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New Parents Apparently Like First Lady's Name

'Melania' is rising quickly in popularity

(Newser) - "Emma" may be the top name among baby girls in the US, but the first lady seems to have given "Melania" a real surge. In the annual rankings put out by the Social Security Administration Friday, "Melania" showed the fifth-best rise in girls' names from the previous...

What People Are Saying About Melania Trump's Platform

First lady's initiative focuses on children

(Newser) - First Lady Melania Trump on Monday unveiled the platform she'll work on while her husband holds office: " Be Best ." It focuses on children and has three main objectives, CNN reports: well-being, fighting opioid abuse, and positivity on social media. As the New York Times notes, Melania had...

Brigitte Macron: 'Charming' Melania 'Cannot Do Anything'

Describes an 'actually really fun' woman

(Newser) - After three days spent in Washington, DC, France's "first lady" (she doesn't officially hold that title, notes Newsweek ) was asked by Le Monde about her experience with the American who fills those shoes, and the Guardian has Brigitte Macron's comments. She described an "actually...

'Incredible' Melania Wins Praise for Trump's First State Dinner

She seemed 'wholly at ease' at glitzy event

(Newser) - "To America's absolutely incredible first lady, thank you for making this an evening we will always cherish and remember," President Trump said at his first White House state dinner Tuesday night—and he was far from the only one praising Melania Trump. The first lady, who wore...

Jimmy Kimmel Issues Apology to Hannity, Melania Trump

He says infant son has received threats

(Newser) - If it counts as a victory when the person you're feuding with apologizes because his infant son has received death threats, then Sean Hannity just won his feud with Jimmy Kimmel. Kimmel tweeted a lengthy statement Sunday, apologizing for the remark about Melania Trump's accent that first offended...

Melania Escapes Glare of Affair Headlines in Florida

By hanging out at Mar-a-Lago

(Newser) - Spring break couldn't have come at a better time for Melania Trump, the AP reports. With fresh details spilling into the headlines daily about how Donald Trump allegedly cheated on her early in their marriage, the former model escaped the intense glare by spending the past week at the...

Ex-Playmate Describes Alleged Trump Affair in Detail

Karen McDougal says Trump tried to pay her after sex

(Newser) - Days after filing a lawsuit to break her silence , former Playboy model Karen McDougal described her alleged affair with President Trump in an emotional CNN interview. McDougal told Anderson Cooper that she first met Trump during filming at the Playboy Mansion in 2006, a few months after Melania Trump gave...

Melania Trump Publicly Launches Cyberbullying Initiative

First lady had promised to make online harassment one of her priorities, will hold first public event

(Newser) - Melania Trump is hosting executives from major online and social media companies to discuss cyberbullying and internet safety, more than a year after saying that would be her issue as first lady. The meeting Tuesday marks her first public event on the topic, a choice some observers have questioned given...

Melania Pal Whose Firm Raked In Big Bucks Is Cut

Contract nixed for adviser Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, whose firm got $26M for inauguration

(Newser) - A "gratuitous services contract" for an unpaid adviser to Melania Trump has been "severed," the first lady's rep announced, after news emerged that Stephanie Winston Wolkoff's event-planning company had been paid $26 million to help with President Trump's inauguration. Two sources tell the New ...

Florida Student Calls Out First Lady

Lauren Hogg says Melania Trump should stop Donald Jr. from cyberbullying her family

(Newser) - First lady Melania Trump has a mission to end cyber bullying . A 14-year-old survivor of the Florida school shooting thinks she ought to start with her own-stepson. Lauren Hogg delivered the critical tweet Friday, and it revolves around her older brother, David, who has emerged as an outspoken proponent of...

Melania's Parents Under Scrutiny As Trump Blasts 'Chain Migration'

How did Viktor and Amalija Knavs come to gain legal residency in the US?

