dead bodies of insurgents in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004. (Warning: graphic images ahead.)

 TMZ leaked 9 of 41 photos that appear to show Marines in Iraq pouring gasoline and then burning the dead bodies of Iraqis. An investigation into the photos has now been opened by the Marine Corps to see whether punishment is necessary.

 "We have no details beyond the photos themselves," Pentagon spokesperson Commander Bill Speaks told The Wire over the phone, contradicting slightly what TMZ reported. The Defense Department plans to investigate the veracity of the photos and possibly the identify the soldiers involved. Burning bodies directly violates the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Crimes against the code can still be prosecuted, even all these years later.

 The full set, which TMZ says was turned over to the military last week, allegedly also shows Marines posing next to corpses, a Marine going through a dean man's pockets, and a dog eating one body. "We have not included all of the photos," TMZ says. "Many are just too gruesome."

 The photos were allegedly taken in Fallujah, which, in 2004, was one of the most dangerous cities for U.S. troops at the height of the Iraq war. In the last few weeks, Al Qaeda insurgents took over the city, and the Iraqi military has debated whether or not to attack to reclaim it. "It is heartbreaking to watch Fallujah descend into this kind of violence again," Jessica Lewis, a two-tour Iraq war veteran, told the CBC recently.

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– TMZ is venturing well off the Justin Bieber beat with a potentially serious story about the behavior of Marines during the Iraq war. The site has published eight grisly photos that it says show US troops burning the corpses of Iraqi insurgents in Fallujah in 2004, rifling through pockets, and mugging for the camera. It turned over the full set of 41 photos to the US military last week, and a Pentagon spokesman says an investigation is under way, first to determine the veracity of the images and then to possibly identify any of the Marines. If true, the behavior would violate the Uniform Code of Military Justice on the handling of bodies. "We have no details beyond the photos themselves," a Pentagon spokesperson tells the Wire. In a fuller statement, the spokesperson says "the actions depicted in these photos are not what we expect from our service members." Charges could still be filed, even if any of the Marines are no longer in the military. You can see the images at TMZ, but, be warned, they are graphic. (The development comes as Fallujah continues to fall under the sway of al-Qaeda.)


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Focused crawls are collections of frequently-updated webcrawl data from narrow (as opposed to broad or wide) web crawls, often focused on a single domain or subdomain. ||||| KOLKATA, India, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Two lunch boxes hidden in the toilets of a Jet Airways plane triggered first a bomb scare and then a smuggling probe as the tins were found to contain 12 gold bars each, a senior customs official said on Wednesday.

 Smuggling is on the rise into India, one of the world’s biggest buyers of gold, after the government raised import duty to a record 10 percent and slapped restrictions which have shrivelled supplies into the domestic market.

 The Jet Airways plane had arrived at Kolkata’s international airport from Patna on a domestic flight, but normally operates between the gold trading hub of Dubai and Mumbai, home to India’s largest gold market. It was undergoing routine cleaning when maintenance staff discovered the two small tins.

 “There was a bomb scare immediately when the bags were spotted in two separate toilets at round 1 a.m., but later we found they contained 12 pieces of gold bars in each,” Additional Commissioner of Customs at the airport, Rameshwar Meena, told Reuters.

 “The gold bars are from Dubai for sure. The flight had come from Patna to Kolkata last, but its basic route is Dubai-Mumbai.”

 The bars weigh 1 kg (2.2 pounds) and are about the same size as a portable smart phone. Meena said the haul was worth 73.68 million rupees ($1.18 million). Customs officials said there had been five cases over two months involving a total 100 kg.

 “We feel that what we catch is less than 10 percent or so and there are so many groups operating, it is impossible for us to keep a check,” said an official at the revenue intelligence department, who asked not to be identified as he is not authorised to speak to the media.

 Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said this month the measures had prompted a slight rise in smuggling, but his officers had said no one could bring in more than 5 kg.

 “You cannot carry more than 5 kg of gold and still go undetected,” he told CNBC TV18.

 At Kolkata, Meena said investigators were questioning airline and airport staff. Profiles of passengers on the flight from Dubai were being checked.

 The revenue intelligence officer said a man had been arrested in an earlier case on suspicion of concealing 5 kg of gold in the toilet of an Air India plane in Dubai. He left the plane in Mumbai and another passenger removed the gold after it had flown on to Goa.

 Crews are now on alert for passengers lingering in the loo.

