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The White House is warning that the art world is fertile ground for money laundering and other financial crimes as the president's son, Hunter Biden, is raising eyebrows by selling paintings for up to half a million dollars — despite lacking any formal art experience. The Biden administration released on Monday a national strategy to counter corruption, which it noted is the first of its kind. The White House document touches on the corruption-rife art world, noting that the "markets for art and antiquities — and the market participants who facilitate transactions — are especially vulnerable to a range of...

I rarely make predictions -- whether of election results or anything else. My policy has always been to say what I believe should be done, not what will be done. I am making an exception with regard to America in 2019. 2019 will be a dark year in America. Thanks to the left's control of the House of Representatives and the news media, Americans will be kept in a fevered state throughout 2019 -- with innumerable hearings, exposes, criminal investigations and possible indictments of those around the president and the president himself. Truth will not be the point. Defamation will....

Former President Bill Clinton said he hopes there will be a female president in his lifetime — but is unsure if he will ever be a “first man.” Clinton on Monday told a Chinese audience that a female president would be good for the United States. His wife, Hillary Clinton, is considered the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination in 2016 if she decides to run. "I hope we have a woman president in my lifetime, and I think it would be a good thing for the world as well as for America," Bill Clinton said, according to Agence France-Presse. Clinton...