Actor <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/critics-audiences-pan-george-clooneys-the-midnight-sky/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">George Clooney</a> admitted on Wednesday that he and his wife had made one massive mistake in parenting their five-year-old twins, Ella and Alexander: they allowed them to learn to speak Italian.
George and Amal Clooney <a href="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/sm0UbUnw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sat down</a> with host <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/cbs-anchor-gayle-king-confronts-johnny-depps-lawyer-over-rumors-the-two-were-involved/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gayle King</a> on &#8220;CBS Mornings&#8221; for a segment dubbed &#8220;Life with the Clooneys&#8221; — and they talked about everything from their first impressions of each other to what it was like to be the parents of twins.
King set the conversation in motion when she asked the pair whether they would describe the twins as &#8220;chatty,&#8221; prompting the &#8220;Ocean&#8217;s Eleven&#8221; star to make a spontaneous confession.
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Amal and George Clooney are celebrating their eighth wedding anniversary.
They told <a href="https://twitter.com/GayleKing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GayleKing</a> about the letters George wrote to Amal in the early days of their relationship, their son’s pranking skills and the one thing they’ve never done. <a href="https://t.co/61NuGzPuJJ">pic.twitter.com/61NuGzPuJJ</a>
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&#8220;We’ve made a terrible mistake. We taught them Italian,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;Oh,&#8221; King responded, but then laughed aloud as Clooney clarified, &#8220;We don&#8217;t speak Italian.&#8221;
&#8220;So, we’ve armed them with a language that they can harm us with. And we both don’t really know what they’re saying,&#8221; Clooney continued, prompting more laughter as he admitted that, in addition to Italian, the twins also spoke French.
&#8220;I’m from Kentucky. You know, English is my second language,&#8221; Clooney continued.
Amal cut in then, noting that the part of parenting that had truly caused her husband to light up was seeing his son take after him in one very specific way. &#8220;Our son is now a big prankster,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And he&#8217;s — you&#8217;ve basically taught him all of these lessons and he&#8217;s now pranking his dad back.
&#8220;Alexander&#8217;s favorite superhero is Batman,&#8221; the actor replied, saying that he had once asked his son about that, &#8220;I said, &#8216;What&#8217;s your favorite superhero?&#8217; And he goes, &#8216;Batman.&#8217; And I said, &#8216;You know I was Batman.&#8217; And he goes, &#8216;Yeah, but not anymore.'&#8221;
&#8220;If only he knew how true that was,&#8221; Clooney laughed.
Clooney&#8217;s admitted mistake caught the attention of NBC &#8220;Today with Hoda and Jenna&#8221; hosts Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager, who had a good laugh at the idea of two five-year-olds speaking a language their parents couldn&#8217;t understand.
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George and Amal Clooney are finding themselves in a tricky situation with their twins 😂 <a href="https://t.co/8B6Cc2Bupb">pic.twitter.com/8B6Cc2Bupb</a>
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&#8220;They just doubled their trouble in a major way,&#8221; Bush Hager laughed, noting that in a lot of cases — including her own with twin Barbara Bush Coyne — twins already had a secret language of sorts. Adding another on top of that, she said, was just asking for shenanigans.

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On Wednesday, human rights attorney Amal Clooney <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/amal-clooney-slams-donald-trump-at-united-nations-correspondents-association-awards">spoke</a> at the United Nations Correspondents Association Awards. During her speech, Clooney criticized President Trump for his repeated attacks on the press as the &#8220;enemy of the people.&#8221;
Clooney first spoke about Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, two Reuters journalists who were falsely convicted of &#8220;possessing secret material&#8221; in Myanmar and sentenced to seven years in prison. She added that when a policeman who was a prosecution witness actually testified against the government, he was also imprisoned.
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In locking up these two journalists and a whistle blower, the authorities are, of course, signaling to others what can happen if you dare to tell the truth. The chilling effect is real and it has already been felt, not only in Myanmar, but further afield. And sadly, similar examples abound in autocratic regimes from North Korea to the Philippines to Hungary, Turkey, and Brazil.
