Emma Riley, the White House communications chief of staff, became the second in the Biden-Harris team to hand in their resignation this week when she announced that she is leaving her post for a job in the Labor Department.
A Marriott hotel in the Czech Republic declined to host a conference of activists fighting for the human rights of the Uyghur people, according to a new report. Many commentators have suggested that the company capitulated to the Communist China regime, but the hotel claims that it canceled the conference in an effort to maintain "political neutrality."
The House speaker was among the guests at the wedding of billionaire heiress Ivy Getty in San Francisco - where the local Department of Health only allows being unmasked indoors if there are less than 100 people and everyone is vaccinated.