• Bentley & Skinner is a London based jeweller which has been buying and selling since 1880.
• It shifts millions of pounds worth of items, including antique jewels, rings, and tiaras.
• We tried on a £295,000 diamond and pearl necklace and a £100,000 diamond tiara. 

We visited London jeweller Bentley & Skinner, which specialises in buying and selling rare antique jewellery. 

Some of the items it sells include a £275,000 diamond ring and an 1890 pearl and diamond necklace worth £240,000.

Bentley & Skinner also makes jewellery inside its workshop, which is also located inside the store. Some items can take weeks to complete. 

We tried some of the luxury items on, but are they worth the price?

Produced and filmed by David Ibekwe. Special thanks to Bentley & Skinner.

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• George Clooney is the highest-paid male actor of 2018, even though he didn't appear in a film.
• Instead, he has the $1 billion sale of his Casamigos tequila to thank for his $239 million pay cheque.
• This figure knocked former highest-paid actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson into second place.
• You can read the story of how Casamigos was set up by accident here.

George Clooney is officially the highest-paid male actor of 2018, knocking Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson off the top spot — and he has tequila, rather than films, to thank.

The 57-year-old earned $239 million between June 1 2017 and June 1 2018, making him the highest-paid actor on Forbes' list despite the fact he hasn't featured in a film since 2016's "Money Monster."

Instead, his position is mostly thanks to the $1 billion sale of his tequila brand Casamigos to drinks giant Diageo in June last year, according to Forbes, as well as additional earnings from endorsements and older movies.

The actor and two friends founded Casamigos, one of the fastest-growing tequila brands in the world, in 2013. When Business Insider spoke to Rande Gerber, Clooney's business partner, in March 2017, he said the idea came about "by accident," and that money was never the reason for launching the brand.

In an email to CNBC last June, Clooney said: "If you asked us four years ago if we had a billion dollar company, I don't think we would have said yes. This reflects Diageo's belief in our company and our belief in Diageo. But we're not going anywhere. We'll still be very much a part of Casamigos. Starting with a shot tonight. Maybe two."

Elsewhere on Forbes' list, The Rock came in second place banking $124 million in the same period, followed by Robert Downey Jr. at $81 million.

You can see the full list of the 10 highest-paid male actors, who made $748.5 million combined in 2018, here.

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The scandal involving President Donald Trump, his longtime fixer Michael Cohen, and porn star Stormy Daniels unraveled in early March, as team Trump confirmed a story he had spent the past months denying.

On August 21, Cohen struck a deal to plead guilty to eight federal crimes, including one count of making an illegal campaign finance contribution on the same day that a $130,000 payment to Daniels was finalized.

Cohen said he made the illegal campaign contribution to Daniels at the direction of Trump in order to influence the election.

In a series of statements, tweets, and on-air appearances, the president and his defenders have changed their statements considerably over time. Here's how:

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First, what Stormy Daniels and her lawyer Michael Avenatti have said:

Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, first gave a full interview detailing a one night stand and months-long contact with Trump to In Touch magazine in 2006, five years before his personal attorney would send her $130,000 just 10 days before the 2016 election.

The story was buried after Trump's personal attorney reportedly threatened to sue the magazine.

On March 6, Daniels filed a suit that the non-disclosure agreement Cohen had her sign in October 2016 was void because it was missing Trump's signature.

After that, she started doing interviews to tell her side of the story. On March 25, she appeared on "60 Minutes", and said Trump told her in 2006 "you remind me of my daughter" after she spanked him with a magazine, that they allegedly had unprotected sex, and that he told her "not to worry" about his wife or newborn son at the time.

Daniels said a man threatened her and her infant daughter in 2011, releasing a composite sketch of him on April 17. When Trump tweeted the photo and called the stunt a"total con job", Daniels sued him for defamation.

On May 8, Daniels' lawyer Michael Avenatti alleged that Cohen received $500,000 from a Russian oligarch after the 2016 election. Avenatti claimed that Cohen received the payments, which were meant to reimburse Cohen for paying Daniels, in two separate installments in 2017.

Later that week, on May 11, Avenatti challenged Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani to a debate over the Daniels case. Giuliani responded by saying, "I don't get involved with pimps."

On May24, Daniels and Avenatti tried to revive their civil lawsuit against Trump and Cohen. They argued that comments made by Trump and Giuliani brought light to new issues in the case. Giuliani responded by saying the claim made "no sense", while Avenatti said that Giuliani is "clueless."

Daniels filed a new lawsuit on June 6, accusing her former attorney Keith Davidson of betraying her and becoming a "puppet" for Trump and Cohen while he was representing her.

After Cohen struck a plea deal on August 21 with prosecutors to plead guilty to eight federal crimes and said that he had made illegal campaign contributions at the direction of Trump, Daniels celebrated the news by tweeting: "How ya like me now?! #teamstormy."

"And thank you Michael Avenatti," she added in an ensuing tweet, addressing her lawyer.

She also told NBC News in a statement: "Michael and I are vindicated and we look forward to the apologies from the people who claimed we were wrong."

What Michael Cohen has said over time:

Though he's at the center of the payments in question, Cohen has had some of the most combative answers relaying the facts of this case.

In a matter of three months, Cohen denied, admitted, and took the blame for the payment to Daniels before resigning to relative silence amid three separate investigations into his actions.

January 17: "An old and debunked story"

Cohen denied any affair with Trump or payment to Daniels in an email to The New York Times, saying the story was "old news that wasn't true then, not true now."

February 13: "The payment was lawful"

Cohen then admitted to paying Daniels and told The Times that the settlement was a private transaction.

"Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly," Mr. Cohen said in a statement to the Times. "The payment to Ms. Clifford was lawful, and was not a campaign contribution or a campaign expenditure by anyone."

