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...“Clearing Rafah is not war, it is not defence, it is an outright attack on the innocent,” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New York congresswoman, wrote on X at the weekend....
...Some House Democrats on Sunday also signalled their support to expel McCarthy, with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York saying she would “absolutely” vote in favour of unseating him....
.../ From Alan Capps, Alexandria, VA, US...
...It feels, writes the Washington Post, as if she’s hiding. Who wouldn’t want to hide? The role of professional spouse is a deeply unappealing one....
...Additional reporting by Lauren Fedor in Washington and Joshua Franklin in New York...
...Washington’s foreign policy “blob” — an establishment of officials and think-tankers that advocate primacy and US-led global hegemony — will decry this change....
...As parents we will not allow the Library of Alexandria to burn all over again. Sandra Paulina Smieszek Washington, DC, US...
...At one point, I was even anxious about building up a pipeline of stories after returning to work, but my dear colleague Annie Cheng Ting-Fang reassured me: “Don’t worry....
...*This article has been amended to reflect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s approach to the rally in Times Square...
...That it was once valued at nearly $6bn remains one of the wonders of the modern world, our Library of Alexandria, Colossus or Great Wall. Elsewhere on Thursday . . ....
...For a quarter of a century, Annie Proulx had been swooping westward like a migratory bird, drifting from the sandstone cliffs of Wyoming to the Sandias of New Mexico to the redwoods of the Pacific Northwest...
...We are meeting at Gadsby’s Tavern in Alexandria, Virginia — a fitting venue for a soldier who spent his youth visiting revolutionary war sites with his parents....
...Additional reporting by James Politi in Washington...
...The council overrode a veto by Muriel Bowser, Washington’s Democratic mayor, who opposes the changes....
...The day ahead President’s day Today is a federal holiday in the US to mark George Washington’s birthday. Equity and bond markets as well as government buildings will be closed....
...Washington restricted Nvidia from selling its H100 processor — the engine behind generative AI poster child ChatGPT — to the Chinese market last year....
...On the left, progressive Democrats, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Pramila Jayapal, accused Biden of capitulating to Republican demands....
...Members of the House are expected to return to Washington on Tuesday after the Memorial day long weekend ahead of the vote....
...Yeah, they started out as a young band, in Washington, in Olympia, Washington, and came out of a scene that was being described as Riot Grrrl at the time....
...Democratic lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called on the administration on Sunday to disregard the ruling. “Everything is on the table....
...Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic congresswoman from New York, said the White House can “expect pushback on nearly any significant concession”....
...He has been backed up by several other relatively young progressive House members, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jamaal Bowman and Dean Phillips....
...Some good news A giant leap for womankind: trailblazing 19th-century UK astronomers Annie Maunder and Alice Everett have had two asteroids named in their memory....
...George Parker has more from the prime minister’s agenda in Washington....
...Born in Alexandria, his father Loutfy Mansour was a prosperous cotton exporter whose company was nationalised by Egypt’s socialist president Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1963....
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