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Photo: National Park Service The report also referred to an unnamed NPS official who allegedly spoke with Reynolds after his call with Trump and “got the impression that President Trump wanted to see pictures that appeared to depict more spectators in the crowd.” She said she “assumed” the photos “needed to be cropped” because they showed “a lot of empty areas,” theGuardianreported. According to the outlet, the NPS official then got in touch with the photographer who covered the inauguration....

Speaking from the White House, the president said “all of our soldiers are safe” and that “Iran appears to be standing down.” Tensions between the U.S. and Iran came to a head last week when Trump launched a surprise missile attack that killed one of Iran’s top military officials, Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, whom the American government regards as a terrorist responsible for violence across the Middle East. Soleimani “was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region,” according to the U....

PresidentDonald Trumpwas criticized on Twitter this week after sharing a flattering but fake quote from former PresidentRonald Reaganabout meeting him. Trump, 73,on Monday retweeted a postfrom an account which appeared to be impersonating the well-known conservative outlet“The Reagan Battalion.” The tweet featured an image of Trump and the late President Reagan shaking hands along with the made-up quote from Regan: “For the life of me, and I’ll never know how to explain it, when I met that young man, I felt like I was the one shaking hands with the president....

The Trump administration has hired a 23-year-old college senior as a top official in the White House’s personnel office,according toPolitico. George Washington University student James Bacon will be director of operations in the Presidential Personnel Office, working under John McEntee, the office’s director (and PresidentDonald Trump‘s former body man),Politicoreports. Bacon worked briefly in the Department of Transportation after another stint as a White House liaison with Department of Housing and Urban Development, where he was an assistant to Housing Secretary Ben Carson....

In a new interview, former Secretary of StateRex Tillersonhad nothing nice to say about what President Donald Trump will be leaving behind next week. Speaking withForeign Policy,Tillerson — a former ExxonMobil executive who served as Trump’s first secretary of state from 2017 to 2018 beforebeing fired; and who faced his own criticism — said that, in his view,“nothing worked out"with Trump’s foreign policy decisions. “We squandered the best opportunity we had on North Korea....

Photo: Facebook (2) An Arizona grandmother is accused of fatally shooting her twin 8-year-old grandsons before trying to kill herself with an apparent overdose, say police. Dorothy Flood, 55, of Tucson, was arrested Friday, a day after her grandchildren, Jordon and Jaden Webb, were found dead of gunshot wounds in her home, thePima County Sheriff’s Officesaid in a release. Flood was charged with two counts of first-degree murder. She was the twin brothers’ sole guardian....

Brittany and Briana Deane Salyers with Josh and Jeremy Salyers.Photo:Chris Wilson/Fire Away Photography Chris Wilson/Fire Away Photography Brittany and Briana Deane Salyersand their husbands, identical twins Josh and Jeremy Salyers are celebrating their five-year wedding anniversary. “We have five amazing years under our belt, but we still feel like newlyweds,” Brittany tells PEOPLE. The sisters have aquaternary marriage,a term used to describe when identical twins marry identical twins. “It was always a dream of ours to find these perfect identical twins – men who were our perfect matches, and we didn’t think we would ever be able to find it,” adds Brittany....

The Internet has a lot to say about PresidentDonald Trump‘s dance moves — and none of it is good.A recently resurfaced clip from the Palm Beach County Republican’s Lincoln Day fundraiser in March 2016 — eight months before Trump, 72, beat former Secretary of StateHillary Clintonin the presidential election — shows the former reality star bopping on stage with minimal rhythm to a cover of Ben E. King’s “Stand By Me....

Elon Musk.Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Elon Musk’s connection to Twitter is the subject of a new lawsuit. Musk — thewealthiest personon the planet — recentlypurchased a 9.2 percent stakein the social media platform, according to aU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission documentfiled on April 4. That makes him the company’s largest shareholder. For more on Elon Musk, listen below to our daily podcast PEOPLE Every Day. By delaying the disclosure, Musk was able to buy more shares at a lower price, and cost other investors potential profits, Rasella claims....

Photo: Ron Jenkins/Getty The since-deleted message — which lives on in screenshots and is riddled with spelling and grammar errors — began with an introductory line that said he intended to “hurt some feelings.” “No one owes you [or] your family anything; nor is it the local government’s responsibility to support you during trying times like this! Sink or swim it’s your choice!” Boyd wrote. “The City and County, along with power providers or any other service owes you NOTHING!...

Itzell Sanchez.Photo: gofundme The incident occurred at 2602 Westerland Drive in Houston at about 1:20 a.m., according to anews releasefrom the city’s police department. The female victim, Itzell Sanchez, 24, was pronounced dead at the scene. The identity of the male suspect, 21, has yet to be publicly revealed, police said. After responding to a report of an incident at the scene, HPD patrol officers found Sanchez lying on the ground suffering from gunshot wounds near the passenger side of a black Ford Mustang....

Tyler Gwozdz and Hannah Brown.Photo: John Fleenor/ABC BachelorNation is mourning the loss of one of its own. FormerBachelorettecontestant Tyler Gwozdzhas diedjust over a week after asuspected overdose, PEOPLE confirmed on Thursday. Online records list his date of death as Jan. 22. He was 29. Though his time on the franchise was short,Bachelorettefans are in shock over his sudden death. Here’s everything to know about who he was. PhD Dreams Prior to stepping into the Bachelor Mansion, Gwozdz, then 28, was a psychology graduate student living in Boca Raton, Florida....

Tyra Bankshas her sights set on her next endeavor — a graphic novel! “I wrote a book,Modelland, many years ago and this graphic novel is based on that, but different,” Banks tells PEOPLE. “We wanted to do a graphic novel because we feel like the audience is very visual, so we want to tell the story with visuals in a medium that they can connect with,” she says. “I’m not sure if my core family of fans and the future Modelland family of fans are comic book readers so I said let’s flip it on its head and use real people who will be used in the graphic novel, through a combination of photographs and drawings....