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The boyhood home of US President Donald Trump is available to rent on Airbnb - and it's furnished with a life-size cardboard cut-out of the man himself.
For a cost of $777 (£615) a night, the "opulent" home in Queens, New York City, can sleep up to 20 people.
"This is a unique and special opportunity to stay in the home of a sitting president," reads the Airbnb rental advertisement.
The Tudor-style home sold for $2.14m two months after Mr Trump's election.
The listing is not affiliated with Mr Trump or the White House, the post's authors emphasise.
The building, which is within walking distance of the subway, according the listing, contains five bedrooms and three-and-a-half bathrooms.
"Not much has been changed since the Trumps lived here, the kitchen is original and the opulent furnishings represent the style and affluence in which the Trumps would have lived," the post says.
There is a person living fulltime in one room of the house, and "there is a giant cut-out of Donald in the Living Room", it adds.
"He is a great companion for watching Fox News late into the night."
Pets and parties are banned, but breakfast is provided.
The house was built by Mr Trump's father, developer Fred Trump, in 1940 and is listed on Mr Trump's birth certificate.
It was the future-president's former home until the age of four, when the Trump family moved into a larger brick mansion nearby.
Last September, Mr Trump told late night TV comedian Jimmy Fallon that he wanted to buy back the home, which shortly afterward was withdrawn from sale.
It was flipped by a developer for $2.14m in March, having sold the previous December for $1.39m.

This is a bit amusing to me in that, in most states in this country, the requirements for entry into the voting registry and getting a license to buy a weapon are remarkably similar. One must be;
(1) Alive
(2) A resident of the state in question
(3) meet a minimum age requirement
(4) be without conviction for a serious felony.

Do you object to any of these?

"[Steven] Stills doesn’t know how to do drugs properly,” Keith Richards once said.

In a new poll, half of Republicans say they would support postponing the 2020 election if Trump proposed it

...the survey asked two questions about postponing the 2020 election.

- If Donald Trump were to say that the 2020 presidential election should be postponed until the country can make sure that only eligible American citizens can vote, would you support or oppose postponing the election?

- What if both Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress were to say that the 2020 presidential election should be postponed until the country can make sure that only eligible American citizens can vote? Would you support or oppose postponing the election?
Roughly half of Republicans believe Trump won the popular vote — and would support postponing the 2020 election.

Nearly half of Republicans (47 percent) believe that Trump won the popular vote, which is similar to this finding. Larger fractions believe that millions of illegal immigrants voted (68 percent) and that voter fraud happens somewhat or very often (73 percent). Again, this is similar to previous polls.

Moreover, 52 percent said that they would support postponing the 2020 election, and 56 percent said they would do so if both Trump and Republicans in Congress were behind this.

Forensic investigators, intelligence analysts, system designers, program architects, and computer scientists of long experience and strongly credentialed are now producing evidence disproving the official version of key events last year. Their work is intricate and continues at a kinetic pace as we speak. But its certain results so far are two, simply stated, and freighted with implications:

There was no hack of the Democratic National Committee’s system on July 5 last year—not by the Russians, not by anyone else. Hard science now demonstrates it was a leak—a download executed locally with a memory key or a similarly portable data-storage device. In short, it was an inside job by someone with access to the DNC’s system....

Forensic investigations of documents made public two weeks prior to the July 5 leak by the person or entity known as Guccifer 2.0 show that they were fraudulent: Before Guccifer posted them they were adulterated by cutting and pasting them into a blank template that had Russian as its default language.

This article is based on an examination of the documents these forensic experts and intelligence analysts have produced, notably the key papers written over the past several weeks, as well as detailed interviews with many of those conducting investigations and now drawing conclusions from them.

This will be the last time I waste on the subject with you.

US retailer Walmart has apologised after a picture emerged of a gun cabinet in one of its stores beneath a sign reading "own the school year like a hero".
The retailer tweeted the display was "horrible" and "truly awful," and said it would investigate how it came to be.
The image has been widely shared on Reddit and Twitter, with many users questioning how it had happened.
In recent years, the US has seen a number of deadly school shootings.
Charles Crowson, a spokesman for Walmart, told the BBC: "What's seen in this photograph would never be acceptable in our stores.
"We regret this situation and are looking into how it could have happened."

Five transgender people in the US military have launched a legal bid to block a ban announced by President Trump on Twitter last month.
The anonymous plaintiffs from the army, air force and coast guard are suing Mr Trump and several officials.
They say thousands of transgender troops have declared themselves since the military said they could serve openly and now face uncertain futures.
Mr Trump said transgender people would "disrupt" the military.
However it is not yet clear whether formal steps to enforce the ban have yet been taken or how it will affect serving personnel.

An inflatable chicken with a golden coiffure has appeared near the White House in protest at Donald Trump's "weak" and "ineffective" leadership.
The 30 ft (9m) tall bird, referred to as "Chicken Don", stands between the official residence of the US president and the famous Washington Monument.
Owner Taran Singh Brar said the prop portrays a president who is "afraid".
But some Twitter users were not impressed, with one dubbing the stunt "pathetic".
In a video posted on social media on Wednesday, activist and documentary maker Mr Brar said he hoped to "bring awareness" to what he said was a "bad and destabilising" US president.
"We are out here to criticise our president for being weak and ineffective as a leader," he said in the footage posted on Twitter, adding that Mr Trump also "seems afraid" to release his tax returns.
"He seems afraid to stand up to Putin and now he's playing a game of chicken with North Korea," Mr Brar said.

As predictably as the earth turns on its axis once again you peevishly lash out over a simple statement. Apparently you are not always as amused by the natterings of the little people as you routinely proclaim. You have tried to make a federal case over a basic and all too readily verifiable fact. I am now forced to merely point out that you have a distasteful habit of larding up a non-explanation as if it actually has merit or intellectual weight. In DOD we informally called it baffaloney. You might remember that phrase, it was the less rude way of describing the utter nonsense that tends to spout out of the windbags who are insufferably impressed with their own delusions of cutting wit and laser sharp intellect.