California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom was denied entry into the official headquarters for the U.S. delegation in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum, his press office said on Wednesday. The governor, a nemesis of President Donald Trump, was scheduled to speak to the media outlet Fortune for an event sponsored by the USA House in Davos, but wasn’t allowed inside the venue, POLITICO reported. USA House, which is set up in a 19th-century church, has been recognized by the United States as the official headquarters for U.S. delegates in Davos this week for the World Economic Forum. “Under pressure from the White House and State Department, USA House (a church acting as the official US pavilion) is now denying entry to @CAGovernor Gavin Newsom to speak with media after Fortune — the official media partner — invited him to speak,” Newsom’s press office wrote on X. White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly told The Daily Wire, “No one in Davos knows who third-rate governor Newscum is or why he is frolicking around Switzerland instead of fixing the many problems he created in California.” Newsom has been in Davos during the World Economic Forum this week, where he has spoken to the media and bashed President Trump. Trump mentioned Newsom during his World Economic Forum speech as the governor looked on. The president was touting his record on cracking down on crime when he added, “We will help the people of California … I know Gavin was here. I used to get along so great with Gavin when I was president. Gavin’s a good guy, and if he needed it, I would do it in a heartbeat. We did help them a lot in Los Angeles early in my term when they had some problems.” After Trump delivered a speech to world leaders on Wednesday, Newsom called the speech “remarkably boring” and “remarkably insignificant.” On Tuesday, the California governor ripped world leaders for what he viewed as actions appeasing Trump. “It’s time to stand tall and firm,” Newsom said. “I’ve seen this in the United States. The supine Congress playing both sides. … It’s time to have principle. It’s time to stand tall and strong.” “I can’t take this complicity — people rolling over,” he added. “I should have brought a bunch of knee pads for all the world leaders. Nobel Prizes that are being given away. I mean, it’s just pathetic and I hope people understand how pathetic they look on the world stage, I mean, at least from an American perspective. It’s embarrassing.” Trump administration officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Energy Secretary Chris Wright, have spoken to audiences gathered at the USA House in the Swiss Alps town this week. Earlier on Wednesday, Bessent ripped Newsom while speaking at an event, saying, “I was told he was asked to give a speech on his signature policies, but he’s not speaking because what have his economic policies brought? Outward migration from California, a gigantic budget deficit, the largest homeless population in America.”

Andrew Klavan’s latest work of nonfiction has been nominated for a prestigious award from the Mystery Writers of America. “The Kingdom of Cain: Finding God in the Literature of Darkness” has been nominated for a 2026 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Biography. The New York Times bestseller is a gripping examination of evil, art, the mind, and faith. This is the sixth Edgar nomination for Klavan, a prolific mystery writer known for his Cameron Winter series. Klavan, who has two Edgar Awards under his belt, announced this latest nomination on X with characteristic humility. Wow, here’s a shocker. “Kingdom of Cain” has been nominated for an Edgar Award in the category of criticism and biography. My sixth nomination with two wins. Really gratifying.https://t.co/mBsqwOwAJ6 — Andrew Klavan (@andrewklavan) January 20, 2026 “My sixth nomination with two wins. Really gratifying,” he added. The nomination and potential win add to Klavan’s long list of accolades as a prolific novelist, critic, and cultural commentator, as well as his work as host of “The Andrew Klavan Show” at The Daily Wire. “The Kingdom Of Cain” centers on three infamous murders from history and explores how acts of darkness have inspired works of literature that grapple with morality, suffering, and the presence of God. Through these case studies, Klavan weaves together literary criticism and theological reflection, arguing that even humanity’s most brutal moments can point toward transcendent truth.  “My subject is murder and the imagination,” Klavan writes in the book. “My premise is that murder is evil. My belief is that God is love, and love is the source of joy.” “If, then, I enter the literature of darkness, I do it with a sure and certain faith in the reality of light, not light in a future heaven but light in this world of sin and suffering, not light in the world to come but light in this world of present darkness, including the darkness of murder,” he adds. Klavan expounded on those themes in a May interview with Daily Wire reporter Megan Basham, during which he explained why Christians should not be afraid to engage with such sinister topics as murder. “What good does it do anybody to write about the world as it’s not?” Klavan asks, noting that “Every honest story, every true story, has God.” “Whether you believe or not, if you tell a true story, if you tell the truth about life, God will be there.” “The Kingdom of Cain” is available on Amazon, and you can purchase signed copies of the bestselling book at the Daily Wire Shop. The 80th Annual Edgar Awards will be celebrated on April 29, 2026, at the Marriott Marquis Times Square.

WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance will travel to Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Thursday, “ground zero” for the anti-ICE violence, protesting, and rioting. Vance will first head to an industrial shipping facility in Toledo, Ohio, where he will deliver remarks on President Donald Trump’s commitment to lowering prices, increasing paychecks, and creating more jobs across the Midwest. He will then head to Minneapolis, Minnesota, to hold a roundtable discussion with local leaders and community members, deliver remarks, and meet with ICE agents to “reinforce the White House’s unwavering support for federal immigration officials,” a White House official told The Daily Wire. The White House believes Democrats in Minnesota have purposefully neglected the fraud in the state, undermining federal immigration authorities in their investigations into “criminal wrongdoing,” an official shared. “Minnesota has become ground zero for attacks on ICE officials and illegal, violent anti-ICE protests,” that official said. When Vance speaks in Minneapolis, he plans to highlight the administration’s “commitment to restoring law and order” in the city. He will point to the blue city’s sanctuary city policies and how they have “degraded public safety and endangered ICE officers,” the official shared. MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA – JANUARY 07: An onlooker holds a sign that reads “Shame” as members of law enforcement work the scene following a suspected shooting by an ICE agent during federal law enforcement operations on January 07, 2026, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images) The vice president will also celebrate the “essential work ICE agents have done to take dangerous, criminal illegal aliens off of America’s streets.” The move comes after Vance, during a press briefing at the White House last week, announced a new position at the Justice Department: the Assistant Attorney General, focused on cracking down on fraud and abuse of taxpayer-funded programs. “To make sure that we prosecute the bad guys and do it as swiftly and efficiently as possible … we are creating a new assistant attorney general position who will have nationwide jurisdiction over the issue of fraud,” Vance said from the podium in the White House briefing room. “Now, of course, that person’s efforts will start and focus primarily in Minnesota, but it is going to be a nationwide effort, because unfortunately, the American people have been defrauded in a very nationwide way.” The vice president noted that the new position is part of the Trump administration’s plan to go after fraud in states like California, Minnesota, and Ohio. “If you’re a young parent struggling to afford childcare in the United States of America, there are programs that we have to make it easier for your kids to get in daycare, for your kids to get in preschool,” Vance said at the time. “Those programs should go to American citizens, not be defrauded by Somali immigrants, and others.”

