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...“It’s a legitimate question to ask Mr America: ‘how can we be reassured that you won’t walk out again when Republicans say they would tear up a deal?’...
...Mr Trump clamped down on visa approvals in a range of areas, but perhaps the most significant for technology companies were H1-B visas, which Silicon Valley depends on to hire engineers, scientists and coders...
...MSCI gives Netflix a B rating for ESG and considers the company a laggard among 76 firms in the media and entertainment industry....
...When Republicans in 2016 blocked Barack Obama from filling Scalia’s seat after his death, then citing an election that was months away, Ms Barrett argued that such was politics....
...back in March 2016 Mr McConnell cited the proximity of the election as reason not to confirm Barack Obama’s Supreme Court pick, Merrick Garland....
...B Miller, Guernsey; Mr H Lime, Suffolk, England; Maxine Broadbent, Derbyshire, England Polymath 1,056: B Wardhaugh, Manchester, England Crossword 13,365: Michael Eve, Rye, England; Christopher Barrat,...
...Location also helped to put Jon Favreau on the path to become Barack Obama’s chief speech writer. After college, Mr Favreau took a relatively junior job on John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign team....
...Mr Trump will face no such challenge in November....
...Mr Trump has accused Mr Biden of putting pressure on Kiev during Barack Obama’s second term to fire a top prosecutor in the country in order to protect his son Hunter, a board member at a top Ukrainian gas...
...In the four months to April, the US imported an average of 7m b/d of crude, and exported 2.8m b/d of crude and 3.8m b/d of oil products and related liquids....
...Most striking of all, on Tuesday, the Trump administration rolled back tough car emissions standards approved under President Barack Obama....
...That standard was introduced under former president Barack Obama but abandoned under the current Trump administration....
...Its highest previous reading was in 1961, which portended Lyndon B Johnson’s Great Society....
...Tensions between Washington and Tehran have been rising since Mr Trump suspended a deal negotiated by his predecessor, Barack Obama, that traded sanctions relief for curbs on Iran’s nuclear programme....
...For the Trump administration, the issue is whether it now needs to start thinking about a plan B for Venezuela....
...“So I was really shocked at a) how much anarchism was aligned with progressive business and b) how much people are raised to think hierarchically, and how destructive that is.”...
...To Iranian officials he is the central figure in what they describe as the “B-team” they believe are steering Mr Trump to war....
...Deutsche Bank is trying the trick again, the FT reported on Monday, seeking to divest a further €50bn as part of chief executive Christian Sewing’s “Plan B”....
...Last year, Mr Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court after Republicans blocked consideration of Barack Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland, to fill the seat vacated by the death of Antonin Scalia...
...Since May it has raised output by roughly 700,000 b/d to 10.7m b/d, with Mr Falih promising output will keep rising next month....
...Now oil production is expected to be 13m b/d next year, with net imports of just 4.6m b/d....
...The EPA estimated in 2016 that the Obama administration’s plans for 2022-25 would cut 169,000 barrels a day from US oil imports in 2025, and 420,000 b/d in 2030....
...called on to boost production by 2m b/d....
...The house has been under Republican control since she last held that job in 2010, when a Republican landslide brought Barack Obama’s grand legislative ambitions to a halt....
...Former President Barack Obama, speaking at the Baker Institute at Rice University in Houston, claimed credit for the US shale boom....
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