Eric Trump told donors his foundation used his father's properties free of charge so that nearly every dollar reached St. Jude. Thousands of leaked pages tell a different story. Dan Alexander traces at least $500,000 in charity money flowing into Trump golf courses and hotels between 2011 and 2016, most of it never appearing on a tax filing. Eric swore the entertainers performed for free and the auction items were donated, then signed the checks himself. When Forbes first exposed this, New York's attorney general pounced, the charity rebranded, and Eric stepped back. What happened to the fundraisers reveals the rest.
Carole, 58, manages the medications, finances, and falls of a 93-year-old father who once kicked her "like you would kick a dog that you were abusing." She is not alone. Katie Engelhart interviewed two dozen adult children tending to parents who beat, neglected, or molested them, held in place by a country that funds long-term care worse than almost any other and a sense of duty that arrives without any of the warmth. Researcher Jooyoung Kong found nearly one in five caregivers had been abused as children. What does a child owe a parent who failed them?
To mark turning 80, President Trump installed an MMA octagon on the South Lawn, then planned to cross an ocean for a summit in the dead of night. Katie Rogers reports a White House built around a man who sleeps four hours, posts to Truth Social dozens of times after midnight, and listens with his eyes closed while aides insist he is wide awake. His physician pronounces him in excellent health and cites an AI tool putting his "cardiac age" 14 years below his real one. The cardiologist Eric Topol says no such tool exists, which raises a sharper question.
Ashley Parker spent $300 on a Lunar New Year mah-jongg tournament in Dallas despite barely knowing the rules, the equivalent of trying out for the WNBA after one rec-league game. A friend had taught her months earlier, and the tiles pulled her into a world of library nights, café meetups, AquaMahj pool floats, and Hermès sets running $14,600. The game traveled from 1800s Shanghai gambling parlors to a 1937 league of bored suburban Jewish women to today's gel-manicured, rosé-poured revival that has Chinese American players asking who exactly this game belongs to now.
