Thursday's defection came about five weeks after a North Korean soldier suffered critical gunshot wounds during a defection dash across the border.
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If it's Jones instead, they can only handle one defection.
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Defection not uncommon Defections from North Korea are not uncommon.
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There are several circulating versions of how the defection happened.
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Republicans could afford no more than one defection in committee.
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McCain's defection is likely to prompt others to follow suit.
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Herzik agreed, adding that while there will be some defection.
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In the kind of defection that worries Mr. Romney, Gov.
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At the time of his defection, he spoke no English.
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Boeing faced an unthinkable defection in the spring of 2011.
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One Republican defection could bottle up the nominee in committee.
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Republicans are unlikely to be able to survive her defection.
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Seoul's Unification Ministry has said the defection was voluntary, but said later it would consider "various aspects" of their defection, when asked if it would return the waitresses to North Korea if they wanted to.
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The defection leaves Taiwan with formal relations with just 17 countries.
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Justice's defection leaves Democrats with just 20143 governors among 50 states.
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This means disconnection and ultimately defection to other app-based platforms.
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His defection means Johnson's government no longer has a working majority.
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Now, anyone with minimal knowledge would have plotted a cleaner defection.
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Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), whose defection on Tuesday shocked senior Republicans.
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The Márquez defection is also politically damaging to the peace process.
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PayPal's public defection could indicate the alliance is starting to fray.
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Justice's defection leaves Democrats with just 15 governors among 50 states.
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But McCain's defection could prompt other GOP senators to follow suit.
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Islamist, a stirring defection story of a Muslim extremist who had come
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The majority leader seemed to recognise that Mr McCain's defection was fatal.
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"In the Senate, the margin for defection is so small," he said.
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That followed a defection by a group led by Renault last month.
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Dissatisfaction with the party's nominee is a primary reason electors consider defection.
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Republicans control 28503 seats and could afford no more than one defection.
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Additionally, in Somalia, defection from Al-Shabaab is a one-way street.
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A Benn defection would have been a big moment in Labour history.
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If Collins does vote no, Republicans can only afford one more defection.
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Officials said that unusual group defection reflected growing dissatisfaction in the North.
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So a defection by even one more Republican elector would make history.
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This, a South 22018 member explained, represented the third wave of defection.
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As thanks for his defection, then-President Barack Obama and Pennsylvania Gov.
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First comes Kirill Petrenko, whose defection to the Philharmonic draws slowly closer.
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He said the defection was engineered by the South's National Intelligence Service.
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But Republicans can afford a defection with a 52-seat Senate majority.
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Their pessimism stemmed from the defection of a key leadership ally, Rep.
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The defection of Gowdy, in particular, from his Republican colleagues is noteworthy.
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Officials in the country have not yet commented on reports of Thae's defection.
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But a third GOP defection would prevent Mulvaney from getting the job. Sen.
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"Kim Jong Un's policy itself is tightening its grip on defection," he said.
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But the announcement of the colonel's defection is part of a larger story.
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But Democrats do also have higher "defection rates" than Republicans in presidential elections.
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The defection from liberal values, reflected in concrete policy proposals, makes this difficult.
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But a defection of centrist Socialists could be a significant boost for Macron.
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A single mass defection event would completely overwhelm all sectors of this initiative.
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After his defection, he sought his family's release by petitioning governments for help.
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Thomas F. Bair of the United States Army said right after the defection.
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Even before his defection, Colonel Tin was known as something of a maverick.
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There, they believed, they would face punishment, and possibly death, for their defection.
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That means Republicans can afford only one defection without any Democrats on board.
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Their defection raised more suspicion about Mr. Philby, but he survived the episode.
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After his defection, Tabori would not talk about his last days in Hungary.
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But a huge defection of users would drastically lessen its value to Verizon.
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Lee's detention and Zhang's potential defection could further exacerbate tensions between Taiwan and China.
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It was the first North Korea defection over the border in about a decade.
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As for his defection, it was his old party that changed, not his convictions.
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The defection of Labour's Leave-voters would torpedo its chances of forming a government.
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The UK Foreign Office told CNN it will not be commenting on Thae's defection.
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It is the highest-level diplomatic defection from North to South Korea in history.
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I kept running into nearly identical characters telling me nearly identical stories about defection.
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But Gove had other ideas, and apparently orchestrated a mass defection from Johnson's camp.
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Now, instead of only being able to afford one defection, McConnell can have two.
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It was then the biggest such defection in Asia's private banking sector, they said.
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Justice's defection is made possible at least in part by the Democratic Party itself.
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The South Korean military provided few details in a brief statement announcing the defection.
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"We're going to press on," Graham said, asked about the latest defection from Sen.
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His dramatic defection to the West in 1961 was a blow to Soviet prestige.
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The defection means that Johnson's government has lost its working majority in the Commons.
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Jenkins later claimed to have regretted his defection and blamed the decision on alcohol.
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Are the women of the first family on the cusp of divorce and defection?
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Romney is one who seemed a candidate for such a defection, as were Sens.
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Romney's announcement meant that there would be only one party defection during the vote.
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With all Democrats opposed, that means one additional Republican defection would sink the bill.
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With Hoeven's defection there are roughly 10 GOP senators publicly opposed to the bill.
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An accompanying photo appears to show the same man as in the defection video.
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They cannot afford a single defection on an attempt to change the rules unilaterally.
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Republicans said his defection illustrated the weakness of the Democrats' case against the president.
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He's not likely to lose, but Felder's defection might motivate progressives across the state.
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It was only a K.G.B. assassin's eventual defection years later that revealed the truth.
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Democrats view Murkowski as one possible Republican defection, along with other moderates like Sens.
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As RMI acknowledged in a follow-up report on "the economics of load defection" (load defection simply means using less utility power, rather than leaving the grid entirely), few people are actually likely to choose to go off-grid, even when it's viable.
