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...The evening’s most heated moments came as Biden accused Trump — though not by name — of “playing politics” with border security....
...“The result is that Russian security partners initially gain a sovereign capability . . ....
...With Democrats in charge during the Obama administration, investors felt they had a receptive audience....
...Anduril’s first big win, when it was just a few months old, was a contract with the Trump administration to supply AI-powered surveillance towers along the Mexican border....
...“We find an abandoned asset, we go in and take this enterprise under our security control, do a full inventory,” he said....
...China’s 380mn itinerant migrant workers are “periphery”, she says, which means they are the first to be laid off when companies are hit by downturns, a problem exacerbated by unequal access to social security...
...So you have Suella Braverman coming out and saying people live the life of Riley, essentially....
...We surprised the first year with the Social Security reform. We surprised a second year when we dropped it less....
...He described himself as a “fiscal conservative with a social conscience”, which would put him in the majority with most Americans, but worried most that America had lost its “sense of shame” as a society...
...“There were threats to my digital and personal security,” says Fowler, who adds she now has four police crime reports to her name....
...Letter in response to this article: Sanctions should be used to win a fair deal on Nord Stream 2 / From Alan Riley, Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council, Washington, DC, US...
...(FT) Greensill files for administration Greensill Capital has filed for administration, warning it is in “severe financial distress”, unable to repay a $140m loan to Credit Suisse and hit by “defaults”...
...Russia is seeking to manufacture its Sputnik V vaccine in Italy to meet a surge in overseas contracts....
...(FT) What else we’re reading Joe Biden’s chance to end middle class stagnation Once every generation or so, America’s social contract changes....
...Separately, Department of Justice attorneys said in a court filing that they had begun to review whether TikTok, the Chinese-owned video app, was a threat to national security as the Trump administration...
...Russia’s Sputnik V jab has shown 91.6 per cent efficacy against symptomatic Covid-19 in clinical trials, a Lancet peer review confirmed....
...Nicolas Riley, senior counsel at the Georgetown University Law Center, agreed....
...believed his Supreme Court picks could reshape the court and pave the way for the reversal of Roe v Wade, which effectively legalised abortion....
...The onus is now on Donald Trump’s administration to use this “breathing space” wisely. It could take steps to improve the bankruptcy system....
...A strong retail performance is building hopes for a V-shaped economic recovery but exporters are still suffering, she writes....
...(FT) Munich Security Conference kicks off The annual event is regarded as the Davos for the world’s security and foreign policy elite....
...That letter estimated that if the 800,000 Daca recipients lost their ability to work, the US economy would lose $460bn of GDP and the federal government nearly $25bn in Social Security and Medicare tax contributions...
...In a widely circulated report on Chinese social media, Zhang Anyuan, chief economist at Citic Securities, criticised analysts who have projected that first-quarter growth might only fall to 4 or 5 per cent...
...The social mingling resulting from any short-term economic reopening would probably come at the price of a second contagious outburst....
...However, investment spending — with an intention of levelling up — remains far larger than the plans under the previous administration....
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