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...“The result is that Russian security partners initially gain a sovereign capability . . ....
...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....
...New standards for the administration of applications for debt relief have been instituted....
...“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...
...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....
...(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....
...Mr Hogan acknowledged that the Trump administration was “trying to ramp up testing” and was working with private laboratories to boost capacity across the US....
...believed his Supreme Court picks could reshape the court and pave the way for the reversal of Roe v Wade, which effectively legalised abortion....
...For all of Trump’s wishful thinking about a quick bounceback, most policymakers and economists discounted a V-shaped recovery a while ago, though strong housing data on Tuesday offered a glimmer of hope....
...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) Hogan hits the US EU trade commissioner Phil Hogan will be in Washington until Thursday seeking to find some common purpose with the Trump administration, or at least avert a transatlantic trade war...
...(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...
...The Trump administration, meanwhile, said it would exempt foreign investors from the UK, Australia and Canada from new national security restrictions due to take effect next month....
...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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