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Chris Collins, a longtime Trump supporter, about Upton's defection and whether that complicated their argument.
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The update also includes additional information about Thae's defection from North Korea expert Michael Madden.
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Pyongyang, North Korea (CNN)In April, news of a spectacular defection rippled through the media.
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For useful institutions to persist, then, there must be punishments for defection from the norm.
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He's not likely to lose, but his continued defection might motivate progressives across the state.
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The defection means the FPV is no longer the biggest group in the lower house.
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Sounds a lot like the way Alexei tricked his own family into forced defection, no?
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Hijab was prime minister for two months in Assad's government in 2012 before his defection.
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Exit polling tells a different story; there wasn't a massive Bernie Bro defection in 2016.
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McCain's potential defection will give Mulvaney little room for error to clear the upper chamber.
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A GOP proposal which included border wall funding only drew the defection of Democratic Sen.
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The last defection by a North Korean soldier across the DMZ was in November 2018.
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A defection by 20 or so Republicans in the House could sink the bill's prospects.
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No shots were fired during the latest defection, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
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His announcement followed mass defection of top politicians from APC to PDP in recent weeks.
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It was supposed to topple dictators, to build social collaboration, to punish defection and isolation.
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He had caught wind of their planned defection and wanted to have the last word.
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Ultimately, in defection or witness protection, at least the four of them could've been together.
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But McCain's defection became apparent when he began huddling with Democrats on the Senate floor.
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One historian of neoconservatism, writing in 2005, spoke of Mr. Glazer's "defection" from the movement.
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And this kind of congressional party defection happens during most presidential elections: Recall Democratic-aligned Sen.
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They said the symbolic mass defection would lead armed forces across the country to follow suit.
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But this defection allows Mr Yan to liberate the subtler, more lyrical side of his writing.
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But Rhimes' defection is undoubtably a massive moment in the history of the network TV drama.
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Society might also find other ways, through new technologies, for instance, to more effectively discourage defection.
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This whole business with the acting troupe and Arya's defection seems like bad storytelling to me.
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That's eBay founder Meg Whitman, the second top-level defection in the party after Hank Paulson.
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The latest defection comes in Iowa, where Aetna says it's pulling out of the Obamacare exchange.
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With the vote closing up, there's only one GOP defection from Paul Ryan as Speaker. Rep.
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If Democrats maintain total unity, a single GOP defection could be enough to sink Kavanaugh's nomination.
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The response was the first by North Korea to a highly unusual group defection last week.
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This emphasis on family ties is "a possible allusion to the issue of defection," Lee noted.
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But I'm not sure how many voters are going to be swayed by a Bush defection.
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And the defection of the ACLU is an indicator that America isn't all that far behind.
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Ben Smith, the BuzzFeed editor in chief, was said to have been angry about the defection.
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South Korea took the unusual step of announcing the women's defection the day after they arrived.
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Mr. Lee's dramatic defection was a propaganda bonanza for the anti-Communist government in the South.
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But he did almost nothing to stem the defection of a dozen Republicans, an embarrassing rebuke.
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South Korea, he added, had promised to protect their families by keeping the defection a secret.
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His was the most dramatic defection from the North in years, making headlines in South Korea.
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Trevor Thompson left for the NBA Draft; JaQuan Lyle, the most recent defection, just plain left.
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That could lead to the defection of some former Likud partners to a Gantz-led coalition.
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He dismissed the reports of Alizadeh's defection as politically motivated rumors amplified by the foreign media.
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Asked on Monday whether he had heard any complaints about his defection, Mr. Hamilton said no.
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The party's 51-49 majority means they can't afford more than one defection during a vote.
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Shortly after the defection, CNN interviewed several of their former colleagues in the North Korean capital.
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Without McCain present, and with a Paul defection, Republicans would need Democrats to support both nominees.
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At least six electors may become "faithless" — which would be the most significant defection since 1808.
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Army spokesman Lul Ruai Koang said they were not aware of any defection from their ranks.
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The judge's resignation represents the highest level defection from Mr. Ortega's government since the crisis began.
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His defection leaves a pair of Hall of Famers on the sidelines — Mandella and jockey Mike Smith.
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While thanking the senior senator from Utah, Mike Lee, Trump swiped at Romney's defection the day before.
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"Defection would be a dramatic gesture, but each will have to make their own calculations," Whitman said.
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If that defection spreads much deeper than 10 percent, the change of control becomes much more likely.
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Life after defection Ri now lives a quieter life, one not too far from the White House.
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Upton's defection brought the number of GOP no votes on the revised health bill up to 22.
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Senate Republicans have a slim majority and cannot afford a single defection to confirm Kraninger while Sen.
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South Korean officials said the male supervisor appeared to have played a crucial role in the defection.
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The Broncos, though, were forced to regroup after Peyton Manning's retirement and Brock Osweiler's defection to Houston.
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Carroll said there were no tour groups on either side of the DMZ when the defection occurred.
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If Democrats hold their ranks opposing him, a single Republican defection would be enough to sink Kavanaugh.
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Sweet details an undercover C.I.A. mission to disrupt defection, and sheds light on the exiles' complex motives.
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Operations in Australia and other countries were implied but not detailed in initial reports of Wang's defection.
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If all Democrats unite in opposition to Trump's court pick, one GOP defection would sink the nomination.
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The test also follows a dramatic defection to South Korea by a North Korean soldier on Nov.
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Troops would laugh over Hannah's attempts to scare them into defection or suggestions to frag an officer.
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In another defection among Republicans, Senator Susan Collins of Maine called for hearings on the eventual nominee.
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In a recurring segment called "Defection Story," talbukja gave unverifiable accounts of the conditions they left behind.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces possible graft charges and his coalition has been weakened by a defection.
