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...Puzzle 2569 Joseph Zeltsan v Ethan Sheehan, Chesterfield, USA, 2023. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2568 Wesley So v Alireza Firouzja, Chessable Masters 2024. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Americans have been wagering on presidential elections since George Washington and doing so in organised markets since at least Abraham Lincoln....
...🤠 HMRC v Premier Foods Ltd (2007) is an epochally important case that considered whether a fruit bar was confectionery....
...In the UK and the USA it is illegal. Users such as Cox don’t consider it to be “drugs” but “medicine”. “It’s not recreational,” he points out. “It is deep, healing, transformative work....
...His other hand holds the rod with the Hand of Justice made for the 14th-century king Charles V, destroyed during the revolution and remade in 1804 for its new sovereign....
...Puzzle 2479 Danyyil Dvirnyy v Judit Polgar, Yerevan 2014. Black to move and win. How did the all-time No1 woman exploit White’s exposed king?...
...The USA’s Hans Niemann, 19, famously defeated Carlsen at the Sinquefield Cup in St Louis, sparking an ongoing saga of withdrawals, accusations and lawsuits that remain unresolved....
...For the swooning faithful, all the high-and-mighty talk of the rule of law is of little account compared with the hot flush, the racing pulse, the pure yee-haw MAGA-hellion USA high they get from glowing...
...Redman’s job, as the V&A’s senior conservator of metals in the collections care and access department for the last three years, is to decide what to do — or not to do — to help preserve the life of these...
...Puzzle 2481 Fabiano Caruana v Gukesh D, USA v India, Chennai 2022. Black to move and win. How did the 16-year-old defeat the former world No 2? Click here for solution...
...In London, too, February is going to be a gala month, with the cream of the crop being the V&A’s hosting of the magnificent display of the works of Donatello — possibly the first ever in the British capital...
...In New York, the Lincoln Centre’s David Geffen Hall will reopen next month after a multimillion-dollar refurb, with several new food and drink outlets....
...May 21-June 26, opera-stl.org Spoleto Festival USA Opening night at this year’s festival in Charleston, South Carolina is the premiere of Omar, a new opera by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels....
...But in the USA v USSR match in New York Averbakh arrived late for one of his games against Donald Byrne, lost their mini-match 3-1, incurred the wrath of his captain Igor Bondarevsky, and was removed from...
...Puzzle 2475 Andrew Ledger v Andrew Paterson, 4NCL 2022. Black to play. Black’s next move was plausible, but it led to immediate disaster. With this clue, can you work out what happened?...
...Fetterman added: “Send me to the US Senate, and I’d proudly vote to codify Roe v Wade into law.” Republican leaders largely embraced the ruling on Friday....
...The Irishman, whose death sentence for his part in the 1916 Easter Rising had been commuted, had subsequently escaped from Lincoln prison and in May 1919 gone incognito to America where he had remained until...
...Antoine GodinUniversité Sorbonne Paris Nord, France Michael JacobsProfessor of Political Economy, University of Sheffield Ronan PalmerDirector Clean Economy, E3G Dirk EhntsPufendorf-Gesellschaft Berlin e.V....
...The National Park Service, which oversees the management of the National Mall — a strip of parkland that runs from the Capitol building to the Lincoln Memorial — said it would temporarily close access to...
...The president has previously vowed only to pick justices who would overturn Roe v Wade....
...For the record, the party of Lincoln was born in Ripon, Wisconsin. Those days are now long gone....
...Other recent Supreme Court cases on this issue which are worth studying include Gill v. Whitford (2018), Cooper v. Harris (2017) and Wittman v. Personhuballah (2016)....
...and Bush, as well as a whole battalion of members of the national security community, high-ranking retired military eminences such as Admiral McRaven and General McChrystal; anodyne opinion-stiflers like USA...
...FT family quiz Round One Jenny Agutter (The Railway Children) George V (Edward VIII and George VI) Christopher Robin Milne (son of AA Milne) Loving and giving Five (at home) The Diary of Anne Frank/The...
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