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...Uvalde is a small town in south-west Texas with a population of about 15,000, approximately 50 miles from the US-Mexico border and 80 miles from San Antonio....
...The suburbs around the big metro areas of Austin, Houston, Dallas and San Antonio have soaked up most of the new arrivals and that is where the fight for the future of the state is playing out....
...Some progressives believe we don’t need a police department but those are a small number of people.”...
...“We have found that the global death toll is higher for men than for women”, splitting 57 per cent to 43 per cent, said Dr William Msemburi, an official in the WHO’s department of data and analytics....
...In a class-action lawsuit, the migrants say they were lured from shelters in San Antonio, Texas with food vouchers and false promises of jobs, only to be abandoned on an island in the dark....
...When officials in Hondo, a small farming town just 40 miles west of San Antonio, Texas, announced in February that a new rare earth elements processing plant would come to town, they were greeted by complaints...
...The third would place the police department under the control of a 13-member civilian commission, with the power to hire the police chief and discipline officers for misconduct....
...Job moves Credit Suisse has enlisted Axel Lehmann, former chief operating officer of UBS, to lead its risk committee as the Swiss bank’s new chair António Horta-Osório revamps its compliance controls in...
...The US also placed sanctions on Than Aung, Myanmar’s police chief, and Lieutenant General Aung Soe, the military’s special operations commander....
...The algorithm was scrapped, students received teacher-assessed grades and the department’s chief regulator, Sally Collier, resigned....
...In 2016, Trump won 227 of the 254 counties in Texas, but the Democrats won the major cities: Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin and El Paso....
...Together they lifted the Nasdaq Composite 4 per cent, ahead of the benchmark S&P 500....
...The Chengdu consulate also briefly harboured Wang Lijun, the Chongqing police chief who sought asylum there in early 2012 when he betrayed the city’s powerful party boss Bo Xilai, a rising political star...
...Last year António Guterres, UN secretary-general, sought to tackle this head on when he called together 30 chief executives from the world’s largest companies, banks and pension funds to form the Global...
...In 2016, Colin Kaepernick, a star quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, began taking a knee before games to protest police brutality and racial inequality....
...“This is not the sex police, but can you both date and have authority over someone’s career?” said Joan Williams, a University of California law professor....
...According to The Conference Board, five of the 12 S&P 500 chief executives who were fired last year were #MeToo-related....
...Meanwhile, a former employee of the British consulate in Hong Kong has claimed Chinese police “tortured” him....
...On Wednesday a striking array of world leaders, chief executives and Pharrell Williams flocked to the Plaza Hotel for the former New York mayor’s Bloomberg Global Business Forum....
...Unlike some other professions, “at the end of the day, there’s an independent measurement of who was more successful”, says Henderson, who is now director of San Francisco’s department of police accountability...
...Shares in the San Francisco-based group have only risen 0.5 per cent since its initial public offering on March 21, compared with a 7 per cent rise for the broader S&P 500....
...The bankruptcy plan follows an announcement on Sunday that the company’s chief executive Geisha Williams had stepped down....
...Keith Cozza, Courtney Mather and James Nelson will replace John Boushy, Matthew Ferko and Christopher Williams....
...(FT) CVS’s $69bn takeover of Aetna cleared The US Department of Justice has approved CVS Health’s $69bn takeover of Aetna, clearing the way for the creation of a huge US healthcare group....
...IBM, keen to show off the versatility of its machines, invited the young man with a big mop of hair to present his work at a conference in San Jose in 1964....
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