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Fiennes said he had always been clear that he wanted to tell Nureyev's story until the defection.
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However, the watchdog found the government breached the law and the workers' rights by publicizing their defection.
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Lee's defection ramps up the pressure on Johnson, whose promise to follow through on Brexit by Oct.
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The defection of so many good players in the past decade had left a dearth of talent.
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His defection does not threaten Democrats' control of the House, where they hold a 232-198 majority.
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South Korea has hailed his defection as a sign of loosening loyalty among the North Korean elite.
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This would be normal if third-candidate defection rates from the two major candidates are the same.
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Another scoop she was ahead of was the defection of British spy Kim Philby, who Hollingworth knew personally.
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Thanks to Will Ferrell's defection and the incredible amount of bros he contributes, Clinton is the clear winner.
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These suits were necessary because India has an anti-defection law which bars legislators from simply swapping parties.
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"A defection of a single North Korean could pose a serious problem for inter-Korean relations," he said.
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After the defection and the death of Kamel, the relationship between Raghad and her father lost its "luster".
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North Koreans are vetted closely before being sent overseas to minimise the risk of defection, the report said.
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It would only take a solitary defection for Democrats to seize control of the chamber and forestall Republicans.
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It is a testament to this year's topsy-turvy election cycle that Texas may be flirting with defection.
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Trump is coming off some good news for him — he was just acquitted, even with one Republican defection.
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Another North Korean soldier suffered critical gunshot wounds during a defection dash across the border on Nov. 13.
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Either tactic -- defection or de facto not caring -- could weaken the pact, potentially leading other nations to defect.
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The biggest losers of free agency, beyond the Oklahoma City Thunder after Durant's defection, are the Miami Heat.
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The word defection has appeared in 51 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Feb.
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His disappearance in Saudi Arabia was part of his defection, anonymous sources briefed on the operation told ABC.
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Even though Chamberlain actually won the vote, such a large Tory defection was widely considered a resounding defeat.
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"Signs were detected that North Korea has replaced all border security officials following the defection," the source said.
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Ms. Park's government also took the highly unusual step of announcing their defection the day after their arrival.
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The chief's defection from his conservative colleagues was significant but not momentous: the decision was procedural and temporary.
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His début as a teaching assistant for a freshman course in calculus was greeted by a mass defection.
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Perhaps the most notable of these was the defection of the photographer Patrick Demarchelier to Vogue in 2004.
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Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court depends on Senate Republicans preventing more than one defection against the nominee.
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Fellow conservatives attributed his defection to Mr. Obama to Professor Hart's defeat in philosophical conflicts within the movement.
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The defection of a high-ranking officer in the General Reconnaissance Bureau would be a coup for Seoul.
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Thae's defection followed the flight to Seoul this year of 12 waitresses from a North Korean restaurant in China.
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That means that upscale Trump supporters may be most susceptible to defection if policies adversely affect them, Kam speculated.
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A widespread defection within the conservative wing of the party could tank the party's efforts to repeal Obamacare altogether.
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One North Korean who escaped while working in Russia told them his family had been "destroyed" after his defection.
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Or is this a one-off, a temporary defection to restrain a president they think is damaging the country?
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And unless there's a surprise defection in the rest of the Republican caucus, it appears he will be confirmed.
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Neither scandals nor broken promises nor the defection of allies can prise the Republican candidate from his presidential campaign.
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Throughout much of the defection wave, Gurriel stayed loyal to Cuba's national team and his Havana club, the Industriales.
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Gurriel's defection in February and his subsequent five-year $47.5 million contract with Houston was simply the last push.
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Syrian Army officers appeared on YouTube, thrusting their I.D. cards in front of the camera and announcing their defection.
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In the latest North Korean military defection, a low-ranking soldier crossed the border at around 8:04 a.m.
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Short of a mass defection of superdelegates, it is now mathematically impossible for Sanders to win the party's nomination.
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Within days of crossing the border into Syria she couldn't wait to taunt the British authorities about her defection.
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Any defection by an elector would, essentially, be a random act that could that could hold our system hostage.
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He is trying to use hints of elite defection from Mr. Maduro's government to spur a wider popular uprising.
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For the moment, Ms. Pelosi seems to have stopped a mass defection of Democrats to the pro-impeachment cause.
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I asked Ms. Howe, who remains a close friend, if she'd ever regretted Ms. Bening's defection to the movies.
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What could keep Fox inoculated from any kind of significant defection is the lack of choice on the dial.
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Heidi Heitkamp -- had said she would vote for Pompeo, raising questions of whether he could weather another GOP defection.
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The party's defection last month greatly increased the likelihood the lower house will send her impeachment to the Senate.
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Outside of Iowa, meanwhile, the Sanders campaign trumpeted an endorsement defection from the Clinton campaign: South Carolina state Rep.
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Although she was by far the most prominent defection, Harris was the 14th candidate to throw in the towel.
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Utah Republicans led that defection, with prominent officials in the state making some of the harshest disavowals of Trump.
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The A's retain his rights should Murray ever reconsider, but they will get no compensation pick for his defection.
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Ms. Witt was charged with spying for Iran; ex-officials say her defection severely damaged United States intelligence efforts.
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Amash is the first Republican in Congress to call for impeachment, and his party defection was perhaps not surprising.
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His defection to "no" on Tuesday suggested that even the revised version of AHCA could be in real trouble.
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This is the first North Korean defection over the demilitarized zone — as the inter-Korean border is known — since 2007.
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Meanwhile, Teams is seeing increased market share, relatively higher adoption rates, and low rates of defection, according to the data.
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Full grid defection generally involves solar panels, lots of batteries, and a couple of small diesel generators for emergency backup.
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" He said "global warming is dead, nailed into its coffin one devastating disclosure, defection and re-evaluation at a time.