March 9: "I wired it to an IOLA account in Beverly Hills"

Cohen released an October 2016 email from his Trump Organization account in a statement to ABC News, saying it was proof of a money transfer between accounts at First Republic Bank two weeks before the presidential election, which he said was to pay Daniels.

April 25: Pleading the 5th

Cohen's lawyer said he would invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in the Daniels case amid the heightened criminal investigation.

July 2: "I put family and country first"

In an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, Cohen broke his silence on the federal criminal investigation into him and publicly split with Trump, saying he would "put family and country first". He said he couldn't answer whether Trump told him to pay Daniels.

"I am not a villain of this story, and I will not allow others to try to depict me that way," Cohen said.

August 1: Gag order request denied

A federal judge denied Cohen's request for a gag order on Daniels and Avenatti. Cohen wanted to stop Daniels and Avenatti from discussing their case against Trump with the public, claiming that Avenatti had been running a "smear campaign" against him.

August 21: Trump told me to pay Daniels

Cohen struck a guilty plea deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to eight federal crimes, including five counts of tax evasion, one count of bank fraud, one count of making an unlawful corporate contribution, and one count of making an illegal campaign finance contribution.

During his plea entry, Cohen said he had made the illegal campaign and corporate contributions at the direction of Trump with the goal of influencing the election.

August 22: Trump should testify under oath

Cohen's attorney Lanny Davis told Business Insider that Cohen made his statements under oath, facing perjury if he lied, so Trump should do the same if he's accusing Cohen of lying.

"If they think he lacks credibility, even though it was the US attorney that caused him to say that, because that was their evidence, then let's put Donald Trump under oath and deny it," Davis said.

What Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani has said over time:

Newly appointed attorney Rudy Giuliani exceeded what any member of Trump's orbit had previously said about the payment within days of joining Trump's legal team.

May 2: "The president repaid it"

In an on-air interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity, Giuliani said Trump reimbursed Cohen for the payment and referred to it as a retainer that was paid "over several months". That revelation contradicted what Trump had been saying for weeks.

"He didn't know about the specifics of it, as far as I know," Giuliani said when asked whether Trump knew the payment was to Daniels. "But he did know about the general arrangement, that Michael would take care of things like this, like I take care of things like this for my clients. I don't burden them with every single thing that comes along. These are busy people."

May 3: "Cohen made it go away"

Opening Trump up to legal jeopardy under campaign finance laws, Giuliani appeared on "Fox & Friends" and said Cohen was being "treated like some kind of villain" for trying to help Trump's family — as opposed to the Trump campaign.

"Imagine if that came out on October 15, 2016, in the middle of the last debate with Hillary Clinton," Giuliani said. "Cohen made it go away. He did his job."

May 4: "There is no campaign violation"

"There is no campaign violation," Giuliani said in a statement. "The payment was made to resolve a personal and false allegation in order to protect the President's family. It would have been done in any event, whether he was a candidate or not."

He added: "My references to the timing were not describing my understanding of the President’s knowledge, but instead, my understanding of these matters."

May 5: "I'm not an expert on the facts yet"

"This is, you know, 1.2 million documents. I've been in the case for two weeks. Virtually one day, in comparison to other people. So I'm not an expert on the facts, yet. I'm getting there," Giuliani said on Fox News. "The fact is there is no way this is a campaign finance violation of any kind, nor was it a loan. It was an expenditure."

He added: "Even if it was a campaign donation, the president reimbursed it fully with a payment of $35,000 a month that paid for that and other expenses. No need to go beyond that. Case over."

May 6: It's possible Cohen paid off other women to stay silent about alleged affairs with Trump

Calling the $130,000 a "nuisance payment," Giuliani told ABC's "This Week" that he didn't know whether Cohen had made other payments, adding, "I would think if it was necessary, yes. He made payments for the president or he's conducted business for the president."

May 11: No discrepancy 

Giuliani said there is no discrepancy between his past statements and Trump's financial disclosure on the $130,000 payment from Cohen to Daniels. Giuliani said the inclusion of the payment in Trump's financial disclosure form "vindicates" their position.

June 6-7: Melania Trump doesn't believe it, Daniels 'has no good name'

Giuliani said first lady Melania Trump "believes her husband" and "doesn't think" he had an affair with Daniels. 

The first lady's spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, told The New York Times: "I don't believe Mrs. Trump has ever discussed her thoughts on anything with Mr. Giuliani."

Giuliani also attacked Daniels' credibility.

"I respect women — beautiful women and women with value — but a woman who sells her body for sexual exploitation I don't respect," Giuliani said. "Tell me what damage she suffered. Someone who sells his or her body for money has no good name. "If you're going to sell your body for money, you just don't have a reputation. I may be old fashioned, I don't know."

Avenatti called Giuliani's claims "disgusting and a disgrace" and urged Trump to fire the "misogynist" Giuliani.

Trump did not disagree with his lawyer on the matter.

August 21: "There is no allegation of any wrongdoing against the President"

After Cohen struck a plea deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to eight federal crimes and said he had made illegal campaign contributions at the direction of Trump, Giuliani said it did not implicate the president.

"There is no allegation of any wrongdoing against the President in the government's charges against Mr. Cohen," Giuliani said in a statement to The New York Times. "It is clear that, as the prosecutor noted, Mr. Cohen's actions reflect a pattern of lies and dishonesty over a significant period of time."

• The war in Afghanistan is nearing its 17th anniversary, and a new graphic suggests the conflict has reached its deadliest point in years.
• Data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program suggests the total number of battle deaths in Afghanistan, including civilians and combatants on both sides, will surpass 20,000 in 2018.
• That the war is becoming increasingly intense suggests the US military isn't likely to pull out of Afghanistan anytime soon.
• The US has roughly 15,000 troops in Afghanistan. Five US troops have been killed there in 2018 so far, while the death toll for Afghan troops and civilians is rising. 

