President-elect Trump has hit the ground running on filling out his potential future cabinet, announcing names for key positions well before he did following his 2016 election win. Trump has announced six Cabinet picks in the week since winning the election, most recently tapping Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., to serve as his national security adviser. ‘Mike is the first Green ...
The Biden administration will support a U.N. treaty this week that will create a new cybercrime convention that includes China and Russia — which has not sat well with some lawmakers and critics. Since 2001, the global governance around cybercrime has largely been coordinated by the Budapest Convention, a product of the Council of Europe that includes 76 countries. It ...
Chris Edwards President-elect Trump is moving quickly to choose cabinet members and announce his priorities for next year. Tax policy will be on the agenda, including scaling back the green energy tax subsidies passed in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The tax subsidies have ballooned in cost from $390 billion over 10 years to more than $1 trillion. Green energy ...
David Inserra The election is over and the losing side is scrambling to justify its defeat. An emerging narrative is that misinformation is to blame: inaccurate reporting, misleading and biased statements from politicians and government officials, conspiracy theories spread on social media, and social media companies that seemed to have favored the winning side. Fear mixes with anger over the ...
BMW’s UK car finance division has earmarked more than £70 million to address potential customer compensation claims over controversial motor finance commissions, adding to the nearly £680 million set aside by lenders as the industry braces for mounting liabilities. The German car manufacturer’s provision is part of a wider response to recent regulatory scrutiny and a Court of Appeal ruling ...
Fuel Ventures, a prominent UK-based venture capital fund, has led a £1.5 million Seed funding round in Groov, a pioneering embedded lending platform focused on bridging the $1.2 trillion funding gap faced by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Groov’s innovative Embedded Lending 2.0 platform empowers B2B SaaS providers to integrate lending solutions directly into their user experiences, offering SMEs seamless ...
Fleek, the innovative wholesale marketplace for second-hand fashion, has raised $20.4 million to bring the fragmented, offline second-hand clothing industry online. The Series A funding round was led by HV Capital, with participation from Andreesen Horowitz (a16z) and Y Combinator. Founders and operators from prominent technology companies like Shopify’s President (Harley Finkelstein), Depop’s ex-CEO (Maria Raga), and Postmates’ CTO (Sean ...
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is the choice to be the next U.S. ambassador to Israel in the incoming Trump administration, President-elect Trump announced on Tuesday. Huckabee, an ordained Baptist minister, is another in a growing list of strong Israel supporters announced or reported to be in Trump’s next administration. Trump has promised to strengthen U.S. ties with Israel as ...
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has launched a website to crowdsource names to fill 4,000 political appointee positions in President-elect Trump’s new administration. The online forum, referred to as ‘Nominees for the People’ and powered by Kennedy’s initiative to ‘Make America Healthy Again’ (MAHA), prompts visitors to nominate and vote for candidates to fill positions under the categories of ‘America’s Health,’ ...
Israel and the U.S. ‘have to get the hostages back’ who are ‘going through hell in the dungeons of Gaza,’ one of the country’s leaders told President Biden while visiting the White House Tuesday. ‘I know that you’re working very hard to make sure that this war will end and that there will be, first and foremost, security for the ...