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BIDEN INC: Biden’s sister to keep cashing in on brother’s career with new memoir, following family tradition
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President Biden’s youthful sister will kick off her guide tour Thursday evening in Washington, D.C., forward of the discharge of her memoir subsequent week, which might create a headache for the White Home as she continues to money in on her brother’s political profession, conflicting with White Home Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s assertion final January in regards to the White Home’s ethics coverage.
“It is the White Home’s coverage that the President’s identify shouldn’t be utilized in reference to any business actions to recommend or in any manner – in any manner they might fairly be understood to suggest his endorsement or help,” Psaki stated.
Valerie Biden Owens, a longtime marketing campaign adviser and political confidante to Biden, shall be releasing her memoir titled, “Rising Up Biden: A Memoir” subsequent Tuesday. The guide features a childhood picture of her, Joe Biden, their two brothers, and their mom on the guide cowl. Not solely did Owens function Biden’s marketing campaign supervisor for all seven of his profitable Senate campaigns, however she additionally suggested Biden throughout all three presidential campaigns and has performed an integral function in his household’s life.
The upcoming guide tour and anticipated media blitz of Owens’ memoir about rising up as a Biden comes slightly over a yr after the transition staff’s attorneys instructed Vice President-elect Harris’s niece she might now not produce clothes or write any new books with Harris’s identify or likeness, the Los Angeles Occasions reported in early 2021.
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Transition staff attorneys for the Biden-Harris staff reportedly instructed Vice President Harris’s niece she might now not write new books with Harris’s identify or likeness.
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Throughout Biden’s second presidential marketing campaign in 2007 and 2008, Owens served as her brother’s nationwide marketing campaign chair. It doesn’t seem that Biden’s marketing campaign paid her instantly, however the Democratic consulting agency Joe Slade White & Firm, the place Owens was serving as an “Govt Vice President,” raked in over $2.5 million from Biden’s presidential marketing campaign and the “Residents for Biden” committee between March 2007 and October 2008.
Owens’ daughter, Valerie J. Owens, who goes by “Missy,” additionally cashed in by working for her uncle’s presidential marketing campaign, the place she made tens of hundreds of {dollars}.
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Missy would go on to attain a number of high-level positions through the Obama-Biden administration. She served because the deputy chief of employees within the Power Division between Feb. 2009 and June 2011, based on her LinkedIn web page. She then served a yr because the chief of employees to the deputy Commerce secretary for a yr. Owens then labored at Coca-Cola in its authorities relations division for a decade, together with whereas the corporate was reportedly lobbying in opposition to a invoice cracking down on using Uyghur compelled labor in China. Two months in the past, Basic Motors employed her to a senior place within the firm’s regulatory affairs division.
Valerie’s different daughter, Casey, additionally acquired a job within the Obama-Biden administration, serving as a particular assistant to the senior coordinator for China on the Treasury Division for over two years. Her LinkedIn says she “managed a variety of workstreams important to the execution of the US-China Strategic & Financial Dialogue – one of many largest bilateral overseas financial coverage initiatives of the Obama Administration.” She would later work up the company ladder at Starbucks, the place she is now a vp.
Close to the tip of the Obama-Biden administration, Missy reached out to her first cousin and then-Vice President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, about serving to her mom get a place within the administration, saying it could be “good for her” and that she “wants it greater than I do proper now,” based on emails reviewed by Fox Information Digital. Just a little over a yr later, Owens was appointed to a four-month ceremonial place serving as “an Alternate Consultant of the US to the 71st Session of the Basic Meeting of the United Nations,” which paid roughly $26,000.
The March 2015 e-mail alternate between Missy and Hunter got here in response to a White Home press launch asserting that Hunter’s longtime enterprise companion, Eric Schwerin, was appointed to the Fee for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Overseas.
“Is that this our Eric?” Missy requested, prompting Hunter to substantiate that it was.
“How did he/we discover that one, and do you assume we are able to discover one thing for my mother?” Missy requested Hunter. “I wished to do it, however I believe Mother wants it greater than I…what do you assume?”
“I did not know she wished to do this me [sic] of those. Eric requested for one in every of these the day after the election in 2008. You recognize higher than me what are actual and attention-grabbing appointments. Let’s undergo the listing with Steve and see what is sensible,” Hunter replied, showing to reference Biden’s then-Chief of Workers Steve Ricchetti. “I do not understand how a lot 2016 and nepotism performs into it.”
After the Obama administration, Owens would go on to serve in management roles on the Biden Basis, the Beau Biden Basis for the Safety of Youngsters, and at present the Biden Institute on the College of Delaware, the place she is at present the chair. The college has beforehand declined to launch her contract on the College.