The war in Afghanistan is nearing its 17th anniversary, and a new graphic suggests the conflict has reached its deadliest point in years.

Data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program suggests the total number of battle deaths in Afghanistan, including civilians and combatants on both sides, will surpass 20,000 in 2018.

Graeme Smith, a political analyst and former political affairs officer for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Kabul, Afghanistan, said on Twitter that this means "the war may be growing more intense than anything since the 1980s."

In total, five US troops have been killed in Afghanistan in 2018, according to the casualties-tracking site iCasualties. It's a far cry from America's deadliest year in the war, 2010, when 499 US troops were killed.

Overall, 2,414 US troops have been killed since the war began in 2001 following the 9/11 terror attacks, according to iCasualties.

But that the war is becoming increasingly intense, from a broader standpoint, suggests the US military isn't likely to pull out of Afghanistan anytime soon, a move that would risk toppling the Afghan government. In short, there's no end in sight to this conflict or America's role in it.

The Trump administration last year decided to increase the US's footprint in Afghanistan by several thousand troops, and the US now has 15,000 troops there.

Despite the troop increase, the situation in Afghanistan has not improved. There continues to be fierce fighting against the Taliban, which controls or contests nearly half of the districts in the country, as tenuous efforts to establish peace talks have done little to change things on the ground.

The terrorist group ISIS has also emerged as a threat in the country and last week claimed responsibility for a brutal attack that left 34 students dead at an educational facility in Kabul.

But US Gen. John "Mick" Nicholson on Wednesday said there was "an unprecedented opportunity for peace now" with the Taliban. Nicholson, who will soon be replaced as the top US general in Afghanistan, also praised President Donald Trump's strategy in the region and argued that the allied effort was making progress.

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• The all-new 2019 BMW Z4 roadster made its world debut on Thursday at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance in Monterey, California.
• The Bavarian automaker showed a special high-performance variant of the Z4 called the M40i First Edition.
• The Z4 M40i is powered by a 3.0 liter, inline-six-cylinder engine. 
• BMW expects the Z4 M40i to be able to go from 0-60 mph in 4.4 seconds. 
• Official pricing has not been released. 

On Thursday, BMW unveiled the long-awaited production variant of its new Z4 sports car. The 2019 BMW Z4 M40i First Edition made it world debut at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance during this year's Monterey Car Week in California. 

The Bavarian automaker showed off the concept version of the Z4 at last year's event. 

The new Z4 will be powered by a 3.0 liter, inline-six-cylinder engine. BMW has not confirmed the official power output for the US spec Z4. However, expect output to be north of 350 horsepower. According to BMW, the Z4 M40i can reach 60 mph from a standstill in an estimated 4.4 seconds. 

Inside, the Z4 will be equipped with a Harman Kardon surround sound system, a head-up display, and BMW's new LiveCockpit Professional setup that blends the company's long-serving iDrive infotainment system with a new digital instrument cluster. 

First Edition Z4s will also feature a special Frozen Orange Metallic paint job, Vernasca black leather trim, BMW M-tuned sports suspension completed with electronically controlled dampers, an upgraded braking system, and an electronic rear differential. 

Unlike the current generation Z4, the 2019 model will have an electronically operated soft top as opposed to a folding metal roof. 

BMW has not revealed the Z4's pricing but may do so as early as September. The 2019 BMW Z4 is expected to reach US showroom by next spring. The Z4 M40i First Edition models will follow in the second quarter of 2019. 

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• Attorney General Jeff Sessions has issued a rare rebuke of President Donald Trump.
• It came in a statement Thursday, shortly after Trump harshly criticized Sessions in an interview with Fox News.
• Trump accused Sessions of not taking "control" of the Justice Department and blasted him for recusing himself from the Russia investigation; he said he had given Sessions the job only because he had previously been "loyal."
• "While I am attorney general, the actions of the Department of Justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations," Sessions' statement said.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a rare rebuke of President Donald Trump in a Thursday statement after Trump harshly criticized Sessions in an interview with Fox News.

After the interview aired Thursday morning, the Justice Department released a statement from Sessions pushing back on Trump.

"While I am attorney general, the actions of the Department of Justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations," the statement said. "I demand the highest standards, and where they are not met, I take action. However, no nation has a more talented, more dedicated group of law-enforcement investigators and prosecutors than the United States."

"I am proud to serve with them and proud of the work we have done in successfully advancing the rule of law," Sessions wrote.

Trump had blasted Sessions in an interview on "Fox and Friends," charging he never took "control" of the Justice Department.

"I put in an attorney general that never took control of the Justice Department," Trump told the host Ainsley Earhardt. "It's sort of an incredible thing."

Trump also doubled down on his criticism of Sessions for recusing himself from the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

"Jeff Sessions recused himself, which he shouldn't have done, or he should have told me," Trump said. "He took my job, and then he said, 'I'm going to recuse myself.' I said, 'What kind of man is this?'"

"You know, the only reason I gave him the job is because I felt loyalty," Trump added. "He was an original supporter."

Sessions was the third member of Congress to formally endorse Trump and served as an adviser on the campaign.

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• Sony announced that it will be re-leasing the Aibo robot dog in the US. 
• The Aibo was initially released in 1999, and discontinued in 2006. This is an updated model of the robot dog companion, which saw a release in Japan last year. 
• Aibo has touch sensors (for petting), facial recognition (for recognizing its owners), and camera mapping (for memorizing your house layout) — which serve as examples of what Sony's current tech is capable of. It also answers to voice commands. 
• It comes at a hefty price of $2,899 

If you've been hoping for a pet that will never die, then Sony might have just provided a solution – as long as you remember to recharge it.

Sony announced today that it will be re-launching the Aibo, a robot dog home companion, in the US. The Aibo, which initially was released in 1999 and discontinued in 2006, was recently revitalized last year when it was re-released in Japan with a redesign and some upgrades. Now, you'll be able to get your very own metal K-9 in the US — for $2,899.

