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96 <!– Welcome to The Hill’s Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy <!–   The Big Story  Trump, Bolsonaro bromance persists President Trump is seeking to intervene in a political fight roiling Brazil, demanding the country drop its prosecution of former President Jair Bolsonaro or face a 50 percent tariff…
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Lawyer Alan Dershowitz on Thursday said he knows the list of names in the Jeffrey Epstein files regarding alleged clients in his international sex trafficking ring. “I know the names of the individuals. I know why they’re being suppressed. I know who’s suppressing them,” Dershowitz said during an appearance on “The Sean Spicer Show.” “But…
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Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) continued to distance himself from the progressive wing of his party on Thursday with a social media post defending Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). “ICE performs an important job for our country,” he wrote on the social platform X. “Any calls to abolish ICE are [100 percent] inappropriate and outrageous.” Fetterman’s…
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Caroline Wren was slammed for repeatedly ignoring a subpoena tied to injured Capitol police officers.

Self-described “alpha man” Nick Adams will be the U.S. ambassador to Malaysia if confirmed.

Israel has concluded that some Iranian enriched uranium survived the U.S.’s recent strikes on the country, The New York Times has reported. A senior Israeli official told the Times that their country found that American and Israeli attacks did not destroy a portion of an Iranian underground stockpile of enriched uranium, with Iranian nuclear engineers…
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The United Nations (UN) is pushing back against the United States after President Trump’s administration imposed sanctions on the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese on Wednesday.  The spokesperson for Secretary-General António Guterres, Stephane Dujarric, said during a Thursday briefing that the Trump administration’s move to slap sanctions on Albanese, who…
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President Trump is seeking to intervene in a political fight roiling Brazil, demanding the country drop its prosecution of former President Jair Bolsonaro or face a 50 percent tariff on imports to the U.S. “The way that Brazil has treated former President Bolsonaro, a Highly Respected Leader throughout the World during his Term, including by the United…
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President Trump has nominated MAGA influencer and self-described “alpha male” Nick Adams to be the next ambassador to Malaysia, the White House announced in a list of recommendations sent to the Senate this week. Adams, a 40-year-old Australian native who lives in Florida, said in a video posted on the social platform X on Thursday…
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin said Thursday that Americans have “legitimate questions” about airplane contrails as his agency launches webpages aimed at combatting misinformation on the topic. Contrails, the vapor trails that follow high-flying airplanes, are the subject of the “chemtrails” conspiracy theory, which baselessly alleges that the trails are actually chemicals that are used…
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(KTLA) — The Trump administration has filed a lawsuit against California, alleging that three state laws are the reason behind rising egg prices in the Golden State. “The State of California has contributed to the historic rise in egg prices by imposing unnecessary red tape on the production of eggs. Through a combination of voter…
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Former Vice President Mike Pence said Thursday he doesn’t think President Trump has completely changed the Republican Party, shrugging off populist sentiment in the GOP as “a minority voice.” “I think President Trump, as presidents should, has changed aspects of the agenda of the Republican Party, but I don’t think he’s changed the Republican Party,”…
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House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) continued to take aim Thursday at former President Biden’s White House physician Kevin O’Connor, after the doctor would not answer questions about Biden’s health after he was called to testify this week. “When Joe Biden’s doctor was asked under oath whether he had ever been instructed to lie…
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Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis) said Wednesday that President Trump firmly placed his stamp on the U.S. economy with his tariff policies, and is to blame for the “uncertainty” and “chaos” that has followed. Joining MSNBC’s Alicia Menendez, Michael Steele, and Symone Sanders Townsend on “The Weeknight,” Baldwin agreed that “this is Trump’s economy now.” “And…
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Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey (R) is demanding information from several major tech firms with artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots, which he alleges are distorting facts and producing biased results about President Trump.  Bailey sent letters to Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Meta on Wednesday, asking whether they design their algorithms to disfavor certain political affiliations or…
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) exulted when the U.S. Supreme Court recently vacated several lower court injunctions against President Trump’s executive order purporting to deny birthright citizenship for the children of “illegal entrants.”  Within hours, he posted a video declaring that “birthright citizenship is a policy that doesn’t make any sense,” even though it is the first sentence of the 14th…
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Tim Cunningham of Clowns Without Borders wants to “find a better metaphor to despise and depose fascism.”

Steve Bannon argued a special counsel should be appointed to review files related to Jeffrey Epstein amid outrage from the right over a government memo saying the disgraced financier had no “client list” and was not murdered in prison while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. “They have to go to the court and demand…
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The TV host also claimed he didn’t clock the crudest part of Trump’s comments until the scandal actually exploded.

America is at war with itself. Many, myself included, fear that political, social, cultural, ideological and economic divisions are as deep and possibly deeper than they were when our Civil War began in 1860.  That does not mean another such war is imminent. It does mean that the country may not be capable of governing itself in…
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The widow of a Pennsylvania firefighter who was killed during the assassination attempt against President Trump at a campaign rally last year said in a new Fox News interview that she wants accountability from the Secret Service for the death of her husband, Corey Comperatore. “We were all sitting ducks that day. Our blood is…
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Congressional Republicans may soon discover that President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is not so “beautiful” for their hopes of retaining both chambers of Congress in next year’s midterm elections.  Indeed, multiple polls have underscored the negative impact the bill may have on Republicans, potentially putting their House and Senate majorities in jeopardy.  A mid-June poll from Fox…
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Former first lady Michelle Obama, who has opened up in recent months about the ups and downs of political life, said in her latest podcast that she feels “completely free” for the first time. In Wednesday’s episode of “IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson” — a podcast she co-hosts with her brother — Obama…
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Newly released emails and texts support allegations that Bove, Trump’s court pick, told DOJ attorneys to say “f**k you” to judges who ruled against them.

The president of Guinea-Bissau on Thursday said that the country would only take back its own citizens who are deported from the U.S., rejecting requests from the Trump administration to take in deported migrants whose home countries refuse them or are slow to accept them. President Umaro Sissoco Embaló, one of five West African leaders…
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