Hints and tips:
...Donald Trump has endorsed Jim Jordan, the Republican congressman from Ohio, as the next House speaker, after Kevin McCarthy was ousted this week....
...Asian markets headed sharply lower on Wednesday, after US strong employment data increased concerns over elevated interest rates and the ousting of Kevin McCarthy as US House Speaker hit sentiment....
...“Their goal is chaos itself — to bring the system down,” says William Galston, a Brookings Institution senior fellow. “They are not reformists in any normal understanding of the word.”...
...“I just got off the phone with the president a bit ago,” McCarthy wrote....
...Talks on raising the US debt ceiling in time to prevent the country from defaulting concluded without a deal on Monday, but both McCarthy and Biden expressed optimism....
...McCarthy had struck a more upbeat tone as he arrived at the Capitol earlier in the morning....
...Douglas is having huevos rancheros; I’ve chosen a McCarthy salad at his recommendation, which consists of chicken, bacon, avocado, hard-boiled egg and beets....
...House leader Kevin McCarthy and President Joe Biden have agreed a deal to suspend the limit, but hardline Republicans have threatened to torpedo the arrangement....
...Investors have eyed talks to resolve the US debt impasse wearily, with Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s comments on Wednesday that the two sides were “still far apart” bruising markets....
...Traders have watched efforts to resolve the US debt stand-off warily, but appeared encouraged by the latest round of talks between President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, which ended without...
...The administration needs to get congressional approval in the midst of a polarised and dysfunctional US political climate with the Republican party mired in chaos after the removal of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker...
...Playwright Roy Williams says: “With every fibre of her being, she adores theatre.”...
...John Williams, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, on Tuesday urged Congress and the Biden administration to “take responsibility” in raising the debt ceiling, warning in public remarks that...
...Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams and Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Loretta Mester also speak at public events today....
...John Podesta will take over from McCarthy as Biden’s top climate adviser, the White House said in a statement Friday confirming the change....
...Additional reporting by Aime Williams in Washington...
...McCarthy, who combined the declarative directness of Ernest Hemingway with the baroque inflections of William Faulkner, was the last conjuror of a now vanished America, writes Christian Lorentzen....
...McCarthy told reporters....
...The bleakness continues in books published that year — Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God, and Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow....
...YSP Centre until 11 June Evelyn Hofer: Eyes on the City at High Museum of Art, Atlanta Alongside William Eggleston and William Klein, German-born American photographer Evelyn Hofer was one of the first...
...There are so many of her newsletters I could pick — like the one praising The Road by Cormac McCarthy (who died earlier this year), as the best book about parenting....
...Wagtail, 68 King William St, London EC4; wagtaillondon.com The Terrace at Norma A slice of Sicily on a corner of Fitzrovia....
...Kevin McCarthy, the Republican Speaker of the House, said Bragg had “weaponised our sacred system of justice against president Donald Trump.”...
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