Is She the Next Mueller? | China Decides the New Black

Elizabeth Prelogar, a former Miss Idaho, is going places in Washington.

If all the world is a stage, then Elizabeth Prelogar is poised to become one of its major players. The 39-year-old fluent Russian speaker worked as a top prosecutor for special counsel Robert Mueller in his investigation into Moscow’s meddling in the 2016 election while on loan from the U.S. Solicitor General’s office, reportedly tasked with research and interviewing key witnesses. Before that, she clerked for Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan. Brett Kavanaugh, too, clerked on the highest court (for Justice Anthony Kennedy) before serving on a special counsel investigation (for Ken Starr’s Bill Clinton probe). Which makes it worth wondering: Is Prelogar headed toward a future that looks more like Mueller’s or Kavanaugh’s?

From a giant market to the test lab of fashion, China is where top luxury brands will soon try out new products and strategies before taking them to the world.

Gildo Zegna, CEO of luxury Italian brand Ermenegildo Zegna, recently declared that his firm was moving its test market to China. While Chinese consumers were already a key demographic for the famed menswear brand, early responses from Chinese customers will now dictate what new product lines Zegna launches around the world.

This shift east, which is shaking up the global fashion industry, is driven by a combination of factors: the evolution of China’s own market, manufacturing strategies, technologies and spending power. With Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Burberry shopping bags in tow, top fashion brands are now turning to China as a litmus test for their global plans.

Gen. Khalifa Haftar is ending his yearslong crusade against terrorists … by taking over his homeland.

Last week the general ordered his Libyan National Army to march on Tripoli, the capital of the country’s internationally recognized government, which was supposed to be the site for an upcoming United Nations peace conference. The aggressive move was likely an attempt to prevent the installation of a competitor as Libya’s unified leader. And in the next few days, turmoil nearly a decade in the making will come to a head. In the aftermath of gunfire, the gray-haired, bushy-browed commander aims to rise as the nation’s first undisputed leader since his confidante-turned-competitor Moammar Gadhafi was ousted in 2011. If he succeeds, Haftar will have pulled off an enormous gambit, both courting international allies and repelling the world with rhetoric aimed to appease his countrymen, wrapped up in a yearslong consolidation of power achieved under the auspices of combating Islamic terrorism.