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Pizzo's defection and Grieco's concern is the first evidence of potential cracks in Biden's bulwark against Bloomberg's advances in Florida.
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The defection means that Rousseff is unlikely to gather enough votes in the National Congress to stave off the proceedings.
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Justice's defection to the Republican party means that out of the country's 50 governors, only 15 — 30 percent — are Democrats.
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U.S. helicopters regularly drop personalised "come home" leaflets and broadcast familial messages to combatants in an effort to encourage defection.
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The party currently has 12 MPs after the high-profile defection of former Labour and Change UK MP, Chuka Umunna.
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With McCain's defection, former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole is now the only living Republican presidential nominee to support Trump.
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The South Korean news agency Yonhap, which earlier reported the officer's defection, said he arrived in South Korea last year.
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Levandowski seemed constantly ready to abandon his teammates and threaten defection, often while working on an angle to enrich himself.
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And the drama of Mr. Amiri's apparent double defection came in a summer of espionage efforts against Iran gone wrong.
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He cited Mr. Trump's disrespectful comments about the soldier's parents, Khizr and Ghazala Khan, among the reasons for his defection.
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But Monday's dramatic defection in a hail of gunfire was a reminder that it is still an active military site.
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That could lead to the defection of some former Likud partners, although there is no sign of that happening yet.
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There's a strategic cost to the defection of Visa, Stripe, eBay and more from the Facebook-led cryptocurrency Libra Association.
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Republicans hold 85033 seats in the Senate and need 51 votes to confirm nominees, so any defection would be significant.
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Paul's defection could force Republicans to rely on Vice President Pence, or Democrats, to get Pompeo through the full Senate.
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If the Senate's Democrats and independents vote together, just one more Republican defection would be fatal to Ms. DeVos's prospects.
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These signs of defection are certainly far from any indication that he is at any risk with his own party.
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If his defection is confirmed, he would be the highest-ranking defector since Kim Jong-un became leader in 2011.
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The letter, Cleo has been told cryptically, has something to do with a high-profile defection in the Cuban government.
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Republicans hold a narrow 50-49 edge in the Senate, meaning that one defection would be enough to sink a nomination.
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If they can, and if you had a defection on the Republican side, if they were to lose a vote there.
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Nor, in terms of the time horizons of utility investments, is 2030, when full grid defection will become a live option.
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He said Thursday that it was the defection from his positions by minority Democrats that resulted in outcomes that hurt people.
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It was the first defection involving a military officer since 2008 and 14th involving a soldier since 2000, DW News reported .
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The charges represent a rare defection of an American military officer to become an active participant in another country's espionage operations.
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The third broke out over opium distribution, and the fourth was fought because of a defection from one tong to another.
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His defection led to the arrest and conviction of CIA analyst Larry Wu-Tai Chin on charges of spying for China.
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That defection among the President's partisans failed to happened when Republicans in the House impeached Bill Clinton in the late 1990s.
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The defection of Mr. Thae, who was the No. 2 diplomat in the embassy, was announced by South Korea on Wednesday.
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Abraham Woodhull (Jamie Bell) and the Culper spy ring prepare to deal with the treasonous defection of Benedict Arnold (Owain Yeoman).
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The defection of working-class voters to anti-immigration parties is, similarly, a huge practical problem for European center-left parties.
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MORE (R-Ariz.) is absent battling brain cancer, basically topping the GOP vote at 85033, Democrats cannot afford a single defection.
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After a mass defection in April of 13 North Korean restaurant workers, three more just slipped away in China this week.
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Trump's victory still feels impossible, hence the last-ditch vigils, the demands for electoral defection, the posts on Facebook and Change.
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He saw it as a defection," Mr. Rollins said, adding, "It was not a comfortable place to be for a Republican.
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The latest defection overshadowed Tuesday's budget which divided money between a large number of new initiatives and left few Canadians satisfied.
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That means Republicans have to either hold their caucus together perfectly or get one Democrat to defect for every Republican defection.
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The Paris framework was designed to be resilient, to survive defections, but the US is an extremely large and influential defection.
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North Korea is also demanding the return of 12 waitresses who arrived in South Korea in 2016 in a group defection.
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That is when the Cavaliers were pounded by the Celtics in the conference semifinals, leading to James's controversial defection to Miami.
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According to The Hill's whip list, 21 House Republicans are a no, meaning the party can only afford one more defection.
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This will surely lead to another defection north to Los Angeles, leaving the place with only one lousy team, the Padres.
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That would still give the budget a 50-49 margin, but the GOP would not be able to afford another defection.
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A mass defection by members of his party is what it would take to convict Trump and remove him from office.
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That would still give the budget a 85033-49 margin, but the GOP would not be able to afford another defection.
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But there were no concrete signs of defection from the armed forces leadership, and Maduro said he had the military's loyalty.
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All of this history may offer one answer to the question of what should replace monuments to racism and Confederate defection.
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A single defection might not be enough to persuade Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to soften on his September 5 deadline.
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READ: North Korea threatens to pull out of denuclearization talks "forever" Any defection by a high-profile member of the elite is seen as an embarrassment for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Jo's alleged defection will particularly sting as he is reportedly the son and son-in-law of high-ranking officials within the government in Pyongyang.
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It has nearly 100 MPs, defectors from Labour and the Liberal Democrats—plus a few Tories, whose defection has triggered an election.
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The day after the Best Buy and Discover quasi-defection, MCX announced that it had replaced its chief executive with Brian Mooney.
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Should Barrett secure the president's nomination, Collins could be that defection, as she has expressed concerns about Barrett to the White House.
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With Senator Thad Cochran out of town for health reasons, a defection by Paul would leave the vote on a razor's edge.
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He appeared in a 2006 documentary called "Crossing the Line" in which he justified his defection and defended the North Korean regime.