Given the hefty price, Sony's Aibo isn't likely to be as widespread as other home devices, like Amazon Echo or Google Home. Instead, it's a fun and interactive way for Sony to show off some of its latest tech — like  touch sensors (for petting), facial recognition (for recognizing its owners), and camera mapping (for memorizing your house layout). Aibo will also be able to understand voice commands, and each Aibo will eventually develop a different personality, as "each owner's approach to raising their aibo shapes its personality, behavior and knowledge, creating a unique environment for growth," Sony said. 

Aibo will react to being pet, and will come with toys that he or she enjoys playing with, like 'Airbone,' and a pink ball. You can also pair Aibo with the 'My Aibo' mobile app, which will allow you to teach your robot dog new tricks, look at the pictures it took through its nose camera, and change settings. 

Aibo will be available for purchase in September, which Sony said should give ample time for your new metal pet to arrive in the mail before the holidays. It also comes with a three-year AI cloud plan (which Aibo makes use of) and a unique dog tag. 

For those living in NYC who want to try Aibo out before it's shipped out, the robot dog will be on display at Sony Square from August 24 to October 14. 

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• In her new autobiography, Lisa Brennan-Jobs describes her fraught relationship with her father, Apple founder Steve Jobs, and her stepmother, Laurene Powell Jobs.
• Jobs' poor treatment of his first child, particularly during her early years, has been widely reported in the past.
• But in the book, Brennan-Jobs describes new details about her teenage years and her interactions with her stepmother.
• In one searing story included in a New York Times profile on Thursday, she recounts how her stepmother acknowledged that she and Jobs were "cold people." 

It's long been known that Apple founder Steve Jobs was often a poor father to his eldest child, Lisa Brennan-Jobs.

In the years since he died, it has also been hinted that she didn't have a great relationship with her stepmother, Laurene Powell Jobs. But Brennan-Jobs' new autobiography offers some new color to her interactions with her stepmother, including one telling vignette recounted in The New York Times' profile of her on Thursday.

Though she spent her childhood with her mother, Chrisann Brennan, Brennan-Jobs went to live with father and stepmother in the 1990s when she was in high school. As Brennan-Jobs recounts in her biography, it was a difficult period for her. When she got involved in clubs and other activities, Jobs admonished her for not spending more time with the family, Brennan-Jobs said. He once insisted she watch — because it was a "family moment" — while he touched his wife sexually and moaned and undulated theatrically in front of her, she added.

But that wasn't all. At one point when she was a teenager, Brennan-Jobs went to a therapy session with her father and stepmother in which she told the therapist she felt lonely and had been wanting her parents to tell her good night in the evenings.

Powell Jobs' response, according to Brennan-Jobs: "We're just cold people."

In a joint statement to The Times, Powell Jobs, her children, and Jobs' sister Mona Simpson questioned Brennan-Jobs' overall account of her relationship with Jobs and her family but did not directly dispute any of her stories.

"Lisa is part of our family, so it was with sadness that we read her book, which differs dramatically from our memories of those times," they said.

They continued: "It was a great comfort to Steve to have Lisa home with all of us during the last days of his life, and we are all grateful for the years we spent together as a family."

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First lady Melania Trump is planning her first big solo international trip through several African countries in October.

The first lady said it will be her first time in Africa and she is excited "to educate myself on the issues facing children throughout the continent, while also learning about its rich culture and history."

African countries have been a popular destination for first ladies on goodwill tours that sometimes bring aid or attention to the continent.

Though the White House didn't announce a particular project for the trip, it will be a high-profile chance for Trump to branch out on her own.

Take a look at the last four first ladies' time in Africa:

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Before she was first lady, the late Barbara Bush accompanied Vice President George H.W. Bush on a 1985 relief trip to western Sudan, where she helped feed refugees.

Source: The New York Times

First lady Hillary Clinton and her daughter Chelsea embarked on a two-week trip to sub-Saharan Africa in March 1997.

Source: Washington Post

They toured the most notable sights in several countries, including Senegal's House of Slaves, also known as the "door of no return."

Sources: Washington Post, Atlas Obscura

• As near and dear as some tech products are to our hearts, they can't always withstand the test of time.
• Sony Walkmans were replaced by CDs, which were then replaced by iPods, which were then replaced by our smartphones.
• Gone but not forgotten, here are 51 tech gadgets we miss.

It happens all the time — for one reason or another, a company gives up on a beloved product and gives it the "End of Life" kiss of death.

The company stops producing it. It stops supporting it. It diverts its resources to other pursuits in hopes of creating something bigger and better than before.

And then, that gadget we once loved is gone.

Whether it's for purely nostalgic reasons or practical purposes, here are 51 discontinued products that we miss.

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Released in 1971, the PhoneMate 400 allowed twenty messages to be recorded on the machine's reel-to-reel tapes. It couldn't survive the digital era however, as digital answering machines eventually rang in.

Source: Time

The first commercially available cell phone, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000x, clocked in at 1.75 pounds and cost almost $4,000 when it debuted in 1983. It garnered an association with business-types until it was replaced with newer versions.

Source: Time and Mashable

A relic of the late 1990s, PalmPilot devices were the de-facto standalone handheld organizers before people made the jump to smartphones in the early 2000s.

• Costco's food court is home to a number of cheap and tasty menu options that members and food critics love.
• Costco employees themselves have some favorites, too.
• Business Insider reached out to 49 Costco workers and scoured the web to figure out what meals and Kirkland Signature brand items in the store are considered standout hits.

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Costco's giant muffins are a good pick, despite the calories

Some Costco members enjoy starting — or finishing — the day with one of Costco's colossal baked offerings.

Quora user Sue Lassman recommended the warehouse chain's "huge and insanely good" muffins, despite their caloric heft.

