Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current president of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality. Trump was born and raised in the New York City borough of Queens, and received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School. He took charge of his family's real-estate business in 1971, renamed it The Trump Organization, and expanded its operations from Queens and Brooklyn into Manhattan.
The company built or renovated skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. Trump later started various side ventures, mostly by licensing his name. He owned the Miss Universe and Miss USA beauty pageants from 1996 to 2015, and produced and hosted The Apprentice, a reality television show, from 2003 to 2015. Forbes estimates his net worth to be $3.1 billion.
Brownsville rap legend Ka dies at 52
thefader.comKaseem Ryan, the beloved Brooklyn rapper and producer better known as Ka, has passed away, according to a Monday, October 14 post to his Instagram account.
He “died unexpectedly in New York City on October 12,” the post reads. He was 52. Ka was born and raised in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Brownsville.
Per the post, he was a “20-year veteran of the New York City Fire Department” and a first responder to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, eventually rising to the rank of captain.
He achieved all of this while quietly amassing a prodigious catalog of densely lyrical, starkly produced music — 11 solo albums, as well as collaborative releases as one half of Hermit and the Recluse, Dr.
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