President Joe Biden is considering former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel for a high-profile ambassadorship, potentially to China, three people with knowledge of the discussions said. Becoming the U.S. ambassador to Japan is another option that Biden administration officials have discussed with Emanuel, one of the people with knowledge of the discussions said. Emanuel, who became White House chief of staff […]

Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez revealed during an Instagram Live on Monday night that she is a survivor of a sexual assault.  Ocasio-Cortez spoke about how the trauma of the Capitol insurrection compounded her trauma.  She said she was advised to “move on,” and she accused the GOP of using “the tactics of abusers.”  Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. Rep. […]

Couy Griffin will remain behind bars until his trial, a judge ruled Monday. Griffin founded the group “Cowboys for Trump.” He’s charged with entering a restricted area at the US Capitol. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. The leader of the far-right group “Cowboys for Trump,” charged with entering restricted grounds at the US Capitol and held in solitary […]

A striking number of former Republican officials are leaving the political party in the wake of the Jan. 6 attempted coup on the U.S. Capitol by a group of former President Donald Trump's supporters, Reuters reported on Monday. The outlet cited several former high-ranking officials from the George W. Bush administration who said they could no longer recognize the Republican […]

We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Environment campaigner Carrie was previously a Government special adviser and the Conservative Party’s director of communications. The announcement of her return to work comes nine months after she gave birth to Wilfred, her first child with the […]

By Tim Reid (Reuters) – Dozens of Republicans in former President George W. Bush’s administration are leaving the party, dismayed by a failure of many elected Republicans to disown Donald Trump after his false claims of election fraud sparked a deadly storming of the U.S. Capitol last month. These officials, some who served in the highest echelons of the Bush […]

Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.), who received a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine earlier this month, tested positive for the virus on Friday. Another Democrat from Massachusetts, Rep. Lori Trahan, announced Thursday she had also tested positive. Both lawmakers are reportedly asymptomatic. Lynch received two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine prior to the inauguration of President Joe Biden on Jan. […]

Taiwan’s central bank said its current account and trade surpluses, rather than currency intervention, were the reasons cited for its inclusion on the U.S. Treasury’s foreign exchange watchlist in December. Being added to the list “apparently has nothing do with the bank’s intervention in the forex market,” the central bank said in a statement Sunday, responding to a Bloomberg News […]