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Torstar, like other publishers, has been struggling to offset the steady defection of advertisers from newspapers to social media and search websites.
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Not least, Ms Banks's move to the crossbenches, which follows an earlier defection, leaves the government two votes short of a majority.
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North Korea: Diplomat who defected to South Korea a 'criminal' The defection comes amid a particularly tense time in North-South relations.
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A defection to the "Brexit" side by London Mayor Boris Johnson or another senior Tory would also be likely to hurt sterling.
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Niantic's Pokémon Go has also held holiday events and released updates, but so far these have not managed to reverse user defection.
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Thousands of North Koreans have defected to South Korea in recent years, but the women's defection as a group was highly unusual.
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Republicans currently hold a 85033-49 majority in the Senate and can only afford one defection if Democrats unanimously vote against Kavanaugh.
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Republicans have a 51-49 majority in the Senate and can only afford one defection if Democrats unanimously vote against Kavanaugh. Sens.
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"The children are used by Kim Jong Un as kind of hostage," Thae told CNN in 2017, shortly after his own defection.
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The countries have been bickering over the defection of 12 North Korean waitresses in China who arrived in the South in April.
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The tweet showed a screen grab from the video of Silva declaring his defection with the word "TRAIDOR" (traitor) emblazoned over it.
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On Friday, Jeong Joon-hee, a South Korean government spokesman, said he expected the North to react similarly to Mr. Thae's defection.
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The defection is a big loss for Cravath, whose nearly two-century history includes representing Samuel Morse, Thomas Edison and J.P. Morgan.
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His defection, which led a military court in Czechoslovakia to sentence him to death, was considered a coup for the United States.
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The arguments for defection are at this point familiar: Twitter is a dark reservoir of hatred, home to the diseased national id.
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Seoul has been playing news of the soldier's defection through loudspeakers aimed at the North, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency.
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The district is a good bellwether for races in well-educated suburbs, and there are signs of a lot of G.O.P. defection.
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Now, in a series of interviews with The New York Times, Mr. Heo has said more about what led to the defection.
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He appeared well on his way to a fourth consecutive term only to be thwarted by a surprise defection by Mr. Liberman.
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How they planned and executed their trip remains a mystery, but more details have quickly emerged of this defection than most others.
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Every House and Senate Republican was united against the bill, meaning a single Democratic defection in the Senate would have killed it.
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Assuming the rest of the Republican conference supports the bill, excluding Paul, Graham and Cassidy could only afford for one more defection.
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Meanwhile, Johnny Isakson is at home in Georgia recovering from surgery, meaning Mitch McConnell can only afford one defection from his caucus.
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An 8 to 10 percent defection rate among Sanders voters changes the outcome in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan — even maybe some other states.
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She might be sick of America, sick of what the Centre's asking her and Philip to do, but she's still nowhere near defection.
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The defection marks the latest in a succession of setbacks for the SPD as it prepares to contest a federal election on Sept.
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The soldier's defection follows that of a senior diplomat who abandoned his post at the country's embassy in the United Kingdom in August.
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The result has been massive TV viewer defection, as the Peacock Network saw its ratings plunge, especially among the 18-49 key demographic.
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The splitters have listed Jeremy Corbyn's inadequate handling of Brexit and anti-Semitism within the party as the main reasons for their defection.
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Saraki's defection was expected, said Antony Goldman of Nigeria-focused PM Consulting, saying that defections to the APC helped Buhari to defeat Jonathan.
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Oleg Gordievsky in the 1970s, it shared the information with the CIA, but withheld its source until the agent's defection a decade later.
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Oakland went into free agency this year needing a defense and having to fend off a possible defection from left tackle Donald Penn.
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They act as ambassadors of sorts and earn much needed foreign currency for the regime -- which made their defection all the more remarkable.
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South Korea welcomed the restaurant workers' defection last week as a major coup and quickly dismissed North Korea's demand that they be returned.
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On Tuesday, North Korea did not hide its discontent with Beijing, saying that it knew "which country connived" to enable the group defection.
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It would require the defection of 0153 Republican senators to remove Trump from office if he were impeached by Democrats in the House.
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In constructing "Million Dollar Quartet," the creators added some events that happened other days (like Cash's defection), and some that that never happened.
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The high-level military shake-up comes just one week after the daring defection of a North Korean soldier across the demilitarized zone.
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South Korea maintains that Ms. Kim became a South Korean citizen because she signed papers of defection before and after her arrival here.
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I guess we could announce the mass defection from Cruz now, but I'm not looking forward to 3 thousand microphones in my face.
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The defection occurred during the presidency of Mr. Moon's predecessor, Park Geun-hye, a conservative who was much more confrontational toward North Korea.
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Mr. Lee's defection on March 22, 1967, took place at Panmunjom, a so-called truce village straddling the border between the two Koreas.
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The opposition has been severely weakened and divided by the defection of two prominent candidates who broke ranks to form their own ticket.
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"Kim seems to be pursuing a rebalancing of dynamics, rather than an out-and-out 'defection' to the U.S. side," Mr. Delury said.
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Flake also sits on the panel, where a one-seat GOP majority means even a single Republican defection can kill a diplomatic nomination.
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McNamee sees his defection from Silicon Valley as nothing more than a return to his roots—an identity that mixes camp and sincerity.
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Never forget that Trump wasn't anomalous, he was the Republican Party's quintessence, and their defection is a matter of self-preservation, not conscience.
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It argues, based on data from the Democracy Fund Voter Study Group, that there wasn't an unusual defection of Democratic voters in 2016.
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South Korea has hailed his defection as a sign of growing disillusionment among North Korean elites with the country's leader, Kim Jong-un.
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It is an anemic restatement of common themes, now recast to reclaim a constituency whose defection supposedly cost the party the last election.
