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It’s unclear whether Trump would benefit from that financially, as specifics about her monetary relationship with her brand were not included in her statement. But even if she is selling her part of the company, for a prominent member of the first family to be seen to be endorsing a brand with her own name on it is a complicated proposition. And an endorsement is exactly what an appearance in an item of clothing has become.

"Should Ivanka Trump the Woman Wear Ivanka Trump the Brand?" is from the January 12, 2017 Lifestyle section of The New York Times. It was written by Vanessa Friedman and narrated by Jenny Hoops.

The world learned this week about memos from a retired British intelligence officer on relations between the Trump campaign and the Russians. They included some speculation about whether there were compromising videos of Trump cavorting in a Russian hotel that might explain his enthusiastic support for Vladimir Putin.

"Trump, Sex and Lots of Whining" is from the January 11, 2017 Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by Gail Collins and narrated by Jenny Hoops.

The report, which was released Thursday, breaks jobs down by work tasks — more than 2,000 activities across 800 occupations, from stock clerk to company boss. The institute, the research arm of the consulting firm McKinsey & Co., concludes that many tasks can be automated and that most jobs have activities ripe for automation. But the near-term impact, the report says, will be to transform work more than to eliminate jobs.

"Robots Will Take Jobs, but Not as Fast as Some Fear, New Report Says" is from the January 12, 2017 Technology section of The New York Times. It was written by Steve Lohr and narrated by Jenny Hoops.

Alas, politics junkies, news editors and anyone else who was watching the broadcast online did not learn how that sentence ended. Waters was cut off. Instead, they heard the jangling music of a feed from RT, a state-run Russian television network that has been accused of helping its government interfere in the U.S. election.

"Russian Network Interrupts C-SPAN Online Broadcast" is from the January 12, 2017 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Jonah Engel Bromwich and narrated by Jenny Hoops.

As it turned out, Hong was one of thousands of artists reportedly blacklisted by the government of Park, whose powers have been suspended as she faces an impeachment trial on charges of corruption and abuse of power. The blacklist is just one element in the sprawling case that have infuriated the public and prompted national introspection about South Korea’s young democracy and its authoritarian past.

"South Korea’s Blacklist of Artists Adds to Outrage Over Presidential Scandal" is from the January 12, 2017 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Choe Sang Hun and narrated by Jenny Hoops.

Swept up in a whirlwind courtship, Katja and Wasyl begin life anew in a Ukrainian settlement of Western Canada. The dusty Canadian prairies promise hope and independence, but when war breaks out between the old world and the new, their newfound stability is shattered. Rumors of the internment of Ukrainian-Canadians haunt the new settlers. Would the country they love betray them like this? An incident throws the couple and their young children into turmoil, and Katja faces the prospect of enduring a Canadian winter without Wasyl by her side.

It is the dawn of the French Revolution when masses of hungry peasants burn the chateaux of aristocrats throughout France. After the death of his estranged family, an 18-year-old nobleman, the Marquis Marcel de la Croix, is forced to raise the royalist banner. The wreck of his family fortress becomes a bastion for newly disenfranchised aristocrats, and Marcel and his fiery associate, Pierre Lafont, lead a rebel group called the League of the Star. After a bitter falling out with Lafont, Marcel escapes to England incognito, hoping to put the past behind him.

Every girl's favorite book about horses, this beloved autobiography of a carriage horse in 19th-century England is filled with humor, drama, intrigue, and hope. Follow Black Beauty as he leaves his happy colt-hood home to follow his destiny as a carriage horse, and to the destructive life of a cab horse in London. You'll meet the whole series of Black Beauty's people, from devious, nasty Seedy Sam to the most wonderful of grooms, James Howard, and his cab-driver Jerry Barker and his cheerful family, and finally Black Beauty's saviour, Joe Green.

Helene Oseen shares slice-of-life stuff with unconditional honesty in stories based on her own life that reflect the common experience of women on their life-long journey to stay true to themselves. In her always-true-to-the-female spirit she provides comfort in her reality-based solutions to help you deal with life's challenges, large and small, as you make your dreams real.

Hester Prynne has been marked as an outcast from the society of colonial Boston for the sin of bearing a child out of wedlock. Her punishment? When she is released from jail, she must endure public shaming at the pillory with her baby. And then—worse yet—she is forced to spend the rest of...