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...Todd Blanche, a lawyer for Trump, conceded in the brief that US courts have not ruled on whether presidential immunity “includes immunity from criminal prosecution.”...
...It’s best known for teen dramas like Dawson’s Creek and Buffy the Vampire Slayer and it’s never been a destination for live, mainstream sport . . . until now....
...The indictment, brought by the Department of Justice’s special counsel Jack Smith, marks the first time in US history a former president has faced federal criminal charges....
...He did not look at his nemesis, Jack Smith, the special counsel, who was seated across the aisle behind a trio of federal prosecutors....
...In 2011, he wrote to the then reality-TV star asking him to run for president. In 2020, he hosted a fundraiser for Trump at his home, which the then president attended....
...Nigell Todd....
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...Brown-Forman, the maker of Jack Daniel’s whiskey, is expected to report first-quarter earnings....
...Masayoshi Son, the chairman of SoftBank, has been side by side with Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba, over the past two decades since he started the company....
...He loves it,” says Strong, the former head of the V&A and author of some waspish diaries in which few of the rich, famous and powerful are spared....
...It’s that Guedes’ influence on the president appears to be waning....
...According to Pantone Color Institute’s vice president, Laurie Pressman, it’s “a bright and cheerful yellow sparkling with vivacity; a warming shade imbued with solar power”....
...Francesca Orsi, HBO’s executive vice-president, bit on the basic concept, and White got to work on the script in August....
...Ark expects a V-shaped economic recovery. Wood said there was still a lot of cash on the sidelines, valuations were more reasonable and there was a strong profit recovery coming this year....
...Goldman bought a stake in Jack Ma’s Alibaba as early as 1999, and one of the bank’s former top executives, Michael Evans, became president of the technology group in 2015....
...At HEC Paris, midway through the search for a dean after the departure of Peter Todd last year on health grounds, students and alumni have lobbied for the new leader to show a commitment to sustainability...
...Boehly's Spac to take Vivid Seats public in near $2 billion deal (Reuters) Jack Ma’s Ant shrinks money market fund as Beijing cracks down (FT) Semiconductor group Alphawave IP to seek $4.5bn valuation...
...by President Donald Trump), the research found....
...(FT) Coronavirus digest Russia will supply 300m doses of its Sputnik V vaccine to the African Union....
...The Communist party needs entrepreneurs such as Jack Ma, writes Jamil Anderlini, but it curtails anyone who becomes too powerful....
...Earlier optimistic hopes of a sharp V-shaped British recovery seem to be fading as new coronavirus spikes appear....
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...Another big topic on the global agenda for 2021 will be US-China relations and how they are reset by President Joe Biden....
...Robert Zoellick, the former World Bank president, argued that there would be “fumbling fragmentation”; Mike Wilson, Morgan Stanley’s chief investment officer, said “a V-shaped recovery is on track”; and...
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