JOE BIDEN’S BROTHER-IN-LAW ASKED HUNTER BIDEN TO HELP HIM SECURE A BUSINESS LICENSE IN CHINA, EMAILS SHOW
Valerie’s husband, John Owens or “Jack,” who has been mates with Biden since their legislation college days at Syracuse, has additionally benefited from Biden and Hunter. In 2014, Owens requested assist from Hunter in an e-mail saying he wanted a Chinese language enterprise license “secured in a short time” so he might broaden his telemedicine firm into China.
“Time pressures are very tight, plus the truth that we don’t but have one has precipitated a slight credibility bump within the firm’s thoughts. This all interprets into a necessity for a Enterprise License, and one secured in a short time,” Owens wrote. “Whereas this may appear to be an earthly activity, I’ve come to grasp that issues akin to a Enterprise License can find yourself taking an inordinate period of time… time we simply don’t have.”
Joe Biden’s brother-in-law, Jack Owens, emailed Hunter Biden in 2014 to assist him get hold of a Chinese language enterprise license, so he might broaden his telemedicine firm into China.
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He would go on to inform Hunter that he could be “most appreciative of any assist,” which resulted in Hunter forwarding the e-mail to a few of his enterprise companions with shut China ties, saying, “Is there a manner we will help him expedite this? Time is of the essence right here.”
It’s unclear whether or not Hunter’s enterprise companions have been in a position to efficiently safe a enterprise license for Owens or whether or not one of many enterprise companions’ “WOFE” sufficed for China’s legal guidelines. Nevertheless, MediGuide’s web site says it has come to “an settlement with AnyHealth Shanghai.”
“MediGuide and Any Well being intend to broaden MediGuide’s enterprise in China below the identify of ‘MediGuide China,’” the web site reads. “AnyHealth Shanghai shall be legally representing MediGuide Worldwide LLC in China. ” It’s unclear if AnyHealth Shanghai is identical firm referenced within the emails.
Owens additionally benefited through the Obama-Biden administration by getting invites from then-Vice President Biden’s government assistant Kathy Chung to attend occasions on the White Home. For instance, slightly over a yr after Owens despatched the e-mail to Hunter in regards to the enterprise license, Owens obtained an invite to attend the State Division luncheon honoring Chinese language President Xi Jinping, which was hosted by Biden.
“Sure Kathy,” Owens responded. “I want to attend this one. I do know I’ve handed up the whole lot else, however this can be a bit totally different. I simply rec’d this so I have no idea what VBO [Valerie Biden Owens] goes to do. Do you could have my information to reply with image, and so on, or would you like me to do this.”
Over the past yr, Jack has performed golf a number of occasions with Biden, along with different relations.
The White Home, Owens, and Owens’ guide writer, Celadon Books, didn’t reply to requests for remark.
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Mike Kennedy advances past crowded GOP primary to secure nomination for open Utah House seat
Mike Kennedy on Tuesday won the Republican nomination for Utah’s 3rd Congressional District to replace outgoing Rep. John Curtis, R-Utah, becoming the immediate favorite to win the seat in November.
Kennedy beat fellow Republicans JR Bird, John Dougall, Case Lawrence and Stewart Peay in a packed primary pool for the district. Curtis is vacating his seat to run for U.S. Senate to replace outgoing Sen. Mitt Romney.
Kennedy, a state senator, had won the party’s nomination for the seat in April but faced challenges from other candidates who gathered signatures to be on the ballot. Peay had won the endorsement of Romney, who is also Peay’s wife’s uncle. Kennedy had won the endorsement of Sen. Mike Lee, who said he was needed to “fight against the Uniparty and help get this country back on track.”
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From left, JR Bird, John Dougall, Mike Kennedy, Case Lawrence and Stewart Peay, candidates in the Republican primary for Utah’s 3rd Congressional District, take part in a debate at the Eccles Broadcast Center in Salt Lake City on June 12, 2024. (Spenser Heaps/Deseret News via AP/Pool)
Bird, a mayor, emphasized his experience of running a small town as well as the importance of the energy sector and agriculture, according to the Deseret News.
Dougall, the state auditor, had run as an anti-MAGA candidate and had slammed some GOP legislation, including what he saw as an overly aggressive bill that tasks him with enforcing a ban on transgender-identifying individuals using restrooms that are inconsistent with their sex.
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He has also been deeply critical of former President Trump. On Tuesday on X, he also questioned the “cavalier manner” of any official who swears to uphold the Constitution “then endorses Trump following January 6th.” He has advertised himself as “mainstream, not MAGA.”
