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...The country now needed a “clean slate” and to get away from “division and chaos”....
...South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma has been suspended from the African National Congress, highlighting the deepening divisions in the governing party ahead of national elections this year....
...Possible successors include John Thune of South Dakota, John Cornyn of Texas and John Barrasso of Wyoming....
...“We know the number is higher,” says Nora Salinas, a forensic co-ordinator at the South Texas Human Rights Center....
...In one particularly telling moment of the debate, four of the Republican candidates on the stage — Ramaswamy, Haley, South Carolina senator Tim Scott and North Dakota governor Doug Burgum — swiftly raised...
...Several would-be candidates, including Mike Pence, Donald Trump’s former vice-president, and South Dakota governor Kristi Noem are courting support from party donors and grassroots voters by pushing for...
...“This was wonderful news in the defence of life,” Kristi Noem, the governor of South Dakota, told ABC. “Every life is precious....
...Women in parts of Texas, North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana — where there are few, if any, abortion providers — often had to travel more than 300 miles to reach the nearest abortion facility before Dobbs...
...and South Carolina will cast ballots in primaries as part of the 2022 midterm election cycle....
...Because South Africa is a young democracy — with deep social and economic divisions — there was no guarantee the judiciary would survive the assault from Zuma and his allies....
...(FT Opinion) Refuge for the rich South Dakota is a place where very few, if any, billionaires call home....
...The other concentrated sites of US outbreaks are meat processing plants in states such as Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota. The large majority of their workers are Hispanic....
...Joseph Stalin, the Soviet dictator, once asked, “How many divisions does the Pope have?” after Winston Churchill advised him to take heed of the Vatican’s views....
...You've got meat packing jobs in South Dakota in particular. But in some of these areas where you see these terrible working conditions and you have supply chains that don't work....
...Scandals in other divisions emerged, too. In the UK, there has been a similar small-scale implosion. For a decade Metro Bank’s quirky marketing and challenger status secured it a loyal following....
...(FT) Sabotage mission How an undercover oil industry agent infiltrated the movement against the Dakota Access pipeline with an aim to derail the protests....
...Orange County, a Republican stronghold south of Los Angeles, is the site of a handful of neck and neck races....
...South Dakota). Delaware has fallen all the way to 11th based on the latest results released late on Monday. Here's a link to the survey....
...The article caught the eye of Al King, then director of Citibank’s trust division in New York, and he recruited Mr McDowell to run the bank’s South Dakota office....
...From Kara’s piece (co-authored by Vanessa Houlder): Assets held in South Dakotan trusts have grown from $32.8bn in 2006 to more than $226bn in 2014, according to the state’s division of banking....
...(FT) South Dakota tax haven South Dakota is best known for its vast stretches of flat land and the Mount Rushmore monument....
...But as I travelled south, I realised something was missing....
...“But it’s more about what constituents are saying if — if farmers in, for example, Iowa or South Dakota press their senators to block it. That might then prove problematic.”...
...What they found was the Eagle Ford shale of south Texas, running from around Austin south and west into Mexico....
...Last month the company began sounding out buyers for the mills after persistent losses in its sugar and bioenergy division....
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