The revelation that well-heeled businesses and nonprofits benefited from emergency small business loans is making it more likely that Congress will impose new limits on aid in its next rescue plan for employers and workers.
The Trump administration disclosed Monday that the recipients of the more than $521 billion in forgivable loans included top lobbying and law firms, private equity-backed re...

President Donald Trump for years has insulted Mexicans with his promises to build a border wall to keep out migrants, criminals, drugs and, most recently, the coronavirus. But that’s not stopping Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador from heading to the White House for his first face-to-face meeting with Trump on Wednesday.
López Obrador, a lifelong populist and face of Mexico’s left, a...

A push by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) for a historic Senate vote on whether the U.S. should withdraw from the World Trade Organization appears to have been scuttled by a new parliamentarian ruling.
The new decision came after leaders of the Senate Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction over trade, shared their analysis of the situation, a committee spokesperson said.
“Americans have been ske...

The Trump administration was in panic mode.
The United Nations Human Rights Council was debating launching a special investigation of racism in America after the killing of George Floyd, a Black man who died in police custody. And the United States was determined to derail any such probe.
That the Trump administration cared so much was surprising: It had quit the council two years ago, calli...

U.S. troops being yanked out of Germany. A brewing trade war over digital tax. Now add this to the list of issues dividing Europe and the United States: a looming clash over privacy.
As the EU touts the “success” of its flagship privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Donald Trump’s administration is ramping up attacks on a system it says provides cover to cybercriminals and...

LONDON — Mark Sedwill, the most senior official in Boris Johnson's government, will stand down in September, Downing Street confirmed.
Sedwill will leave his posts as Cabinet secretary, head of the U.K. civil service and national security adviser.
His departure comes after months of speculation about his position, amid reports that he has clashed with Johnson's Downing Street team. It was an...

Corporate advertisers are pulling their marketing dollars from Facebook and challenging the idea that they need the world’s largest social network more than it needs them.
A growing number of big-name companies are signing onto an ad boycott that started days ago as a brushfire among a handful of socially conscious brands. Unilever, Coca-Cola and Honda were among those who joined the effort on ...

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