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...Liu Pengyu, a spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Washington, said China “firmly opposes and cracks down on all forms of cyber attacks” and described the accusations as “groundless”....
...In another era, McCarthy’s deputy, Patrick McHenry, would be the natural candidate to replace him. McHenry has declined to run. Few could blame him for walking away....
...Stefania Palma That is what the FTC, as well as the 17 state attorneys-general who have also joined the complaint, that is what they are accusing Amazon of doing....
...Yuan Yang is the FT’s outgoing deputy Beijing bureau chief. Additional reporting by Nian Liu Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...The debacle is the pièce de résistance in a collection of scandals inherited by McKinsey’s global managing partner Kevin Sneader since he entered the top job in 2018....
...Two days earlier Adam Hickey, US deputy assistant attorney-general, said Beijing was “using its intelligence services and their tradecraft to target our private sector’s intellectual property”....
...Further raising eyebrows, Mr Trump abruptly withdrew the nomination of Jessie Liu, a high-ranking federal prosecutor who had overseen the Stone case until last month, to a top job at the Treasury department...
...Edward Luce writes that the attorney-general Bill Barr is Mr Trump’s political sword....
...In February Mr Trump announced he would nominate Jeffrey Rosen to replace Rod Rosenstein as deputy attorney-general....
...Mr Rosenstein is set to depart the justice department in the coming weeks after almost two years as deputy attorney-general....
...(FT) Venezuelan opposition deputy arrested Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó said on Wednesday that intelligence agents had detained his deputy Edgar Zambrano, the first arrest of a lawmaker since...
...Donald Trump will meet Mr Rosenstein on Thursday amid reports that the deputy attorney-general overseeing the Russia investigation could be ousted....
...The remarkable exchanges came as Kevin Downing, an attorney for Mr Manafort, aimed to show that Mr Gates was an untrustworthy witness....
...Matthew Whitaker, acting attorney-general, announced the action against the world’s biggest telecoms equipment maker on Monday evening....
...He was eventually forced to contend with Mr Manafort’s attorney, Kevin Downing, who carried out a tough cross-examination of the government’s star witness....
...(FT) Trump’s legal pursuers strengthened by Strauss Whether or not President Trump sacks his Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Thursday, he will still face a stern examination from the legal team...
...According to US media reports, Mr Trump has toyed with the idea of neutering the Russia probe by removing Mr Mueller or Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney-general who appointed him....
...Mr Horn, who replaced Sally Yates in that job when she was named deputy attorney-general in 2014, is also looking into possible insider trading by three top executives at the credit reporting agency in the...
...The sacking of Ms Yates — which had echoes of 1973’s “Saturday night massacre”, when the attorney-general and his deputy resigned over Richard Nixon’s interference in the Watergate investigation — is the...
...Deputy attorney-general Rod Rosenstein said he was putting the inquiries into the hands of someone with a “degree of independence from the normal chain of command” because of the unique circumstances surrounding...
...“Wei-governance” is a recent buzzword with government agencies as well as Chinese deputies communicating on weibo....
...Kevin Carroll, a leader of the far-right English Defence League, has announced that he is standing in Bedfordshire on a platform to end what he calls “political correctness” in policing....
...Indeed, on that chaotic Thursday, King left it to Deputy Governor Rachel Lomax to represent the bank in conference calls with his counterparts across the world....
...Thus comptroller John Liu, whose office runs the plans, and mayor Michael Bloomberg believe that by embracing 21st-century pension principles, pension plan returns can improve by one to two percentage points...
...Separately, the Associated Press reported that Jeffrey Cox, the deputy attorney-general of Indiana, had lost his position after sending a Twitter message suggesting that Wisconsin authorities should “use...
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