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...Of these, the two most serious are Robert F Kennedy Jr and whichever bipartisan ticket No Labels puts up....
...It is seeking similar five-year prohibitions for his sons Donald Jr and Eric....
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...World leaders due to address the gathering of Pacific nations include Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida, Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos Jr and, waving the flag for Global Britain, UK premier Rishi...
...The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China by James M Zimmerman, PublicAffairs $30/£25, 352 pages James Kynge is the FT’s global China editor Join...
...Martin Luther King Day Banks, stock markets and Congress will be closed in the US today as the country observes a national holiday to honour civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr....
...The Folly of James Murdoch. I learned so much from Anna Nicolaou and Sujeet Indap’s brilliant Big Read where they explored how Vice went from private equity darling to bankruptcy....
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...Additional reporting by Colby Smith in Washington...
...The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr....
...Liam Booth-Smith, his longstanding chief of staff, and James Forsyth, his political secretary and an old friend from Winchester College days, have urged him to become more political....
...(Sophia Smith) Are you able to truly be yourself at work, or do you have to act in a way that’s not “you”? Let us know in this week’s poll....
...James Smith, Resolution Foundation: Data and politics suggest the answer is no....
...Sir James Dyson, the entrepreneur, claimed this month that Sunak’s government had made growth “a dirty word”, while the CBI employers’ group has also been strongly critical....
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...Police seek ‘person of interest’ in New York subway shooting The New York Police Department named Frank R James, 62, as a “person of interest” after a gunman opened fire on commuters on a Brooklyn subway...
...We’re investing quite a lot in R&D into aerospace and into clean tech, clean aviation, hydrogen and so forth....
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...Our editor and this week’s fill-in host is Jess Smith. We had help this week from George Drake Jr, David da Silva and Peter Barber. Our executive producer’s Topher Forhecz....
...Monday Philippines, newly elected president Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr delivers his first State of the Nation address. He has promised to “sweat” on Filipinos’ behalf....
...Morrisons rejected the offer over the weekend but CD & R is to push ahead with its pursuit of the grocer despite being rebuffed, people close to the transaction said. 5....
...James Smith (ING): The BoE is nearing the end of its tightening cycle....
...R&D spending to 2.4 per cent of GDP.”...
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