Hints and tips:
...One is Keith Kellogg — a retired three-star US Army lieutenant general and a veteran of the NSC in the Trump White House....
...The army now controls 12 airports including a new one it is building in the hipster beach resort of Tulum in the Yucatán peninsula....
...from Lloyd Austin, the US defence secretary, on Thursday....
...“The secretary of defence, the head of the CIA, the national security adviser all visited in an election year,” says McKinley. “Is this usual? No, it’s not.”...
...Treasury secretary Janet Yellen told Congress in January that the department had begun taking “extraordinary measures” to meet its obligations after running up against the $31.4tn borrowing limit....
...served as acting executive director for the US at the World Bank and in the Treasury’s international affairs department....
...A little more than a week ago, US secretary of state Antony Blinken was set to travel to Beijing for a long-awaited visit that many hoped would begin the process of erecting “guardrails” on the fractious...
...“The west has a problem with constrained defence industrial capacity,” said Mick Ryan, a former major general in the Australian army....
...For US purposes, we will be informing the CFTC, SEC, and Department of Justice that this recommendation has been made....
...In one indication of the mood among the military, Hamilton Mourão, a former army general who served as Bolsonaro’s vice-president, initially condemned the “vandalism” of the protesters....
...An army of lawyers around the world are poring over the hastily worked-out details, trying to find weak spots to launch suits on behalf of investors and clients who lost out on Credit Suisse’s collapse....
...So Norm, Kevin McCarthy, you are one of the leading experts on Congress in the world. Kevin McCarthy, is it a safe bet he'll be speaker, assuming they have the majority?...
...for the Army, Air Force and US Marine Corps....
...Canada’s justice department said the withdrawal of the US extradition request meant Meng was “free to leave Canada”, adding: “Canada is a rule of law country....
...“The ways Isis was financing itself was unlike any other terrorist group . . . they were trading the dollar, acting as a proto-state” recalled one member of the taskforce, who asked to remain anonymous....
...The people added that the agreement was the one concrete advancement to come out of otherwise tempestuous meetings between Wendy Sherman, US deputy secretary of state, and her Chinese counterparts in Tianjin...
...assistant secretary, Global Affairs, US Department of Health and Human Services Pascal LamyPresident of the Paris Peace Forum and former director-general of the WTO Jack LeslieChair, Weber Shandwick Gary...
...Simonyan’s staff — which includes a former TV Rain reporter — have been embedded with the Russian army in Ukraine, where two of them raised the Russian flag over the demolished city of Mariupol....
...Since Jeff Bezos formed Amazon in 1994, there have been five US presidents, 18 permanent or acting attorneys-general, 11 chairs of the Federal Trade Commission and 10 Treasury secretaries....
...over to senior General Min Aung Hlaing, the army’s commander-in-chief....
...Jason Crow, the Democratic Congressman from Colorado, said he had been told by Ryan McCarthy, the secretary of the army, that 25 domestic terrorism cases had been opened as a result of the violence....
...Chad Wolf, the acting secretary for homeland security who resigned on Monday, said he had instructed the US Secret Service to begin special security operations linked to the inauguration from Wednesday,...
...On Friday, the civilian and military heads of the army, Secretary Ryan McCarthy and General James McConville, issued a joint statement that there was “no role for the US military in determining the outcome...
...Biden’s interior secretary, Deb Haaland, vocally opposed both before taking office. “In general the Biden administration is acting vigorously on climate change....
...The decision was announced on Twitter, where the president wrote Mr Esper “has been terminated” and that Mr Miller would take over as acting secretary “effective immediately”.Mr Trump fell out with his defence...
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