Epstein Secrets

from penalties the Treasury Department initially imposed in April 2018 on Rusal and other companies owned by Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch and Kremlin ally accused of facilitating Moscow's nefarious activities. ... It's unclear whether the former staffers — Hunter Bates, a former McConnell chief

Hauer & Feld, the law and lobbying firm where Bates and Dunn work, and McConnell's office declined to comment on whether they had done so. -- The Kremlin announced that Trump called Putin to offer U.S. help with fighting Siberian wildfires. From Reuters: "The Kremlin said the two leaders had spoken b

bal slowdown. However, the central bank also inadvertently caused confusion about what it plans to do next, disquieting the stock market. Fed Chair Jerome H. Powell said the Fed was going to do whatever it takes to 'sustain the expansion,' but he stopped short of committing to a series of rate reductions as Wal

deaths because of its strict crackdown. (Katie Shepherd) The E.U. accused China of waging a pandemic disinformation campaign, lumping it with the Kremlin. "It was the European Union's highest-level and most forceful criticism yet of the way Beijing has handled its messaging about the pandemic," Micha

unemployment at 9.3 percent by the end of 2020. The Fed projects the rate will drop to 6.5 percent by the end of 2021, Heather Long reports. "Chair Jerome H. Powell stressed Wednesday that more aid from Congress and the central bank is likely to be needed, especially since a substantial number of Americans may

ump's former personal lawyer, told FBI agents in November 2018 that he informed Trump during the campaign that he had spoken with a "woman from the Kremlin" about the plan to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. "Cohen told Trump he spoke with a woman from the Kremlin who had asked specific and great questi

n investigations into similar taxes in Austria, Italy and Turkey. ... The president's enthusiasm for tariffs is not shared by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell, who has said they are making executives so uncertain about the outlook that companies are delaying investments and slowing the economy. ... Typica