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SEC charges Cantor Fitzgerald, led by Trump’s Commerce pick

Howard Lutnick, chairman and CEO of BGC Partners Inc., speaks during the Piper Sandler Global Exchange and FinTech Conference in…

DOGE’s Musk, Ramaswamy try to sell Congress on huge spending cuts

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have an ambitious agenda to cut federal spending with the help…

TikTok divestment law upheld by federal appeals court

A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a law requiring China-based ByteDance to sell TikTok or face an effective ban…

IRS crackdown on wealthy Americans faces roadblocks

WASHINGTON — Tens of thousands of wealthy Americans are not complying with recently revamped Internal Revenue Service efforts to get…

Secret Service shoots near Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen home

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen delivers remarks on the Inflation Reduction Act after visiting the site of a new paperless processing…

Russia says Ukraine attacked it using U.S.-made missiles

Moscow signaled to the West that it’s ready for a nuclear confrontation after Ukraine was given permission to attack Russian…

Bitfinex hacker gets five years in prison for bitcoin money laundering scheme

Booking photos for Heather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein. Courtesy: Alexandria Adult Detention Center. A man whose 2016 hack of Bitfinex…

Trump’s tariff threats send lobbyists scrambling to find loopholes

In the days since President-elect Donald Trump won the presidential race, Nicole Bivens Collinson’s phone has barely stopped ringing. Collinson,…

Harris’ closing argument speech will reject Trump-era politics

Vice President Kamala Harris will make her closing argument to voters Tuesday evening at a Washington rally that is expected…

The World’s $100 Trillion Fiscal Timebomb Keeps Ticking

(Bloomberg) — Even before global finance chiefs fly into Washington over the next few days, they’ve been urged in advance…