At a debate this month, candidates split on the question of military funding to Ukraine as well as whether the federal government should explicitly ban abortion. Peay, Dougall and Case Lawrence – a trampoline park entrepreneur – had called on Congress to keep sending weapons to Ukraine to help it fend off the ongoing Russian invasion.
Bird and Kennedy disagreed, arguing that it was not beneficial to the U.S. to keep funding the Ukrainians, with the two calling for stronger sanctions and the seizure of Russian assets.
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Kennedy will go on to face Democrat Glenn Wright in the November election, but the Republican is favored to win comfortably in a district that has voted Republican since 1997.
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Elsewhere in the state, Republican Gov. Spencer Cox, a major GOP Trump critic, held off a primary challenge from Phil Lyman, another 2020 election denier who easily won the state party convention.
The Associated Press and Fox News’ Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
California news publishers and Big Tech companies appear to be inching toward compromise on a controversial bill that would require Google and huge social media platforms to pay news outlets for the articles they distribute.
After stalling last year, Assembly Bill 886 cleared a critical hurdle Tuesday when it passed the state Senate Judiciary Committee. Several lawmakers described the legislation as a work in progress aimed at solving a critical problem: The news business is shrinking as technology changes the way people consume information.
“I do believe the marketplace is the best mechanism to regulate industry,” Sen. Tom Umberg (D-Orange), the committee chairman, said during a hearing on the bill.
However, he said, the demise of journalism harms democracy: “Thus, we have an obligation to find a way to support reasonable, credible journalism.”
The legislation, known as the “California Journalism Preservation Act,” would require digital platforms to pay news outlets a fee when they sell advertising alongside news content. It calls for creating a fund that the tech firms pay into, with the money being distributed to news outlets based on the number of journalists they employ. Publishers would have to use 70% of the money they receive to pay journalists in California.
Umberg noted that the bill does not specify an amount for the fund. He said it would be “a very elegant solution” for the parties involved to agree on what amount that should be.
Sen. Henry Stern (D-Calabasas) described talks as being “closer and closer to the place where we could actually land some kind of deal.”
In Canada, Google is paying $74 million annually into a fund for the news industry under a law similar to the one proposed in California.
Jaffer Zaidi, Google’s vice president of global news partnerships, testified against the California proposal during a hearing in which news executives from across the state lined up to express support for the bill, while tech industry lobbyists lined up in opposition. The bill is sponsored by the California News Publishers Assn., of which the Los Angeles Times is a member.
“The bill would … break the fundamental and foundational principles of the open internet, forcing platforms to pay publishers for sending valuable free traffic to them,” Zaidi said.
“It puts the full burden of support on one or two companies, while shielding many other large platforms who also link to news from California publishers.”
He said Google had shared a proposal for a different way to support journalism “through targeted programs” that would be funded by more companies than just the very largest platforms. The current version of the bill would apply only to Google and Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook.
“We hope this can serve as a basis for a workable path forward together,” Zaidi said. “We remain committed to being here and constructively working towards an outcome.”
The bill’s author, Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland), said she is “aggressively trying to engage” with companies that oppose the bill in the hopes that the sparring sides can reach an agreement that will allow the news industry to thrive.
“At the end of the day, I want the best solution to the problem,” Wicks said.
She closed the hearing by talking about the role journalism has played in exposing problems that lawmakers wind up addressing in the Capitol, such as crafting new laws to extend the statute of limitations for sexual abuse lawsuits after The Times’ investigation revealed a pattern of allegations against former USC gynecologist George Tyndall.
The bill now advances to the Senate Appropriations Committee. It will go to Gov. Gavin Newsom if it clears both houses of the Legislature by Aug. 31.
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Judge Juan Merchan has partially lifted the gag order he imposed against former President Trump – weeks after the jury found him guilty on all counts.
Trump and his legal team have been fighting the gag order since it was imposed upon him at the start of the trial, but had ramped up their efforts when it concluded last month. The former president and presumptive Republican nominee’s legal team had argued the gag order should be lifted before the June 27 presidential debate.
Merchan’s gag order barred Trump from making or directing others to make public statements about witnesses with regard to their potential participation or about counsel in the case – other than Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg – or about court staff, DA staff or family members of staff.
Merchan on Tuesday partially lifted the gag order because the trial has concluded.
Trump is now able to speak about protected witnesses and jurors.
Trump is still blocked from commenting about individual prosecutors, court staff and their family members. That portion of the gag order will remain in effect until Trump’s sentencing on July 11.
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