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...But with the fate of those talks still uncertain, Biden publicly warned Israel that Washington would curtail its supply of weapons depending on its conduct in Rafah — a step that his administration had been...
...Harold Wilson set up a Department of Economic Affairs in his 1964-70 administration. It was not a great success....
...says Joel Goldstein, a professor of law and vice-presidential scholar at Saint Louis University. “It’s hard for me to see people saying: ‘because of her I’m gonna vote against the Democrats’.”...
...We had a real problem when I became Secretary of State, because the pipeline for Foreign Service officers had dried up during the Bush administration. And so we made a huge effort to reach out....
...Asked about the raid on Tuesday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the administration had been given no advance warning about the FBI search and had learned about it only from public reports...
...at those attempts,” the Brennan Center says....
...In 2009, she was appointed by the first Obama administration to work as a deputy and acting under-secretary within the USDA to turn the department’s internet- and university-based research towards these...
...The Biden administration is preparing to allow tens of thousands of Afghans to come to the US if they are able to leave Kabul....
...Mr Cotton has joined forces with Chuck Schumer, the top Senate Democrat, and members of the House of Representatives that include Mike Gallagher, a Marine Corps veteran from Wisconsin, to call on the Pentagon...
...If Treasury secretary Janet Yellen goes soft on that, they will lose a lot of goodwill in Congress,” says one former top Trump administration official....
...The same might explain the actions of William Barr, the US attorney-general, who has broken all precedent by licensing Department of Justice litigation on voter fraud....
...Chad Wolf, acting DHS secretary, said in a statement that the department had negotiated a plan with Ms Brown over the previous 24 hours....
...Wisconsin, where the rate of positive tests has hit highs this month, has emerged as a new virus hotspot....
...Joaquin Castro, Democratic vice-chair of the House foreign affairs committee, said it was “readily apparent” that the secretary’s participation in the convention “may violate” the Hatch Act and state department...
...In addition to tackling the pandemic, his team will face a tough economic environment that will make his choice of Treasury secretary particularly critical....
...Tom Donilon, former national security adviser to Mr Obama, says Mr Biden’s approach would have echoes of Dean Acheson’s “situations of strength”, a reference to the Truman administration secretary of state...
...an internal departmental memo that lays bare one cost of the Trump administration’s crackdown on Chinese technology....
...Steven Mnuchin, US Treasury secretary, warned that the US economy will probably not reach the 3 per cent growth rate this year forecast by the Trump administration, citing Boeing’s 737 Max woes and the coronavirus...
...The US Treasury department has dropped the designation of China as a currency manipulator in a gesture that aims to ease tensions with Beijing ahead of this week’s signing of a deal to halt their trade war...
...In a statement, Joel Poppen, senior vice-president of legal affairs, said: “Micron has invested billions of dollars over decades to develop its intellectual property....
...Separately, the administration revoked the press pass of CNN’s top White House correspondent. What about the markets?...
...The parcel sent to CNN was addressed to John Brennan, the former CIA director who has emerged as a fierce critic of Mr Trump....
...Wilbur Ross, the US commerce secretary, said on Thursday that his department expected to complete that probe by early August....
...bailout plan as head of policy at the Department of Energy....
...Trade hardliners in Mr Trump’s administration want to take action against China after months of internal debate....
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