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...Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, Senator John McCain and Olympians Megan Rapinoe and Simone Biles are among the 17 individuals set to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Joe Biden....
...Steve Bannon, the arch-disrupter, is about as much a conservative as the National Socialists of the Third Reich were socialist....
...Last week, Congress found former Trump aide Steve Bannon in contempt for ignoring a subpoena about the Capitol siege of January 6....
...Yet Doug Holtz-Eakin, who advised the late John McCain’s presidential campaign, said the post-crisis experience had been a salutary one for conservatives....
...Barack Obama, a Democratic freshman, beat longtime senator John McCain. Bill Clinton beat George HW Bush....
...The speculation was stoked when he hired Steve Schmidt, the 2008 presidential campaign manager for John McCain. Mr Schmidt has since left the Republican party....
...Recommended reading My column this week looks at what Steve Bannon called the “deconstruction of the administrative state”....
...For a sense of the speed of the collapse, consider John McCain’s naval career. He enlisted in 1958....
...Starbucks’ Howard Schultz has begun hiring political operatives, including John McCain’s former campaign chairman....
...Republican Senator John McCain’s backing for Donald Trump’s tax reform bill helped to fuel a mid-session surge for Wall Street stocks....
...“Suck it, Bannon,” was how Meghan McCain, the daughter of Arizona senator John McCain, tweeted about the race in which Mr Bannon had campaigned in force for Mr Moore, a former Alabama chief justice who was...
...Steve Bell, a former Senate budget staffer who is now at the Bipartisan Policy Center, said that in 44 years in Washington he had not seen a process quite so “haphazard” in the legislative branch....
...asked the New York Post, over a Photoshopped image of President Donald Trump and his former chief strategist Steve Bannon dressed in Roman garb....
...John McCain (Arizona) Status Undeclared Concerns Perennial maverick who wants plenty of time to offer amendments....
...John McCain, the Arizona Republican senator, said the pardon “undermines [the president’s] claim for the respect of rule of law as Mr Arpaio has shown no remorse for his actions”....
...— New York Times Blue Planet feeds our human need for wonder in a sterile modern world — Juliet Samuel in The Telegraph McCain — a tireless voice for democracy the world over — Fred Hiatt in The Washington...
...Among the other senators to watch is John McCain of Arizona, who has yet to declare his position....
...Among the key senators Republican leaders are seeking to persuade are Rand Paul of Kentucky and John McCain of Arizona....
...President Donald Trump has removed top aide Steve Bannon from the White House National Security Council, reversing a controversial appointment that sparked criticism from foreign policy experts and Capitol...
...Steve Bannon, former chief strategist for Mr Trump and one-time vice-president at Cambridge Analytica, blamed Facebook for collecting the data later used by the company....
...Even as Mr McConnell tries to maintain a veneer of unity between his caucus and Mr Trump, Senate Republicans are facing a threat from outside government in Steve Bannon....
...The sense of an administration at war with itself was already acute before Anthony Scaramucci, Mr Trump’s new communications director, hurled vulgar insults at Reince Priebus, chief of staff, and Steve Bannon...
...“I have got Alan Greenspan, Jeb Bush and Steve Bannon [behind the bill]. If anyone can do better, I’d like to meet them,” Mr Graham said. Mr Pence said: “This is the moment. Now is the time....
...Steve Bannon: We should go after them all. Wipe ’em out . . . Trump: I called in FBI director Comey and said I needed his loyalty. I made him an offer he couldn’t refuse. I don’t know what happened....
...Mr Volker, the director of the McCain Institute think-tank and a former US ambassador to Nato, was mandated last month to support European leaders in talks with Moscow on the fighting that has killed 10,000...
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