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...A row is erupting between the government and former culture secretary Nadine Dorries over her refusal to submit the manuscript of her “damning” new book about Boris Johnson’s downfall for review....
...The White House last week sent two former top officials — former Republican national security adviser Stephen Hadley and former Democratic deputy secretary of state James Steinberg — to Taipei in the wake...
...A Republican-led effort to impeach US secretary of homeland security Alejandro Mayorkas over the crisis at the US-Mexico border failed on Tuesday night....
...It is an article of faith among Trumpians that the CIA, the FBI and the departments of justice and homeland security are sources of globalist propaganda....
...All of which leaves Johnson, the accidental speaker, in a no-win situation. The difference between backing Ukraine or Russia is as critical to US democracy’s future as it is for European security....
...Even Michael Howard, one of the few pre-2007 home secretaries to emerge from that department with his political reputation enhanced, was dogged by questions about what he had done during his tenure (1993...
...We wend towards an eatery on Charles Street, the main drag in the historic neighbourhood of Beacon Hill....
...Antony Blinken, secretary of state; Alejandro Mayorkas, secretary of homeland security; and White House homeland security adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall are to meet López Obrador and his team “to discuss further...
...“The secretary of state determined and provided detailed justification to Congress that an emergency exists that requires the immediate sale” of the ammunition “in the national security interests of the...
...Even if the Senate approves Schumer’s alternative plan, the Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson — a Trump ally — would need to agree to hold a vote in the lower chamber....
...Javid abruptly quit as UK chancellor in February 2020 after he refused demands from Number 10 to sack his team of advisers but was appointed as health secretary by Johnson in 2021....
...If pushed on why he did not sack Hancock, Johnson is expected to say that moving or firing a health secretary in a pandemic would have been a “big call” and risked leaving the health department rudderless...
...Among the donors chairing the event will be sugar tycoon Pepe Fanjul, casino titans Steve Wynn and Phil Ruffin, former commerce department secretary Wilbur Ross, Key Square Group founder Scott Bessent and...
...As a strong advocate of the UN’s goals on sustainable development while prime minister, Cameron has emphasised the importance of international aid after Boris Johnson, when prime minister, slashed aid funding...
...Talks have dragged on for months and missed former prime minister Boris Johnson’s deadline of a deal by Diwali in October 2022....
...An attempt by India to claw back social security payments worth tens of millions of pounds for its workers in the UK has recently become a new sticking point in the trade talks....
...He said a House panel would move forward next week with articles of impeachment against Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the border crisis — and hold a vote on the House floor “as soon...
...Now, they face a prime minister in Rishi Sunak who is busily and cheerily retreating from many of Johnson’s more ambitious pledges, and whose close ally and secretary of state for energy security and net...
...unfolded, so Johnson has a lot of explaining to do....
...The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, notorious for its tough border policies, spends just one-eighth of its budget on domestic homeland security investigations....
...Marcel Agueros, a professor of astronomy and secretary of the Columbia branch of the American Association of University Professors, said the greatest shock for him and colleagues came shortly afterwards,...
...Boris Johnson did not tell the most senior civil servant in his department when foreign secretary that he was travelling to Italy without any security protection for a party attended by Alexander Lebedev...
...Dame Margaret Beckett, the UK’s first female foreign secretary, has been awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire, one of Britain’s highest honours, for her five decades in frontline politics...
...King Charles III will set out a highly political package of legislation on Tuesday that Rishi Sunak hopes will shape the next election, including bills on tougher sentencing, oil drilling in the North Sea...
...“We’re going to continue to roll out packages, they just are getting smaller,” Sabrina Singh, the defence department’s deputy press secretary, told reporters on Thursday....
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