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...Embraced by Trump, Thomas and his wife Virginia have become a Washington power couple. There has been much controversy of late over the political activities of Virginia, known as Ginni....
...“They can see how rough Turner was,” says Thomas....
...“Santa, please bring ammo”, tweets US Congressman Thomas Massie as his seven-strong household pose with rifles in front of a blameless Christmas tree....
...Democrats in Washington have sought to counteract those efforts by passing new federal voting laws....
...“If the only thing this summit accomplishes is drawing China into a public debate on which system works best then it will have been worth it,” says Thomas Wright, a Brookings Institution scholar....
...Thomas Bollyky, a senior fellow for global health, economics, and development at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, said the still-limited supply of vaccines based on the pioneering mRNA technology...
...The rebound in macro data, which has given hopes of a V-shaped recovery, could prove to be an illusion and the recovery will slow down.”...
...“Regional data show particular weakness in virus-hit states, where V-shaped recoveries are morphing into Ws,” Aneta Markowska and Thomas Simons, Jefferies economists, wrote in a note....
...Additional reporting by Courtney Weaver in Washington...
...Zant-Boer, Farthingstone, England Crossword 16,338: Ailsa Bolton, France; John Morrissey, Surrey, England; RK Ajayakumar, Croydon, England Polymath 1,050: Anthea Sinclair, Edinburgh Crossword 16,332: Thomas...
...Thomas Hale 98....
...Chart du jour: Piercing Piketty’s myths Former IMF chief economist and ex-Indian central banker Raghuram Rajan dismantles Thomas Piketty’s new tome on inequality in an FT review....
...“Athletes’ health and wellbeing are always at the heart of our concerns,” IOC President Thomas Bach said in a statement....
...Alan Morrison, associate dean at the George Washington University Law School, says the episode was “at least as controversial as the Clarence Thomas hearings”....
...But justice is the last thing on Washington’s mind. Regardless of what happened, Mr Kavanaugh and Ms Ford now personify opposite sides of a #MeToo fight that is likely to poison Washington....
...The US boasted Wernher von Braun, the German ex-Nazi inventor of the V-2 rocket, a trophy from the second world war. Both were scarred by conflict and driven by a passion for space....
...*This article has been amended to correct the date of the Roe v Wade ruling...
...Last year, when he nominated Neil Gorsuch to the court, the suspense was stoked as rival candidate Thomas Hardiman drove east from Pittsburgh on the day of the announcement, appearing to head towards Washington...
...Latham & Watkins has hired Thomas Weitkamp as Munich-based partner in its banking practice. He joins from Clifford Chance....
...There are office blocks on Washington’s K street — home of think-tanks, lobbyists and advocacy groups — that would still be fields without Chevron....
...Mr Trump has previously said he planned to appoint justices who would overturn the landmark ruling Roe v Wade, which legalised abortion in the US....
...In a live televised address from the White House, Mr Trump praised Mr Kavanaugh, a 53-year-old appeals court justice on the influential Washington DC circuit, as a candidate with “impeccable credentials”...
...One of his most consequential votes was on Bush v Gore, the controversial ruling that handed George W Bush the White House in 2000....
...Democrats are worried that Mr Trump will assemble a majority to overturn the landmark 1973 abortion rights case Roe v Wade....
...Elliott v Arconic: Round 2 The nastiest proxy fight of the season concluded on Monday. Or did it?...
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