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Cancino, an officer with Venezuela's feared special police in Caracas, had crossed into Colombia in February after heeding the opposition's calls for defection.
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The split will be 51-49, which means the party can only afford one defection on a bill for it to pass the chamber.
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He admits they may be sent to prison camps as punishment for his defection, or may even be used by the regime against him.
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Mr Valls's defection, says Guillaume Balas, a member of the Hamon team, implies "the death of the Socialist Party as conceived by (François) Mitterrand".
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That triggered a day of violent protests, leaving more than 100 injured but without any concrete signs of defection from the armed forces leadership.
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In short, the defection of such a high-level member of the regime is both a serious security breach and an embarrassment for Pyongyang.
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She named her position to the world, or rather to the art world, as a designation of otherness and refusal, rejection and critical defection.
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External pressures (like a national security crisis or a natural disaster) could temporarily raise the cost of defection, resetting society at the old equilibrium.
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An official at the North Korean embassy in London would not confirm the defection on Tuesday, describing reports of the event as "quite sudden".
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The vote had been triggered by the defection of a Green MP to Mrs Merkel's CDU, bringing down the Social Democratic (SPD)-Green government.
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His scorched-earth approach, days after his sexual predatory language caught on tape triggered a mass Republican defection, threatened to alienate even more supporters.
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With the likely dwindling of ISIS power, will there be a reverse defection where the groups that previously left al Qaeda rejoin the movement?
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We should carry the normal faces and normal feelings so that our plan of defection should not be noticed by anyone in the embassy.
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Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is "irretrievably gone," meaning GOP leaders can only afford one more defection and still pass legislation repealing and replacing ObamaCare.
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The defection took place after the two Koreas removed guard posts along the border in an effort to build trust on the divided peninsula.
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Mr Modi's party strategists have exploited these weaknesses with skill and determination, helped by the defection of one of Mr Gogoi's most promising lieutenants.
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Would-be authoritarians, Mr Sogavare among them, struggle to retain power in the face of the threat of defection and resistance to central authority.
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That means they can likely only afford one defection on a Trump pick — unless they can convince some Democratic senators to back Trump's nominee.
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OPEC defection: The small, gas-rich state of Qatar says it will leave the OPEC on January 26 after nearly 60 years of membership.
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Many details of the defection remain unknown, including how the restaurant workers were able to plot their escape while under constant surveillance by supervisors.
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Buried beneath those jubilant headlines, however, some outlets conceded that even Democratic leaders do not expect his defection to make much of a difference.
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Republicans have a 51-49 majority in the Senate and could only afford one GOP defection if the Democratic caucus unanimously votes against Kavanaugh.
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Pelosi's four defection were a stark improvement over the 19 she faced in 85033, after the Democrats lost 63 seats — and the House gavel.
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Thursday's defection came about five weeks after another North Korean soldier suffered critical gunshot wounds during a dash across the border on Nov. 13.
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Beyond the economic reasons for jumping ship, another other analysis found that "cultural anxiety" was a leading factor of defection away from the Democrats.
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The defection surprised a lot of people and made national news, but Calderin didn't seem fazed, spinning it as an effective development for democracy.
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One GOP leadership aide predicted that Poe's defection, which Fox News first reported, could be just the first of the defections from the group.
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The one thing that could quickly push Ms. Pelosi toward impeachment, people close to her said, would be a mass defection of new members.
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"He was an idealist," said Mikhail P. Lyubimov, a former K.G.B. officer in London who saw Mr. Philby frequently in Moscow after his defection.
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His defection took place while a joint naval exercise involving three American aircraft carriers was being conducted in waters off South Korea's east coast.
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Mr. Robow's defection from the group shows that the Shabab may be more divided and at war internally than it has been for years.
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Chief executives who planned to announce a mass defection from presidential advisory panels were pre-empted by Mr. Trump, who dissolved the two councils.
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In 2013 Edward Snowden's treachery and (for all intents and purposes) defection to Russia caused the NSA to scrap countless operations and start over.
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The defection of non-college-educated whites from the center-left was a central lesson both of Brexit and the 2016 American presidential election.
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Mr. Milbank's choice to use nationwide figures obscures the degree of the defection of white working-class voters from the Democrats to Mr. Trump.
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Republicans currently hold a 51-49 majority in the Senate, and can only afford one defection if the Democratic caucus unanimously oppose Kavanaugh's confirmation.
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Miels had headed AstraZeneca's European business and his defection was a blow to the company, which has seen a number of senior management departures.
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CNN first broke the news of his defection and the trove of photos he smuggled out in a joint exclusive with the Guardian in 2014.
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New York (CNN Business)In another major defection from the newsroom of Fox News, Catherine Herridge is joining CBS News as a senior investigative correspondent.
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The low bar of the Clinton example When Clinton was impeached, he enjoyed protection from some Republicans despite the defection of a number of Democrats.
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And gender-role threat is likely to increase this defection rate not just among "independent" men but also among some men who identify as Democrats.
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Thae and his family are now safely in South Korea, Jeong said, but he did not elaborate on how or when the defection took place.
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A spokesman for the North Korean Red Cross called that defection a "group abduction" of DPRK employees "in broad daylight," according to DPRK state media.
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Torstar, like many other publishers, has struggled to offset the steady defection of advertisers from newspapers to social media and search websites such as Google.
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It was announced on Wednesday that Thae had defected to South Korea, along with his family -- the highest profile diplomatic defection in the country's history.
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Mercury's brief solo defection barely features on Queen's lengthy Wikipedia page, which notes that Mr May and Mr Taylor had released their own albums first.
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It's the largest such defection set off by Deutsche Bank's announcement this month that it was retreating from the equities trading business, the people said.
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Pyongyang has yet to say anything about the defection but the UN Command says it has requested a meeting to discuss the apparent armistice violations.
