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San Diego-area emergency physician Amy Aminlari saw front-line medical workers at the onset of the pandemic helping patients infected with COVID-19, while not having adequate personal protective equipment. Aminlari, who tested positive for COVID-19, co-founded Last Mile San Diego to get masks and other personal protective equipment to front-line providers and at-risk communities that didn’t have access to adequate PPE throughout San Diego County. As part of her efforts, Aminlari, who lives in North County, recently donated 72,000 half-liter hand sanitizers and 3,000 infrared thermometers t...

8 Min Read WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Arguably the last thing new U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen wants to take up during her first days in office is a financial market imbroglio involving one of her last private sector business relationships. FILE PHOTO: U.S. outgoing Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen holds a news conference after a two-day Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting in Washington, U.S. December 13, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo/File Photo/File Photo But as hedge fund Citadel LLC emerges as one of the key actors in the trading frenzy last week involving GameSt...

Robinhood and Citadel’s relationship comes into focus as Washington vows to examine stock-market moves Douglas MacMillan, Yeganeh Torbati © Olivier Douliery/AFP/Getty Images This photo illustration shows the logos of video game retail store GameStop and trading application Robinhood in a computer and on a mobile phone in Arlington, Va. on Jan. 28. (Photo by Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images) Robinhood, the online trading app heralded by some as a democratizing force to empower small investors, has spent the past few years nurturing a close relationship with one of W...

Trump Administration Quietly Eased Sanctions on Israeli Billionaire The reversal by the Treasury Department during the administration’s final days came after an appeal by lobbyists with close ties to the former president. The Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler was accused of using his connections to the former Congolese president to arrange corrupt mining deals.Credit...Simon Dawson/Bloomberg Jan. 24, 2021 WASHINGTON — The Trump administration quietly moved in its final days to ease sanctions imposed in late 2017 on an Israeli billionaire who had been punished by the Treasury Department for ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department announced Wednesday that Didem Nisanci will serve as Janet Yellen's chief of staff once Yellen is confirmed by the Senate. Nisanci, who most recently served as global head of public policy at Bloomberg L.P., was previously the chief of staff for the Securities and Exchange Commission in the Obama-Biden administration. Jason Leibenluft will serve as counselor to the Treasury secretary after having been a...