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...Emmer tried and failed to succeed the toppled Kevin McCarthy....
...Unfrosted brings the feature directing debut and rare return to acting of Jerry Seinfeld, who leads an impossibly starry cast that includes Amy Schumer, Melissa McCarthy and Hugh Grant, to name only a few...
...Since McCarthy has reportedly decided to accept his fate, and not run again, House Republicans will fight over who to nominate next....
...Here to explain is the FT’s Shanghai correspondent Tom Hale. Hey, Tom. Thomas Hale Hi there. Marc FilippinoAll right, Tom, So what’s the latest on Evergrande?...
...country and the Financial Times’ Tom Hale discusses the murky future of China’s Evergrande property group....
...“It is a very tough job,” says Tom Arcenaux, the mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana, who has known Johnson for more than two decades....
...Tom Emmer Matt Gaetz floated Emmer, the 62-year-old Republican congressman from Minnesota, as a possible successor to McCarthy even before the Speaker was ousted....
...Burchett was one of the eight Republicans who voted to remove McCarthy as Speaker last month. McCarthy denied hitting Burchett....
...On Tuesday afternoon, their third candidate in as many weeks, Tom Emmer, dropped out hours after he was nominated, after Trump warned voting for him would be a “tragic mistake”....
...Tom Emmer, the Republican House whip, and Byron Donalds, a staunch Trump ally from Florida, are also thought likely to run....
...Of these, Tom Emmer, the party’s chief whip, has the best credentials to lead America’s lower house with some degree of responsibility....
...He was the fourth Republican Speaker nominee since McCarthy was removed....
...“I think it makes the difference in this race,” McCarthy told reporters on Capitol Hill on Tuesday afternoon....
...When discussing Weiss’s appointment as special counsel, Republican congressman Tom McClintock asked if the move was because of “corruption or incompetence”....
...On Tuesday, the former president all but torpedoed the chances of the party’s third Speaker nominee, Tom Emmer, calling him a “globalist Rino”, or Republican in name only, and setting the stage for Johnson...
...three painful public votes on the House floor before calling time on his candidacy — Trump was able to flex his political muscles by torpedoing the aspirations of the third Republican Speaker candidate, Tom...
...Elsewhere, Asian equities were broadly higher and US stock futures rose on Monday after US president Joe Biden struck a deal with Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy that would raise the US debt ceiling...
...McCarthy could not be reached for comment. McCarthy has been replaced on an interim basis by Kevin Lansberry, but the company has started to search for a full-time CFO....
...(We still never see the moment in Bird and Sherwin’s book where, sharing a lift with McCarthy himself, Oppenheimer gave the senator a wink.)...
...“If McCarthy visits Taiwan everything goes back to zero,” said one former Chinese diplomat....
...But he added that the furore over the balloon, especially if followed by a mooted visit to Taiwan by Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, “underscores the incredibly fragile nature of US-China relations...
...Well-regarded executives including Tom Staggs and Kevin Mayer left the company as Iger’s tenure continued, these people said....
...Take a break from the news Our six films to watch this week include a grouchy Tom Hanks in A Man Called Otto, Antonio Banderas as a killer in The Enforcer and Christian Bale meeting Edgar Allan Poe in The...
...Kevin McCarthy outlined his plans for breaking the debt ceiling impasse, including capping government spending at fiscal year 2022 levels, clawing back unspent Covid-19 relief funds and repealing the Biden...
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