Hints and tips:
...Mike Johnson, the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, displayed singular backroom skill to emerge as the consensus candidate for the Republican party on Wednesday, after Steve Scalise, Jim Jordan...
...Asked about his impressions of the city, Louisiana’s Mike Johnson confessed: “I landed at about midnight last night. I haven’t seen much. That’s why we’re all bleary-eyed.”...
...The elegiac “Lashir Ze Kmo Lihiot Yarden” (“To Sing Is Like to Be Jordan”) combined moments of introspection and hints of the blues with the uplift of a country dance....
...Mike Rogers, the Republican chair of the House armed services committee who last week opposed Jordan’s candidacy, also said he was changing his mind....
...“This time yesterday, nobody was thinking of Mike,” the former US president said. “Then we put out the word and now he is the Speaker of the House.”...
...Johnson, 51, has until now been a lower-profile member of Congress than Scalise, Jordan or Emmer....
...It is hard to know where to begin with Mike Johnson, avatar of biblical conservatism, and the new Republican Speaker of the House. But let’s get the basic facts out of the way....
...The House voted 336-95 on Tuesday evening in support of a plan from Republican Speaker Mike Johnson to keep government spending at current levels into 2024....
...Trump initially endorsed Jordan for Speaker....
...“This really is the tragedy,” said Mike Turner, the Republican congressman from Ohio and chair of the House select committee on intelligence....
...Jordan backers....
...“I think it will go down as the single stupidest decision ever made in politics,” said Mike Lawler, a Republican representative who won a district in New York in 2022 by fewer than 2,000 votes, referring...
...Arab balancing act: Jordan is facing scrutiny at home for helping to repel the Iranian drone and missile attack on Israel....
...House armed services chair Mike Rogers told the FT he would support Scalise. “I think he’s the guy who can unify us and get the votes that we need,” Rogers said....
...Mike Pence and Ron DeSantis are among those who have tried to offer Republican voters at least the gist of Trumpism. Both have flopped....
...Smart reads The toxic tycoon Mike Ashley, the retail tycoon behind Sports Direct, is suing Morgan Stanley over a $1bn trading row, The Sunday Times writes....
...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: Politics: Republicans will hold another contest to select a new candidate for the speakership after ditching populist firebrand Jim Jordan....
...Jordan Rochester a foreign exchange strategist at Nomura, said the rate increase “could lower the odds of more hikes needed later this year”, weakening sterling....
...There may have been 120 minutes at their disposal, but the candidate with the most airtime — Mike Pence — spoke for less than 13 minutes....
...When Jordan and his parents first visited the company’s Beaverton headquarters, they were met with a giant banner: “THE NIKE FAMILY WELCOMES THE JORDAN FAMILY”....
...The IRA has created an opportunity for new kinds of insurance products, too, said Jordan Tamchin, tax insurance practice leader at CAC Specialty, a broker....
...Mike, what do you take away from that as an example of a crisis, a very modern crisis actually around social media that people just don’t see coming?...
...Mike hears the news first. “She had an amazing life,” he says....
...When I typed “how to be a man” into YouTube’s search bar, I got results for Tate and for the feminism-sceptic psychologist Jordan Peterson....
...Whoever becomes the Republican nominee in 2024 (hint, not Mike Pence), will inherit the Schedule F agenda and put it into effect if he or she wins....
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