 “We are educating (our staff) about aircraft maps of how toilets are in an Airbus or a Boeing. We are also asking the aircraft crew to tip us off about people who spend slightly more time in toilets,” the revenue intelligence officer said. ($1 = 62.2925 Indian rupees) (Reporting by Sujoy Dhar; Additional reporting by Siddesh Mayenkar in MUMBAI; Editing by Ron Popeski) |||||

– Jet Airways workers in India made a million-dollar discovery in the most of unusual of places—two dozen gold bars stuffed into a plane's toilets, reports AFP. Smugglers apparently hid the bars in two boxes and jammed them in there, but the cleaning crew in Kolkata got to them first. India is a major buyer of gold, and a steep hike in taxes has led to a rise in smuggling, explains Reuters. Its story includes this quote from an investigator: "We are also asking the aircraft crew to tip us off about people who spend slightly more time in toilets."


– One person is dead and five are injured after ice caves on Washington state's Big Four Mountain collapsed yesterday for the second day in a row. A hiker's body has yet to be recovered from the caves—formed in snow mounds that end up sliding down to the base of a cliff—because of the "fragile nature of the ice," a Snohomish County rep says. Two men, 25 and 35, and a woman, 35, were airlifted to a hospital with serious injuries, including leg and pelvis fractures, reports NBC News. A boy and girl were also admitted with minor injuries but have since been released, reports the Seattle Times. "There was a loud pop above us," Chloe Jakubowski says. "Once I saw the ice chunks falling, I ducked for cover and held my hands over my head." She says a woman standing next to her was knocked unconscious by falling ice. "As soon as it stopped, I looked ... around me and it was extremely gruesome, honestly," says Jakubowski, 18. She didn't have cell service and had to drive 15 miles to a campsite to call for help. Rescuers say the call came in about 45 minutes after the collapse. "There was a large pile of ice and rock that came down," says the county rep. "In many ways, it was similar to an avalanche." A day earlier, a visitor to the caves, popular among hikers and only accessible by a narrow, 26-mile road, captured a partial collapse on video, but no one was injured in that case. Authorities have long considered the caves to be dangerous, particularly in warm weather—temps hit 80 degrees in the area yesterday—and signs warn of the risky conditions. They were installed after the last death at the caves, that of an 11-year-old girl hit by falling ice in 2010.

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 Chloe Jakubowski was one of dozens of people who fled scorching temperatures Monday afternoon for the cool shadows of the Big Four Ice Caves, a popular recreation site in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest.

 Jakubowski, 18, who recently moved to Bothell from Napa, Calif., was with friends just inside the cave when the silence was broken by a loud crack. Ice and debris rained down, scattering the visitors. Jakubowski covered her head with her arms and crouched behind a giant rock of ice. When she stood up, she found mayhem.

 Related: ‘Very unstable’ conditions pose recovery challenge at caves

 A woman next to her lay unconscious. Nearby, other hikers lay with cuts and broken bones.

 “As soon as it stopped I looked up and looked around me and it was extremely gruesome, honestly,” said Jakubowski, who suffered scratches and other minor injuries.

 “Everybody there, we grabbed everybody out and helped as best we could,” she said.

 The Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office said one person was killed when tons of ice and rock collapsed near the mouth of the popular caves, and five others were injured, two seriously. Rescue efforts were delayed for nearly 45 minutes because of a lack of cellphone reception in the area, said sheriff’s spokeswoman Shari Ireton.

 Ireton said the body of the deceased, who was not identified, remained at the scene Tuesday morning. Five people — three adults and two juveniles — were taken to area hospitals.

 “There was a large pile of ice and rock that came down,” Ireton said. “In many ways, it was similar to an avalanche.”

 Ireton said the recent heat wave “has weakened the caves themselves. They are essentially a frozen-over avalanche chute sitting over a waterfall sitting below a giant rock chute. It’s incredibly dangerous.”

 Snohomish County Sheriff PIO Shari Ireton talks to reporters at Verlot Ranger Station about one fatality and three seriously injured at the Big Four Ice Caves collapse, Mon., July 6, 2015 near Granite Falls. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)

 The three injured adults — two men and a woman — were flown by helicopter by Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, said hospital spokeswoman Susan Gregg.

 A 25-year-old man was upgraded Tuesday morning from critical to serious condition and is in intensive care, Gregg said.

 Another man, 35, was upgraded from serious to satisfactory condition and is no longer in intensive care. A 35-year-old woman was treated and released Monday night from Harborview, Gregg said.

