It might pay to be a fly on the wall when Sir Keir Starmer finally sits down from inspecting military lineups in China and making speeches designed not to say very much at all, and certainly not upset his hosts, and gets to study the press readout from home. In the mix will be the…
It is bubble-gum foreign policy: one where the quick hit of flavor is the goal, rather than chewing a sticky mess for hours. US President Donald Trump’s approach to global adventurism appears to adore a quick result and abhor a protracted crisis. Little is predictable with this White House, and that is perhaps the point….
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President Donald Trump’s monthslong and contentious search for a new commissioner to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics may be ending. On a Truth Social post on Friday, Trump announced that he intends to nominate Brett Matsumoto, a longtime agency economist, to lead the BLS. The BLS commissioner role has been vacant since August, when…
One of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims told the FBI how Ghislaine Maxwell effectively tried to pimp her out to Donald Trump and his party pals, making it clear that she was “available” for them. But the names of the men involved in the victim’s testimony, other than the president’s, have been hidden by the Justice Department,…
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has for years said that he didn’t know convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein very well. In 2019, shortly before Epstein died in a New York jail cell, Musk told Vanity Fair magazine that he considered Epstein a “creep” and said that Epstein “tried repeatedly to get me to visit his island”…
Dovish. Judicious. A chameleon. Those are just some of the terms being used to describe Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump’s pick to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list If confirmed by the US Senate, Warsh, a former Federal…
I was just getting settled in my seat for the first showing of “Melania” at the Grove cineplex when Melania Trump walked in. OK, it wasn’t the Melania Trump, as in the first lady. But it was a reasonable facsimile. The impersonator, followed by a man filming with his phone, strode in like a model,…
The Seattle Seahawks are set to be put up for sale after Super Bowl 60, according to a report from ESPN on Friday afternoon. This decision comes several years after speculation about the need for new ownership following the death of Paul Allen, the team’s former owner, in 2018. Seattle native Jeff Bezos’ time to…
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s warm welcome on a visit to China this week marks a thaw in icy relations with Beijing. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrived in China this week with a large delegation of businesspeople and cultural figures. He received a warm welcome from Chinese President Xi Jinping. But the visit got…