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...There are some indications that Johnson’s conversion on the road to Mar-a-Lago could mark a break from the recent past....
...It marks only the third time in US history that a motion to vacate has been filed in an attempt to remove a Speaker....
...McCarthy also noted that DS Smith had a greater presence in western Europe, while Mondi’s assets were more focused on eastern Europe....
...A possible impeachment by the House, where the Republicans hold a wafer-thin majority, would be the third such censure of a president in less than five years, a mark of the growing polarisation of US politics...
...Menéndez sends his henchman, Scottish ex-soldier Alexander MacLennan (Mark Stanley), to prospect a route to the Atlantic....
...Scalise’s withdrawal from the race marks the latest twist in a dramatic week and a half on Capitol Hill....
...The agreement marks a dramatic turnabout in Washington, where just one day earlier a shutdown seemed inevitable....
...withdraws from US House Speaker race Question in the style of AQA Politics Paper 2 Explain and analyse three ways in which the ideas and values of the Republican Party have changed in recent years. [9 marks...
...The company’s vertically integrated structure, economies of scale and ballooning research and development plans mark a stark challenge to companies in the west, analysts say....
...Jordan’s election would mark a sharp rejection of that approach. In his philosophy, any cross-party co-operation is a betrayal of conservative principles....
...The meeting, which includes a bipartisan group of 18 lawmakers, marks a compromise between McCarthy’s and Tsai’s desires for a more high-profile US-Taiwan engagement and efforts to avoid a violent reaction...
...The meeting will mark the high point of a 10-day trip during which Tsai hopes to affirm Taiwan’s ability to engage in foreign relations and strengthen US support in the face of growing tensions with Beijing...
...The meeting will mark the high point of a 10-day trip that has seen Tsai travel to New York as well as her central American allies Guatemala and Belize....
...Mark M Spradley Chevy Chase, MD, US...
...Elsewhere, Asian equities were broadly higher and US stock futures rose on Monday after US president Joe Biden struck a deal with Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy that would raise the US debt ceiling...
...As details of the deal emerged this week, Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, said it would not deliver a major blow to the economy....
...Mark Peaker Hong Kong...
...When he was only 21, he contributed a generous five marks to a bung from local merchants to “the great lords of the realm”....
...It nevertheless marks another win for the serially underestimated Biden and a moment of relief for McCarthy, who sidelined the most extremist members of his party....
...He still doesn’t like speech marks, avoiding apostrophes apart from where their absence might cause confusion (so it’s “dont” but not “cant”), and prefers simile to straight metaphor, as though being upfront...
...Trump’s support for McCarthy marks the latest chapter in a rollercoaster relationship between the two men. For years, Trump frequently referred to the congressman as “my Kevin”....
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