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Game of ‘cat and mouse’ returns to cold war levels, say intelligence officers
...And The best gift I’ve received is a letter from Sylvia Plath to Ted Hughes that Kim Jones gave me....
...Additional contributions by Gary Jones and Emily Goldberg...
...Still Jones believes Trump and those who have rushed to his side in recent days will “probably come to regret it”....
...Kids, of course, is literal: her own daughter Lila Moss; Stella Jones (daughter of The Clash’s Mick Jones); Ferguson’s daughters; and Stevie Sims (daughter of David Sims and Luella Bartley) are just a few...
...Nearby, the Shinnecock ceramicist Courtney M Leonard’s mound of false yet pearlescent whale teeth gives off a quiet, sumptuous glow....
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...“The fear for Democrats is that you’re going to lose votes of people who might otherwise vote Democratic,” said Jones....
...Then we talk about the phenomenon of gentle parenting with my colleague, Courtney Weaver....
...The Trump campaign has looked to Bobby Burchfield, a partner at King & Spalding, in litigation thus far at the Supreme Court, and has employed firms including Jones Day and the boutique Consovoy McCarthy...
...Roscoe Jones, a lawyer with the Washington-based firm Gibson Dunn, said: “Companies are having to make tough decisions during the Covid-19 crisis, and guidance on how companies can ensure their PPP loans...
...ExxonMobil, Pfizer and Raytheon Technologies were booted from the Dow Jones blue-chip index. Researchers in Hong Kong recorded the first genetically proven case of reinfection....
...The White House, however, instructed Mr McGahn — who has since left the Trump administration to return to private practice at the law firm Jones Day — not to testify, and on Monday released a legal opinion...
...“It may not be a blue wave but it’s a rainbow wave,” Van Jones, a Democratic commentator, said on CNN earlier in the evening when the Democrats were not projected to make as many gains as materialised....
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...Follow on Twitter: @dimi, @courtney_ft This piece has been amended to state the correct winner of the Senate race in Alabama in December. The election was won by the Democrat Douglas Jones...
The FT's Vanessa Kortekaas on the key stories to watch for in the week ahead
...“If you look at the difference between Doug Jones and New York, we won because of the energy among women, including Republican women who voted for a Democrat for the first time....
...earlier this year, Democrat Conor Lamb won a district that Mr Trump carried by 20 points and which had previously been represented by a Republican congressman, while in Alabama last year Democrat Doug Jones...
...became president, Democratic candidates have outperformed the Cook Political Report’s partisan voting index by six to 12 points, and even taken seats in the case of Conor Lamb in Pennsylvania and Doug Jones...
...Additional reporting by Courtney Weaver...
...Many GOP members say any other Republican would have beaten Mr Jones, given the deeply conservative nature of Alabama....
...But many Republicans blamed him for Mr Moore’s subsequent defeat to Doug Jones, a Democrat....
...That suggests Mr Jones will almost certainly be sworn in next year....
...Keith Cozza, Courtney Mather and James Nelson will replace John Boushy, Matthew Ferko and Christopher Williams....
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