August 2019

Trump’s Personal Assistant, Madeleine Westerhout, Steps Down

President Trump’s personal assistant, Madeleine Westerhout, whose office sits in front of the Oval Office and who has served as the president’s gatekeeper since Day 1 of his administration, resigned on Thursday, two people familiar with her exit said. Ms. Westerhout’s abrupt and unexpected departure came after Mr. Trump learned on Thursday that she had

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Kourtney Kardashian Gets Parenting Tips From Controversial Evangelical Pastors

Kourtney Kardashian’s longtime friends and spiritual mentors, pastors Chad and Julia Veach, have made a guest appearance on the reality star’s new lifestyle site, Poosh. In a video published earlier this month, Kardashian, a mom of three, approached the evangelical pastors with a parenting question: How do you raise your kids as Christians without forcing religious beliefs

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Uber, Lyft and DoorDash Pledge $90 Million to Fight Driver Legislation in California

SAN FRANCISCO — A bill in California’s Legislature could soon force ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft to treat their drivers as employees instead of independent contractors. But Uber and Lyft, which contend that changing the legal status of their drivers poses a fundamental threat to their businesses, said Thursday that they would spend $60

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US companies in China say they’ve been hurt by trade war

Caught in the crossfire of a trade war, American businesses operating in China say they’ve been hurt by the hostilities between the world’s two biggest economies and are facing increasingly unfair competition from Chinese firms. But they still aren’t ready to give up on the Chinese market. In the U.S.-China Business Council’s annual survey, out

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