(Newser) - President Trump has railed against so-called "chain migration"—more commonly called family reunification, the visa process by which green card holders or legal residents in the US can bring family members over from their home countries, per NPR —but now the focus is turning to how the...

Here&#39;s What Melania Gave Michelle
Here's What
Melania Gave
Michelle
Jan 31, 2018 11:41 AM CST

Here's What Melania Gave Michelle

Former first lady received a 'lovely frame' in slightly awkward moment last year

(Newser) - When the Trumps met the Obamas outside the White House on Inauguration Day in 2017, a brief moment caused a bit of a stir online. Melania Trump presented Michelle Obama with a gift in a Tiffany's box, and something seemed ... a little off. Now, Michelle Obama explains to Ellen...

First Lady Arrives Separately
First Lady Arrives Separately
state of the union
Jan 30, 2018 8:16 PM CST

First Lady Arrives Separately

It's a break with tradition for Melania Trump at State of the Union

(Newser) - One of the less substantive things on the radar of those keeping an eye on the State of the Union address was the first lady's actions. And as the Washington Post reports, Melania Trump provided some early fodder: She broke with White House tradition and did not accompany her...

First Lady Responds to Claims of Marriage Trouble

'Salacious & flat-out false reporting'

(Newser) - One tabloid claims Melania Trump spent nights alone at a DC hotel after the story of her husband's alleged affair with Stormy Daniels broke, the AP reports. Meanwhile, CNN speculates the Daniels headlines can't be easy for the first lady and notes she wasn't seen by the...

Melania Trump Never Thought He&#39;d Win
Melania Trump
Never Thought He'd Win
longform
Nov 27, 2017 10:50 AM CST

Melania Trump Never Thought He'd Win

'She didn't want this come hell or high water,' an insider tells 'Vanity Fair'

(Newser) - Count Melania Trump among those surprised that her husband won the presidency. A profile of the first lady at Vanity Fair quotes two insiders who say that Melania gave Donald Trump an ultimatum of sorts: Either run for the presidency or stop brooding about it. "She was very clearly...

So, About That Crazy Melania 'Body Double' Conspiracy

A joke, a real belief, publicity stunt? Who knows, but it took off. Hillary Clinton knows the feeling

(Newser) - Melania Trump now has something in common with Hillary Clinton: The first lady is now the subject of her very own nutso conspiracy about a body double. The bizarre claim trended on social media Wednesday, and the Washington Post traces it back to this tweet : "This is not Melania,...

Ivana Trump Calls Herself 'First Lady,' Angers Melania

The president's first wife upsets his current wife while promoting her new memoir

(Newser) - Donald Trump may be infamous for battling with people from across the political and cultural spectrum, but it's two other Trumps—one current wife and one ex-wife—who are currently engaged in the hottest war of words in Washington, CNN reports. On Monday, during a TV interview to promote...

Librarian Rejects Melania's 'Racist' Dr. Seuss Gift

'We will not be keeping the titles for our collection'

(Newser) - The illustrations of Melania Trump's favorite children's author are "steeped in racist propaganda, caricatures, and harmful stereotypes," according to an elementary school librarian who rejected a gift from the first lady. Trump sent 10 Dr. Seuss books to the Cambridgeport School in Cambridge, Mass., to mark...

Melania Trump Meets Prince Harry on 1st Solo Trip

The first lady is in Canada for the Invictus Games

(Newser) - Melania Trump is taking her biggest step yet as first lady, leading the US delegation to an international sporting event in Toronto for wounded service members, the AP reports. It's her first trip representing the US without President Trump at her side. On Trump's schedule for the Invictus...

First Lady Has Surprising Defenders in Shoe Hubbub

Trevor Noah and Kathy Griffin are among those asking, who cares?

(Newser) - When first lady Melania Trump set off for Texas on Wednesday with her husband to view the destruction of Harvey, she set off a mini furor on Twitter over her shoes. That's because the first lady was seen boarding a presidential helicopter wearing stilettos. The criticism came quickly, with...

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