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The Queen met a host of famous faces during the course of her 70 year reign, including numerous presidents and heads of state. During her 90th birthday, she received a visit from former US President Barack Obama and his wife.

During their three day visit, Barack and Michelle met Prince Harry and The Prince and Princess of Wales (formerly The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge) at Kensington Palace for dinner.

Little George, who was only a few years old, stayed up past his bedtime to greet the former US President and the First Lady whilst wearing his dressing gown.

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Official photographs show the Obama's crouching down to shake George's hand, as well as smiling as they watch him play with his rocking horse.

A month later, Barack fondly recalled the moment he met Prince George during the US President's final Correspondents' Dinner in May 2016.

He jokingly said: "Last week, Prince George showed up to our meeting in his bathrobe.... That was a slap in the face. A clear breach of protocol."

Prince George has met quite a few legendary figures over the past few years, including tennis ace Roger Federer when he was only a few years old.

The Princess of Wales was rumoured to have arranged a tennis lesson for Prince George when he was only five with the multiple Grand Slam Champion.

So much so, Prince George attended the Wimbledon Men's Singles Final this year with his parents to watch Novak Djokovic win his seventh title.

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The former Obama White House official who negotiated the reopening of relations with Cuba is sharply criticizing President Bidens policies toward that country, saying his administration is gaslighting Havana by maintaining and even expanding harsh sanctions imposed by former President Trump.

Disappointed doesnt begin to scratch the surface of how I feel about the Biden-Cuba policy, said Ben Rhodes, who served as Obamas deputy national security adviser, in an interview for the Yahoo News Conspiracyland podcast. The Cuban government made an agreement with me based on the idea that they could trust that we would keep our agreement.

Granted it was Trump who initially reversed Obamas policy of normalizing relations with Cuba, he added. But then Biden doubles down on Trump policies, Rhodes said.

Why would any Cuban official ever, ever negotiate anything with America ever again after this? We had Trump in the most grotesque, callous way politicizing this. But then to have a Democratic administration legitimize what Trump did by continuing it its a gaslighting to those people in Cuba, you know?

Ben Rhodes announces that President Barack Obama will be the first U.S. president since Calvin Coolidge in 1928 to visit Cuba, in a daily briefing at the White House on Feb. 18, 2016. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)

Rhodess comments some of the strongest criticism yet of Biden from a senior Obama official were disputed by a White House national security spokesperson.

President Bidens policy toward Cuba is rooted in supporting the Cuban people and protecting human rights. Our approach to Cuba, just like any other country, takes into account various current political, economic, and security factors, the spokesperson said.

Over the past few years, conditions in Cuba and in the region have changed, and we have adapted our Cuba policy accordingly.

The U.S. and Cuba have been at odds since 1959, when Fidel Castro took control of the island nation and installed a communist government closely aligned with the Soviet Union. In the decades that followed, millions of Cuban refugees settled in the U.S., and Cuban Americans became a key voting bloc in states like Florida.

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President Biden meets with Cuban American leaders in the State Dining Room at the White House on July 30, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters)

The Obama administration normalized relations with Havana, an effort that was overseen by Rhodes and culminated in Obamas visit to Cuba in March 2016. The thaw was short-lived, however: When Trump entered office in 2017, he quickly reversed many of his predecessors policies toward Cuba, citing the emergence of Havana syndrome a collection of odd symptoms, such as dizziness, vertigo, headaches and in some cases brain injuries originally reported by some U.S. officials in Cuba and later by American diplomats and spies serving all over the world.

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The new three-part podcast from Conspiracyland, entitled The Strange Story of Havana Syndrome, recounts in its first episode how the reports of Havana syndrome ailments set off a chain of events that led to a reversal of Obamas policy. After the initial reports of strange health symptoms surfaced in 2017, the Trump administration pulled most U.S. diplomats out of Cuba and accused the countrys government of launching targeted attacks against U.S. personnel charges that were widely reported in the news media but which U.S. officials no longer endorse, as the podcast reveals.

Cuban President Raul Castro, right, lifts up the arm of Obama, at the conclusion of their joint news conference at the Palace of the Revolution, in Havana, Cuba, on March 21, 2016 . (Ramon Espinosa/AP)

Until recently, the Biden administration had maintained many of the tight restrictions Trump had reimposed on Cuba and even expanded some sanctions still in place, targeting the chief of Cubas Interior Ministry over his role in cracking down on hundreds of Cubans who protested economic conditions last year. (It also refused to invite Cuba to last Junes Summit of the Americas conference in Los Angeles, hosted by Biden.)

Cubas communist government denounced Bidens moves, saying they had harshly punished the countrys economy during the COVID epidemic and contributed to shortages of food and medicine. There is no difference between Bidens and Trumps policy toward Cuba, Johana Ruth Tablada de la Torre, the deputy director for U.S. affairs at the Cuban Foreign Ministry, says in an interview for the Conspiracyland podcast, adding that what the U.S. is doing to Cuba is criminal.