The U.S. president has given such regimes a green light, and labeled the press in this country the &#8220;enemy of the people.&#8221; And, of course, two months ago, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked into a consulate in Istanbul and was brutally tortured to death. In many of the cases that I have worked on, too, I have seen journalists and opposition figures ruthlessly targeted so that they can no longer criticize leaders or run against them in elections.
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Despite the CIA issuing a &#8220;high confidence&#8221; report alleging that Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MbS) most likely knew about, or directed, the plot to kill Khashoggi, President Trump has pushed back, noting that the report isn&#8217;t conclusive.
In an official <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-president-donald-j-trump-standing-saudi-arabia/">statement</a> released by the White House, the president said in part:
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The crime against Jamal Khashoggi was a terrible one, and one that our country does not condone. Indeed, we have taken strong action against those already known to have participated in the murder. After great independent research, we now know many details of this horrible crime. We have already sanctioned 17 Saudis known to have been involved in the murder of Mr. Khashoggi, and the disposal of his body.
Representatives of Saudi Arabia say that Jamal Khashoggi was an &#8220;enemy of the state&#8221; and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, but my decision is in no way based on that &#8211; this is an unacceptable and horrible crime.
King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman vigorously deny any knowledge of the planning or execution of the murder of Mr. Khashoggi. Our intelligence agencies continue to assess all information, but it could very well be that the Crown Prince had knowledge of this tragic event &#8211; maybe he did and maybe he didn&#8217;t! That being said, we may never know all of the facts surrounding the murder of Mr. Jamal Khashoggi.
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The president added that our geopolitical relationship with Saudi Arabia is vital for stability in the region, and that the kingdom has invested in the American economy and kept oil prices low.
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/38798/watch-sen-mitch-mcconnell-calls-khashoggi-murder-frank-camp">reported</a>, 17 individuals have indeed been sanctioned over alleged involvement in Khashoghi&#8217;s murder, &#8220;including high-ranking Saudi government officials Saud Al-Qahtani and Maher Mutreb.&#8221;
While the president has moved to defend the relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia, several members of his own party are ready to take more severe action. On November 28, the Senate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/38911/senate-votes-resolution-demanding-trump-pull-frank-camp">voted</a> 63-37 in favor of a resolution calling for President Trump to pull United States armed forces out of the Saudi-led war in Yemen.
Prior to the vote, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) stated:
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Intelligence suggests, despite his repeated denials, that the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia himself ordered the murder. Saudi Arabia&#8217;s moral depravity has only been made plainer.
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The senator added that Saudi Arabia &#8220;is not an ally that deserves our support or military intervention on its behalf, especially when our own security is not itself on the line.&#8221;
The vote allowed the resolution to be discharged from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and moved to the Senate floor for debate and the addition of amendments. No further action has been taken as of publication.

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Tonight’s Met Gala offered a wide array of dazzling costumes, from the divinely inspired to the profane, along this year’s theme, “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.” As far as titles goes, I might have preferred “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic <a href="https://amzn.to/2K4MVB3">Logical Deduction</a> of the Nature of Reality,” but this semantic quibble aside, the theme and pun seemed an improvement over recent years’ alternately bland and frivolous topics like “China: Through the Looking Glass” and “American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity.” As Chesterton observed, “The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.” Nothing about the Catholic faith is bland.
Rihanna, Donatella Versace, Amal Clooney, and Stephen and Christine Schwarzmann hosted the gala, considered the most significant fashion event of the year. Some costumes shined, such as Katy Perry’s seraphic gown, replete with six-foot-long wings. Some get-ups, like antipope Rihanna’s bejeweled mitre, drew more laughter than awe. Still others, such as Lena Waithe’s gay pride flag cape, provoked mere eye-rolls, although a charitable observer might conclude the actress wanted to evoke Joseph’s coat of many colors. (“Yeah, that’ll show the Curia!”)