Members love the croissants — and recommend one hack to make them even better

Looking for a warm treat in the morning? Costco members have recommended one hack that'll take one of the company's baked items to the next level.

Two Costco members discussed Costco's croissants in a 2017 Reddit thread.

One member said that the French pastries were "good" compared to most croissants sold in grocery stores, and said, "Where they really shine is freezing and then popping into the toaster oven."

Another member added that, "Crisping up the croissants in the oven is really great stuff."

The company's maple syrup is a 'steal'

Looking to sweeten up your pancakes without feeling sour about your spending?

One food blogger recommended springing for the Kirkland Signature maple syrup.

"I've paid $11 to $14 for small bottles from Walmart and King Soopers," Hassle Free Savings blogger Kendal Perez told Go Banking Rates. "Yet, Costco sells a 33.8-ounce jug of Kirkland organic real maple syrup for less than that. It's a steal. Period."

• Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, is a porn star who met President Donald Trump in 2006.
• She says they had an affair, and Trump's longtime fixer Michael Cohen paid Daniels $130,000 days before the 2016 presidential election to keep quiet.
• On August 21, Cohen pleaded guilty to eight counts, including one count of an illegal campaign contribution for the Daniels payment, which he said in sworn testimony he made at Trump's direction to influence the election.
• Here is Daniels' life story.

Porn star and director Stormy Daniels says she met President Donald Trump at a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe in July 2006, and the two allegedly began an affair.

He was married to Melania Trump at the time, who had just given birth to their son Barron.

Just weeks before the 2016 presidential election, Trump's longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen paid $130,000 so Daniels would keep silent about the alleged affair.

In January 2018, news of the hush money broke, and Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, was thrust into the national spotlight.

She and her attorney Michael Avenatti then sued Trump and accused him of invalidating their agreement. She then told her story in a bombshell "60 Minutes" interview this past March.

On August 21, Cohen struck a plea deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to eight federal crimes, including five counts of tax evasion, one count of bank fraud, one count of making an unlawful corporate contribution, and one count of making an illegal campaign finance contribution.

The illegal campaign contribution was made on October 27, 2016 — the day a $130,000 payment to Daniels was finalized. Cohen also said Trump directed him to make the illegal campaign contribution to Daniels in order to influence the election.

Here's what you should know about Stormy Daniels:

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Daniels was born and raised in Louisiana.

She started stripping as a teenager and soon entered the porn business.

In 2002, she became the lead actress in a film for Wicked Pictures, a porn movie studio based in California.

• Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump's lawyer, said the "American people would revolt" if the president were impeached.
• Impeachment is a rare, complex procedure, and Giuliani said he believes it's unlikely to occur in Trump's case.
• Trump had a tough week in the courts as his former personal attorney implicated him in campaign-finance violations and his former campaign manager was convicted on eight counts of financial crimes.
• Recent polls over whether Trump should be impeached have been mixed, suggesting Americans are largely split on the issue.

Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump's lawyer, said on Thursday that the "American people would revolt" if Trump were impeached.

Speaking with Sky News on a golf course in Scotland, the former New York City mayor said he "hardly" believes Trump would be impeached.

"I think it's inevitable that he won't," Giuliani said.

Only two US presidents have been impeached, Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton. Both were acquitted in the Senate. President Richard Nixon resigned while facing the prospect of impeachment over the Watergate scandal.

Between the rarity of impeachment and the fact Republicans control Congress, the likelihood of Trump being impeached in the near future appears slim. Moreover, even Democrats in Congress seem reluctant to discuss impeachment at this point.

Trump's legal woes

Giuliani's comments come after a tough week in the courts for the president.

Trump's former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, on Tuesday implicated the president in campaign-finance violations related to payments to two women who have alleged affairs with Trump. Cohen, who said he made the payments under Trump's direction with the intention of influencing the 2016 election, faces up to five years in prison.

The president has since lambasted Cohen and mocked his legal skills.

Meanwhile, Lanny Davis, the lawyer representing Cohen, said Wednesday his client has information that would be of interest to the special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

On this subject, Giuliani on Thursday called Cohen a "liar."

"You have this Cohen guy. He doesn’t know anything about Russian collusion, doesn't know anything about obstruction," Giuliani said. "He's a massive liar. If anything, it’s turned very much in the president's favor."

Trump continues to deny collusion with Russia

Trump has repeatedly denied any collusion with Russia and routinely refers to Mueller's investigation on this matter as a "witch hunt."

The president on Thursday tweeted, "NO COLLUSION - RIGGED WITCH HUNT!"

Addressing the topic of impeachment during a Fox News interview earlier in the day, Trump said he didn't know "how you can impeach somebody who has done a great job." The president also suggested the US economy would tank if he were impeached.

Trump is unpopular nationwide, but Americans seem to have mixed feelings on impeachment

Recent polls examining whether Trump should be impeached have found mixed results, suggesting Americans are largely split on the issue.

Trump currently has a 42% approval rating, according to Gallup.

But a Quinnipiac poll from April showed just 38% of Americans would like to see impeachment proceedings begin if Democrats win back control of the House in November's midterms. Comparatively, a June poll from CNN found 42% of Americans believe Trump should be impeached.

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• The new biography from Lisa Brennan-Jobs, the daughter of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, illustrates just how closely knit Silicon Valley can be. 
• Brennan-Jobs' high school mentor was Esther Wojcicki, the mother of YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki and 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki.
• Esther Wojcicki is a longtime and well-respected educator.

The San Francisco Bay Area as a whole may be a huge metropolitan region, but Silicon Valley can often seem like a small town.

"Small Fry," the new biography by Lisa Brennan-Jobs, illustrates that point.

Brennan-Jobs is the daughter of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs. After spending her early years with her mother, artist Chrisann Brennan, Brennan-Jobs went to live with her famous father as a teenager.