Cuban-American demonstrators call for the U.S. to support protesters in Cuba during a demonstration in Lafayette Park, across from the White House, in Washington on July 26, 2021. (Jim Bourg/Reuters)

Also interviewed in the Conspiracyland podcast is Brian Nichols, assistant secretary of state for western hemisphere affairs, who blamed the Cuban government for the countrys economic woes. Until the Cuban regime decides to embrace democracy and free markets, I think its gonna be nigh-on-impossible for them to improve the situation there he said.

Nichols was also asked about the Biden administrations refusal to invite Cuba to this years Summit of the Americas conference, a rebuke that prompted leaders of Mexico, Bolivia and Honduras to boycott the event.

The host has wide latitude to determine whom they will invite, said Nichols. Although Cuban leaders have been invited in the past, since that time, they have made no progress toward increasing their respect for democracy, human rights, or the rule of law. So, clearly, allowing them to participate did not prompt better behavior on their part.

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Michelle Obamas national voting initiative is teaming up with a climate group in an effort to mobilize young voters on the issue of climate change ahead of the midterms, The Hill has learned.

Obamas initiative, When We All Vote, is joining environmental organization Climate Power on the effort, which will total at least $1 million.

About $200,000 of that will be spent on voter registration, while the rest is expected to be spent on advertising.

The effort is anticipated to specifically home in on the Inflation Reduction Act, Democrats climate, tax and health care bill enacted last month.

With passage of the Inflation Reduction Acts historic investments in climate action, we have an unprecedented opportunity to motivate young people to turn out to the polls,Lori Lodes, Climate Powers executive director, said in a statement.

The voting effort will include a website that allows people to check their voter registration, find their polling place and pledge to vote this year.

Obama launched When We All Vote in 2018. The organization is a nonpartisan organization that aims to increase voter participation in elections, according to its website. Other co-chairs of the organization includeStephen Curry, Selena Gomez, Tom Hanks, Jennifer Lopez, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Shonda Rhimes andKerry Washington.

Climate Power was founded by other climate and liberal groups: theCenter for American Progress Action Fund, League of Conservation Voters and the Sierra Club.

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Meghan McCain believes that Meghan Markle is attempting to take the crown by selling royal secrets. Its easy to pinpoint a lady, and it becomes a paid job if she is popular. The Duchess of Sussex seems to be heading into this category of being an easy target to spark controversies. And that is exactly what Meghan McCain seems to be attempting to express with her harsh and blunt views on Meghan Markle.

After the great tragedy of Princess Diana, the royals have kept themselves all the more secretive. Its next to impossible for a lady who left the title to hold any such information. Even if she aims for the crown, its because she has the potential to at least try. As an audience, we do not have that possibility. Therefore, views on topics of people with a much higher power are always to be taken with a grain of salt.

The royal author and biographer, Meghan McCain, recently revealed her thoughts about the Duchess of Sussex to the world. Within her latest piece for the Daily Mail, the author expressed how Meghan Markle has sparked her interest in the royal family. She wrote about how their relationship has created some strong thoughts about the situation they are in.

I never really held very strong thoughts about the Royals until Harry and Meghan splashed onto the scene. Since then, Ive recognized that there is much to appreciate especially the inspiring example set by the queen. But Ive also come to recognize something else: Meghan doesnt mind tearing the Royal family apart.

With that last sentence in mind, Meghan McCain starts to talk about Meghan Markle without the slightest hint of hesitation. The authors words are blunt and harsh as they clearly make an accusation of the Duchess of Sussex.

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Their recent Spotify deal about their podcast took their fame and success to a new height. It even managed to beat the top most successful podcaster on Spotify, The Joe Rogan Experience. The couples popularity can easily be argued to be similar to the Kardashians. As most of their fame originates from their interviews, podcasts, and even their upcoming Netflix documentary.

They want to be A-list celebrities in America. They want to make Barack and Michelle Obama-sized money off podcasts and streaming deals. And possibly most significantly, they do not want to play second fiddle to anyone.

The lifestyle that the couple has chosen has led them down the path of earning similar to celebrities, who often attend interviews and make deals with the entertainment industry. From having a royal status and privilege to having fame and success which connects them back to their past is definitely a valid point to be noted. As no matter how the couple puts it across, their wealth and fame linger on their history of being royal members themselves.

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To be blunt they want to be King Harry and Queen Meghan. No matter how many magazine covers Harry and Meghan grace, or interviews they give or bombshells they drop to Oprah, they will never reign over England.

Women are often accused of being home breakers, and the same has been the case with Meghan Markle. Back when she was a child, Markle wrote a letter to the then First lady, Hillary Clinton, addressing an advertisement that hurt her feelings when she was just 11 years old. The advertisement was about a dishwashing liquid that stated women all over America are fighting greasy pots and pans to which two boys from her class said, this is where women belong, in the kitchen. She wrote a letter to the dishwash company as well as Hillary Clinton and highlighted this reaction. Soon after a few months, the commercials tagline was changed to PEOPLE all over America are fighting greasy pots and pans.

