On Friday evening, POLITICO received a statement from a representative for Bank of China USA, which had not been contacted beforehand, that the bank had sold off, or securitized, its debt shortly after the 2012 deal. A spokeswoman said the bank has no current financial interest in any Trump Organization properties. We updated the body…
AS OF NOW, THE PRESIDENT is not holding a news briefing for the third day in a row, and instead has opened up a 4 p.m. meeting with industry executives to the smaller White House press pool.THE PARTICIPANTS in the 4 p.m. event: Walgreens President Richard Ashworth; Thermo Fisher Scientific CEO Marc Casper; Rite-Aid CEO…
IF ALL GOES AS PLANNED, by Thursday morning, the HOUSE will be voting on the half-trillion-dollar coronavirus relief bill that just passed the Senate, readying it for a trip to the White House for President DONALD TRUMP’S signature.AND, AT THE SAME TIME, REPUBLICANS will begin unfurling a new political attack against the Democrats with whom…
THE ESPN DOCUMENTARY ABOUT MICHAEL JORDAN and the Chicago Bulls debuts this week, and President DONALD TRUMP’S threat to adjourn Congress to push through stalled nominees reminds us of another Michael Jordan moment.REMEMBER THOSE MCDONALD’S COMMERCIALS where Larry Bird played Jordan in H-O-R-S-E, and he’d say, “Off the floor, off the scoreboard, off the bank…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…