While in high school, Brennan-Jobs got into journalism and became the editor-in-chief of her school's newspaper. Her journalism teacher, who was also her mentor, was Esther Wojcicki.

If that last name sounds familiar, it's because it should. That's because she's the mother of Susan and Anne Wojcicki.

Susan Wojcicki, of course, is the CEO of YouTube, and it was in her garage that Larry Page and Sergey Brin first got Google up and running. Anne Wojcicki is the CEO of genomics company 23andMe, and was once married to Brin.

To be sure, Esther Wojcicki is notable in her own right. She's a well-respected educator who has taught journalism at Palo Alto High School for more than two decades and founded the school's Media Arts Center.

In an interview with The New York Times, Wojcicki praised her former student's new book.

"The dialogue that she had in there between her and Steve was just exactly right," Wojcicki said. "The book is a gift to all of us."

The photo of Esther Wojcicki is used under a Creative Commons license.

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• Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley announced the state was launching a probe of potential sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis on Thursday. 
• The probe initially covers only the Archdiocese of St. Louis, one of five Roman Catholic dioceses in the state.
• Hawley said the archdiocese is fully cooperating and he has asked the bishops of the four other dioceses to agree to cooperate with the probe.
• Pennsylvania officials last week released the results of a grand jury probe that found at least 1,000 people had been sexually abused by 300 clergymen during the past 70 years.

Missouri is launching a probe of potential sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis, state Attorney General Josh Hawley said on Thursday, following last week's Pennsylvania report finding widespread clergy sex abuse in the state.

Hawley said his office does not have the power to force institutions to cooperate with criminal investigations but was able to launch the probe after the archdiocese agreed to help.

"They say they want to cooperate fully and I’m confident they will," Hawley told reporters on a conference call.

The probe initially covers only the Archdiocese of St. Louis, one of five Roman Catholic dioceses in the state, Hawley said.

He asked the bishops of the four other dioceses to agree to cooperate with the probe.

Hawley said that his office will gather evidence from the church, as well as from victims, their families and people not associated with the archdiocese.

"That report will also include any charging recommendations based on the evidence we discover in our investigation," Hawley said.

The investigation will be led by Christine Krug, the head of the attorney general’s public safety division and a longtime sex crimes prosecutor, according to the Kansas City Star.

"I am firmly of the view that full transparency benefits not only the public but also the church and most importantly, it will help us expose and address potential wrongdoing and protect the vulnerable from abuse," Hawley said.

He added: "I would invite the state’s other dioceses to cooperate similarly with this office’s investigation so that our report can be truly comprehensive and statewide."

Pennsylvania officials last week released the results of a two-year grand jury probe that found evidence that at least 1,000 people, mostly children, had been sexually abused by some 300 clergymen in the state during the past 70 years.

The report covers 70 years of alleged abuse and the lengths that church officials went to cover up the accusations, using what investigators described in the report as a "a playbook for concealing the truth."

The report said the numbers of actual victims and abusers could be much higher.

Similar reports have emerged in Europe, Australia and Chile, prompting lawsuits and investigations, sending dioceses into bankruptcy and undercutting the moral authority of the leadership of the Catholic Church, which has some 1.2 billion members around the world.

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• Preliminary autopsy results reveal that 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts was killed by "multiple sharp force injuries."
• The man charged with first-degree murder in Tibbetts' death, Cristhian Bahena Rivera, allegedly led investigators to her body early Tuesday in a cornfield outside of Brooklyn, Iowa.
• While investigators were confident then that the body was that of Tibbetts, the autopsy definitively confirmed her identity.
• Authorities said Rivera admitted to following Tibbetts, approaching her, and then blacking out and later discovering her body in the trunk of his car.

Mollie Tibbetts was killed by "multiple sharp force injuries," investigators announced on Thursday.

The Iowa college student was allegedly abducted while running last month by a stranger who was living in the US illegally.

Preliminary autopsy results from the state medical examiner's office also determined that 20-year-old Tibbetts was the victim of a homicide, the Division of Criminal Investigation announced in a press release.

The agency did not release additional details about the injuries Tibbetts suffered or what caused them, but said further examination of her body may result in additional findings.

Autopsy reports are confidential under Iowa law, except for the cause and manner of death.

The man charged with first-degree murder in Tibbetts' death, Cristhian Bahena Rivera, allegedly led investigators to her body early Tuesday in a cornfield outside of Brooklyn, Iowa, the town where she was last seen last month.

While investigators were confident then that the body was that of Tibbetts, the autopsy definitively confirmed her identity.

Murder suspect allegedly led investigators to Tibbetts' body

Prosecutors allege that Rivera abducted Tibbetts while she was out for an evening run in Brooklyn on July 18, killed her, and disposed of her body in the secluded location.

Authorities said Rivera admitted to following Tibbetts, approaching her, and then blacking out and later discovering her body in the trunk of his car.

A criminal complaint says Rivera confessed during a lengthy interrogation that began Monday to following Tibbetts in his car, getting out on foot, and chasing after her.

Rivera told investigators that he panicked after Tibbetts threatened to call police on her cell phone, he blacked out, and later came to when he was unloading her bloody body from the trunk of a car, the complaint says.

Earlier this week, investigators said they were uncertain how Tibbetts was killed or whether she was sexually assaulted. They've made no mention of recovering a weapon linked to the death.

Rivera worked for the last four years at a dairy farm a few miles from where Tibbetts was last seen.

His employer, Yarrabee Farms, initially said Rivera had passed the government's E-Verify system, which is designed to flag unauthorized immigrants for employers.

But manager Dane Lang told the Associated Press on Wednesday that they were mistaken, and had not used E-Verify.

Rivera and Tibbetts have no known connections, other than that Rivera allegedly told investigators that he saw her running previously.

Investigators zeroed in on him as the suspect after obtaining footage from surveillance cameras showing a vehicle connected to him circling the area of Tibbetts' running route.