President Donald Trump doesn’t usually heap praise on people who question capitalism and champion carbon reduction efforts. Larry Fink seems to be the exception. “Everything Larry touches turns to gold,” Trump said of the BlackRock CEO during his Wednesday speech at the World Economic Forum. “He made this [forum] very successful.” At first glance, it’s not shocking to hear Trump praise Fink. BlackRock was first in line to help President Trump reclaim the Panama Canal, with Fink spearheading the effort himself. And Trump is reportedly considering BlackRock executive Rick Reider to replace Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. But Trump’s affinity for Fink is curious considering the investment titan’s history of supporting exactly the kind of “woke” initiatives the Trump administration opposes. At the 2020 World Economic Forum, Fink took the stage draped in a scarf stitched with a graphic depicting rising global temperatures over the previous 150 years. He warned that climate change posed an imminent threat to the world and the global financial system.  That message carried into BlackRock’s corporate strategy. In his 2020 annual letter to shareholders, Fink said the world was on the brink of a “fundamental reshaping of finance,” insisting that “every government, company, and shareholder must confront climate change.” “Behaviors are going to have to change,” Fink said at the time. “You have to force behaviors, and at BlackRock, we are forcing behaviors.”  That leverage, Fink explained, came through voting power.  “I have only one power,” he said. “And I’m going to use that power heavily and that is the power of the vote.”  By managing trillions of dollars in passive retirement and index funds, BlackRock holds outsized ownership stakes across corporate America, giving the firm extraordinary influence over company policies regardless of whether individual investors or voters consent.  In his 2021 letter to shareholders, he asked companies to issue “sustainability reports” detailing not only environmental risks but internal workforce policies.  “As you issue sustainability reports, we ask that your disclosures on talent strategy fully reflect your long-term plans to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion, as appropriate by region,” he said. “We hold ourselves to this same standard.” He also cautioned companies against drawing “stark lines’ within Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) frameworks, arguing that issues like climate change and racial inequality are interconnected.  “Questions of racial justice, economic inequality, or community engagement are often classed as an ‘S’ issue in ESG conversations. But it is misguided to draw such stark lines between these categories. For example, climate change is already having a disproportionate impact on low-income communities around the world – is that an E or an S issue? What matters is less the category we place these questions in, but the information we have to understand them and how they interact with each other. Improved data and disclosures will help us better understand the deep interdependence between environmental and social issues.”  Then came the pivot.  In 2024, Fink stunned the financial world by signaling political indifference. He said it “really doesn’t matter” who won the presidential race, arguing that both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris would be “good for Wall Street.”  “At BlackRock, we work with both administrations,” Fink said, adding that the firm was in discussions with both candidates.  Once Trump returned to office, the sense of urgency around climate change appeared to evaporate. By 2025, references to climate change and DEI had vanished entirely from Fink’s annual shareholder letter. In their place was a call for a large-scale investment in nuclear energy. “Wind and solar alone can’t reliably keep the lights on,” Fink wrote.  Yet even as Fink appears aligned with Trump, some Republicans remain unconvinced that Fink has fully abandoned his old ways. The White House is reportedly mulling over an executive order that would limit how passive index fund managers like BlackRock participate in shareholder votes. And Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) has suggested Congress may need to limit BlackRock’s voting power. “Congress is going to have to play a role to ensure the big three passive firms — BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street—stop playing politics,” he said.  Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins echoed the warning, signaling that regulators are prepared to rein in large institutional asset managers that “get out of line.”  “There are two schools of thought within the GOP on BlackRock,” Vice President JD Vance said in 2023. “The old guard thinks they’re creating value and need to be rewarded with tax cuts. I think they’re destroying value and are engaged in illegal and immoral conduct.”  It remains unclear which school of thought will win out in the GOP. For now, Fink seems firmly in Trump’s good graces. But just days before Trump extolled him at Davos, the president’s modern-day Midas offered a glimpse of the old Larry Fink. “Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, more wealth has been created than at any time prior in human history,” Fink said in his speech kicking off the World Economic Forum. “But in advanced economies, that wealth has accrued to a far narrower share of people than any healthy society can ultimately sustain.”

