Kim Kardashian Is Sleeping by Kanye West's Side in Hospital, Helping to Feed Him

Kim Kardashian West (L) and Kanye West attend the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on August 28, 2016 in New York City.

Kim Kardashian is nursing Kanye West back to health. The reality star has been sleeping by her husband's side and helping to feed him while he's in the hospital for exhaustion, a source close to the rapper exclusively tells Us Weekly.

"Kim has been amazing," the insider tells Us. "She knew he couldn't keep going the way he was. She has been by his side through all of this, helping to feed him and laying by his side."

The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star's nurturing behavior echoes that of her sister Khloé Kardashian, who stuck by her ex Lamar Odom's side as he recovered from a near fatal drug overdose last year. "All the Kardashian women stick by their men," the source notes.

As previously reported, the "Fade" rapper, 39, was admitted to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles on Monday, November 21, after he reportedly started behaving "erratically" while at his personal trainer's home. The health scare came hours after West canceled the remainder of his Saint Pablo Tour following a bizarre 15-minute rant against Beyoncé, Jay Z and Hillary Clinton at a Sacramento concert.

Since then, Kim, 36, has shown nothing but support for her hubby of two years, and even spent Thanksgiving in the hospital with him. "Kim wouldn't leave his side except to see the kids," the source tells Us, referring to the couple's children, North, 3, and Saint, 11 months. "She's been at the hospital all the time. Kim has been keeping a very close watch on him and not letting people disturb him. All kinds of people have called and sent flowers, but she's being very careful about not letting him get wound up and making sure he rests and recovers."

The Selfish author, meanwhile, has stepped out of the spotlight since she was robbed at gunpoint inside her private residence in Paris early last month

Donald Trump Claims He Lost Popular Vote Because of 'Millions' of Illegal Votes in Twitter Rant Against Hillary Clinton

President-elect Donald Trump claimed in a new Twitter rant that he lost the popular vote to rival Hillary Clinton because of the "millions of people who voted illegally."

His outburst came a day after the Clinton campaign announced that it will participate in an election recount. The Green Party filed for a recount in Wisconsin on Friday, November 25, and has also called for recounts in Pennsylvania and Michigan. Trump won the Electoral College by more than the required 270 votes, but Clinton leads the former reality TV star by more than 2.2 million in the popular vote count.

"Hillary Clinton conceded the election when she called me just prior to the victory speech and after the results were in," the real estate mogul, 70, tweeted just after 7 a.m. ET on Sunday, November 27. He then slammed the former secretary of state, 69, for criticizing his pre-Election Day statement that he might not accept the election results.

"Nothing will change Hillary's debate answer on delay: 'That is horrifying. That is not the way our democracy works. Been around for 240 years,'" Trump tweeted in a string of seven tweets, quoting Clinton's quote from the third presidential debate. "'We've had free and fair elections. We've accepted the outcomes when we may not have liked them, and that is what must be expected of anyone standing on a [debate stage] during a general election. I, for one, am appalled that somebody that is the nominee of one of our two major parties would take that kind of position.' Then, separately she stated, 'He said something truly horrifying ... he refused to say that he would respect the results of this election. That is a direct threat to our democracy.' She then said, 'We have to accept the results and look to the future, Donald Trump is going to be our President. We owe him an open mind and the chance to lead.' So much time and money will be spent - same result! Sad."

The former Celebrity Apprentice host continued on Sunday afternoon: "In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally. It would have been much easier for me to win the so-called popular vote than the Electoral College in that I would only campaign in 3 or 4 states instead of the 15 states that I visited. I would have won even more easily and convincingly (but smaller states are forgotten)!"

Trump, who won the electoral vote with 290 votes compared to Clinton's 233, did not provide any evidence of illegal votes to back his claims. The Washington Post reported on Sunday that Trump's allegation is bogus "with no documented proof." The former first lady has yet to respond.

Britons could pay for EU citizenship after Brexit, says top negotiator

Guy Verhofstadt said he supported the idea of Britons who wanted to remain EU citizens having the ability to do so. Photograph: Isopix/REX/Shutterstock

Britons could pay to retain the benefits of European Union citizenship after Brexit under plans being considered by MEPs.

The European parliament’s lead Brexit negotiator Guy Verhofstadt said he supported the principle of the idea, which would see UK citizens sending an annual fee to Brussels.

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The former Belgian prime minister said Britons who voted remain did not want to sever their links to the EU.