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The stakes are high for Hulu, which has a customer defection rate of 50 percent, according to Parks Associates, a Dallas-based market research firm.
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Clinton — potentially a major defection Why He Won't Donate: "He is too selfish, flawed and unpredictable to hold the power of the presidency," he said.
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Republicans currently hold a 51-49 majority in the Senate and can only afford one defection if the Democratic caucus unanimously votes against the confirmation.
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The GOP, which has a 52-seat majority in the Senate, can only afford one more defection in order to achieve its tax-reform overhaul.
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If Mr. Trump became the nominee, Republicans might risk a large-scale defection by upscale whites who voted willingly for Mitt Romney four years ago.
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The party's defection last month greatly increased the likelihood that the Chamber of Deputies would send her impeachment to the Federal Senate, the upper house.
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Thae, the former deputy ambassador to Britain, said in his 2018 memoir that was the main reason behind his defection, calling it a "hostage" scheme.
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While experts remain skeptical of how large this party defection could actually be, McSally herself alluded to this phenomenon during an interview earlier this fall.
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"Kim may have wanted to regain control of the narrative and reinforce solidarity," after the defection and increasing diplomatic isolation, a South Korean official said.
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And our reporter dug into a supposed mass defection of North Korean waitresses to South Korea and found a tale of lies, blackmail and betrayal.
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Mr. Heo now believes that the government timed the defection to generate conservative support in South Korea's parliamentary elections, which were held just days later.
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Oleg Gordievsky, a senior K.G.B. officer whose defection in 1985 was a serious blow to the Soviet government, hosted a game show for a time.
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But by the end of the day, after the defection of a Conservative member of Parliament, Phillip Lee, to the Liberal Democrats, that was gone.
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Add to this the defection to Le Pen of the more right-wing supporters of the conservative François Fillon: the threat to Macron becomes clear.
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"Defection is harder when the other side isn't just some guy you disagree with about tax policy but rather is the enemy," Mr. Levitsky said.
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The spy fled to the Soviet Union some years later; the F.B.I. eventually learned of his defection and the espionage but kept the information secret.
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However, Democrats are unbowed and believe the defection is a one-off set off by local pressure from Democrats rather than those on the right.
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But Han says those within the troupe would be from a 'good background' and loyal to the regime so thoughts of defection would be unlikely.
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Only Roberts's defection from the conservative majority, in concluding that the individual mandate was permitted by Congress's power to tax, saved the health care law.
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Meanwhile Beth, furious at what she sees as Addy's defection, is determined to bring down Colette the way she would any other high school rival.
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His defection, and those of so many others who fled in their 20s, left Gurriel as one of few high-profile stars left in Cuba.
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Her defection is of a heavier caliber than any other so far in the party, and may open the gates to more high-profile rejections.
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This kind of defection - an unthinkable prospect in years gone by - is now being considered across the country, even in symbolic heartlands like Nelson Mandela Bay.
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Following this year's regional elections and the Lower Saxony defection, it now heads viable administrations in only two of Germany's 16 federal states: Bremen and Hamburg.
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But despite the discontent, and occasional defection of groups of soldiers, the regime has so far managed to keep the loyalty of most of the army.
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As MPs debate Theresa May's Brexit deal the future of the country will seem to hang on a tide-turning speech or a high-profile defection.
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And the highest defection to date was Hwang Jang Yob, who fled to South Korea after holding high-profile positions in the North Korea's Worker Party.
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That would require the defection of 55 Republicans in the House and 20 in the Senate, which is unlikely to come about, though some have grumbled.
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There is an anti-defection law intended to prevent a rich party from buying the support of members of the opposition, but it is woefully ineffective.
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It is one of only seven remaining countries where the expression of atheist views or defection from the official religion can result in the death penalty.
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A defection on this scale would not work in the same way that the puny, 1503-MP SDP one did a third of a century ago.
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After 303 years in business, we succumbed to the "disruption" of Netflix and Hulu, bled to death by the long, slow defection of our customer base.
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This one, however, was a concession to raw and ugly politics, ending on a final vote on party lines, with only one defection on either side.
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Republicans currently hold a 51-49 majority in the Senate and can only afford one defection if the Democratic caucus unanimously votes to reject Kavanaugh's nomination.
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And opposition to future Supreme Court nominees will be less vitriolic unless there is sufficient defection within the majority party to risk reaching the majority threshold.
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With Jones's defection, Democrats would need to flip five Republican senators and keep the rest of their caucus united if they want to defeat his nomination.
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After his defection from the Soviet Union in Paris in 1961, he asked if he could partner her in a scheduled appearance at the Paris Opera.
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Republicans hold 11 seats on the committee and Democrats hold 10, so Flake's defection would prevent the panel from voting Kavanaugh out with a favorable recommendation.
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Because Senate leadership elections take place behind closed doors with each person voting separately, a Sinema defection from Schumer poses no significant risk to his leadership.
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Signatory countries are finding ways to go around this defection by working with more cooperative partners — American cities, states, corporations — just as they've done with trade.
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"The US, working in tandem with like-minded partners, could have created much higher political, diplomatic, financial, technological, trade, and moral barriers for defection," Curtin writes.
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The Republicans only hold their majority in the 63-seat chamber because of the continuing defection of Simcha Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat who caucuses with Republicans.
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"Iran will continue to lose more strong women unless it learns to empower and support them," said US State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus about Alizadeh's defection.
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And given the struggles over Brexit within the party and the defection of the 21 rebel MPs, he no longer has even that source of power.
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A shake-up has been long brewing, a number of healthcare sources told The Hill in August, when rumors began swirling about an impending Aetna defection.
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Let things get bad enough, there might be a real risk of defection, betrayal, or even civil war if a character holds an important administrative position.