Trump is calling for stricter immigration laws after arrest

Rivera, a native of Mexico who is suspected of being in the US illegally, made his initial court appearance Wednesday and is being jailed on a $5 million cash-only bond.

He faces life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted.

Within hours of the arrest, President Donald Trump seized on the news that Rivera was allegedly in the country illegally and called for stricter immigration laws, calling current laws a "disgrace" while at a rally in West Virginia.

And in an interview that aired Thursday, he told "Fox & Friends" that Tibbetts was a "beautiful young girl" who was killed by "a horrible person that came in from Mexico, illegally here."

The president also claimed the suspect was "found by" agents from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, an agency that some liberals have called for abolishing because of tactics they view as overly harsh.

An ICE spokesman said Thursday that its agents worked with state and local investigators in "identifying, locating and interviewing the suspect."

Division of Criminal Investigation spokesman Mitch Mortvedt agreed that ICE played a "significant role" in the case, particularly in helping confirm Rivera's identity and immigration status.

Rivera's defense attorney, Allan Richards, has denounced Trump for prejudging his client's guilt, saying the president's comments would make it hard for Rivera to get a fair trial.

"Let's let the process go," he said Thursday. "The process is about truth-finding in a rational, peaceful and efficient manner. We're only at the very preliminary stages."

Before Tibbetts went missing, she had been dog sitting at her boyfriend's house while he was at work 100 miles away.

Her family reported her missing after she did not show up for work on July 19.

Tibbetts' family has tried to downplay the link between the 20-year-old’s death and illegal immigration.

"We are not so f---ing small-minded that we generalize a whole population based on some bad individuals," Tibbetts' cousin tweeted in response to the right-wing commentator Candace Owens.

"Evil comes in EVERY color," Tibbetts' aunt, Billie Jo Calderwood, wrote in a statement.

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• Rudy Giuliani said he advised President Donald Trump against considering granting Paul Manafort a pardon until at least after special counsel Robert Mueller has concluded his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US election. 
• Manafort, Trump's former campaign chairman, was found guilty on eight felony counts earlier this week and faces up to 80 years in prison. 
• "We told him he should wait until all the investigations are over," Giuliani said. 
• After the Manafort verdict, Trump tweeted he feels "very badly" for his former campaign chairman and his "wonderful family," describing him as a "brave man." 

Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump's lawyer, said he advised the president against considering granting Paul Manafort a pardon until at least after special counsel Robert Mueller has concluded his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US election. 

Manafort, Trump's former campaign chairman, was found guilty on eight felony counts earlier this week and faces up to 80 years in prison. 

Trump reportedly consulted his advisers weeks ago on whether to pardon Manafort, before he was convicted.

"We told him he should wait until all the investigations are over," Giuliani told The Washington Post. "This [special counsel] case is a strange case. It won’t be decided by a jury. It will decided by the Justice Department and Congress and ultimately the American people. You have to be sensitive to public optics."

Giuliani said Trump agreed with him on this matter at the time. 

"We sat [Trump] down and said you’re not considering these other pardons with anybody involved in the investigation. He said yes, absolutely I understand," Giuliani said. 

The former New York City mayor added that he's concerned Mueller might pursue an obstruction charge if Trump pardons Manafort or other associates caught up in the special counsel's probe. 

On Wednesday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said pardoning Manafort was "not something that has been up for discussion." Giuliani's comments appear to contradict this assertion. 

After the Manafort verdict earlier this week, Trump tweeted he feels "very badly" for his former campaign chairman and his "wonderful family," describing him as a "brave man." 

Simultaneously, Trump bashed his former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, who earlier this week implicated the president in campaign finance violations linked to "hush money" payments to two women the president allegedly had affairs with. 

Trump seems to feel Cohen betrayed him, but views Manafort as loyal. 

The president tweeted, "'Justice' took a 12 year old tax case, among other things, applied tremendous pressure on [Manafort] and, unlike Michael Cohen, he refused to 'break' - make up stories in order to get a 'deal.' Such respect for a brave man!"

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• President Donald Trump denounced his former lawyer Michael Cohen for "flipping" on him by making a plea deal with prosecutors, and even said flipping should be illegal.
• Yet Trump himself has cooperated with law enforcement at least twice going back to the 1980s.
• He reportedly testified in a sales tax evasion scheme to avoid prosecution, and also offered to place undercover FBI agents in his Atlantic City casinos.
• Former federal prosecutors say Trump railing against "flippers" reminds them of language accused criminals use.

President Donald Trump decried the his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen "flipping" on him by pleading guilty to 8 federal crimes and went as far to say flipping should be "outlawed", in a Wednesday interview with Fox News.

But Trump himself has a long history of cooperating with law enforcement going back to the 1980s.

"I know all about flipping. For 30, 40 years I have been watching flippers," he told "Fox & Friends" host Ainsley Earhardt in the interview that aired Thursday.

Cohen struck a deal with federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York on Tuesday to plead guilty to charges of tax evasion, bank fraud, and making illegal corporate and campaign contributions to influence the 2016 election, directly implicating Trump by claiming he committed those crimes "at the direction" of the candidate.

"If you can say something bad about Donald Trump and you will go down to two years or three years, which is the deal he made, in all fairness to him, most people are going to do that," Trump said of Cohen's plea deal. "And I have seen it many times. I have had many friends involved in this stuff. It’s called flipping and it almost ought to be illegal."

Yet, on at least two occasions in the 1980s, Trump reportedly testified to avoid persecution and actively offered to cooperate with law enforcement to quash criminal activity.

The casino

As Buzzfeed News reported in January 2017, Trump offered to "fully cooperate" with the FBI to monitor potential organized activity in his Atlantic City casinos as far back as 1981.

