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...It also came amid an Alabama Senate race in which Democrats were trying to defeat Roy Moore, a bizarrely eccentric southern judge who had allegedly dated underage girls when he was in his 30s....
...Trump et al v....
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...France’s Paris Saint-Germain is owned by Qatar Sports Investments, a state-backed group, run by Nasser Al-Khelaifi....
...“The fact that [David] Cameron, [Jeremy] Heywood (the most powerful civil servant) et al did not understand many basic features of how the world works is why I and a few others gambled on the referendum,...
...People in Trump’s orbit are fond of comparing coronavirus to the 9/11 attacks. George W Bush missed red flags in the build-up to al-Qaeda’s Twin Towers attacks....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...There’s not much precedent to support the idea that Shina et al can walk away based on a MAC clause: WPP was forced against its will to buy Tempus in 2001, Guy Hands couldn’t scrap a bid for East Surrey...
...But 15 of the 34 client names listed in the documents in relation to those payments are names of entities/companies that had never heard of Al Alam....
...Alabama there is trying to roll that right back from 24 weeks to one week. Then we've got another five states trying to bring things back to six weeks....
...Per Starr et al., a 10 per cent increase in the number of non-competes leads to 6 per cent lower wages in states that enforce the agreements versus those that do not....
...Mr Kavanaugh was also part of the George W Bush legal team that contested the 2000 Florida election tally. Its success clinched the presidency for Mr Bush over Al Gore....
...In recent years, states — including Iowa, Alabama and Texas — have passed laws that restrict access to abortion, with varying degrees of success....
...In spite of his loss, almost three-quarters of Alabama’s evangelical voters believe the allegations against Mr Moore were fake news....
...According to polls, Mr Moore now stands a greater chance than not of being elected as Alabama’s newest senator next week....
...In December, Alabama’s voters broke the habit of a generation by electing a Democratic senator. Republicans had put up a man — Roy Moore — who was accused of serially dating teenaged girls....
...Most of the party’s establishment have called on Mr Moore, a liberal-bashing evangelical, to withdraw from the Alabama race or face possible expulsion from the Senate if he wins....
...In Alabama, allegations that Senate candidate Roy Moore had assaulted teenaged girls helped propel the Democrats to a narrow victory in the staunchly Republican state....
...On Tuesday, the voters of Alabama did decide....
...against Senator Al Franken and Mr Moore, and previous allegations against Bill Clinton and Donald Trump being reexamined....
..."If the voters of the state fully knowing all of these allegations nevertheless choose to elect Roy Moore, is it appropriate for the Senate to expel him?" she asked on Thursday....
...Al Franken, the Minnesota senator, is expected to resign on Thursday after a majority of Senate Democrats called on him to step down in the wake of fresh sexual misconduct accusations....
...In recent days, much of the attention has been focused on Roy Moore, the Republican candidate for Senate in Alabama who has been accused of assault — allegations he has denied....
...Mr Trump has also attracted criticism for endorsing Roy Moore, the Republican former Alabama chief justice accused of preying on young girls, who is running for the Senate in an election on Tuesday....
...In Alabama meanwhile, Senator Roy Moore, a Republican, has continued to firmly deny allegations of child molestation, and appears to be rising in the polls ahead of his state’s special election race next...
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