 In addition, two children were taken to Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett with minor injuries and have been released, according to Colleen Wadden, a spokeswoman for Providence. The Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office said the children were both girls.

 County officials warned visitors in May to exercise extreme caution near the ice caves, which are a popular hiking destination, because warm weather was causing sections of the caves to collapse. The sheriff’s office said in May that visitors should stay on the trail and not stand on top of caves.

 Asked in a briefing why access to the caves hasn’t been forbidden, Ireton said, “That’s a United States Forest Service decision. That’s not a Sheriff’s Office decision.”

 Visitors to the cave Sunday captured video of a large shelf of ice breaking free from a lip hanging over the entrance to the caves, scattering a small group of hikers who had wandered close. The video contains obscenities:

 Ireton said more than 100 rescuers responded to the recreation area after a caller reported the collapse. The cave-in occurred about 5:38 p.m., but it took the caller 45 minutes to drive out to make the call.

 Jakubowski said she and her friends drove 15 miles to use a payphone at a campsite after the collapse. She said it was at least a half-hour after the incident.

 The temperature in Granite Falls was around 80 degrees at 5 p.m. Monday, according to the National Weather Service.

 Ireton said the body of the deceased hiker was not recovered Monday “because conditions of the ice are so dangerous at this point, teams from Everett Mountain Rescue and other search-and-rescue volunteers are looking at conditions of the ice to see how safe it is before they go in.”

 The death Monday is the first at the ice caves since the highly publicized death of 11-year-old Grace Tam, who was killed by a boulder of ice that came off the caves in 2010 while her father was taking photographs.

 Tam’s family eventually sued the U.S. Forest Service, saying that the Big Four Ice Caves failed to adequately warn visitors about the potential danger of ice avalanches. The lawsuit was dismissed, but now a sign at the trail viewpoint is installed in memory of Grace to warn visitors.

 In late 1998, Catherine Stockton Shields, 27, was killed by falling ice when one of the caves partially collapsed.

 Recent trail reports for the Big Four Ice Caves posted on the Washington Trails Association website describe the area as “quite an amazing site to see,” even though water was visibly running off the caves.

 “But lots of people were tempting fate and wandering into the ice cave,” a hiker wrote in a Friday report.

 A user of the website Yelp wrote on Sunday that water was “coming down in sheets from the mouth of the cave” during his hike.

 Recovering efforts will be continuing for a while, Ireton said.

 “The area is going to be closed indefinitely.”

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 An earlier version of this story said 11-year-old Grace Tam was killed at the ice caves in 2011.

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 July 7, 2015, 3:28 AM GMT / Updated July 7, 2015, 11:56 AM GMT By Shamar Walters and Alex Johnson

 A hiker was killed and four others injured when ice caves on a remote Washington state mountainside partly collapsed, authorities said Monday night.

 Three of the injured were were airlifted to hospital with serious injuries after the accident at the Big Four Ice Caves in Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest.

 The body of the hiker could not immediately be recovered because of the "fragile nature of the ice," Snohomish County spokeswoman Shari Ireton said.

 Survivor Chloe Jakubowski, 18, escaped from the cave and went to alert emergency services.

 “There was a loud pop above us," she told NBC News. "Once I saw the ice chunks falling I ducked for cover and held my hands over my head."

 A woman next to her was unconscious, she said.

 It was the second straight day that part of the ice caves — which are accessible only by a 26-mile narrow, winding road — collapsed on Big Four Mountain, about 20 miles east of the town of Granite Falls. No one was injured in Sunday's collapse, which a visitor captured on video.

 The caves are formed when runoff from melting snow hollows out a tunnel in snow mounds that slide off the mountain and collect at the base of a cliff. The main cave, nearly 100 feet deep and 25 feet wide, is among the most popular hiking destinations in the Cascade Mountains.

 But authorities have long warned that the caves are dangerous, because when temperatures rise, they can fall apart in giant ice mounds.

 Susan Gregg, a spokeswoman for Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, said the hospital was treating two males for head lacerations and leg and pelvis fractures. A female patient arrived shortly afterward.

 All the injured were conscious, but one man, 25, was in critical condition, Gregg said. A second man, 35, was in serious condition and the woman, 35, was in satisfactory condition.

 One girl who was not seriously injured in the collapse was transported by ground and being treated at Providence Medical Center in Everett.

 Snohomish County emergency officials said the area around the Big Four ice caves would remain closed until search and rescue teams could assess the safety of the caves and recover the deceased victim of the collapse.

