National Review,
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Brittany Bernstein
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House Oversight Committee James Comer (R., Ky.) on Friday sent a letter to Biden family associate Rob Walker asking him to participate in a transcribed interview with Committee staff, one day after subpoenaed bank records revealed Walker doled out more than a $1 million to Biden family members after receiving a $3 million payout from a Chinese energy company.
“Rob Walker is a key witness in our investigation of President Biden’s involvement in his family’s business schemes,” Comer said in a statement on Friday. “After receiving a $3 million dollar payout from a Chinese energy company two months after Vice President Biden left office, Rob Walker then sent over a
NBC News,
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Henry Austin
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3/17/2023 12:18:38 PM
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The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant Friday for Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of being responsible for war crimes in Ukraine.
Putin committed the “war crime” of overseeing the unlawful abduction and deportation of children from Ukraine to Russia, the court said in a news release. “There are reasonable grounds to believe that Putin bears individual criminal responsibility for the aforementioned crimes,” the court, based in The Hague, Netherlands, said its pre-trial judges had assessed.
It added that Putin had failed to “exercise control properly over civilian and military subordinates who committed the acts, or allowed for their commission, and who were under his effective authority and control.”
Business Insider,
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Karen Friar
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3/17/2023 10:48:53 AM
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Credit Suisse shares resumed declines Friday, losing hold of the previous day's rally in a sign investors aren't convinced the embattled Swiss banking giant isn't out of the woods yet.
The lender's Zurich-listed shares were down 9.4% at 1.83 Swiss francs ($1.97) as of 7:37 a.m. ET. US-listed shares in the financial giant were 6.5% lower at $2.02, after opening premarket trading at $2.25.
Credit Suisse is facing a pile of financial troubles, and investors are concerned it may default on its debt. DBRS Morningstar cut Credit Suisse's credit score to BBB on Thursday.
Hot Air,
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Karen Townsend
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3/17/2023 10:38:13 AM
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Nineteen ‘freedom-loving states’ have joined together to form an alliance to push back on Joe Biden’s ESG agenda. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis organized the alliance of red-state governors who pledge to use pension funds in their states to force corporations to maximize shareholder value, not push a woke ideology.
Under President Joe Biden, the US Department of Labor put in place a rule that would allow managers of retirement plans to weigh climate change and other environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues in their investment decisions. The move undid an effort under then-President Donald Trump to block such investments. The rule has become a focus in a fight over what proponents
National Review,
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Ari Blaff
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3/17/2023 10:31:37 AM
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Hunter Biden filed a lawsuit against the computer repair man, John Paul Mac Isaac, who turned over the files on the laptop to the New York Post ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
Hunter Biden “had more than a reasonable expectation of privacy that any data that he created or maintained,” the lawsuit filed with a Delaware federal court on Thursday stated. The president’s son was under the impression it “would not be accessed, copied, disseminated, or posted on the Internet for others to use against him or his family or for the public to view.”
Lawyers representing Hunter Biden have challenged Mac Isaac’s assertion that his failure to retrieve the laptop
Reuters,
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Staff
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3/17/2023 10:22:35 AM
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SVB Financial Group said on Friday it filed for a court-supervised reorganization under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to seek buyers for its assets, days after its former unit Silicon Valley Bank was taken over by U.S. regulators.
The move to commence bankruptcy proceedings comes as emergency measures to shore up confidence have so far failed to dispel worries about a financial contagion. Shares of big U.S. banks fell between 1.5% and 2% in premarket trading on Friday.
Californian regulators shuttered Silicon Valley Bank last Friday, making it the largest collapse since Washington Mutual went bust during the financial crisis of 2008.
CNN,
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Katelyn Polantz *
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3/16/2023 11:29:50 PM
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At least two dozen people -- from Mar-a-Lago resort staff to members of Donald Trump's inner circle at the Florida estate -- have been subpoenaed to testify to a federal grand jury that's investigating the former president's handling of classified documents, multiple sources familiar with the investigation told CNN.
On Thursday, Trump's communications aide Margo Martin, who worked in the White House and then moved with Trump to Florida, appeared before the grand jury in Washington, DC. One of special counsel Jack Smith's senior-most prosecutors was involved in the interview. Martin, who is among a small group of former White House advisers who have remained employed by Trump
Fox News,
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Joshua Q. Nelson
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3/16/2023 11:21:45 PM
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Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Rachel Levine promised that medically changing kids’ genders will soon be normalized.
Levine praised the "gender-affirming care" at the Pediatric Grand Rounds session at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford. Levine was invited to speak at the event about the Florida Parental Rights in Education law and the political implications of gender reassignment surgery taking place at children’s hospitals. Levine also said gender-affirming care for minors had the "highest support" of the Biden administration.
"But I'm a positive and optimistic person, and I choose to be positive, optimistic. And I think that the wheels
Red State,
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Mike Miller
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3/16/2023 11:13:09 PM
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I’m neither a constitutional scholar nor a tax attorney, but as a 30-year professional money manager and tax-planning guy, I can’t see how Joe Biden’s non-income-based Billionaire Tax comes even close to being constitutional. Not that constitutionality has ever phased the woefully inept president, but I’m just sayin’.
While Biden’s plan to squeeze billionaires will be DOA in Kevin McCarthy’s Republican-controlled House, it’s worthy of discussion, for the simple reason that if the Democrats end up with control of both chambers and the White House after the 2024 election, hello billionaire tax.
Which reminds me: 2024 will arrive soon enough; let’s not screw it up. But I digress.
Associated Press,
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Ken Sweet
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NEW YORK — Eleven of the biggest banks in the country announced a $30 billion rescue package for First Republic Bank on Thursday, in an effort to prevent the California-based bank from becoming the third bank to fail in less than a week.
First Republic serves a similar clientele as Silicon Valley Bank, which failed Friday after depositors withdrew about $40 billion. It appears that First Republic, which had deposits totaling $176.4 billion as of Dec. 31, was facing a similar crisis.
In a statement, the group of banks confirmed that other unnamed banks had seen large amounts of withdrawals of uninsured deposits, which
Hot Air,
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Jazz Shaw
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3/16/2023 2:47:30 PM
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As with the rest of the United States armed forces, the Air Force missed its recruiting goals in 2022 and they are on track to fall short again this year by at least 10%. This is a particularly dangerous time to be understaffed when so many of our resources are going toward training and equipping the Ukrainian military and we’re teetering on the edge of possible conflicts with Russia and/or China. So what are our flyboys (and ladies) to do? Whoever is currently in charge of this problem inside the Pentagon thinks they’ve struck on the answer. We clearly need more diversity, equity and inclusion! With that in mind,
Daily Mail (UK),
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Melissa Koenig
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3/16/2023 2:20:26 PM
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First Republic Bank executives quietly sold nearly $12 million worth of its stock in just the past three months, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Executive Chairman James Herbert II sold the most of any of the other insiders, off-loading a whopping $4.5 million worth of shares since the start of the year. In all, four of the struggling bank's top executives sold $11.8 million worth of stock so far this year, at prices averaging just below $130 a share, the Journal found. Some of these sales came just days before the bank started facing liquidity troubles, as panicked investors sought to get their money back following the fall