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Trump Picks Pam Bondi for Attorney General After Gaetz Withdraws

By Yuval Rosenberg

President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday evening that he has picked former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi as his next nominee to serve as attorney general, replacing former Rep. Matt Gaetz...
Multiple CEOs Have Now Quit Trump's Manufacturing Council

By Michael Erman, Reuters

The chief executives of Intel Corp, Merck & Co Inc and Under Armour Inc resigned from U.S. President Donald Trump's American Manufacturing Council on Monday, following Trump's initially tepid...
Is Putin the $200 Billion Man?

By Catherine Clifford, CNBC

For a short time Thursday, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos surpassed Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates as the richest person alive. Amazon's stock price then slid and Bezos went back to the number two spot,...
Watch Trump's Epic Cringe Worthy Handshake with the French President

By Veronika Bondarenko , Business Insider

On Friday, before leaving France, where he was visiting as part of Bastille Day celebrations, US President Donald Trump enthusiastically shook French President Emmanuel Macron's hand for about 25...
Trump's New Fed Nominee Could Be a Seismic Shock to the System

By Jay L. Zagorsky, The Conversation

President Donald Trump on July 10 nominated Randal Quarles to be one of the seven governors of the Federal Reserve System , the central bank of the United States. Before I get to Quarles and his...

Trump’s Big Problem: He Doesn’t Understand the Rules of the DC Game

By Rob Garver

In his career as a businessman, the overwhelming body of evidence is that Donald Trump was an inveterate rule breaker. Ask the contractors who were never paid, the trail of former partners who have...
The Fight Over the 2020 Census Could Determine Which Party Controls Congress

By Jay L. Zagorsky, The Conversation

John H. Thompson, the director of the U.S. Census Bureau, just resigned amid a funding fight over the 2020 Census . Since it comes at the same time that the president fired the director of the FBI ,...
Trump Promised a Lot for His First 100 Days. Here’s What He Has — and Mostly Hasn’t — Done

By Rob Garver

The idea of measuring the progress of a presidency by what happens in its first 100 days is utterly arbitrary and arguably “ridiculous.” But that raises the question: Why did Trump work so hard to...
The 45 Donors Who Gave $1 Million to Trump’s Record-Breaking Inauguration

By Janna Herron

While he may not have had record-breaking crowds at his inauguration, President Trump raked in far more cash than any president to spend on the festivities surrounding his swearing in to office...
Is Rex Tillerson Already Irrelevant – or Playing a Long Game?

By Ciro Scotti

Later this month, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is scheduled to host a high-profile meeting in Washington with representatives of 68 nations involved in the U.S.-led coalition to fight the Islamic...

This New Idea Could Cut Mortgage Red Tape

By Marine Cole

Whether you’re purchasing a home or refinancing an existing loan, applying for a mortgage is tedious and intrusive. It usually requires digging out a multitude of documents, from paycheck stubs and...
VA Scandal Sends Shinseki Packing

By WILLIAM BRANIGIN, The Washington Post

President Obama said Friday he accepted the resignation of embattled Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki. He made the announcement shortly after Shinseki apologized publicly Friday for what...
Race in the U.S.: Let's Confront the Monster in the Closet

By Rob Garver

Ta-Nehisi Coates believes there’s a monster hiding in the United States’ national closet, and he thinks it would be a good idea to open the door and check. The national correspondent for The Atlantic...
The Piketty Book Problem: Only as Good as Its Data

By Yuval Rosenberg

Here we go again. Another seminal economic work is coming under fire, with questions raised about the accuracy of the data and spreadsheets underpinning its politically charged conclusions. The...
Rising Star Julian Castro to Join Obama Cabinet

By Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton, Reuters

Barack Obama will shuffle his cabinet on Friday, nominating San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro as secretary of housing and urban development and naming outgoing HUD chief Shaun Donovan as his new budget...

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