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...Selling high-tech energy products and transportation services around the battery is how the company was “shaped from the beginning”, says McCarthy, the Shenzhen-based investor....
...“We’ve now 86’d McConnell, McCarthy McDaniel....
...She is fortunate that Joe McCarthy and the House un-American Activities Committee are no longer around....
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...McCarthy fell to a similar fate on Tuesday. Who would take on the job now? In another era, McCarthy’s deputy, Patrick McHenry, would be the natural candidate to replace him....
...Humphrey only got the endorsement of Eugene McCarthy, his defeated rival, shortly before polling day....
...The “con” side was led by his last surviving brother, Edward....
...They then blocked Steve Scalise, McCarthy’s number two, as insufficiently firebrand....
...Kevin McCarthy’s demise last week was a symptom of a growing disenchantment with funding Ukraine — and rising Republican sympathy for Vladimir Putin....
...McCarthy was undone by the likes of Edward Murrow, the highly respected broadcaster, who stood up for the men and women whose reputations had been ruined on false suspicions of loyalty to the Soviet Union...
...Edward Luce responds Thank you Rana. I have indeed been steeped in the past over the last few weeks — though the history I’m writing about is somewhat more recent than the Missouri Compromise....
...Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right by Matthew Dallek Basic Books, $32/£30, 384 pages Edward Luce is the FT’s US national editor Join our online book group on Facebook at...
...America’s growing isolationism: The ousting of Kevin McCarthy as Republican speaker is bad news for Ukraine, argues Edward Luce....
...Recommended reading My column this week awards “game, set and almost match” to Biden in the debt ceiling battle with Kevin McCarthy’s Republicans....
...Yesterday, McCarthy defied his critics, writes James Politi....
...US national editor Edward Luce laments the return of American isolationism....
...Edward Luce: A victory in next year’s presidential election would be Trump’s get-out-of-jail-free card — and America’s funeral....
...It was notable in Pelosi’s goodbye speech in Congress on Thursday that McCarthy, among others, was absent....
...Edward White and Cheng Leng explain the details. 4. Waning support for Ukraine could be a US election flashpoint, as Republican voters, in particular, move away from the idea of long-term support....
...edward.luce@ft.com Letter in response to this article: Ukraine needs Nato heavy weapons now / From Michael Romberg, London W1, UK...
...As Kevin McCarthy put it a while back, Americans sitting in a recession “aren’t going to write a blank cheque to Ukraine”....
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