“Many say ‘we don’t want to cut our links’,” he told the Times. “I like the idea that people who are European citizens and saying they want to keep it have the possibility of doing so. As a principle I like it.”

The proposals were tabled by a liberal MEP from Luxembourg and MEPs will vote on the proposals by the end of the year, but any Brexit deal with the UK would have to have the agreement of the leaders of the other 27 EU nations as well as the parliament.

Brexit-backing Tory MP Andrew Bridgen claimed that these plans were just the EU attempting to undermine the referendum result.

He told the newspaper: “It’s an attempt to create two classes of UK citizen and to subvert the referendum vote. The truth is that Brussels will try every trick in the book to stop us leaving.”

US experts push for vote recount amid hacking suspicions

NEW YORK -- A group of computer scientists and other experts is questioning the integrity of the U.S. presidential election results in three key states and urging losing candidate Hillary Clinton's camp to file for a recount.

Election results in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania may have been hacked or otherwise manipulated, according to a group including J. Alex Halderman, director of the University of Michigan Center for Computer Security and Society. The news was reported by outlets including New York magazine.

These three battleground states typically lean toward Clinton's Democratic Party but went for Trump in this month's election. The experts learned that Clinton received a substantially smaller share of votes in Wisconsin counties that used electronic voting machines than in those that used paper ballots, according to the media reports. No concrete proof of hacking has been found.

Winning all three of those states would tilt the Electoral College in Clinton's favor, giving her the presidency.

Fidel Castro, Cuba’s revolutionary leader, dies aged 90

Fidel Castro has died at the age of 90, Cuban state television has announced, ending an era for the country and Latin America.

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Brother Raúl Castro announces on Cuban state television that controversial revolutionary leader has died at age of 90

 

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The revolutionary icon, one of the world’s best-known and most controversial leaders, survived countless US assassination attempts and premature obituaries, but in the end proved mortal and died late on Friday night after suffering a long battle with illness.

The announcement of Castro’s death on Friday was long expected, given the former president’s age and health problems, but when it came it was still a shock: the comandante – a figurehead for armed struggle across the developing world – was no more. It was news that friends and foes had long dreaded and yearned for respectively.

Castro’s younger brother Raul, who assumed the presidency of Cuba in 2006 after Fidel suffered a near-fatal intestinal ailment, announced the revolutionary leader’s death on television.

“The commander-in-chief of the Cuban revolution died at 10.29pm tonight.”

He survived long enough to see Raul negotiate an opening with the outgoing US president, Barack Obama, in December 2014, when Washington and Havana announced they would move to restore diplomatic ties for the first time since they were severed in 1961.

After outlasting nine occupants of the White House, he cautiously blessed the historic deal with his lifelong enemy in a letter published after a month-long silence.

The thaw in relations was crowned when Obama visted the island earlier this year. Castro did not meet Obama and days later wrote a scathing column condemning the US president’s “honey-coated” words and reminding Cubans of the many Americanefforts to overthrow and weaken the Communist government. 

As in life, Castro was deeply divisive in death. The announcement of his death was greeted by thousands online with celebration and condemnation of the “cruel dictator” and his repressive regime.

Others mourned the passing of “a fighter of US imperialism” and a “charismatic icon”.

In Miami, home to the largest diaspora of expatriate Cubans, people took to the streets celebrating his death, singing, dancing, and waving Cuban flags.

The Communist party and state apparatus has prepared for this moment since July 2006 when Castro underwent emergency intestinal surgery and ceded power to his brother, Raúl, who remains in charge.

Fidel wrote occasional columns for the party paper, Granma, and made very occasional public appearances – most recently at the 2016 Communist party congress – but otherwise kept a very low profile.

Despite the mixed reactions to his death, one thing all could agree on was that this extraordinary figure left his mark on history.

More than half a century ago, his guerrilla army of “bearded ones” replaced Fulgencio Batista’s corrupt dictatorship with communist rule that challenged the US and turned the island into a cold-war crucible.

He fended off a CIA-backed invasion at the Bay of Pigs in 1961 as well as many assassination attempts. His alliance with Moscow helped trigger the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, a 13-day showdown with the United States that brought the world the closest it has been to nuclear war.

The US had long counted on Castro’s mortality as a “biological solution” to communism in the Caribbean but, since officially succeeding his brother in 2008, Raúl has cemented his own authority while overseeing cautious economic reforms, and agreeing the momentous deal to restore diplomatic relations between Cuba and the US in late 2014, ending more than five decades of hostility.

