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...Correction: In Friday’s edition of FirstFT I incorrectly stated that the Iowa Hawkeyes faced a potential rematch with Louisiana State University over the weekend when the game had already taken place....
...While he campaigns in swing states, the incumbent president is also governing — he brokered Congress’s passage of new US aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan....
...Take a break from the news V-necks have been verboten for as long as most of us can remember, writes Teo van den Broeke....
...Many of the asylum seekers are coming via Texas, put on Manhattan-bound buses by the state’s Republican governor, Greg Abbott, in a calculated act of border state resentment....
...Greek city-state system of citizen power....
...The majority of economic dislocation in terms of employment in the United States has been technology-driven....
...New Zealand was missed out and Canada was represented by five ounces of minced apple, despite the tons of wheat it was pouring into Britain....
...In Europe, Mercedes said the “brutal” price war in EVs had dented its profits while in Japan, a lot of hope is riding on Toyota’s progress on solid-state batteries....
...They first talked in New York three years earlier, after the Ukrainian president read an article in Wired magazine about Anduril’s sensor towers on the US-Mexico border....
...slashing clouds in José Gutiérrez Solana’s “Mariners of Castro Urdiales” (1915-17)....
...The concept gained wider recognition, beginning in the early-1990s, due to a spate of murders of women and girls in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico....
...The Ukraine war is daily front-page news; Ethiopia’s troubles might get mentioned on page 14 every couple of months....
...Mexico’s opposition is on track to lose four state governorships to the ruling party after elections on Sunday, slowing its recent momentum against the country’s populist president and complicating its path...
...But with a conscious course correction, Bhatt started to carve out a distinctive path....
...Mexico will hold the biggest elections in its history in 2024, choosing a new president and congress, eight state governors, the mayor of Mexico City and 31 state legislatures....
...Independence Day Correction: An earlier edition of the newsletter incorrectly stated the date of the final group-stage World Cup match....
...The United States, led by the world top 10 trio of Fabiano Caruana, Levon Aronian and Wesley So, are odds on to regain the trophy in the absence of Russia (banned) and China (Covid concerns)....
...The town of Guadalupe, whose eponymous Virgin is the patroness of Extremadura, Mexico and much of Latin America besides, is worth the journey for Francisco de Zurbarán’s luminous portraits of Hieronymite...
...In rather alarming news, Russia conducted its first major nuclear drills since the start of its war in Ukraine....
...“Since then Turkey has strong regulations, state of the art, but it is not how buildings are being built.”...
...In the past year, nearly two and a half million migrants were apprehended at the US-Mexico border. That’s a new record. And it’s not just people fleeing Mexico and Central America anymore....
...So this is something they launched in the States a couple of years ago, they brought out in London last year....
...Recently, a global asset manager, Federated Hermes, withdrew its sponsorship of a group of Republican state finance officials who oppose action on climate change....
...I currently live in the state of Alabama, but that’s a new place for me....
...Michael StottWell, on the face of it, Marc, what they’re worried about is the United States not inviting Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua....
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