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...The main draw of the evening is set to be a conversation between the three Democratic leaders moderated by CBS Late Show host Stephen Colbert....
...The White House last week sent two former top officials — former Republican national security adviser Stephen Hadley and former Democratic deputy secretary of state James Steinberg — to Taipei in the wake...
...Speakers include Nancy Pelosi. To book tickets, go to ft.com/festival-us and use our exclusive discount code: weekendpodcast....
...A lot of big name guests will be there, like Marilynne Robinson who’s incredible, Bradley Whitford, Nancy Pelosi, and we hope to see you there....
...Presidential “gaffes” vowing to defend Taiwan antagonised Beijing, and House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taipei sparked a cross-Strait crisis....
...Do read Stephen Bush on Rishi Sunak’s coming summer of torture in his contest with that ever shape-shifting, personification of opportunism, Liz Truss, who, alas, is now favourite to win....
...The spectacle of Pelosi’s mission to Taiwan brings that disastrous possibility into sharper focus....
...Stephen Roach (Opinion, August 5) calls Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan “a direct affront to the ‘One China’ principles of reunification stipulated in the 1972 Shanghai Communiqué”....
...Stephen Roach (“Two insecure superpowers stumble towards collision over Taiwan”, Opinion, August 5) misstates and misdiagnoses the causes of the tensions between the US and China....
...Stephen Bush, who helms the Inside Politics newsletter, warns that Sunak has limited time to close the gap with Truss, as “most Conservative members will vote right away when their ballot papers arrive”....
...Stephen Bush writes that American libertarians have fallen for this idea that is an excuse for cutting welfare spending. Is this wellness’s golden gun?...
...The court’s three liberal justices — Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer — dissented....
...Ms Pelosi hit back at Mr Trump in a press conference on Saturday....
...Stephen Breyer wrote the majority opinion, joined by the court’s two other liberal justices, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, as well as four of its conservatives: chief justice John Roberts, Clarence Thomas...
...I couldn’t agree more with Bret Stephens that the left must address its groupthink blindness....
...Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic speaker of the House, said ahead of Friday’s vote that the bill “saves lives and saves the livelihoods of the American people”....
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...Coronavirus digest US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said a stimulus deal may not arrive before the election....
...Justice Elena Kagan, in an opinion joined by Justice Stephen Breyer, said simply that the federal Department of Health and Human Services had broad discretion to craft rules implementing the ACA....
...Stephen Roach at Yale University forecasts the end of the dollar’s exorbitant privilege. A crash is likely, given the collapse in US domestic saving and a gaping current account deficit....
...Coronavirus digest Donald Trump called for a new stimulus deal and Nancy Pelosi appealed for an airline bailout. New York City’s mayor proposed neighbourhood lockdowns....
...Meanwhile, three senior scientists — Anthony Fauci, head of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Stephen Hahn, the FDA commissioner, and Robert Redfield, head of the Centers for...
...Ms Ocasio-Cortez won her seat by defeating Joe Crowley, a 10-term congressman and close ally of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi....
...Nancy Pelosi added to the pressure on the British prime minister....
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