Videos of the Day: Melania Trump Visits Military Families

Epoch Newsroom
12/12/2018
Updated:
12/12/2018

Melania Trump met with servicemembers and their families at a Virginia base Wednesday morning.

The first lady visited Joint Base Langley-Eustis.

Trump told the crowd, “We know that we are free because you are brave. And I speak on behalf of my husband when I tell you we are forever grateful for your service.”

Melania Trump also posed for photos with those in attendance and was given a tour of an F-22A Raptor fighter jet.

Trump Signs Order Establishing ‘Opportunity Zones’

President Donald Trump is creating a White House council to manage the so-called opportunity zones, a program designed to bring jobs and investments to low-income communities nationwide, as part of an incentive in the tax reform package.

On Dec. 12, President Trump signed an executive order to establish the White House opportunity and revitalization council to “encourage public and private investment in urban and economically distressed areas, including qualified opportunity zones.”

The new council will be led by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson, and comprised of 13 federal agencies.

During the signing, Trump called the initiative a “very big thing.”

“With the creation of today’s council, the resources of the whole federal government will be leveraged to rebuild low-income and impoverished neighborhoods that have been ignored by Washington in years past,” he said.

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Michael Cohen Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison

A federal judge in New York sentenced Michael Cohen to three years in prison on Dec. 12, for tax evasion, bank fraud, campaign-finance violations, and lying to Congress.

Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, was indicted as a result of the Russia investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller and was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.

Cohen’s crimes are not related to allegations of collusion with Russia, the core theme of Mueller’s probe.

The 36-month sentence by U.S. District Judge William Pauley is the harshest imposed to date in cases related to the special counsel.

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An Unlikely Kangaroo Sanctuary in Minnesota

Christian Lilienthal’s farm in Minnesota might seem like an average soybean farm, but it’s so much more.

As he opens the barn doors, lemurs, emus, dingoes, and parrots greet him.

But his favorite animals are probably the kangaroos.

Lilienthal introduces the kangaroos: “This is Skipper. And there’s Radar, Bindy, Rocky, Pebbles,” he told Fox News.

His company, Wild Things Zoo Attractions, primarily showcases these exotic animals in classrooms and county fairs.

However, Lilienthal has bigger dreams.

Lilienthal wants to buy two uninhabited islands in Gaylord, Minnesota. There he would showcase the kangaroos, wallabies, emus, and caged parrots.