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Cultural conservatives should rejoice at the theme of the annual Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute fundraiser. The Catholic aesthetic is the artistic essence of Western civilization, and Catholic faithful including Michelangelo, Dante, Raphael, and even artists with last names have produced the most beautiful art in history. The sad fact of the gala is that the very civilization produced by the Catholic Church now dons crucifixes for costume rather than devotion. This is the opposite of the “cultural appropriation” complaint. Catholics can handle the sight of some disrespectful costumes. Pilate’s soldiers humiliated Christ himself by dressing him in a scarlet robe and capping him with a crown of thorns, and early Christians became lion food in circus rings and theaters. The problem is not that secular stars have appropriated Catholic culture; the trouble is they have not appropriated the Catholic cult.
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If the Met Gala had taken for its theme “the Apostolic Age” or “the late medieval Church,” the bedazzled cassocks and blinged-out albs would cause no consternation. Clothing that has fallen out of fashion becomes costume. But modernity has not merely supplanted sartorial trends. It has hollowed Western culture itself into a husk — grotesque on the outside, empty within. The Met Gala considers as costume the faith that fashioned the West, as modernity threatens to slip into a new, dark age.

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Amal Clooney, an international human rights lawyer known for her marriage to George Clooney, gave a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/03/10/a-lawyer-named-amal-clooney-gave-a-powerful-speech-at-u-n-some-only-saw-her-baby-bump/?utm_term=.6a3a78dd37ef">speech</a> at the United Nations on March 9 regarding genocide, Islamic State, and what the role of the United Nations should be in handling such crimes against humanity.
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If U.N. does not crack down on ISIS, &#8220;history will judge us, and there will be no excuse for our failure to act,&#8221; Amal Clooney warns <a href="https://t.co/T3HDDpCOIg">pic.twitter.com/T3HDDpCOIg</a>
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Here is an excerpt of the <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/amal-clooney-speech-in-full-transcript-human-rights-lawyer-isis-iraq-speech-un-united-nations-a7622176.html">text</a> of her speech:
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The UN has concluded that ISIS is committing genocide against this group, and there can be no more serious crime. The UN was created as the world&#8217;s way of saying &#8216;never again&#8217; to the genocide perpetrated by the Nazis. And yet here we are, 70 years later, discussing the UN&#8217;s inaction in the face of a genocide that we all know about, and that is ongoing. So is it that the political interests of powerful states stand in the way of accountability? Is that why, over two years after the genocide began, not one ISIS member has been brought to trial for it? No &#8211; this is not it either. As a human rights lawyer I am often told that my cause, while commendable, cannot succeed because of political realities. We have seen the Security Council paralysed over Syria, or the road to the International Criminal Court obstructed when powerful states block Council action. But here, ladies and gentlemen, we are dealing with ISIS. No one claims to respect or protect them. No veto-wielding member of the Council is on their side. And yet we are no closer to justice than when I addressed you last year.
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What Mrs. Clooney said is absolutely true. The United Nations fails to combat Islamic State and the genocide it has committed against the Yazidis and other ethnic groups. However, it calls the following question: Where the hell has she been for the past eight years?
During the Obama administration, the United Nations failed to come to any successful resolution on how to respond to the Syrian Civil War. In fact, it only voted on a resolution calling for the <a href="http://www.un.org/press/en/2013/sc11135.doc.htm">removal of chemical weapons</a> in 2013. That resolution ultimately failed because <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/09/28/syria-new-deadly-chemical-attacks">more chemical weapons</a> were used in 2016. Furthermore, the United Nations seemed more interested in <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/12/27/un-resolution-is-one-dozens-rebukes-against-israel-in-2016.html">targeting Israel</a>. Yet Mrs. Clooney did not feel compelled to slam the United Nations&#8217; historic incompetence in upholding human rights as well as its Jew-hating agenda.
If Mrs. Clooney honestly wanted to hit the United Nations where it hurts, then she should have come out against the UN over its past failures and its inability to hold legitimate human rights violators accountable.
Even better: she could have said what Josh Hammer <a href="http://theresurgent.com/destroy-the-united-nations/">eloquently said</a> in The Resurgent: Get rid of the United Nations entirely and start over.
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