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Todd Blanche might be the most craven attorney general yet. Thankfully, he’s also incompetent. Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche testifies before Congress. Donald Trump has nominated his own ...

Rising borrowing costs threaten to turn the incoming Federal Reserve chairman’s dream job into a nightmare Hans van Leeuwen International Economics Editor Show biography Hans van Leeuwen is the ...

May 15th has long been a red-letter day in the teeming imagination of Donald Trump. Almost as soon as his inauguration was over and done with, he began repeating the date as a totem that would free ...

Jay Powell is out; Kevin Warsh is in. On Tuesday, the Senate confirmed Donald Trump’s nominee for chairman of the Federal Reserve, and Powell’s time running the central bank will expire on Friday. For ...

Texas senator Ted Cruz says incoming Fed Chair Kevin Warsh will not become a sock puppet to President Trump, despite suggestions otherwise by Elizabeth Warren. "I know Kevin well. He and I were ...

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Kevin Warsh, the nominee for Chair of the US Federal Reserve, declared he has not pledged to lower interest rates to secure his position despite public calls from US President Donald Trump for ...

Sparks flew on Capitol Hill as Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., accused Federal Reserve nominee Kevin Warsh of being a potential "sock puppet" for President Donald Trump. Warsh, tapped by Trump in ...

Nicole Charky-Chami is a senior editor based in Los Angeles, writing and producing breaking news. She teaches journalism courses for UCLA Extension and previously taught at Loyola Marymount University ...