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...The evening’s most heated moments came as Biden accused Trump — though not by name — of “playing politics” with border security....
...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....
...Keith Schiller, his longtime bodyguard, later headed Oval Office operations; John McEntee, a former personal aide, went on to serve in his administration; and Matthew Calamari, a former security guard, is...
...At the same time, several hardline Republican lawmakers — notably Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene — have called for the impeachment of Biden, attorney-general Merrick Garland and homeland security...
...But Raesa Waldon, a 33-year-old social media consultant at the polls with her mother, Vivian, says it is not surprising to see a divisive backlash brewing from the right against Democrats....
...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...
...I was speaking with a former very senior national security official who spent a lot of time observing Trump firsthand in the Oval Office, who compared him at the end of his first term to the velociraptors...
...It is building a $12bn chip factory in Arizona and competing for $52bn in chip subsidies announced by President Joe Biden’s administration....
...Many of the images of military atrocities uploaded since February were deleted within hours of being posted, either by individuals fearful for their own security or by social media companies’ content mediation...
...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...
...Michael Taylor: Bank rate will peak at no more than 4 per cent....
...He hasn’t announced a blank-cheque deal since January, when his Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp V announced a tie-up with the digital lender SoFi....
...Andrea Kendall-Taylor, former senior US intelligence official who Biden appointed Russia director on the National Security Council before she turned it down for personal reasons, says Putin could prevent...
...“There were threats to my digital and personal security,” says Fowler, who adds she now has four police crime reports to her name....
...Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg suggested that people would soon “hologram into work” even before the pandemic left offices empty....
...Russia is seeking to manufacture its Sputnik V vaccine in Italy to meet a surge in overseas contracts....
...They guarded the perimeter of the US Capitol and patrolled lawmakers’ offices....
...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...
...The UK may require further social restrictions to curb coronavirus, scientists warned....
...believed his Supreme Court picks could reshape the court and pave the way for the reversal of Roe v Wade, which effectively legalised abortion....
...Our reviewer says Taylor Swift’s new album Folklore is unlike anything the artist has done before....
...The government is also preparing to scrap the two-metre social distancing rule in favour of “one metre plus” alongside face masks and physical screens....
...The past few months have highlighted to a lot of SMEs in serviced office space that the current landlord/tenant dynamic leaves them with very little security during hard times....
...(FT) Munich Security Conference kicks off The annual event is regarded as the Davos for the world’s security and foreign policy elite....
...The social mingling resulting from any short-term economic reopening would probably come at the price of a second contagious outburst....
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