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...Antony Blinken, US secretary of state, and Sullivan had also raised it with S Jaishankar, India’s foreign minister, in Washington, the US official added....
...But there is evidence that Republicans will shift their attacks from environmental “E” concerns to the “S” part of the acronym....
...The US justice department is very exercised about the search engine supremacy of Google, and it’s brought an antitrust lawsuit against the company....
...markets will be closed for the Good Friday holiday US, Department of Labor employment report World events Finally, here is a rundown of other events and milestones this week....
...A third of senators missed last year’s filing deadline, and corrections can be subject to even longer delays — Ron Wyden, the chair of the Senate finance committee, updated his 2015 annual report five years...
...Budil’s remarks came at yesterday’s Department of Energy press conference, where energy secretary Jennifer Granholm touted the Biden administration’s ambitions for a fusion power plant in the next decade...
...According to Aaron Klein, former deputy assistant secretary for economic policy at the Treasury department, “any legislation drafted before FTX’s implosion needs to be fundamentally rethought”....
...“China would always have opposed the use of nuclear weapons,” says Susan Shirk, chair of the 21st Century China Center at the University of California in San Diego....
...So he left the study with Harri and Adams to call up Gove. Gove had spent the rest of Wednesday in his department, avoiding a Commons vote at 7pm....
...Amos Hochstein, the state department official co-ordinating much of Biden’s energy strategy, told the Financial Times that wasn’t good enough....
...In a surreal twist worthy of one of The Monkees’ shows, he inherited $25m after his mother died in 1980. A secretary, she had invented the first correction fluid for typewriting mistakes in 1956....
...Sophisticated trading desks and compliance departments on Wall Street are facing renewed scrutiny following the arrest of Bill Hwang on federal racketeering, fraud and market manipulation charges....
...The US State Department said the talks were in the “very final stages.”...
...The department said the rule was “in tension” with the text and purpose of the Fair Labor Standards Act....
...And a US state department adviser defends the new security pact with the UK and Australia. Meanwhile, some big names are lining up behind a former Treasury secretary’s private equity fund....
...The phenomenon has all the hallmarks of a classic bubble, so there will almost certainly be a steep correction at some point....
...as a growing number of employers, led by government departments and state firms, now say they prefer to hire party members....
...He was placed in its bond-trading department, and, given his real estate knowledge, was mainly trading mortgage-backed bonds. He proved a rare talent, and by 1978 was running the department....
...Microsoft’s Xbox Series S and X consoles also go on sale....
...The latest bout of market selling came after the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention late on Wednesday confirmed a possible instance of community transmission of Covid-19 in California....
...Earlier this week the S&P 500, the main US index, recovered all of its losses for the year. Investors also appear more concerned about a second wave of infections....
...The Treasury department was able to auction off $17bn of 20-year notes with ease on Wednesday, fetching a 1.059 per cent yield for the debt....
...The California health department said it was experiencing shortages of N95 respirator masks in particular, and that it had placed orders for an additional 300,000....
...The S&P 500 index ended the day 1.6 per cent lower in New York while both the UK’s FTSE 100 and the European composite Stoxx 600 closed 2.3 per cent lower....
...According to the Department of Justice, one-third of all federal arrests and one-quarter of all state and local law enforcement arrests are illicit drug-related....
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