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...Two experts — Stephanie Kelton and Edward Chancellor — debate the long-term impact on inflation of Covid-19 rescue packages. Rana Foroohar writes that economists need to abandon their comfort zones....
...As Biden showed in 2008 with Sarah Palin and in 2012 with Paul Ryan — the Republican running mates of John McCain and Mitt Romney — he is a surprisingly taut debater....
...“The potatoes come from a company that works with McCain’s chip offcuts,” he says....
...When actor and comedian Tara Flynn revealed she had had an abortion, a senior member of the ruling Fine Gael party tweeted that she “couldn’t be bothered having a baby so she had it killed”....
...• Irish Funds, the trade association for the country’s fund industry, has named Tara Doyle as its new chairwoman....
...In one of the few bright notes of the evening for the Democrats, Stephanie Murphy won the Florida 7th district, defeating John Mica who had been in Congress for 24 years....
...The mood on the convention floor was electric as Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, mayor of Baltimore and secretary of the convention, called on the states to announce their primary votes....
...Senator John McCain increasingly resembles Congressman Charlie Wilson in the 1980s, who organised a massive crease in US covert assistance to the Afghan mujahideen....
...John McCain, the Arizona senator, called the shutdown wrangling “one of the more shameful chapters” in the Senate’s history....
...Other Republicans, like veteran Arizona senator John McCain, have heavily criticised the focus on the health law, saying it would backfire on the party with the American electorate....
Agreement would raise debt ceiling until early February
...It is this tendency to point fingers at other Republicans that earned him the label of “wacko bird” by fellow Republican John McCain....
...support for legislation that would have cut off foreign aid to Egypt until elections were held, but not before engaging in testy exchanges on the floor of the Senate with other Republicans, including John McCain...
...The latest political threat to Wall Street came from an unlikely pair this week: Elizabeth Warren, the liberal first-term Democratic senator from Massachusetts, and John McCain, the veteran Republican senator...
...And it marks a challenge to traditional defence hawks such as Senator John McCain, who used to dominate the party....
...Charles Schumer, a Democratic senator from New York, and John McCain, a Republican from Arizona, voiced concerns about the deal, which has to be approved by an inter-agency government committee....
...Mr McCain and Mr Graham on Thursday took to the Senate floor themselves to attack what they said was an absurd and naive view about drones possibly threatening American liberty....
...The guest list includes some who might be willing to compromise with the president on budget issues, such as senators Tom Coburn and John McCain, as well as staunchly conservative lawmakers such as Pat Toomey...
...John McCain, the Arizona Republican, said there were “significant questions” about Mr Hagel’s views, including his assessment of the “surge” in Iraq and America’s role in the world....
...Is it with Paul or McCain?...
...Despite a growing chorus of protests from Republican defence hawks, such as Senator John McCain, and Democrats who also oppose spending cuts, there are powerful forces pushing Republicans to hold a tough...
...This week, former Republican presidential nominee John McCain said on Fox News it would be “wise” for Mr Obama to replace Mr Biden with Hillary Clinton, secretary of state and the president’s 2008 rival...
...Two Republicans – John McCain and Jon Huntsman, the former Utah governor – expressed strong disapproval of Richard Mourdock, who this week said that when a woman become pregnant as the result of rape it...
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