By Raúl’s own admission, however, Fidel is irreplaceable. By force of charisma, intellect and political cunning the lawyer-turned-guerrilla embodied the revolution. Long before his passing, however, Cubans had started to move on, with increased migration to the US and an explosion of small private businesses.

His greatest legacy is free healthcare and education, which have given Cuba some of the region’s best human development statistics. But he is also responsible for the central planning blunders and stifling government controls that – along with the US embargo – have strangled the economy, leaving most Cubans scrabbling for decent food and desperate for better living standards.

The man who famously declared “history will absolve me” leaves a divided legacy. Older Cubans who remember brutal times under Batista tend to emphasise the revolution’s accomplishments. Younger Cubans are more likely to rail against gerontocracy, repression and lost opportunity. But even they refer to Castro by the more intimate name of Fidel.

Since largely vanishing from public view he has been a spectral presence, occasionally surfacing in what became a trademark tracksuit, to urge faith in the revolution. It was a long goodbye which accustomed Cubans to his mortality.

Exiles in Florida, the heart of the diaspora which fled communist rule, are expected to celebrate. Previous false reports of Castro’s death triggered cavalcades of cheering, flag-waving revellers.

Latin America’s leftist leaders, in contrast, will mourn the passing of a figure who was perceived less as a communist and more as a nationalist symbol of regional pride and defiance against the gringo superpower.

Details of Fidel Castro’s funeral and cremation will be announced on Saturday. It is expected to attract numerous foreign heads of state, intellectuals and artists.

Ghana were more difficult to beat than Nigeria - Elneny

Egypt midfield lynchpin Mohammed Elneny says the Black Stars of Ghana were more difficult to defeat in the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier, as compared to the Super Eagles of Nigeria in the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.

The Pharaohs recorded a comfortable 2-0 victory over the Black Stars on matchday two of the 018 FIFA qualifiers at the Borg El Arab Stadium in Alexandria and also pipped Nigeria 1-0 courtesy of a 66th minute Ramadan Sobhi at the same venue.

“We played in a realistic way against Ghana,” Elneny told DMC Channel, as reported by Kingfut. The result was important for us, more important than the performance.

“Hector Cuper makes us play in a defensive way that makes it difficult for any team to score against us.

“In training, eight attackers go against three defenders, and they fail to score, so you can imagine what happens when we are six defenders in the match.

“In general, I think Ghana was stronger than Nigeria’s team which we faced in the Afcon qualifications.’

“Cuper guided Egypt to qualify to the Afcon and also, we are in a good position in the World Cup qualifications.

“The results are very good in my opinion.”

The Pharaohs of Egypt are favourites to qualify for the World Cup after amassing with six points from two games so far.

2019: Nigerians divided over support for Buhari

THE polity was literary balkanised, yesterday, with mixed views from eminent Nigerians on whether or not President Muhammadu Buhari would be supported for re-election in 2019. The Presidency, on Monday, lambasted former member of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Alhaji Buba Galadima, for saying that the people would abandon Buhari if he chose to seek re-election.

In a strong worded statement, the presidency through Malam Garba Shehu, senior special assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, stated that “suggestions that the masses will desert President Buhari in 2019 are unfounded and utterly ridiculous” because “the masses are solidly behind Buhari because he is not stealing their money and their future.

The President’s enormous goodwill remains ever strong because the people are convinced the President is acting in their best interest, despite the temporary unintended consequences of reforms.” Commenting on the issues, leaders were clearly divided with some saying that the permutation for 2019 is early. Those talking about 2019 are shameless – Junaid Mohammed In his reaction, Second Republic lawmaker, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, said: “It is very unfortunate and shameless that a government that is yet to do anything is already talking of 2019.

It is very unfortunate that a party like APC that is fast becoming moribund is already talking of 2019 when they have nothing to show for the four years Nigerians gave them. This development shows they are power-hungry, hypocritical and corruption-ridden.

 “This entire 2019 discussion is ridiculous. I believe a government that has performed will rely on its performance before being considered for another four years in office. We are not even in the middle of the four-year term given to them and they are already talking of 2019. This is an unfortunate development and it shows the ineptitude of the government.

