Last week, Chinese authorities detained Chenyue Mao, a U.S. citizen and former Wells Fargo executive, during what was supposed to be a short family visit to Shanghai. Wells Fargo clarified that Mao was placed on an exit ban unrelated to her work, but this tactic is nothing new. This is the latest reminder that when […]
I just returned from vacation to an island off the coast of Maine, where I took my family to the island’s museum on Friday. It’s an excellent museum featuring artwork, history, and plenty of maps and old photographs of this old fishing and lobstering island that also became a summer vacation haven. Monhegan Island is […]
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey pandered to radical left-wing activists after the death of George Floyd. It is now being revealed to him that none of it mattered, because he is still too much of a white man for those race-obsessed radicals. The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, which is the Democratic Party in Minnesota, did not choose to endorse Frey in […]
Hunter Biden is back in the spotlight thanks to a media blitz in which he aggressively defended his father, former President Biden, and reignited a long-simmering feud between the Biden family and members of the Democratic Party who pushed for the former president to drop out of the 2024 race. Hunter Biden took aim at...
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story GOP fears rise over shutdown odds Republican lawmakers fear Washington may be headed for a government shutdown later this year after two bruising fights over President Trump’s "big, beautiful bill" and a $9 billion rescissions package...
The Justice Department on Monday appealed a federal judge’s order blocking President Trump’s punitive executive order against the law firm Jenner & Block. The notice of appeal is the Trump administration's second such challenge to Big Law firms' legal victories against orders that sought to undercut their business as retribution for ties to the president's political...
The Trump administration on Monday released hundreds of thousands of documents related to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., fulfilling a pledge from President Trump despite some reluctance from the civil rights icon's children. The release makes more than 230,000 pages of files digitally available. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said the documents...
A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Monday blocking a Mississippi law prohibiting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs in public schools and colleges, citing First Amendment grounds. “This Court finds that each day the statute remains unclarified, undefined, and under a threat of open interpretation, exacerbates the suppression of protected speech,” Judge Henry...
Hunter Biden on Monday claimed actor George Clooney had threatened to pull out of a Los Angeles fundraiser last summer, an event that was the basis of a New York Times op-ed Clooney later wrote alleging then-President Biden didn't recognize him. The claim came as part of a wide-reaching interview Hunter Biden gave to YouTube...