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...At the same time, several hardline Republican lawmakers — notably Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene — have called for the impeachment of Biden, attorney-general Merrick Garland and homeland security...
...Under the premiership of his old friend Johnson, Zahawi’s political career took off with the sensitive job of vaccines minister during the pandemic, followed by education secretary and then, after the resignation...
...Biden cited the near-collapse of al-Qaeda, which conducted the September 11 attacks, for his decision to withdraw....
...Alejandro Mayorkas, nominee for secretary of homeland security Mr Mayorkas, who was born in Cuba, would be the first Latino head of the department of homeland security, which is responsible for implementing...
...al-Qaeda and its associates.Bradley Bowman, an Afghanistan veteran at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said national security interests rather than “the political calendar” should determine America...
...The president-elect warned that there would be no more blank cheques for Mr Trump’s “favourite dictator”, a reference to Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah al-Sisi....
...These politicians have been briefed on the Ananyevs by high-profile lawyer John Sandweg — former acting general counsel at the US Department of Homeland Security and now a lawyer advising some noteholders...
...Visa has called off its deal to buy fintech start-up Plaid for $5.3bn after the US Department of Justice sued to block the transaction on antitrust grounds....
...a ban on deporting certain unauthorised immigrants who came to the US as children, known as “Dreamers”, was “arbitrary and capricious”.While the Department of Homeland Security had the authority to cancel...
...“The fact that [David] Cameron, [Jeremy] Heywood (the most powerful civil servant) et al did not understand many basic features of how the world works is why I and a few others gambled on the referendum,...
...Unlike Sondland et al, they did not buy their positions. Nor will most of them be able to monetise their experience when they leave government....
...The US Department of Health and Human Services denied Bright’s allegations. Other scientists have taken note of Bright’s fate....
...that he was ‘reading’ from a blank piece of paper.”...
...The former UK foreign secretary was the subject of a searing takedown in this New York Times piece: “Boris Johnson has ruined Britain”....
...Jeanette Manfra, assistant secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security, said Washington had “high confidence” the Russian government was behind the alleged intrusions....
...The EU also condemned the attack. Tom Bossert, White House homeland security and counter-terrorism adviser, confirmed that the Trump administration was planning its response to the attack....
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...A few hours later he announced that he had ordered the Department of Homeland Security to step up the country’s “already extreme” vetting programme....
...“The security of the American people is every president’s top priority, and the risk of a future terrorist attack on the US homeland emanating from Afghanistan is too great to ignore,” said Mr Shearer....
...“We cannot play international whack-a-mole with each new threat,” John Kelly, secretary for the department of homeland security, said on Wednesday, according to text of his prepared remarks....
...Elsewhere on Monday, – NYT: “As President Trump signed a sweeping executive order on Friday, shutting the borders to refugees and others from seven largely Muslim countries, the secretary of homeland security...
...Mr Sessions’ hearing came on the same day as John Kelly, Mr Trump’s pick for director of homeland security, was questioned by the Senate’s Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs — a significantly...
...“He has got very broad experience as a line prosecutor,” said Michael Chertoff, the homeland security secretary under George W Bush who has known him for 30 years....
...Jeh Johnson, the US homeland security secretary, said it was possible that mechanical failure, rather than terrorism, was the cause of the crash....
...“Isis is focusing on Libya because it is getting ready to find an alternative homeland,” says Hisham al-Hashimi, an adviser to the Baghdad government....
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