In my financial services career, I have learned one rule that never bends: You pay claims to the beneficiaries named in the document, not to whoever shows up with a plausible story. A trustee who ignores that distinction loses a license, a client, and occasionally a freedom. Washington has run a piece of the tax […]
As America approaches the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, FBI Director Kash Patel has offered a timely reminder of what counterterrorism is supposed to do: stop violence before Americans are forced to mourn it. Speaking recently with law-enforcement partners in New York, Patel highlighted the FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Forces — now more […]
Amid deep intra-party divides over Israel in battleground Michigan, AG Dana Nessel told Jewish voters in a leaked video that they have a "moral imperative" to put global issues ahead of their future.
A new Trump admin housing directive aims to tackle the U.S.'s housing affordability crunch by ending Obama-era rule allowing indefinite liability for property owners over past building design errors.
A C-17 Globemaster left Joint Base Andrews on Aug. 25, routed by way of Riga, Latvia, and landed in Moscow. CIA Director John Ratcliffe was aboard and spent about eight hours there. The Kremlin says he did not meet Russian President Vladimir Putin. President Donald Trump called the trip semi-routine. What Ratcliffe carried there is […]
On May 29, the lower house of Poland’s parliament voted 428-3 to honor the 250th anniversary of American independence. Nobody voted against. Watching from the gallery was Tom Rose, the U.S. ambassador who had spent the previous four months in an open, personal feud with the marshal who announced the result. Rules of professional diplomacy […]
