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...I am going to resist the temptation to sing Mitch McConnell’s praises....
...However, the assurance has done little to quell concerns from some vocal members of his own party....
...Western officials say they see little chance that either Russia or Ukraine will make a significant breakthrough in the conflict this year....
...They think the latest proposal is little changed from the package agreed between Biden and Johnson’s predecessor Kevin McCarthy....
...“This . . . sense that he’s not ready for this job is just a bucket of BS that’s so deep your boots will get stuck in it,” Mitch Landrieu, the Biden campaign’s co-chair, told NBC....
...“It’s time for Republicans in the Congress to show a little courage, to show a little spine, to make it clear to the American people that you work for them, not for anyone else,” he said....
...Its minority leader, Mitch McConnell, is 81. McConnell’s most senior colleague, Chuck Grassley, who is 90, recently put his name down to run again in 2028....
...“If he can tone down the rhetoric a little bit, I think he can bring a lot of them back.”...
...Let’s start with the primary system which is (generally) heavily tilted towards activists and bears little relation to voter turnout in the general election....
...Instead, we have no less a personage than Mitch McConnell describing Russia, China, Iran and North Korea as the “axis of evil”. All four nations will blush at the flattery. janan.ganesh@ft.com...
...Mitch McConnell, the Senate’s top Republican, has urged the US to provide more weapons and funding to Kyiv....
...There has been a corresponding boom in books about dementia from Contented Dementia by Oliver James to children’s books (Big Bear, Little Bear and Dementia by Katie Faulkner)....
...But Trump’s legal troubles have seemingly done little to dent his chances of securing his party’s nomination for the presidency next year, with his polling numbers climbing steadily....
...If only congressional leaders such as Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell stood up to Trump. If only his rival Ron DeSantis attacked him directly instead of obliquely....
...Her estate is controlled by her divorced parents, Janis Winehouse-Collins and Mitch Winehouse....
...While it is true that no former US president has before been indicted on criminal charges, little else about the indictment of Donald Trump is as “unprecedented” as the headlines have so endlessly declared...
...Biskupic also highlights the crucial role played by Mitch McConnell....
...Given that we have yet to see Ukraine’s long-awaited counter-offensive, there will be little cause for celebration here either....
...Mitch Ryan, an analyst with Jefferies, said there was little chance of a competing bid given BHP would be able to extract the most synergies from OZ....
...We see the swift thinking but also the effort as, spying a lifeline in Dwane Walcott’s gentle, reserved Mitch, she slips into coy, flirtatious mode; we see the determination, but also the fear, as she squares...
...Chef Mitch Orr has put in time at Lyle’s in London and Osteria Francescana in Modena, and he knows his way around a robata and a sous-vide poacher, the seafood of Korea and tomatoes of Vesuvius....
...“I think it was really a productive week of conversations between Republicans that maybe needed to happen [but] it’s still a little too fresh,” the aide said....
...In public statements and posts on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump has shown little sign of backing down, tearing into DeSantis, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell and Rupert Murdoch, whose...
...She’s a little bit, I think we were discussing this this week weren’t we Lucy, she’s a little bit like Sunak in the sense she’s quite earnest and quite techie, but she’s very much Sunak’s kind of politician...
...Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, refused to back his colleague, saying he would “leave it up to our candidates . . . to determine for them what their response is”....
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