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and Eric, is set to be in talks for various real estate deals in the country, adding to a broader Middle East portfolio while further blurring the lines between Trump as diplomat and as businessman.

When asked about bin Salman's scheduled visit, Trump said it was more than a meeting and that the White House would be honoring the crown prince.

FEMA has lost its second leader this year, raising big questions about what the future holds for the country's disaster relief agency.

Acting Director David Richardson resigned yesterday after just six months on the job.

It marks an abrupt end for the former Marine, who made a big pitch to staff at his first all-hands meeting back in May.

That generated headlines, as did his remarks suggesting he didn't know there was a hurricane season, something he later said was a joke.

But it was the deadly Texas floods over the summer that defined his tenure.

Brianna Sachs covers disasters for The Washington Post.

New rule changes at FEMA at the time required DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to sign off on spending of more than $100,000, making Richardson a crucial person for getting resources approved fast.

130 people died in those floods.

Richardson maintains he was in constant contact while on vacation, and state officials said the response from the federal government was adequate.

But CNN reports that the administration concluded he was not an effective communicator and sidelined him as the public face of the body.

The agency now faces existential questions, even bigger than who leads it.

Sachs told us that Secretary Noem will be a key person in deciding its fate.

Before Richardson, FEMA was being led by Cameron Hamilton, a vocal supporter of President Trump's, who was fired in May after making clear that he was against abolishing FEMA.

He recently shed light on his own experience with the DHS while speaking on the Disaster Tough podcast for emergency specialists.

FEMA's current chief of staff, Karen Evans, is set to step into the role now, becoming the Trump administration's third acting head of FEMA this year.

The bad news just keeps coming for the Louvre in Paris.

Yesterday, it was forced to close one of its galleries because of structural weaknesses in the building.

It comes as the museum faces heavy scrutiny for last month's brazen heist.