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...Many prominent church leaders ignored the January 6 Capitol riots, when a Maga mob threatened vice-president Mike Pence, the devout evangelical who refused to help Trump overturn the election....
...Mike Pence and Ron DeSantis are among those who have tried to offer Republican voters at least the gist of Trumpism. Both have flopped....
...Water shortage in Gaza: With most supplies cut off by the Israeli siege, securing water has become a huge challenge for Palestinian families....
...Orszag will inherit an institution under siege from nimbler-footed disrupters such as Centerview, Evercore, Moelis and PJT Partners....
...Pence’s role during the siege might make him an ideal candidate to win over those who liked everything about Trump apart from his refusal to accept defeat....
...Chevron’s board is considering waiving its mandatory retirement age for CEO Mike Wirth, the Wall Street Journal reports....
...Liz Cheney, the Republican vice-chair of the committee, sent a clear signal to US voters that Trump’s actions during the siege should disqualify him from running for president again in 2024....
...“[It] is currently under siege, raided and occupied by a large group of FBI agents. Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before,” Trump said....
...And Mike McFaul was the ambassador to Russia at the time. We had people from the CIA with us. We had a whole entourage. I told him this story. Nobody had ever heard it before....
...Liz Cheney, the Republican vice-chair of the committee, called the former president’s actions “indefensible”, sending a clear signal to US voters that Trump’s actions during the siege should disqualify him...
...The credibility of the ESG approach is under siege, writes Sarah Gordon, chief executive of the Impact Investing Institute....
...It is too much to even count on the party to renounce the fast-and-loose approach to democratic norms that climaxed in the Capitol siege....
...An oil and gas industry under siege on multiple fronts hunkered down in friendlier environs this week: the World Petroleum Congress in Houston....
...Trump made little mention on Saturday of the January 6 siege, but continued to repeat his unsubstantiated claims that last year’s US elections were rife with fraud and rigged against him....
...The siege has caused a split in the party between Trump loyalists and establishment Republicans who want a break from the president’s brand of politics....
...But critics say far-right activists have used the platform to incite violence, including calls to assassinate vice-president Mike Pence....
...Through the video evidence that senators made public, it is clearer than it was a month ago how close the siege came to something far worse....
...Clips taken from security cameras suggested the siege could have been even bloodier were it not for the actions of the US Capitol Police....
...They also laid siege to Kandahar and Herat, Afghanistan’s second- and third-largest cities. This prompted the US and the UK to request their citizens to leave the country immediately....
...to strip the president of his powers over his role in last week’s siege....
...Mr Biden said that US democracy was under “unprecedented assault” and called for Mr Trump to appear on national TV to “demand an end to this siege”....
...Donald Trump had neither resigned over the siege of Congress that he incited last week, nor unreservedly deplored it. His vice-president Mike Pence had not used the 25th amendment to oust him....
...Dubai, the Emirati showcase, still operates as an extra lung for an Iran under economic siege....
...Mike Pence, the former vice-president, who fell out of favour with Trump supporters after he certified Biden’s election win, is not attending the event....
...Many of the senators’ questions on Friday focused on Trump’s activities on January 6, including when he learned about the breach at the Capitol and whether Mike Pence was in danger when he sent a disparaging...
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