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...“The result is that Russian security partners initially gain a sovereign capability . . ....
...In 2016, Trump did campaign on a fairly coherent plan — building a wall, ending the alleged worldwide rip-off of America via trade, targeting Muslims and protecting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid...
...Having a custodian — banks that hold customer securities to prevent them being lost or stolen — is a legal requirement for a hedge fund to operate in the UK, and Odey Asset Management would be in breach...
...Earlier this week Joe Biden’s administration took its broadest step yet to tackle the AI threat....
...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....
...“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...
...At a Louis Vuitton store in Oak Brook, Illinois, 14 people stuffed large plastic bags with clothing and other goods worth more than $120,000 in November....
...We surprised the first year with the Social Security reform. We surprised a second year when we dropped it less....
...Another is Stanley Choi, whose acquisition of Wigan Athletic ultimately resulted in it falling into administration....
...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....
...(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....
...The Gulf monarchies have reinforced theirs and, while loosening social restrictions, brook no political dissidence....
...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....
...The latest in our new social contract series spotlights the recessionals....
...A strong retail performance is building hopes for a V-shaped economic recovery but exporters are still suffering, she writes....
...(FT) Munich Security Conference kicks off The annual event is regarded as the Davos for the world’s security and foreign policy elite....
...They still identify with America’s last budget surplus, two decades ago, at the end of the Clinton administration....
...That letter estimated that if the 800,000 Daca recipients lost their ability to work, the US economy would lose $460bn of GDP and the federal government nearly $25bn in Social Security and Medicare tax contributions...
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