This moment changed her life she says, but ever since she has set benchmarks. Be it a divorce or marriage into a royal family or again voicing over the wrongs in said royal family. The saying goes, behind every successful man there is a woman. However, in this case behind every successful woman, there is a progressive man just like her husband. Therefore, the author seems to be aiming at an easy target to spark flames where only smoke exists.

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For local and state officials on Marthas Vineyard, the decision to send a group of roughly 50 Venezuelan migrants to the island was a failed political stunt orchestrated by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to create chaos in a small community with under 20,000 year-round residents.

DeSantis claimed credit Wednesday for flying migrants to Marthas Vineyard, where local officials quickly put together a temporary shelter, medical services, and legal counsel. Supporters of the move have painted the island as a wealthy haven for Democrats, though locals say that is not the entire truth while decrying the use of migrants for political purposes.

This is all part of a very cruel ruse that manipulated vulnerable people who are simply seeking a better life and choosing a location to get maximum attention I think in part try to embarrass and paint a non-border community as hypocrites, said state Sen. Julian Cyr, a Democrat representing the Cape and Islands. I think they failed.

At an unrelated press conference Thursday, DeSantis said immigrants are inclined to think Florida is a good place, arguing sanctuary states are better equipped to support them. Gov. Charlie Baker has opposed making Massachusetts a sanctuary state and pushed for an end to the national security crisis at the border in a letter with 25 other governors.

Our message to them is we are not a sanctuary state, and its better to be able to go to a sanctuary jurisdiction, DeSantis said. And yes, we will help facilitate that transport for you to be able to go to greener pastures.

While Marthas Vineyard is home to wealthy families in the summer, the community has a thriving year-round population that has grown over the past decade, where the median household income is slightly below the state average, and multiple languages are spoken in area-high schools.

State Rep. Dylan Fernandes, whose district includes the island, said Marthas Vineyard was chosen to create chaos. Both Nantucket and Marthas Vineyard are incredibly diverse places, he said.

The school district on Marthas Vineyard is over a third non-white. On Nantucket, its majority-minority. Both islands have experienced incredible growth, he said. A lot of that is predominantly due to immigration. And so these are already immigrant communities. Theyre already incredibly welcoming.

Cyr said the island certainly has some notoriety as a result of the people who vacation during the busy summer season or may own a second home there but the reality on the ground is slightly different.

Theres more waiters and landscapers and construction workers and teachers and firefighters and working-class people who make a life on these islands than anyone else, he said, though a housing crisis and high costs of living are making it difficult for people to afford to stay on the island.

It is not the first time federal politicians have floated Marthas Vineyard as a port of entry for people who crossed into the United States unlawfully.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz introduced legislation in October 2021 that would require the Department of Homeland to send any person who has illegally entered the United States in a covered Bord Patrol sector to 12 new ports of entry, including Cambridge, Marthas Vineyard, and Nantucket.

In a statement at the time, Cruz said the bill, which is pending in committee, would help alleviate the massive overload at the southern border by establishing new ports of entry in Democrat-led communities such as North Hero, Vermont, where [U.S. Sen.] Bernie Sanders spends his summers, and Marthas Vineyard, where Democrat elites host their cocktail parties.

Cyr said there is a nuance to understanding the community on Marthas Vineyard.

We have working people who are struggling to make ends meet, almost exclusively driven by the cost of housing, theres plenty of work. If anything, we have a workforce shortage because of the housing crisis, he said. Just because there is a tremendous amount of wealth that is present among our visitors doesnt mean that is reflective in the year-round population.

The population in Dukes County, which covers Marthas Vineyard and several smaller islands to the northwest, grew by 24% from the 2010 to 2020 U.S. Census, according to data presented by the Marthas Vineyard Commission in early January 2022. Overall, the entire state saw a 7.4% population increase, and every county except Franklin and Berkshire Counties saw some growth.

It is not the first time the Cape and Islands region has seen an uptick in residents. According to commission data, Barnstable County grew by 53% and Dukes County by 46% in the 1970s, even as the rest of the state did not see a massive shift.

Even with the growth in the past 10 years, a housing crisis is very present in Dukes County particularly on Marthas Vineyard. The islands housing stock grew by less than 2% between 2010 and 2020, even as the population increased by 25%, according to the commission.

For the first time in five decades, the housing stock also shifted to year-round occupancy, at 51%, according to the commission. Total housing units for Marthas Vineyard grew from 16,973 to 17,312, data showed.

The median household income for Dukes County is $77,318, according to census data, compared to $84,385 statewide. U.S. Census data for Dukes County shows the population as 89% white, 5% Black, 3.8% Latinx, and 1.4% Asian.

Lisa Belcastro, the coordinator of the homeless shelter on Marthas Vineyard who organized much of the initial response on the island, said the decision to send migrants there is part of a political game where human beings are being used as pawns.

Its a political game, and shame on everyone involved, she said Thursday morning. We have to stop the chess game right now because theyre human beings, just like you, just like your spouses, and just like your kids, and they dont deserve to be treated as theyre being treated.

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