The Miami Herald profiled former Ambassador V. Manuel Rocha in 2003 when he joined the firm Steel Hector & Davis to open doors in Latin America. Raúl Rubiera | Miami Herald | Getty Images When Carolyn Lamb saw news of the arrest of Cuban spy Victor Manuel Rocha on the news last December, she recognized…
U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) speaks alongside former U.S. President and 2024 presidential candidate Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Rome, Georgia, March 9, 2024. Elijah Nouvelage | AFP | Getty Images A media company with ties to former President Donald Trump is off to a rocky start, with stock prices plunging and…
When Diane Scheig’s father, Bill, came home from work at the Mallinckrodt factory in St. Louis, he would undress in the garage and hand his clothes to her mother to be washed immediately, not daring to leave the house with the residue to contaminate his work. Mr. Scheig, an ironworker who helped build the city’s…
Democrats in Congress are increasingly concerned about how Israel is waging war in Gaza and are considering whether to use their influence over arms sales to raise objections to the civilian death toll and increase pressure on President Biden to set conditions for the to provide US support for the military offensive. While top Republicans…
Senator Patty Murray was inspired to enter politics when a male lawmaker mocked her efforts to fight budget cuts to early education programs, calling her “just a mother in tennis shoes” – a remark she would proudly adopt as a campaign slogan. So it was no surprise that more than 40 years later, Ms. Murray,…
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen testifies before a Senate Finance Committee hearing on the 2025 budget on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 21, 2024. Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters WASHINGTON – Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday defended President Joe Biden’s 2025 budget proposal as Republican senators said they feared taxes on the middle class…
WASHINGTON – Billionaire 5H energy entrepreneur Manoj Bhargava allegedly maintained undeclared bank accounts worth hundreds of millions of dollars at Swiss bank Pictet, according to documents filed by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., in A managing partner of the bank in Geneva was quoted as saying in a letter sent on Wednesday. The…
The United States would stop funding the main U.N. agency that provides aid to Palestinians in Gaza under a spending deal set to take effect soon, according to two people familiar with the plan. The ban, part of a sweeping spending bill negotiated by lawmakers and the White House that is expected to be approved…
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-VT) questions witnesses along with Ranking Member Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) during a hearing on work hours in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on the Capitol Hill in March February 14, 2024 in Washington, DC Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images Sen. Bernie Sanders and Senate…
Robert K. Hur will walk into a Capitol Hill hearing room Tuesday as a unique unifying figure in divided Washington – a man despised by Democrats and Republicans alike. In February, Mr. Hur, the special counsel investigating President Biden, concluded a year-long investigation into Mr. Biden’s retention of sensitive government documents by concluding that criminal…
