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...Jim Jordan, founding member of the rightwing House Freedom Caucus and loyal ally of former US president Donald Trump, yesterday became the first Republican lawmaker to enter the race to succeed Kevin McCarthy...
...Spending is down sharply on last year, with the most headline-grabbing move so far being the swift unravelling of Jordan Henderson’s ill-fated move to Saudi Arabia....
...The White House has said countries such as Colombia, Peru, Jordan, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Nigeria, Kenya, and Vietnam might all benefit from more lending from the World Bank....
...Overnight, three American soldiers have been killed in Jordan by an Iranian drone, the latest sign that the Israel-Hamas war threatens to boil over into a larger conflict....
...Stylist’s assistant, Jordan Renou Rohel. Production, SW Studio Paris...
...Travel The King’s Highway in Jordan is one of the world’s oldest, most chequered and most romantic roads, as legendary and evocative as the Silk Road....
...As always, reach out to us at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com with thoughts and topics....
...“My fellow Americans, our movement is far from over,” Trump told throngs of his fans in Wellington, Ohio, a small, rural town 30 miles south-west of Cleveland....
...(FT) Jordan royal family’s sibling feud Long-running resentment and suspicion between Jordan’s King Abdullah and his younger brother sparked palace turmoil over the weekend, when Prince Hamzah was accused...
...And this week, Jordan took a stake in US sports betting outfit DraftKings, a once-unthinkable corporate partnership....
...The V traced by US indices heavily driven by tech and pharma stocks is appropriately narrow. The S&P 500 is down only 7.6 per cent since the pandemic hit the US and Europe....
...The White House is banking on a V-shaped recovery in the third quarter to boost growth as voters are preparing to cast ballots....
...The consultancy predicts revenues across Europe’s Big Five leagues will drop by €1.5bn this season, but make a V-shaped recovery next season....
...Online communities such as Zwift and Animal Crossing are providing an outlet for fashion and self-expression that the offline world is denying us right now....
...So maybe we should be manufacturing in Memphis and Cleveland, Ohio.”...
...UPSCALE: Buyers reach out to us....
...“We’re escalating,” he says, raising his voice to be overheard over the strains of Nat King Cole’s “L-O-V-E”, blaring in the background. “This is basically day one.” courtney.weaver@ft.com...
...pair [of shoes] at JD Sports or Nike.com and never would have bought a pair of Jordans on eBay,” Mr Luber said....
...Upside to come from Asia rather than the US....
...The kiddy-clobber company opened its first store in Russia in 1994, the year that both Harry Kane, the England captain, and Jordan Pickford, goalie, were born....
...On the stone façade of Palazzo Chiaramonte in Palermo, there are grooves left by the iron cages in which hung the severed heads of aristocrat rebels against Emperor Charles V....
...A professor of radiology in Cleveland, Ohio, Mr Griswold has just had his own encounter with a computer that thinks outside the box....
...The writer is director of the V&A...
...And so the boos are not justified, because Warlikowski’s meticulous psychological thriller is part of what keeps us on the edge of our seats all night. The other part is Philippe Jordan’s conducting....
...Cleveland is more the forgotten city, the epitome of the decaying rust belt....
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