 Temperatures reached 80 degrees in the area of the caves Monday as Washington swelters through a heat wave. The heat led the U.S. Forest Service to issue a special warning in May alerting hikers that the main cave was in a "dangerous state ... large, inviting and collapsing," and urging them to stay out of it. Several signs along the trail warn people to steer clear. |||||


President Trump on Tuesday touted North Korea's untapped property market potential, and said one benefit North Korea would see if it opens up its economy could be placing the "best hotel in the world" on its coastline.

 "They have great beaches. You see that whenever they're exploding their cannons into the ocean," Trump said during a marathon press conference held after the conclusion of his historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore.

 "I said, 'Boy, look at that view. Wouldn't that make a great condo? Instead of doing that you could have the best hotels in the world right there. Think of it from a real estate perspective, you have South Korea, you have China, and they own the land in the middle, how bad is that, right? It's great," Trump said.

 The U.S. delegation, using economic development as an incentive for their North Korea counterparts to enter denuclearization talks, showed Kim a video simulation of possible projects that could take place in the rogue nation.

 [Trump shows Kim video that imagines North Korea glowing with electric lights: Watch]

 Despite telling Kim he could "do a smaller version" of the proposal, Trump expressed optimism that the North Korean head of state was interested in the ideas presented to him.

 "Although I tell you what, he looked at that tape, he looked at that iPad, and I'm telling you they really enjoyed it I believe," Trump added.

 In the wide-ranging solo press conference given after Kim had already left the Singapore, Trump announced North Korea had agreed to relinquish its nuclear weapons and was prepared to rewrite history to push for a lasting peace and complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.

 [Related: Trump emerges from 'very good' private meeting with Kim]

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 President Donald Trump offered North Korea leader Kim Jong Un a rare glimpse inside the presidential limousine known as "The Beast" on Tuesday as their historic summit in Singapore wound down.

 After meetings and a working lunch, Trump and Kim were spotted approaching Trump's hulking black limousine, adorned with an American flag. Trump gestured to the car and then a Secret Service agent opened the right passenger door.

 Kim could be seen smiling as the two stood chatting and Kim peeked inside.

 While there was initially some confusion about what the leaders were doing, it quickly became clear that Trump was making a classic alpha male move: showing Kim his ride.

 Trump had said before leaving for the summit that he would be able to tell within minutes whether he'd be able to strike a deal with Kim to dismantle the North's nuclear program. |||||
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– You can temporarily take Donald Trump out of real estate, but you can't take the real estate out of Donald Trump. That much was clear at a Singapore press conference Tuesday, which took place after the president's meeting with Kim Jong Un and in which he touched upon the potential of North Korea's coastline. "They have great beaches," Trump noted, per the Washington Examiner. "You see that whenever they're exploding their cannons into the ocean." And that spectacular view got him to thinking: "Wouldn't that make a great condo? Instead of doing that you could have the best hotels in the world right there. Think of it from a real estate perspective, you have South Korea, you have China, and they own the land in the middle, how bad is that, right? It's great." The AP also reports on another post-summit activity, which it deems a "classic alpha male move": Trump showing off "The Beast," the presidential limousine, to the North Korean leader. CNN shows a video clip of the two men approaching the limo, a Secret Service agent opening the door, and Kim peering in to take a look. "We know that these men were trying to find ways to bond, in just like a personal, human way, and what's more natural for guys [than] to want to check out one another's car," Chris Cuomo notes. (Here are seven complimentary things Trump said about Kim after the summit.)


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Melissa Gilbert signed her new cookbook, "My Prairie Cookbook" at Barnes & Noble in Brighton, Michigan on December 3, 2014. (Photo: Detroit News file)

 Howell — Actress Melissa Gilbert, the "Little House on the Prairie" star whose move to Howell two years ago brought a dash of Hollywood glamour to Livingston County, is more than a half pint short on her federal taxes.

 The Internal Revenue Service recently accused her of failing to pay more than $360,000 in federal income taxes, a debt that is emerging one week after Gilbert announced she and her family are moving out of their rented home near downtown Howell.

 Gilbert, 51, blamed the tax debt on a stalled acting career, the economy and divorce.

 "Like so many people across the nation, the recession hit me hard," Gilbert said in a statement to The Detroit News. "That, plus a divorce and a dearth of acting opportunities the last few years, created a perfect storm of financial difficulty for me."

 Gilbert, along with husband and fellow actor Timothy Busfield and two younger boys, are moving into a log house in an unspecified part of Livingston County, or as she wrote in a tweet last week "our own Little House in the Big Woods."

