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...Vice-president Kamala Harris would be Biden’s most natural successor, but her approval ratings are also low....
...The latter is the involvement of Jon Rotheram, Tom Harris and John Ogier of The Marksman pub on Hackney Road....
...“Biden and Harris are a team joined at the hip from day one ,” Gaspard says. In Philadelphia, Biden gave a shout-out to Harris — “She’s a great vice-president.” She had spoken just before Biden....
...It would give Democrats 51 out of the 100 Senate seats, compared with the current 50-50 split that only grants them a majority because vice-president Kamala Harris can cast tiebreaking votes....
...She has seen Harris, which she wanted, and it’s time to leave....
...We’ve been through several British negotiations once again, going back to Lord Frost, Liz Truss, and it was finally James Cleverly and Rishi Sunak and indeed Chris Heaton-Harris, the Northern Ireland secretary...
...The most recognisable names — Sarah Jessica Parker, Floyd Mayweather, Jerry Springer, Dick Van Dyke, Snoop Dogg, John Cleese, Lindsay Lohan, David Hasselhoff — are no longer at the height of their careers...
...He made the historically significant decision to tap Kamala Harris to be the first female, black and Asian American vice-president....
...Wins by the Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock in two Senate run-off elections in Georgia this week mean the chamber will have a 50-50 partisan split, with Kamala Harris, incoming vice-president, having...
...Mr Warnock, the senior pastor of Martin Luther King Jr’s Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, will become only the 11th black senator in US history....
...At the Democratic National Convention last week, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris accepted their nominations as presidential and vice-presidential nominees in a jarringly empty auditorium, sparsely populated...
...(FT) Sean Connery, actor, 1930-2020 Sean Connery, who was catapulted to fame as the first James Bond, died on Saturday at the age of 90....
...“JR could join any gallery in the world and he’s stuck with us. There’s nothing I wouldn’t do for him,” the gallerist says....
...Robert Wann Jr has been hired by law firm Baker Botts as a partner in its corporate practice in New York. Wann joins from White & Case....
...They succeed James Attwood Jr, who will continue as a managing director....
...The stiletto-wearing instructor is a one-time film star, who marched with Martin Luther King Jr and drank with Ernest Hemingway. She now teaches regular classes in New York. Ms Porchon-Lynch is 97....
...James Mackintosh, investment editor, looks at the difficulty of betting on China’s economy being soft on the inside but hard on the outside. (FT)...
...(HuffPo) How Bond gave Hollywood licence to travel With most of his time spent drinking in bars or destroying precious cultural sites, James Bond is actually a terrible sightseer....
...“Your insistence that one person (Joseph Swedish) assume four roles …is disconcerting and risky,” said Mr Cordani in a letter to Anthem’s board co-signed by Isaiah Harris Jr, Cigna chairman....
...On October 27 1947, a Monday morning, a five-year-old boy named Tom Dykes Jr, lying cloistered away in a remote Catholic mission in Kashmir, awoke to the sound of gunfire....
...Mudlark’s mind wandered at lunchtime on Wednesday to that opening line from a research note published this week by James Montier, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein’s global equity analyst....
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