House Narrowly Defeats Iran War Powers Resolution as Thousands More US Troops Head to Middle East

Gavin Newsom And The DOJ Probe Opened Under Biden: Behested Payments, Family Nonprofits, & Questions Of Influence California Gov. Gavin Newsom has launched an aggressive counteroffensive against a federal investigation he calls a politically motivated "fishing expedition" - for a probe which was opened under the Biden adminisgration.  In a video posted to X and a formal letter to the Department of Justice, Newsom demanded all internal communications since January 2025 that mention him or his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom. The Freedom of Information Act request targets top DOJ officials, including former...

FOMC Minutes Preview: Scrutiny For Hawkish Bias Today's FOMC minutes will be scrutinized for further insight into policymakers' appetite for additional rate hikes and the thinking behind the Committee's hawkish shift at last month's meeting. The minutes are an account of the June 17th meeting and therefore will not reflect subsequent developments, including the softer-than-expected June nonfarm payrolls report or Chair Warsh's appearance at the ECB's Sintra Forum. Nonetheless, as Newsquawk writes in its FOMC Minutes preview, the June meeting, Warsh's first as Fed Chair, marked a significant shift under...

British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced on Tuesday that the UK was imposing trade restrictions on Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, which are illegal under international law, and said that “settler terrorists” are committing “ethnic cleansing” against the Palestinian population. Miliband said it was the official position of the British government that the […]