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CDFIs and fintech can leverage each sector’s unique expertise for greater impact. This article shares key lessons for successful partnership.

Biden’s team has defended some of the protections the Trump administration put in place to conceal Trump’s financial interests, including documents related to the Trump International Hotel.

The Daily 202: Politicians will no longer get a free pass from Facebook Olivier Knox On this day in 1989, Chinese soldiers and tanks crushed pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, with a death toll Western sources put in the hundreds or thousands. In a move with global ramifications for online political speech, Facebook plans to change a policy under which it generally spares toxic speech by major political figures from content-moderation rules it applies to everyon...

Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics — 6.3.21 Good Thursday morning. A top-of-Sunburn birthday shoutout to my brother from another mother,  Reggie Cardozo. Florida and D.C. politics know Reggie as a former Obama White House staffer and a top-flight political strategist, but I know him as a dedicated husband to Stephanie, father to Fallon, and Sutton James, and a trusted friend to many. He’s also my boat buddy, a fellow connoisseur of Bloody Marys a...

According to a Washington Post report, The Trump Organization has hired a broker to sell the lease to its D.C. hotel in a second attempt to unload the property. Jonathan O'Connell joins Hallie Jackson to discuss his reporting.

The move by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. suggests his investigation of the former president’s business has entered an advanced stage after more than two years.

increase font size Prosecutor in Trump probe convenes grand jury to hear evidence, consider charges Investigators scrutinized Donald Trumps business practices before he was president, including whether the value of specific properties in the Trump Organizations real estate portfolio were manipulated in a way that defrauded banks and insurance companies. By Shayna Jacobs and David A. FahrentholdThe Washington Post Share NEW YORK — Manhattan’s district attorney has convened the grand jury t...

President revokes predecessor’s Section 230 executive order.

Covering the election charades in Arizona and Florida In Arizona, the 2020 election still isn’t over. Well, it The Arizona audit (or, as some have called it, “fraudit”) has been a tough story for practical reasons, too—journalists have been barred from the room. On day one, Jen Fifield, a reporter at the Arizona Capitol Times, likewise tried to get in as an observer, but was escorted off the premises; she was told first that her registration hadn’t gone through, then that she needed...

The Daily 202: Biden goes from two messages on North Korea to one Olivier Knox  Send me links to politics or policy stories you think deserve more attention!  . Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin are currently on a high-profile trip to Asia, with stops in Japan and South Korea. It’s proving to be an opportunity to clear up some early mixed messaging on North Korea. Since Jan. 20, President Biden and top U.S. diplomats, including Blinken, ...