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US President Donald Trump has said he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin in an hour-long call, covering issues including the "Russian hoax".

"Had a long and very good conversation with President Putin," the US president tweeted.

Mr Trump rebuked a reporter who asked whether he had warned Mr Putin against meddling in the 2020 elections.

It was the leaders' first conversation since the Mueller report cleared Mr Trump of colluding with Russia.

The Kremlin confirmed in a statement the two had spoken, saying the call had been initiated by the White House.

But only the quoted report says so - Lash has a different opinion (she read it, if I'm not mistaken)

Definition of Memoir
A memoir is a collection of memories that someone writes about his or her own life. While the memories can be public or private—and are often a mix of the two if the memoirist is a famous person—a memoir is understood to be as factual as memory permits. Indeed, there was a controversy when James Frey’s book A Million Little Pieces was labelled as memoir, and later revealed to be fictional in part.

The word memoir comes from the French word mémoire, in which it means “memory” or “reminiscence.”

Difference Between Memoir and Autobiography
The definition of memoir is very similar to that of autobiography; in fact, many consider memoirs to be a subset of the genre of autobiography. There is a key difference, however: an autobiography can cover an entire span of a life, whereas a memoir is usually centered on a specific part of a life. The memoir might cover an important turning point in a person’s life, or a particularly memorable story or group of touchstone events.

BIOGRAPHY
Definition of Biography A biography is a description of a real person’s life, including factual details as well as stories from the person’s life. Biographies usually include information about the subject’s personality and motivations, and other kinds of intimate details excluded in a general overview or profile of a person’s life. The vast majority of biography examples are written about

The ad firm at the center of a heated conflict with the National Rifle Association has said NRA chief Wayne LaPierre charged the vendor hundreds of thousands of dollars for foreign travel and expensive suits, the Wall Street Journal reports.The expenses — allegedly incurred by Oklahoma City advertising firm Ackerman McQueen — supposedly covered more than $240,000 in trips to Hungary, Italy, the Bahamas, and elsewhere, according to a letter Ackerman sent to the NRA asking for documentation.

The NRA sued its longtime ad firm last month, alleging that the company was withholding information the gun rights lobby needed to conduct a full audit of the pair’s financial relationship.

The Journal separately reported that LaPierre received $200,000 in suits paid for by Ackerman, many of which supposedly came from a Beverly Hills vendor of menswear from Italian luxury brand Ermenegildo Zegna.