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...Top US senators unveiled a compromise bill that would renew US aid to Ukraine and tighten immigration rules at the southern border with Mexico, setting up a showdown in Congress that could shape both domestic...
...This week Senators Elizabeth Warren and Chuck Grassley wrote to Rostin Behnam, chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, over his relationship with Bankman-Fried....
...Several Republican senators nevertheless continue to oppose the revised bill, with some saying they want to reopen the issue of immigration....
...One regular speaker is Ohio senator JD Vance, a New Right rising star....
...Polish prime minister Donald Tusk on Thursday criticised Republican senators for their move, saying “shame on you”. “Dear Republican Senators of America....
...The bill passed with the backing of 70 senators, including more than a dozen Republicans....
...That is why no one dared take on the ailing Dianne Feinstein, the Democratic senator from California, who died in office last September aged 90. She was a political legend....
...A top outside group for Haley — Americans for Prosperity Action — backed by billionaire Charles Koch’s network, has decided to focus on congressional races....
...Great Expectations — a conscious callback to Charles Dickens’ novel of the same name — is the story of David, a young Black man who dreams of being a writer and is instead swept up in Obama’s campaign for...
...“The information we’ve obtained shows the bank established an unnecessarily rigid and narrow scope, and refused to follow new leads uncovered during the course of the review,” said Senator Chuck Grassley...
...Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, who was in Beijing with a bipartisan delegation of senators, also urged Xi to harden China’s reaction to the Hamas attack on Israel at the weekend, during which gunmen...
...We wend towards an eatery on Charles Street, the main drag in the historic neighbourhood of Beacon Hill....
...Even back in 1996 when I first covered him for the FT, I was hardly awed by the then-senator’s acuity....
...Two scoops to start, first: Standard Chartered has sounded out UK political heavyweights Sir Charles Roxburgh and Sir Sajid Javid as potential candidates for its next chair when José Viñals steps down....
...Chuck Grassley, the Republican senior senator from Iowa, is 89....
...Thursday’s apparent breakthrough on naming the transitional council came after Jean-Charles Moïse, a former senator and leader of the Pitit Desalin party, reversed an earlier decision not to take part and...
...The nomination of Air Force General Charles Brown to chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, replacing the outgoing Mark Milley, could also be in jeopardy if the resistance continues, triggering a rare warning...
...Petitioners Charles and Kathleen Moore, who were forced to pay almost $15,000 under the mandatory repatriation tax, sued the US government for a refund, arguing that the policy amounted to an unconstitutional...
...South Carolina governor Henry McMaster and the state’s senators Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott have all endorsed Trump....
...There are a number of senators from both parties who are opposed to the deal or parts of it....
...Haley has received support from several high-profile donors, including the Charles Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity Action, in recent months....
...But on Friday, Tim Scott, a senator from her own home state of South Carolina, was preparing to endorse Trump, according to a person familiar with the matter — a significant blow to her campaign, given that...
...Lawmakers in the upper chamber passed the bill with overwhelming bipartisan support on Thursday evening, with 63 senators backing the legislation and 36 opposed....
...The comments came as European Council president Charles Michel and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen met President Xi Jinping and his number two Li Qiang in Beijing yesterday for the first...
...the Financial Times, Der Spiegel and Le Monde, 30 months of text messages between 2019 and 2022 show that Daniel Woo, an officer in China’s Ministry of State Security spy agency, pushed former Belgian senator...
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