Every new client who opens an account at my firm hands over a driver’s license, a passport, or a certified trust document before a single dollar moves. Federal regulators call it Know Your Customer or KYC for short. I call it common sense: verify who someone is before you give them access to something valuable. […]
Former “Meet the Press” moderator and NBC News analyst Chuck Todd knocked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) for dodging a question about former President Biden's mental acuity ahead of the 2024 election. "He is among the people that are responsible for this," Todd said during an appearance on CNN on Tuesday. "The leaders of the Democratic...
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Tuesday accused three Democratic lawmakers from New Jersey of committing “felonies” while visiting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in New Jersey. Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman, Robert Menendez and LaMonica McIver were present at the Delaney Hall detention center on Friday, where a scuffle with law enforcement ensued...
Most Americans oppose Trump's attacks on colleges and universities, recognizing their value and disapproving of his attempts to exert control over them, with 62 percent of voters supporting federal funding for scientific and medical research at universities.
A federal grand jury indicted Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan on Tuesday on charges of helping an immigrant living in the country illegally to evade immigration officers who were looking to arrest him. The grand jury hit Dugan, a Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge, with two counts. She was accused of “knowingly” concealing a migrant and...
The Gavel is The Hill's weekly courts newsletter. Sign up here or in the box below: Welcome to Supreme Court decision season. Thursday marks the start of a roughly six-week sprint for the justices to finish their work by the end of June so they can head out for the summer recess. We’ve got you covered...
The House Ways and Means Committee advanced a slew of President Trump’s top tax priorities, Wednesday morning, setting the stage for a high-stakes sprint to get the provisions through the GOP’s razor-thin majority. The panel advanced the legislation — which is part of the party’s package containing Trump’s legislative agenda — in a party-line 26-19 vote...
Rep. Jamie Raskin (Md.), the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, doubled down on his criticism of President Trump accepting Qatar's gift of a luxury jet, saying it's "caught the public eye." He's urged Trump in recent days to allow members of Congress to debate on the Boeing 747-8 before the administration accepts the...
The real stakes lie with whether a single district judge can just impose a nationwide injunction, halting the federal government from enforcing a policy across the entire country.
President Trump on Wednesday told gulf leaders in Saudi Arabia that he wants to strike a nuclear deal with Iran, urging the kingdom to stop supporting proxy groups in order to do so. “I want to make a deal with Iran. I want to do something if possible. But for that to happen, they must...
President Trump on Wednesday met with new Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa during his swing through Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a signal of thawing relations between the two countries following the fall of former President Bashar a-Assad. The meeting lasted just over a half an hour, ahead of a Gulf Cooperation Council Summit. Trump was joined in-person...
The German government banned the far-right “Kingdom of Germany” group on Tuesday and arrested four of its leaders in raids throughout the country. German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt announced the ban, calling the group a threat to democratic order whose members refuse to recognize the legitimacy of the German government, follow its laws or pay...
Fox News host Jesse Watters on Tuesday defended Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent swim in Washington, D.C.’s, Rock Creek, saying it “looks clean.” “That [creek] looks clean,” Watters said on Fox News’s “The Five.” “It doesn’t look like it’s filled with sewage.” Kennedy recently revealed that he took a...
Douglas County, Neb., Treasurer John Ewing Jr. (D) has ousted incumbent Republican Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert in the latest victory for Democrats during President Trump’s second term, Decision Desk HQ projects. Ewing, who is also a former deputy chief of police for Omaha, will become the city's first Black mayor. He denied Stothert a chance...
