Hints and tips:
...In this case: Planned Parenthood, check; labour unions, check; environmental NGOs, etc, and so on. This is why nobody ever remembers SOTUs. They are a political laundry list, not a narrative....
...spread ranging from Planned Parenthood and Time’s Up to the Chloe & Maud Foundation, which strives “to heighten global respect and appreciation” of tap dance; Black Girls Code and Girls Who Code, non-profits...
...Joseph Parilla, a fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program, said the company now possessed “the largest database of political and civic intelligence at the local level in the world...
...AT&T won the green light for its $80bn takeover of Time Warner on Tuesday after a federal judge in Washington rejected the US government’s argument that it would harm competition, paving the way for a blockbuster...
...The goal — end Planned Parenthood — has been pre-determined. 2018 has been branded like a movie. This year’s tagline is “Love Saves Lives”....
...C-Sky Microsystems....
...Chinese conglomerate HNA Group’s planned $416 million investment in a US in-flight entertainment and Internet-services provider collapsed after the two companies failed to get approval from Washington, in...
...The planned $48.4bn acquisition of Cigna by rival US health insurer Anthem has been blocked by a federal judge, marking the second time in as many weeks US courts have knocked back a takeover in the industry...
...Yet, real estate analysts say there is little clarity about what Trump has planned for the sector. “As a real estate guy it was: I want to increase my own net worth . . ....
...Ms McLernon said this week’s visit had been planned even before Mr Trump’s election victory and would have gone ahead if Hillary Clinton had won given the broader spread of scepticism over globalisation....
...Planned Parenthood, universal healthcare and human rights....
...“Democrats are smiling in D.C. that the Freedom Caucus, with the help of Club For Growth and Heritage, have saved Planned Parenthood & Ocare!,” he wrote, referring to Obamacare....
...Here are some key dates to watch: November 21 – Opening arguments begin in the Anthem/Cigna trial before US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington, D.C. federal court....
...Mr Mnuchin, 54, also said that he would retain an unpaid position as president of Steven T Mnuchin Inc, an entity which he uses to manage “some” of his investments....
...officials are suing to prevent Anthem from acquiring Cigna and stop Aetna’s planned purchase of Humana, according to a person familiar with the matter, reports David Lynch in Washington....
...Uber has about a dozen people working on government affairs in Washington and is not afraid of controversy....
...Meanwhile, Barney Jopson in Washington reports Uber has made clarifying the expenses rules a lobbying priority in the US capital....
...“To me this is a serious issue and a very serious discussion,” Clinton shot back, noting that she – and not Sanders – was being supported by groups such as Planned Parenthood that support a woman’s right...
...The writer is the FT’s Washington bureau chief Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? by Thomas Frank, Metropolitan ($27)...
...Japan’s prime minister insists he will raise consumption tax to 10 per cent next year and has hinted that another economic stimulus package is being planned....
...It provided data in 81 per cent of those cases. In the world of hacking, one man’s criminal is increasingly another man’s spy, report Geoff Dyer and David J Lynch in Washington....
...Pfizer’s board voted to abandon the blockbuster deal after the US Treasury unveiled proposals that appeared designed to remove the lucrative benefits of its planned inversion, said one person familiar with...
...The Chinese chemicals group has been trying to reassure politicians in Washington that the acquisition of Syngenta, which has a presence in the US, poses no risks to national security....
...“There’s not one member of this [Kazakh] elite that did not gain from the transition from the state-owned planned economy to the market economy,” says Yevgeny Zhovtis, one of Kazakhstan’s few prominent human...
...He could launch an attack on Planned Parenthood, the women’s healthcare organisation that performs abortions – which has been at the centre of the latest budget battle gripping the capitol....
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