Epstein Secrets

empowering customers in the activities they value most." That sentence spurred much chatter inside the company, including the p=rsistent rumor that Gates had dropped the bomb on Ballmer. That sentiment was further underscored when Ballmer's letter contained n= reference or thanks to Gates, with whom

likely would result in a partial shutdown of the federal government, similar to t=ose that occurred in 1995 and 1996. The letter is mixed news =or Boehner and other GOP leaders who view a government shutdown as politic=lly unwise. The federal 2013 fiscal y=ar ends Sept. 30. New money must be appropriat

ddress as soon as possible. Defense Secretary Bob Gates rails against Israel at every National Security

invitation from House Speaker John Boehner to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of the U.S. Congress on May 24. Boehner acts as if the idea of inviting "Bibi," as the prime minister is universally known, was his own. But the facts indicate that this most- sought-after

Medina, on Lake Washington. (Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates live in town, too.) Shirley earned his pile duri

cent of the popular vote. The President talked of the election breaking the "fever" in Washington. "We didn't expect the floodgates would open and Boehner would be Tip O'Neill to our Reagan," Dan Pfeiffer, a senior adviser to the President, said. But reelection, he thought, had "liberated" Obama. The

Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen, Rick Gates and George Papadopoulos have each acknowledged t

of constitutional standoff. Paul Kane reports: "Officially there to unveil a portrait that will hang in a venerated room just off the House floor, Boehner brought with him one last bid to get his former colleagues to embrace a style that charmed friends and enemies alike. He remains an eternal optimis