An FBI memo from that year details Trump and his brother Robert raising concerns with the Bureau about building a casino in the New Jersey gambling hotspot given reports of widespread mob activity, and discussing plans to place undercover agents in the casino.

"Trump stated in order to show that he was willing to fully cooperate with the FBI, he suggested that they use undercover agents within the casino," the memo read. "At this point, [an agent] initiated steps with the Newark office ... to begin planning an undercover proposal concerning the proposed Trump casino."

It's worth noting there is an important distinction between a defendant making a plea deal in a criminal case and a business owner offering to work with law enforcement to thwart potential illegal activity.

The jewelry store

In the mid 1980s, Trump was one of several celebrities reportedly caught up in a sales tax evasion scheme with luxury Fifth Avenue jewelry boutique Bulgari.

To avoid the hefty New York state and city sales taxes on high-end jewelry, authorities said customers would order jewelry to be shipped to a different state without such steep sales taxes, The New York Times reported in 1985.

The store would then ship an empty box to an out-of-state address while customers walked out of the store with the items without having paid the proper taxes.

Authorities said Trump avoided paying sales tax on about $65,000 worth of jewelry, United Press International reported in 1986. Henry Kissinger, Frank Sinatra, and Mary Tyler Moore were also named in the probe.

When authorities in New York state caught onto the scheme, Trump reportedly testified against the employees at Bulgari Jewelry in order to protect himself from criminal prosecution that could have put his real estate license in jeopardy.

A former state prosecutor told ABC News that Trump and other customers helped build the case against the store. The boutique and two of its executives ended up pleading guilty to criminal charges, and paid $2 million in fines, The New York Times reported at the time.

Experts sound the alarm

While Trump may have taken active steps to monitor organized crime back in the '80s, former federal prosecutors expressed alarm at Trump's more recent comments — even comparing them to something a mob boss would say.

"This is a really problematic notion to a former prosecutor," Elie Honig, a former assistant US attorney, told CNBC. "You know who hates people who flip? Corrupt CEOs, and leaders of gangs, and leaders of the mafia, because the way we build cases against leaders of closed, corrupt criminal organizations is by flipping people up the chain."

In response to a Trump tweet slamming Cohen for making a plea deal, Daniel Goldman, also a former assistant US attorney, wrote: "As someone who prosecuted the mafia in New York, I am struck by how similar this language is to that of a mob boss. Scary."

And in response to Sen. John Cornyn of Texas saying he had never heard Trump's argument that flipping should be illegal, former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti responded, "I've heard that argument before — from criminals."

"The question everyone should be asking right now: What does Trump have to hide?" Mariotti added. "If you have nothing to hide, you don't fear 'flippers.'"

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• The production version of the Jaguar E-type Zero was unveiled Thursday evening in Monterey, California at the 2018 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.
• Meghan Markle and Prince Harry drove a prototype version of the Jaguar E-type Zero away from their May 2018 royal wedding reception.  
• "E-type Zero showcases the incredible heritage of the E-type, and the expertise and craftsmanship at Classic Works," Jaguar Land Rover Classic's Director Tim Hannig said in a statement.  

The production version of the Jaguar E-Type Zero was unveiled Thursday evening in Monterey, California at the 2018 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.

"E-type Zero showcases the incredible heritage of the E-type, and the expertise and craftsmanship at Classic Works, while demonstrating Jaguar Land Rover's dedication to creating zero emission vehicles across every part of the business, including Jaguar Classic,"  Tim Hannig, Jaguar Land Rover's classic director, said in a statement. 

Combining restoration expertise with the zero-emissions technology that made Jaguar's I-PACE SUV so successful, the new E-type Zero will be a custom-made car restored to be an environmentally friendly electric vehicle. 

These specified restoration and conversion jobs will be done at Jaguar's Classic Works facility in Coventry, U.K., which handled Jaguar E-type Reborn restorations.  

The E-type Zero will use an electric powertrain battery pack that is similar in weight and dimensions to the departing gasoline engine and transmission. This similarity will ensure a smooth conversion, as neither the car's suspension nor brakes will be changed, keeping the driving and handling experience the same as the original E-type. The electric vehicle conversion is fully reversible. 

According to Jaguar Land Rover, the E-type Zero will have a quicker acceleration than the original Series 1 E-Type.  The car targets a driving range in excess of 170 miles prior to charge and will be powered by a 40kWh battery that should only take six to seven hours to be recharged, depending on the power source. 

The Jaguar E-Type Zero first gained publicity when Prince Harry and Meghan Markle drove away from their May 19, 2018 wedding reception in a prototype version of the vehicle. 

There are no pricing details yet because each car is uniquely made and assembled from a previous model. Jaguar Land Rover anticipates deliveries of the first electric E-type vehicles to start in the summer of 2020. 

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• Fire crews responded to a fire that erupted near the Tesla factory in Fremont, California, on Thursday afternoon.
• Local news media showed an unidentified building engulfed in flames.
• The Fremont Fire Department said the flames started in a "cardboard pile" around 8:20 p.m. ET, an unidentified building also caught fire. A small patch of grass ignited along a fence near a Tesla parking lot, a statement from the automaker said.
• The flames were extinguished by 9:00 p.m. ET and no injuries were reported.

Fire crews in Fremont, California, responded to a fire that erupted near the Tesla factory on Thursday afternoon.

The Fremont Fire Department said the flames started in a cardboard pile around 8:20 p.m. ET, on the southern end of Tesla's property, igniting an unidentified building.

Aerial video from local news outlets showed firefighters dousing the flames with water. Another video showed a building engulfed in flames. Tesla said in a statement that a small patch of grass fire ignited near its parking lot.

The fire was contained by 9:00 p.m., but firefighters remained on site to make sure there was no further threat.

There were no reports of injuries, according to a Fremont Fire spokesperson. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

Aerial images show white smoke wafting from the area:

And here's how the scene looked early on:

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