James Simons Brendan Smialowski | Bloomberg | Getty Images Billionaire and Democratic megadonor James Simons has hired a new team of lobbyists as he seeks to influence a federal government now led by President Joe Biden. Simons supported Biden during the 2020 election. Simons, according to a new lobbying report, recently hired five powerful lobbyists,
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Then-President-elect Donald Trump along with his son Donald, Jr., arrive for a press conference at Trump Tower in New York, as Allen Weisselberg (C), chief financial officer of The Trump, looks on, January 11, 2017. Timothy A. Clary | AFP | Getty Images Lawyers for former President Donald Trump were warned this week by the
The criminal sentencing of former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd began Friday afternoon with emotional victim impact statements from Floyd’s family members. Hours before, a judge denied a request for a new trial for Chauvin, whose brutal killing of Floyd, a Black man, whose videotaped death on May 25, 2020,
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani arrives at his apartment building after the suspension of his law license in Manhattan in New York City, New York, June 24, 2021. Andrew Kelly | Reuters Rudy Giuliani did not show up for a court hearing Thursday in a $1.3 billion defamation case against him that took
President Joe Biden declared Thursday that the White House has struck an infrastructure deal with a bipartisan group of senators after discussing the massive plan to improve the nation’s roads, bridges and broadband earlier in the day. “To answer the direct question: We have a deal,” Biden said at the White House. The president, flanked
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris attends an infrastructure event addressing high speed internet in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building’s South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington, June 3, 2021. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters Vice President Kamala Harris plans to visit the United States’ southern border with Mexico on Friday, nearly three months after
Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency Mark Calabria testifies on Capitol Hill during a committee hearing on “Housing Finance Reform: Next Steps” in Washington, DC, September 10, 2019. Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images The Biden administration will replace the leader of a massive U.S. housing finance agency following the Supreme Court’s ruling
In this article EL Stephen Ross, chairman and majority owner of the Related Companies, attends the grand opening of phase one of the Hudson Yards development on the West Side of Midtown Manhattan, March 15, 2019 in New York City. Drew Angerer | Getty Images A super PAC funded largely by real estate billionaire Stephen
Connecticut state Sen. Alex Kasser, D-Greenwich. Source: Daniel Schubert Connecticut state Sen. Alex Kasser announced Tuesday she is resigning, saying her ability to do her job has been harmed by a bitter divorce battle being waged by her husband, Seth Bergstein, a top Morgan Stanley executive. In her resignation statement posted on Medium, the Democrat
A polling site is seen as early voting in New York City’s mayoral primary election has started as of Saturday which voters can choose up to five candidates in New York City, United States on June 13, 2021. Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images The seemingly endless race to replace New York Mayor
US President George W. Bush (L) speaks before signing the joint congressional resolution authorizing US use of force against Iraq if needed, 16 October 2002, at the White House in Washington, DC. From L are House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL), Secretary of State Colin Powell and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Joyce Naltchayan | AFP
Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden attend a meeting at Villa La Grange in Geneva, Switzerland June 16, 2021. SPUTNIK | via REUTERS To comprehend the audacious ambition behind President Joe Biden’s Europe trip this week, think of him less as U.S. commander-in-chief and more as the democratic (small “d”) world’s physician-in-charge.
Women pose for a picture in-front of the U.S. Supreme Court building after the Court ruled in favor of a Catholic Church-affiliated agency that sued after Philadelphia refused to place children for foster care with the organization because it barred same-sex couples from applying to become foster parents. in Washington, U.S, June 17, 2021. Jonathan
A home is seen destroyed in the aftermath of Hurricane Delta in Creole, Louisiana, U.S., October 10, 2020. Picture taken with a drone. Adrees Latif | Reuters The first tropical system of the Atlantic hurricane season is forecast to make landfall in the U.S. by the end of the week, according to the National Hurricane
A US Marine stands guard in front of the US embassy December 21, 2001 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Paula Bronstein | Getty Images WASHINGTON – The U.S. Embassy in Kabul was placed on lockdown on Thursday as Covid cases surge in Afghanistan, pushing the nation’s fragile health care system to its limits. At the embassy, 114
In this article MLR DIGI Exterior view of the New York Stock Exchange and Wall Street on June 2, 2021. Kena Betancur | VIEW press | Corbis News | Getty Images Three men engaged in a brazen scheme to “surreptitiously hijack” and take over dormant shell companies, whose stock they then fraudulently inflated to dump
Demonstrators in support of U.S. President Barack Obama’s health-care law, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), hold up ‘ACA is Here to Stay’ signs after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to save Obamacare tax subsidies outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. June 25, 2015. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Supreme Court
President Joe Biden on Thursday signed a bill establishing Juneteenth, the date commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, as a federal holiday. Biden, in what he called “one of the greatest honors” of his presidency, signed the bill two days before Juneteenth itself, which is on June 19 each year. “We have