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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Trump trial updates: Fired White House aide Madeleine Westerhout wraps testimony as Michael Cohen expected to …  Yahoo! Voices Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Senate GOP squeezes a top Biden economic aide over early inflation missteps  Yahoo Finance Source link

Aug. 12, 2022, 10:03 AM Kiriyenko leading talks on Yandex’s fate as founder sanctioned Top search engine under pressure since Putin invaded Ukraine One of President Vladimir Putin’s top Kremlin aides is leading negotiations to decide the fate of Russia’s most popular search engine, whose founder was sanctioned over Yandex NV’s portrayal of the war in Ukraine, according to three people familiar with the talks. Sergei Kiriyenko, the first deputy head of Putin’s administration, is heading… Source link

This week saw two key pieces of economic data: the lowest number of jobless claims since September 1969 and the highest inflation since June 1982. Jared Bernstein, longtime economic aide to President Biden, was keen to drop some trivia on the more flattering number, noting “‘Honky Tonk Woman’ by the Rolling Stones was topping the charts” the last time jobless claims were this low. What was left unmentioned was that “Ebony and Ivory” was the most popular song the last time inflation… Source link

When the coming $1.9 trillion relief package becomes law, Americans will be eagerly awaiting their $1,400 checks. But White House officials have made it clear this week they are just as focused on another provision in the massive bill which – they hope – may prove to be a more durable expansion of the government’s social safety net. The child tax credit is set to more than double, with families starting to get checks in July. It is “a way of getting at that basic benefit for every… Source link

White House deputy press secretary TJ Ducklo has resigned, the day after he was suspended for issuing a sexist and profane threat to a journalist seeking to cover his relationship with another reporter. Mr Ducklo had been put on a week-long suspension without pay on Friday (local time) after a report surfaced in Vanity Fair outlining his sexist threats against a female Politico journalist to try to suppress a story about his relationship, telling her “I will destroy you”. The journalist had… Source link