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...Former US vice-president Al Gore and financier David Blood are launching a climate change asset manager that will largely focus on private markets....
...court cases Name: Donald J Trump for President, Inc et al v....
...In response to ‘Why Andrew Cuomo makes me nostalgic for Al Franken’: “While Al Franken indeed got a raw deal, Andrew Cuomo is getting off far too easily....
...Since Mr Biden’s victory, she has been credited with keeping the campaign’s attention directed at the “blue wall” states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, which flipped back to the Democrat after...
...Armen Sarkissian, physicist, computer scientist and the president of Armenia, writes about how Bach, apricots and quantum physics are inspiring his fight against Covid-19, and calls for a new conception...
...Ivanka Trump, the daughter of the president, was also a director between 2011 and 2013....
...Recent medical literature suggests that severe manifestations of COVID19 may be due to tissue damage caused by severe immune dysregulation (Li H, et al; The Lancet; April 2020)....
...(FT) Foxconn stands by Wisconsin project Taiwan’s Foxconn said it remains committed to building a display plant and tech research facilities in Wisconsin on Friday, days after the US state’s governor...
...“Amazon” Cuomo et al will hope not. In Wisconsin, considerable effort was expended to woo Foxconn — a Taiwan-based company which makes, among other things, roughly half of the world’s iPhones....
...They argue that it makes little sense to ban a non-strategic company such as Rusal while leaving Sberbank, VTB and Gazprom et al still tradeable in the US....
...Iran and Russia back the regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, while Turkey has called for him to be ousted and has supported Syrian rebels....
...Al Gore, the former US vice-president, has reinvented himself as an environmental activist....
...Sabino, who was a financial adviser and energy specialist at Merrill, joins as vice-president for investor relations....
...The bickering has focused on the president-elect’s consideration of Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee who railed against Mr Trump during the campaign, to be secretary of state....
...(NBC) Number of the day 100m The number of people who may tune in for tonight’s debate, dwarfing the 67.2m who watched the first Obama-Romney debate in 2012....
...(WaPo) Numbers of the day 6 points The amount by which Trump leads Clinton in Texas, a state that Mitt Romney won by 16 in 2012....
...The debate — moderated by Lester Holt of NBC news and set to begin at 9pm ET — will be split into six segments of about 15 minutes each....
...In 2012, Florida was the only state decided by less than a single percentage point as Barack Obama narrowly edged asidebeat Mitt Romney....
...To take a recent example, ticket sales for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice dropped by an astonishing 68.4 per cent on its second weekend, as comic-book fans returned to their dens....
...When Jeb Bush, the son of one former president and brother of another, revealed in December that he was exploring a run for the White House, it sparked expectations that the 2016 election would repeat the...
...(Also see Ben Carson et al on black people.)...
...Mr Bush will attract plenty of financial support, but he has failed to energise the base. Mitt Romney Is Mr Romney seriously considering a third bid for the White House?...
...The “back end” of the network – the part where Netflix connects to Comcast et al – would be a tightly-regulated telecoms service....
...The latest case, Google v Joffe et al, involves a class action suit stemming from the company’s illicit collection of snippets of information from WiFi networks in homes that its StreetView cars were passing...
...Abe et al are keen on ending deflation — but they are going to hinder that push with a fiscal tightening. No tension there, then....
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