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First on Fox: Lawyers for the Clinton campaign paid a technology company to “infiltrate” servers belonging to Trump Tower, and later the White House, in order to establish an “inference” and “narrative” to bring to government agencies linking Donald Trump to Russia, a filing from Special Counsel John Durham says.Durham filed a motion on Feb.…

(Reuters) – The U.S. Senate Banking committee’s top Republican on Friday took renewed aim at President Joe Biden’s nominee to a senior Federal Reserve post, Sarah Bloom Raskin, suggesting she had improperly lobbied the head of the Kansas City Fed on behalf of a fintech firm on whose board she then served. In an interview…

The National Archives found documents clearly marked as classified, including at the “top secret” level, among the 15 boxes of papers and memento former President Donald Trump improperly took home from the White House, The Washington Post reports, citing two people familiar with the matter. Those documents are now being kept in secure storage by…

© Bloomberg. U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at Germanna Community College in Culpeper, Virginia, U.S., on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022. Biden touted his efforts to roll back prescription drug costs in a statement on inflation released today and is highlighting his administration’s work to lower health care costs for American families. (Bloomberg) — President Joe…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati talks during the IMF conference in Jakarta, Indonesia February 27, 2018. REUTERS/Beawiharta By Stefanno Sulaiman and Gayatri Suroyo JAKARTA (Reuters) – As Indonesia’s economy recovers from the pandemic, fiscal stimulus should no longer be a dominant factor driving growth, its finance minister said on Wednesday,…

© Reuters. U.S. President Joe Biden applauds Cranita Jordan, a 4th year apprentice at Ironworkers Local 5, after she addressed the crowd gathered to see the president sign an executive order on federal construction project contracts and labor agreements during a vis By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House on Monday released a…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba meets with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (not pictured) in Kyiv, Ukraine, January 19, 2022. Alex Brandon/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Sunday urged people to ignore “apocalyptic predictions” about an imminent Russian invasion, saying his country was…

Former President Donald Trump released a fiery statement Friday after his former vice president, Mike Pence, plainly called him “wrong.”Pence said earlier on Friday that Trump was wrong to say the vice president had the power to overturn the results of the 2020 election.”This week, our former president said I had the right to ‘overturn…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) chats with Sarah Bloom Raskin, who is nominated to be vice chair for supervision and a member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, and her daughter Hannah Raskin, following a Senate Banking, Housing an By Ann Saphir (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s nominees to…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during his re-nominations hearing of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill, in Washington, U.S., January 11, 2022. Brendan Smialowski/Pool via REUTERS (Reuters) – Jerome Powell will become interim Federal Reserve chair on Saturday, ensuring continuity in leadership at…