As Democrats face a presidential campaign against a resurgent and resilient Donald J. Trump and a brutally challenging Senate map, they believe they have an increasingly powerful political weapon: ballot measures protecting abortion rights. Two key presidential and Senate battlegrounds, Arizona and Nevada, are expected to put such measures squarely before voters. The same goes…
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…
Agency emails show that the Bureau of Labor Statistics has shared more information about inflation with Wall Street’s “superusers” than was previously disclosed. The revelation is likely to prompt further scrutiny of how the government shares economic data at a time when such information is of great interest to investors. An economist at the agency…
One afternoon in late February, a Bureau of Labor Statistics employee sent an email about an obscure detail in the way the government calculates inflation — setting off an unlikely firestorm. Economists on Wall Street had puzzled for two weeks about an unexpected rise in housing costs in the consumer price index. Several had contacted…
In her rebuttal to President Biden’s State of the Union address Thursday night, Sen. Katie Britt, Republican of Alabama, told a story about a Mexican woman who was a victim of sex trafficking at age 12 and blamed it on the current administration. “President Biden’s border policies are a disgrace,” she said. The story, while…