 Her husband said the move from Howell is unrelated to the tax debt.

 "(The debt) has more to do with the housing crash and divorce in the past," Busfield told The News. "It's a product of what happened with the economy. It's unfortunate and it's been happening a lot. It's not a big deal."

 Gilbert said she has negotiated a payment plan with the IRS.

 "I've set up an installment plan to fully pay off my debt and will continue to work as hard as I can to erase this debt and dig myself out of this hole," she said. "I am absolutely positive that I can do it."

 Gilbert and East Lansing native Busfield — known for television roles in "thirtysomething" and "West Wing" and in the films "Revenge of the Nerds" and "Field of Dreams" — moved to Michigan about three months after they were married in April 2013.

 Gilbert has a history of tax problems that followed her from California to Michigan. The state of California has filed $112,527 worth of tax liens against her since 2013.

 A tax lien gives the government a legal claim to all of Gilbert's property, everything from vehicles to homes and income.

 The IRS filed a $360,551 tax lien against Gilbert on Feb. 3. She owes federal income taxes from 2011, 2012 and 2013, according to the lien, which is filed with the Livingston County Register of Deeds.

 According to the IRS, Gilbert owes $219,989 in income taxes from 2011. She owes $99,405 from 2012 — the year she appeared on "Dancing With the Stars" — and $41,157 in taxes from 2013, according to the tax lien.

 Gilbert went through a period of change during the three years covered by the tax lien. She filed for divorce from Bruce Boxleitner in 2011 and competed on "Dancing With the Stars" the next year.

 Since she and Busfield arrived in Michigan, they have rented a three-bedroom, 2,000-square-foot Victorian home built in 1890 and located two blocks from downtown Howell.

 "Oh, my God, they're great," landlord and property owner Brenda Korth said. "It's been fine. It's been fun."

 Korth rented the home to Gilbert, thinking the Hollywood couple would stay for one year.

 "It turned into two years and that was fine but I'm really ready to move home," the General Motors environmental engineer told The News.

 "If they've been having financial problems, that's not known to me," she added. "The rent's always been paid on time. They've been great tenants."

 Gilbert and her husband are kind, she said, and have been welcomed by people in Howell.

 "I'm so glad they're in town; everybody has been excited about it," Korth said.

 Gilbert did not explain what prompted the pending move out of Howell.

 "We are moving but we are not leaving," Gilbert tweeted Friday in response to a well-wisher. "We will be around. We love Howell. We love Livingston Co."

 While in Michigan, Gilbert has written a cookbook called "My Prairie Cookbook," inspired by the voracious but picky eating habits of her sons. She has done at least one book signing in Livingston County.

 The couple also has continued to pursue acting and directing careers. The couple guest starred on a late April episode of the NBC series "The Night Shift" that Busfield also directed.

 In January, Gilbert participated in a charity fundraiser in Howell for Yatooma's Foundation For the Kids, a charity that raises money for children who have lost a parent.

 "We're thrilled she's here," Bloomfield Hills lawyer Norman Yatooma said. "She's every bit the class act in person that her fans have come to love from the comfort of their couches."

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 Even the stars don't always have their finances in order. Click the pics to see seven celebs who've gone up against the IRS with tax troubles.

 First up are fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, who lost their appeal of their jail sentence for tax convictions in Italy on April 30, 2014, and were sentenced to one year and six months in jail for tax evasion. The designers are accused of failing to pay 40 million euros in taxes owed to the Italian government.

 According to the BBC, the judge ruled that the designers moved their brand to a Luxembourg-based holding company Gado in 2004 to avoid declaring taxes on royalties of around 1 billion euros. |||||Summary:

– The latest celebrity in trouble with the IRS: Melissa Gilbert. The agency says the former Little House on the Prairie star owes $360,551 in federal income taxes. "Like so many people across the nation, the recession hit me hard," the 51-year-old actress tells the Detroit News. "That, plus a divorce and a dearth of acting opportunities the last few years, created a perfect storm of financial difficulty for me." Her current husband, Timothy Busfield, adds—in a quote that will remind you celebrities are not exactly just like us—that the debt is "not a big deal" and is simply "a product of what happened with the economy"; it dates to the 2011-2013 period. Gilbert says an installment payment plan is in place. California, where the current Michigan resident previously lived, has also filed $112,527 worth of tax liens against Gilbert in recent years. (She's not alone; check out more stars with tax troubles.)