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...But “the clock is not running out”, said Jack Wallace from Guggenheim Securities....
...“The result is that Russian security partners initially gain a sovereign capability . . ....
...Anduril’s first big win, when it was just a few months old, was a contract with the Trump administration to supply AI-powered surveillance towers along the Mexican border....
...Finally, do read David Wallace-Wells’ bracing NYT essay on whether America is ready for back-to-back pandemics....
...David LammyLook, if you look at the big issues, China, clearly the Donald Trump administration and the Biden administration are broadly in the same place and there is consensus on China....
...So that’s not just what Ben Wallace has already announced. He’s stepping down....
...But progress has been glacial on Biden’s other signature piece of legislation, the so-called Build Back Better programme, which will reinforce the social security safety net with free pre-school education...
...“We find an abandoned asset, we go in and take this enterprise under our security control, do a full inventory,” he said....
...China’s 380mn itinerant migrant workers are “periphery”, she says, which means they are the first to be laid off when companies are hit by downturns, a problem exacerbated by unequal access to social security...
...In particular the George W Bush administration, which did in fact give the impression of being the messianic force that Putin seems to fear....
...Biden administration officials had consulted with allies as they sought to unstitch Trump’s isolationist approach....
...We surprised the first year with the Social Security reform. We surprised a second year when we dropped it less....
...He described himself as a “fiscal conservative with a social conscience”, which would put him in the majority with most Americans, but worried most that America had lost its “sense of shame” as a society...
...“There were threats to my digital and personal security,” says Fowler, who adds she now has four police crime reports to her name....
...I think, I think the rock on which modern Britain is built is not appalling when you consider the massive social change that happened....
...Here’s some of what you had to say: “Two important topics for 2021 are cyber security and the discussion about the power, role and regulation of social media....
...But the problem with such an approach is that it is voluntary, says Filippa Lentzos, a social scientist at King’s College London who is researching biological agent threats....
...(FT) Greensill files for administration Greensill Capital has filed for administration, warning it is in “severe financial distress”, unable to repay a $140m loan to Credit Suisse and hit by “defaults”...
...Russia is seeking to manufacture its Sputnik V vaccine in Italy to meet a surge in overseas contracts....
...(FT) What else we’re reading Joe Biden’s chance to end middle class stagnation Once every generation or so, America’s social contract changes....
...Separately, Department of Justice attorneys said in a court filing that they had begun to review whether TikTok, the Chinese-owned video app, was a threat to national security as the Trump administration...
...Russia’s Sputnik V jab has shown 91.6 per cent efficacy against symptomatic Covid-19 in clinical trials, a Lancet peer review confirmed....
...believed his Supreme Court picks could reshape the court and pave the way for the reversal of Roe v Wade, which effectively legalised abortion....
...The onus is now on Donald Trump’s administration to use this “breathing space” wisely. It could take steps to improve the bankruptcy system....
...A strong retail performance is building hopes for a V-shaped economic recovery but exporters are still suffering, she writes....
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