For a man that has led us into the worst recession ever and has got nothing to show Nigerians since he assumed office to be talking of 2019, shows how shameless the government can be.” We are waiting to see Nigerians who will support them – Babatope Former Minister of Transport, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, said: “I wish the Buhari administration luck in their wishful thinking. So far so good, I don’t know of anybody who will support them for another term of four years. But we are waiting patiently to see those Nigerians who will support them when people are dying daily of hunger and starvation.’’

It’s too early – Tsav Retired Police Commissioner, Alhaji Abubakar Tsav said: ”It is too early for anyone to be talking of 2019. However, I think it is his right to express his opinion if he so desires.’’ It’s an insult to Nigerians—Debo Adeniran Executive Director of Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, CACOL, Mr. Debo Adeniran, said: ”My impression is that it is too early for people in the Presidency to be making such statement. It was wrongly timed for them to be flying such a kite because I believe that is what they are doing.

The administration has not even settled down, they have not come up with a policy thrust on the economy and they have not engaged in the business of real governance. The statement is an insult to the sensibilities of Nigerians. I believe that the President might not have approved such statement by his overzealous aides because I am sure the President has not shown that he is ambitious.”

Let Buhari improve lives of Nigerians – Afenifere The Pan Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, in its reaction, said the President must ensure that the lives of Nigerians are improved. Its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Yinka Odumakin said: “He (Buhari) has to yet formally declare that he is running for second term beyond the inferences from Garba Shehu’s comments in his response to Buba Galadima.

The constitution guarantees him the right to run for second term but he must ensure that the realities of Nigeria today improve for the better if he wants to exercise that right.” He should take a cue from fallen African leaders – Olapade Agoro National Chairman and former Presidential Candidate of the National Action Council, NAC, Dr Olapade Agoro, said: ”Considering the fact that President Buhari is a complete gentleman and statesman, one will consider the ongoing news running loose that he is considering running the 2019 Presidential race as a mere game plan of his detractors… Although it will not be strange to find any African leader limping in office wanting to stay put, one will be too sorry and sad to find Buhari falling into pit of shame like Idi Amin Dada of Uganda and Mobutu Sese Seko of DRC.” For now, only Buhari can be trusted – Igbokwe Publicity Secretary of the APC in Lagos State, Engineer Joe Igbokwe said: “Who would have thought that President Buhari will make fellow generals to return their loot and face trials? Who would have thought that the untouchable called judges in Nigeria will be brought down to give account of their stewardship? Who would have thought that a day will come when fraudulent politicians will be forced to return billions? Now, if the truth must be told, President Buhari has no competitor, he is the only man standing for that position in 2019.

We cannot trust any other person for now. He must finish clearing the Augean stable.” We need a leader like him, I will stand by him, – Ndume Senate Leader, Senator Ali Ndume, APC, Borno South, said he would support Buhari for second term. “I am behind President Muhammadu Buhari for 2019. Nigeria needs a leader like Buhari, as long as he is contesting in 2019, I stand by him. I urge Nigerians to stand by him; we need a leader that is incorruptible, matured, sincere, transparent and disciplined.

We have an opportunity, we should not bring politics into it, the present recession was not brought by him. We need a leader that has integrity, we need a leader and Buhari is the leader, ” he said Buhari should not be distracted – Alimikhena To Senate Deputy Chief Whip, Senator Francis Alimikhena, APC, Edo North, President Buhari has the right to contest in 2019 but it is too early for the presidency to raise such an issue because he would need time to concentrate and work for the country, and must not be distracted from delivering the dividends of democracy to Nigerians.

Nigerians ‘ll decide – Ohuabaunwa Senator Mao Ohuabunwa, PDP, Abia North, who noted that the President has the right to contest as a sitting president said however that only God and Nigerians would determine who becomes the President of Nigeria in 2019.

 “First and foremost, he is entitled to contest, he is a sitting President; it is his fundamental human right to contest. It is God and the people that will determine who will be the President of Nigeria, he has the right to contest, God and the people will decide who will be the president in 2019,” he said.

Those talking about 2019 are not Buhari’s friends – Senator Owie Former Chief Whip of the Senate and a Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Rowland Owie said those saying that the President would contest in 2019 were not his friends. “I have said it often and often that presidents and governors once elected in Nigeria, become ‘prisoners of palace jesters’ These jesters take over the Chief Executives and manipulate them.

These are the people who say what the oga wants to hear because truth when said, is bitter. If not palace jestering in action, how can a sane person start talking about President Buhari running or not running election in 2019? These jesters should please allow President Buhari to do for Nigerians what he promised Nigerians in 2015 and for which he was voted into office.”