Gwyneth Paltrow shared a very rare photo of her 14-year-old daughter Apple Martin with her on Instagram yesterday - and fans couldn't help but comment on the striking resemblance between the two.
It's teen Gwyneth with adult Gwyneth, wearing the same make-up:
"Happy #nationaldaughtersday Apple Martin, it’s like I conjured you from a dream, you make my life," Paltrow wrote sweetly in her caption.
The Goop founder posts photos of her two children Apple and Moses from time to time on her page, though close-ups of them don't happen very often:
Reuters
U.S. House committee votes to release Trump-Russia transcripts
By Patricia Zengerle
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. House of Representatives committee voted on Friday to release dozens of transcripts of interviews from its investigation of Russia meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections, including conversations with senior associates of President Donald Trump.
The House Intelligence Committee voted unanimously to send transcripts of 53 interviews to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which will scrub them of classified information before they are made public.
However, committee Democrats said Trump's fellow Republicans, who hold a majority in the House and thus control the panel, refused their request to immediately release all of the transcripts to Robert Mueller, the federal special counsel investigating Russia, Trump and the election.
Adam Schiff, the committee's top Democrat, told reporters after the meeting that Republicans refused to make some of the most important transcripts public, including interviews with fired FBI Director James Comey and Admiral Mike Rogers, the former National Security Agency director.
"There was no interest (from Republicans) in the public seeing anything that they thought might be damaging to the president," he said.
Democrats wanted all of the transcripts released.
The meeting was closed to the press.
Asked for a response to Schiff's comments, Jack Langer, a Republican committee spokesman, said in an emailed statement, "It's amusing to see the Democrats continuing to promote their never-ending chain of absurd conspiracy theories."
The transcripts release would let the public to see thousands of pages of interviews with people including the president's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., and son-in-law and close adviser Jared Kushner, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon.
Interviews with officials from former President Barack Obama's administration are also among the transcripts.
The transcripts include discussions about a June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower in New York at which Russians offered to provide damaging information about Trump's Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.
Trump Jr. and Kushner, among others, attended the meeting with Nataliya Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer with Kremlin ties.
Committee Republicans announced in March that the panel's investigation was over and they had found no evidence of collusion between Trump's campaign and Moscow's efforts to influence U.S. politics.
Trump has repeatedly denied any collusion. Moscow has denied meddling in the 2016 U.S. campaign, but U.S. intelligence agencies found that it did so to boost Trump.
(Reporting by Patricia Zengerle; Editing by David Gregorio and Jeffrey Benkoe)
Business Insider
Trump's trade war torpedoed a $44 billion deal — and bankers say there's more to come
Thomson Reuters- Mergers and acquisition deals have fallen by $783 billion in the third quarter of this year compared with the prior quarter, a decline of 35%, Reuters reported.
- "We've got some clouds on the horizon, vis a vis a trade skirmish, or potentially a trade war with China" Citigroup’s global co-head of M&A, Mark Shafir told Reuters.
- "Anything that points to uncertainty and a lack of confidence is not good for M&A," Hernan Cristerna, JPMorgan's Global Co-head of M&A told Business Insider on September 24. "A prolonged trade war will, of course, mean large cross-border deals are more difficult and harder to get across the line.
The Trump-China trade war has already torpedoed at least one mega merger. Bankers aren't so optimistic at it stopping there. Mergers and acquisitions are down globally by $783 billion in the third quarter of this year, marking a decline of 35% from the quarter before, Reuters reported. Qualcomm's decision to cancel its $44 billion acquisition of NXP Semiconductors back in July made it high profile victim of a bitter Sino-U.S. trade spat — China's delay in offering an antitrust nod was seen as retaliation for US tariffs.
US President Donald Trump's escalating trade war has cast doubt about other possible deals involving China, including the planned $23 billion acquisition of Rockwell Collins by aerospace supplier United Technologies.
"Anything that points to uncertainty and a lack of confidence is not good for M&A," Hernan Cristerna, JPMorgan's Global Co-head of M&A told Business Insider in a separate interview on September 24. "A prolonged trade war will, of course, mean large cross-border deals are more difficult and harder to get across the line."
There has been a drop in the volume of global deals by about 6% compared to a year ago, with the number of new deals announced at their lowest level since 2013.
"We've got some clouds on the horizon, vis a vis a trade skirmish, or potentially a trade war with China. You have the potential for a hard Brexit and we've got rising rates," Citigroup’s global co-head of M&A, Mark Shafir, told Reuters.
US M&A fared better then other regions in the quarter, and the first nine months of 2018 has seen global deal making reach a record $3.2 trillion. But announced deals in the Asia-Pacific were down 38% and fell by 14% in Europe.
"We’re already seeing signs that geopolitical risks, including trade tensions, are dimming the prospects for large-scale M&A going into next year," Cristerna told BI.
See Also:
- FTSE Russell is expected to include China stocks in a boost for Beijing
- 'Bullyism': China says it won't negotiate on trade with the US as the latest tariffs bite
- JPMorgan says Trump's trade war is 'dimming the prospects for large scale M&A'
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