Politics

The Clinton Foundation has shut down the Clinton Global Initiative in a move that political opponents have taken as confirmation that the organization is a slush fund. The Clinton Global Initiative is a division of the Clinton Foundation that “convenes global leaders to create and implement innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges,” according…

A BuzzFeed official said Thursday that the news outlet is donating $25,000 to a journalism nonprofit using the earnings from the sales of its "failing pile of garbage" merchandise. "Cool thing: Thanks to people who bought the failing pile of garbage merch, we get to donate more than $25k to @pressfreedom," the head of U.S.…

Yesterday during his press conference, President-elect Donald Trump vowed to bring jobs to the states whose voters helped him win. Just what does that mean? Examining how Trump won the election matters—because many believe it was his campaign’s command of data that put him over the top...

Whether they're eager to support or eager to resist President-elect Donald Trump in 2017, the Washington, D.C., region's nonprofits are using Inauguration Day as a way to raise awareness among their donors or to reach out to those they serve. Many nonprofits I reached out to said they aren’t playing any role in the day’s…

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have vowed to put their enormous wealth toward philanthropic causes. Now the couple are putting infrastructure in place to make sure their money and efforts will make an impact on policy as well. Zuckerberg and Chan have hired a top political operative to lead the next…

Donations to the Committee to Protect Journalists surged after actress Meryl Streep used her Golden Globes acceptance speech to urge people to support the organization, Money Magazine reported Monday. In her lifetime achievement award speech, Streep urged the audience to donate to the group as a means to hold President-elect Donald Trump accountable. "Our founders enshrined the…

Inauguration weekend typically means big business for Washington, D.C., restaurants and bars. But in the days after the election, there was chatter about something that had never been considered in years past. “People all around the community, they would hear from other people or just patrons [saying], ‘Oh man, all the restaurants should just do a blackout…

Donald Trump cannot move ahead with his plan to dismantle his charitable foundation because state prosecutors are probing whether the president-elect personally benefited from its spending, the New York attorney general's office said Tuesday. "The Trump Foundation is still under investigation by this office and cannot legally dissolve until that investigation is complete," said Amy…

President-elect Donald Trump said he plans to shut down his charitable foundation, a decision that comes after repeated controversies over how it collected and disbursed funds. In a statement Saturday, Trump offered no timeline for when his foundation would close down, but said he had directed his attorney to take the steps needed to close it.…

Hundreds of international nonprofits in China are bracing for the new year when a law rolled out as part of President Xi Jinping’s push against unwanted foreign influence threatens to make them illegal. The uncertainty stems from new rules requiring foreign nonprofits to register with police and have a government sponsor, among other restrictions. The…