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Trump selects Charles Kushner as ambassador to France

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President-elect Donald Trump announced on Saturday that he has chosen New York real estate developer Charles Kushner to be his Ambassador to France, calling him “a tremendous business leader, philanthropist, & dealmaker” in a social media post.

“Congratulations to Charlie, his wonderful wife Seryl, their 4 children, & 14 grandchildren,” Trump wrote. “His son, Jared, worked closely with me in the White House, in particular on Operation Warp Speed, Criminal Justice Reform, & the Abraham Accords. Together, we will strengthen America’s partnership with France, our oldest Ally, & one of our greatest!

All U.S. ambassador nominees must be confirmed by the Senate. If confirmed, Kushner would take over the role from Denise Campbell Bauer.

The 70-year-old business mogul is the founder of private real estate firm Kushner Companies and was also an attorney. His son Jared Kushner is married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka and was a senior adviser to Trump during his first term.

In 2005, the elder Kushner was convicted by a federal jury of making illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion and witness tampering. Former New Jersey governor and federal prosecutor Chris Christie brought the charges against Kushner, calling it “one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes” he ever prosecuted. Kushner served two years in prison before returning to his real estate business.

Trump pardoned Kushner in 2020, just one month before the end of his first term.

France’s relationship with the U.S. is particularly important on issues like trade and security, amid fears that Trump may pull the U.S. out of the NATO military alliance.

Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney contributed reporting.

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How I failed to make it to my first World Cup match

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I’ve been reporting on the obstacles ticketholders will have navigating America’s balkanized public transit system. But on the way to my first ever FIFA World Cup match in Toronto, extreme weather tripped me up as I tried to leave New York City on Thursday night.

Now I’m missing Canada playing Bosnia and Herzegovina, the first World Cup game ever played in the land my ancestors left France for in the 1600s. Blue Light News is also out $627.11 for a nonrefundable hotel room.

For a fan who saved up to attend a match, this would be a devastating setback.

A lot of the coverage about World Cup weather, particularly high heat, has focused on players and fans in the stadiums. But the weather also threatens to keep people away from the matches entirely.

My problem was a wall of thunderstorms marching across the continent. About 250 flights have been canceled leaving New York City’s three major airports since yesterday, according to FlightAware. Most of those nixed flights were at LaGuardia Airport, where I sat on a runway for some two hours last evening before being told to go home. Another flight scheduled for this morning out of Newark Liberty International Airport was canceled before I even went to bed.

Flight problems were not even at the top of the transit worries I’ve been paying attention to.

For several years, officials in New York and New Jersey — which are co-hosting tournament games to be played at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey — have been gearing up for a surge of fans from around the world. Unhelpfully, summer 2024 turned out to be a terrible season for train travel in the region because of electrical problems tied in part to heat but also aging infrastructure.

Now, that same stretch of tracks is being counted on to get tens of thousands of fans to matches. Even before a heat wave hit the city, there was a rash of incidents, including a brush fire in New Jersey in May and several fires and electric problems at New York Penn Station, the nation’s busiest train hall.

New Jersey officials have buses and boats on standby to help move fans to or from matches and some lawmakers from both parties are pressuring the Trump administration to keep an eye on things to make sure they don’t go off the rails.

But there isn’t much he can do to stop a storm from raining on the world’s parade.

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The Epic Story of How Trump Seized the World Cup

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“I was undecided with whether I never wanted to see these people ever again, because we had a pretty good idea of what had happened,” said former U.S. Soccer President Sunil Gulati about a stunning FIFA vote that handed the World Cup to Qatar over a favored American bid. “Or if I want to start bidding the next hour.”

Read the fullinside story of how FIFA’s rejection of a U.S. effort to host the 2022 World Cup sparked bitterness, indictments, a reorganization of soccer’s governing body and, ultimately, a North American World Cup.

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Rick Scott lifts holds on Coast Guard promotions

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Rick Scott lifts holds on Coast Guard promotions

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