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...Danny Broberg, associate director at the Bipartisan Policy Center, joins the US Department of Energy as a senior adviser in its office of fossil energy and carbon management....
...Until then, the president still has time to change his mind. However most White House officials and Democrats in Washington expect him to declare his candidacy and face no major challenge....
...Lina Hidalgo, a Harris County judge and one of the Houston area’s top Democratic elected officials, was among the local leaders who sued over the past week to challenge Abbott’s executive order on masks....
...The White House insisted at the time she was speaking in a “personal capacity”, triggering speculation about rifts within the Biden administration over how to approach the issue....
...So single drop-offs will have to serve for the 4.7m people of Harris County including greater Houston and the 1.2m of Travis County including Austin....
...Harris county, which includes Houston, could run out of existing intensive care beds in 11 days, on current trends, although surge capacity would be enough to manage for a further 27 days after that....
...Aghast to find life in his village unchanged, Mr Gao confronted local officials....
...As part of the National Ebola Training and Education Center, an initiative developed after the Ebola outbreak of 2014, major metropolitan hospitals in the US have been trained to isolate patients, but need...
...It’s gotten more likely to have oil be less in demand,” said Mr Looney, who took the top job at the UK oil major in February....
...Will Turner discovered his passion for food while serving a two-year sentence at a juvenile detention centre in Massachusetts, where he ended up in the 1980s after spending his teenage years running with...
...The major concern is what happens at the low end as it appears that, as in the US at the end of 2020 the bottom part of the wage distribution has dropped out. Underemployment is set to rise further....
...(FT, AP) Saudi crackdown Saudi Arabia has detained nearly 300 public servants in a sweeping crackdown against corruption, following the detention this month of at least two senior princes....
...Nam Sung-wook, professor of diplomacy and security at Korea University, says Mr Trump’s tweets have caused South Koreans to doubt his capacity as a leader and that his comments are often viewed as gossip...
...The city’s Harris County hosts more than two dozen current and former toxic waste sites designated under the US federal Superfund programme....
...His gift was a seal of approval for the museum director Franklin Sirmans, former curator of contemporary art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, who was appointed to Pamm in September 2015....
...In that scenario the House, again, would decide the president. That happened in both 1800 and 1824, when four major candidates split the vote....
...“Official estimates,” according to Carol Harris, “were that 120,000 people would die in the first week of the war.”...
...He was chosen as the official photographer during the 2010 General Election....
...This gastro-novel, marvellously translated, is a blast, its food scenes at times as glorious and funny as the sex in Fanny Hill....
...And they will have to make a major decision, if they expect to remain as public officials.”...
...The flood of policy announcements over the last few weeks leads to questions about the capacity of Chávez’s government to implement all his new ideas....
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