Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha said BlackRock CEO Larry Fink realized “alienating” half the country with diversity, equity, and inclusion policies hurt his company. Concha highlighted other companies that also removed DEI policies, including Coca-Cola, Target, and Walmart. “Any company, any business, any government position should be based on one cold, hard mandate: who’s the […]
The U.S. Trade Representative Office opened sweeping Section 301 investigations into 60 countries over their failures to ban the importation of goods produced with forced labor. Under the Trade Act, Section 301(b) targets unfair trade practices from abroad that are deemed unreasonable or discriminatory and burden or otherwise restrict U.S. commerce. The Trump administration believes […]
Welcome to Friday’s edition of Washington Secrets, when we hand over proceedings to two strategists for their take on the president’s week and what it all means. Donald Trump’s week has been dominated by the war in Iran (or “excursion” if you like), questions about who knew what about the strike that destroyed a school […]
War Secretary Pete Hegseth said he would like to see Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison take over CNN, and possibly dictate its future news coverage, in the entertainment company’s merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. His remarks were part of a broader attack on the “fake news” media as he held a press conference on the […]
European leaders presented a united front in criticizing the U.S. decision to ease sanctions on Russian oil to lessen the impact of the Iran war on global energy markets. European leaders have been divided on the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran but are united in their desire to continue a maximum pressure campaign against Russia over […]
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said his agency believes it knows the motive behind Nancy Guthrie‘s kidnapping in Arizona, warning that other residents are not immune. “We believe we know why he did this. And we believe that it was targeted, but we can’t, we’re not 100% sure of that, and so it’d be silly […]
War Secretary Pete Hegseth echoed President Donald Trump’s comments, doubting Iran’s new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, can lead the country. In a Pentagon press briefing on Friday morning, Hegseth boasted of the U.S.’s degradation of Iran’s capabilities, specifically targeting the confusion around the lack of signs of life from Khamenei. “Iran’s leadership is in […]
Inflation fell one-tenth of a percentage point in January to 2.8%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in an update to to the personal consumption expenditures index, the Federal Reserve’s preferred gauge. Friday morning’s report on inflation is the last one the Fed will receive before it votes on interest rates next week. The report is directionally welcome news for […]
If President Donald Trump’s recent comments are to be believed, he wants regime change in Cuba. Even after seizing a wanted dictator out of Venezuela and while monitoring an air war in Iran. Along with ongoing military tension with Mexican drug cartels. Against that backdrop of cross-global conflict, the decadeslong tension between the island nation […]
When the Supreme Court handed Donald Trump a political gift on Feb. 20, the president did what he almost always does with gifts: threw it back. The court’s 6-3 ruling in Learning Resources Inc. v. Trump was, on its surface, a stinging legal rebuke. Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, held that the […]