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In bipartisan votes, the House committee investigating convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein advanced contempt of Congress citations against former first couple Bill and Hillary Clinton for their failure to testify in the inquiry.  The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted Wednesday on the citations after the former president and former secretary of state refused a subpoena to testify about Epstein. The citations would next move to the House Floor for a vote by the full chamber. Nine committee Democrats joined 25 Republicans to hold Bill Clinton in contempt of Congress, in a lopsided 34-8 vote. However, most committee Democrats objected to holding Hillary Clinton in contempt, with three Democratic members joining Republicans in a 28-15 vote.Contempt of Congress is a criminal charge punishable by up to a year in prison or a $100,000 fine. “Today, the Clintons must be held accountable for their actions. And Democrats must support these measures, or they will be exposed as hypocrites,” House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said during the markup of the citation. “Subpoenas are not mere suggestions. They carry the force of law and require compliance,” Comer added. “Since issuing the subpoenas, this committee has acted in good faith. We’ve offered flexibility on scheduling. The response we received was not cooperation, but defiance, marked by repeated delays, excuses, and obstruction.” The committee had originally subpoenaed the Clintons for a closed-door deposition on Capitol Hill. To head off the contempt vote, the Clintons offered to allow only Comer and ranking member Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., to meet with Bill Clinton in New York. A key condition of the offer was no written transcript of the interview. Also, Hillary Clinton would not be interviewed under the offer. Garcia preferred not to compel testimony from Hillary Clinton. “It’s not clear to me and many others as to why Secretary Clinton has been a target of this investigation,” Garcia said. “The Secretary submitted a sworn declaration, under penalty of perjury, that she had no memory of ever meeting Mr. Epstein, never flew on his plane, never held any office with responsibility for investigating his activities.” Comer noted that Garcia had voted to subpoena the fomer secretary of state. Comer ultimately turned down the Clintons’ offer, insisting a written transcript was essential for Bill’s interview.  Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to felony solicitation of prostitution, as well as procurement of minors to engage in prostitution. He died in a New York prison cell in 2019 in what was determined to be a suicide.  On July 23, 2025, Republicans and Democrats on the House Oversight Subcommittee on Federal Law Enforcement unanimously approved a motion to issue subpoenas to ten individuals, including the Clintons, as part of its investigation into Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell. The 42nd president was once photographed in a swimming pool at Epstein’s estate, appearing with both Maxwell, who was convicted of helping Epstein perpetrate crimes, and another woman whose face was blocked out. The photo was published in a batch of Epstein files released by the Justice Department in December.  Comer has argued that Hillary Clinton should also be questioned about Epstein, as she is a former secretary of state whose agency has an office to combat international sex trafficking. Further, Epstein was a donor to the Clinton Foundation and has claimed to be a founding donor of the Clinton Global Initiative.  One of the Clintons' pawns claimed to the fake NYT that they never ruled out a transcript. The receipts tell a different story—they demanded that there be only one staffer "to take notes" for each side during an "interview." Subpoenas and depositions are not suggestions. pic.twitter.com/M8YWo3Sbh9— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) January 20, 2026 The committee initially requested the 42nd president’s deposition on Oct. 14, 2025, while the former secretary of state’s was set for Oct. 9. Those depositions were later postponed to Dec. 17 and Dec. 18 respectively, but the Clintons said they had to attend a funeral at that time. The committee moved the dates once again to January 2026. On Wednesday, Angel Urena, a deputy chief of staff for Clinton, posted on social media that the Clintons had attempted to cooperate with the committee, “and Republicans REFUSE to say yes.” SPOILER ALERT: We have offered to help, we have helped, and to this very moment we are ready to help. But the Republicans REFUSE to say YES. pic.twitter.com/7JCHCVSShx— Angel Ureña (@angelurena) January 21, 2026 After the Clintons refused to show up for their scheduled depositions–Bill Clinton on Jan. 13, and Hillary Clinton on Jan. 14–Comer announced the committee would move to hold the former first couple in contempt of Congress.  The Clintons argued last week in a letter to Comer that the move to require their testimony was partisan and could not be legally enforced. The committee has investigated what missteps federal law enforcement may have taken in the Epstein case, and the vast connections the deceased convict had.  The Clintons are not the only prominent political figures to face contempt of Congress charges in recent years. In a different investigation, Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro and former Trump campaign and White House adviser Steve Bannon were both prosecuted in 2022 and served prison sentences for not complying with subpoenas from the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol.  The post In Bipartisan Votes, House Panel Advances Clintons’ Contempt Citations appeared first on The Daily Signal.