Longtime Democratic operative Steve Ricchetti is appearing before House investigators on Wednesday, the seventh former White House aide to be summoned for Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer’s probe. Ricchetti most recently served as counselor to President Joe Biden during the vast majority of the Biden White House’s four-year term. He’s now expected to sit down with House Oversight Committee staff ...
Thomas A. Berry Who is the valid acting US attorney for the District of New Jersey right now? The answer is in dispute, with Alina Habba and Desiree Leigh Grace both claiming the title. The controversy is a case study in how the current system for appointing “acting” officers is confusing, ambiguous, and rife with loopholes. First, the basics. The ...
The Lionesses’ historic Euro 2025 victory is set to deliver a significant windfall not just for the players, but also for the UK taxman, with HMRC expected to receive £788,900 from the team’s prize money, according to analysis by tax and advisory firm Blick Rothenberg. Each player is expected to receive an average bonus of £73,000, which pushes their earnings ...
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has called on the FBI to conduct a counterintelligence threat assessment on the Jeffrey Epstein files. Schumer said on the Senate floor on Tuesday that the FBI assessment should accomplish three things: determine if foreign intelligence agencies could gain access to the information ‘the president does not want to release in the Epstein files, ...
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he may skip the G20 summit in South Africa in November over the nation’s ‘very bad policies,’ and instead send someone else to represent the United States. Trump made the remarks aboard Air Force One in response to a reporter’s question as he returned from a trip to Scotland, where the president achieved a ...
Adidas has confirmed it will raise prices for customers in the United States after warning that new tariffs imposed by the Trump administration will add an additional €200 million (£173 million) to its costs this year. The German sportswear giant said nearly half its products are manufactured in Vietnam and Indonesia, which were both recently targeted in new trade agreements ...
From Gaza to Greenland, French President Emmanuel Macron appears to be taking increasingly bolder diplomatic stabs at President Donald Trump’s foreign policy even though such gestures don’t ‘carry weight’ as Trump pointed out last week after the French leader declared his intention to recognize a Palestinian state. ‘French Presidents from Charles de Gaulle onwards have reveled in the idea that they ...
Businessman Richard Desmond has withdrawn part of his £1.3 billion legal challenge against the Gambling Commission over the awarding of the fourth National Lottery licence, just months before the case heads to trial in October. Desmond’s companies, Northern & Shell and The New Lottery Company, are suing the Commission over claims that the bidding process for the lucrative ten-year contract ...
Robey Warshaw, the elite London advisory boutique that counts former chancellor George Osborne among its five partners, has been acquired by Evercore, the US investment banking giant, in a £146 million cash and shares deal. The acquisition marks a significant payday for Osborne and his fellow partners at the firm’s Mayfair headquarters, though the precise distribution of proceeds among them ...
Where Ethical Practices Shape Every Step—And Every Relationship In a space where the focus often falls on features and litters, Lonestar Doodles leads with something deeper: integrity, trust, and a people-first philosophy. Based in Weatherford, Texas, Lonestar Doodles has quietly become a trusted name not just because of what they do—but because of how they do it. For Lonestar, breeding ...