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A North Korean diplomat stationed in Italy went missing two months ago, a South Korean official revealed Thursday amid reports of a defection to the West.
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One piece of this that's important to keep in context is that you always see this kind of defection between a primary and a general election.
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Upton's conversion — along with that of Missouri Republican Billy Long, another surprising defection earlier this week — seems to have persuaded enough wavering Republicans to come onboard.
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When the solid line dips below the dotted line, that means solar+storage is cheaper than grid electricity and grid defection is, at least in theory, viable.
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To do that, however, he can't disassociate himself from the party and be part of a defection that helps a Democrat seize control of the White House.
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The case followed the defection of 13 North Korean workers from a restaurant run by the North in China in April, which the South described as unprecedented.
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The film-makers' decision to end with the defection, rather than the end of his life, means that Nureyev's most celebrated and poignant years are left out.
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Following Justice's defection, Republicans will control both the legislature and the governorship in 258 states, with a total of 2195 Republican governors, 243 Democrats, and one independent.
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Meanwhile, some are calling the last 24 hours Trump's "Defection Saturday," a reference to the GOP's abandonment of Richard Nixon in the last days of his presidency.
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Plus Martha's defection, plus the end of his marriage (which I'm pretty sure he attributes to stress over the Soviets, even if that's not the full story).
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At the same time, though, the overwhelming incentive for any individual Republican power player is to defect to Trump's side while the defection will still mean something.
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The Nigerian government could also try to set off a mass defection from Boko Haram by granting amnesty to its foot soldiers who enter the rehabilitation program.
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His defection leaves Republicans with the bare 50 votes needed to let Vice President Pence break a tie, assuming no other GOP senators oppose her and Sen.
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And his team, as covered extensively in our latest weekly newsletter, still has an enviable future to consider despite Kevin Durant's free-agency defection to the Nets.
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"Our military secured his safety, and a questioning will be conducted by related agencies to find out the background of his defection and motive, etc," he said.
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The defection of seven politicians from the left-wing Labour party on Monday invites comparisons with the political realignment that eventually propelled the French President to power.
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Editorial Notebook In the past, when a Cuban athlete vanished during a sporting event abroad, news about the defection would spread by word of mouth back home.
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He was not the only 49ers great to leave for the Raiders — Ronnie Lott and Roger Craig did the same — but his defection was the most painful.
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In its ruling last week, the court said there was no evidence that Mr. Lee had been a spy or that his defection had been a ruse.
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Glushon also represents Al Horford, whose free-agency defection to Philadelphia in July, combined with Irving's exit, has likely thrust Brown into a role with expanded responsibility.
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If they move forward with their protest, it will be the largest electoral defection since 1808, when six Democratic-Republican electors refused to vote for James Madison.
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Although their stories are impossible to confirm, Mr. Franco thinks that some accounts may be slightly exaggerated — perhaps because stories of defection become currency in South Korea.
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Relationships can be a factor in tough Senate votes, something that appeared to be underlined with McCain's own defection on an ObamaCare repeal measure earlier this year.
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Inside Venezuela, in perhaps the most high-profile defection to date, a former Venezuelan Intelligence chief and current Socialist Party congressman declared his support for Guaido Thursday.
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Reagan ascribed his defection to "the newfangled 'liberals' who rejected" Roosevelt's faith in the wisdom of the American people, and who instead entrusted power to government engineers.
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He does not always get it, as the defection of the Freedom Caucus last week on the health bill he was trying to pass made abundantly clear.
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This prompted a defection of hundreds of thousands of Social Democratic voters to the far-right Alternative for Germany, which scored almost 13 percent in the election.
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Visitors can gawk at bullet holes marking the site where a North Korean soldier staged a dramatic defection in Panmunjom in November, under fire from his former comrades.
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Mr Guaidó is backed by more than 50 countries including the United States; the plan was to unseat Mr Maduro via a mass defection of the armed forces.
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The show has shown us archetypes of immigrant narratives, like when season three contestant Leah Labelle spoke of her Bulgarian family's defection to North America during Communist rule.
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Richardson had only been viable by a single person in the precinct, so the defection left the rest of his supporters free to realign with a new candidate.
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For one, the party and interest group apparatus remained solidly behind her the whole way through — there was no mass defection to Sanders when she stumbled early on.
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But his defection from the ruling party has led some government loyalists to call him a "traitor," while his socialist roots have also raised suspicions among opposition supporters.
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JoongAng Ilbo reported that the officials' reported executions might have been aimed at tightening Mr. Kim's control after a senior North Korean diplomat's recent defection to the South.
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DMZ defections Monday's defection is the third by a member of the North Korean military this year, following two soldiers who fled to South Korea separately in June.
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Scalise stewed over Frelinghuysen's defection from the party line and strongly supported putting his leadership role up to a vote before his Republican colleagues, according to the report.
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On April 24, two special elections are expected to give Democrats a numeric majority in the Senate, though Mr. Felder's defection would allow Republicans to continue to rule.
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According to information released in 2010, the CIA viewed Amiri's defection as "an intelligence coup" in its long-running operation spying on Iran's nuclear facilities, ABC first reported.
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Neither the North Korean government nor its state media have made any mention of the defection, which dominated headlines in South Korea and in international media for days.
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The incident was the first defection through the Joint Security Area — the section of the demilitarized zone where the rival armies stand face-to-face – in a decade.
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Venezuela has as many as 2,000 generals, according to unofficial estimates, many of whom do not command troops and whose defection would not necessarily weaken the ruling socialists.
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The inattention to Mr. Obama's record, though, has meant that the conventional wisdom's explanation for white voters' defection from the Obama coalition is racist backlash, not economic hardship.
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At least one defection is all but certain: Senator Susan Collins of Maine indicated on Monday that she would vote against proceeding in just about every imaginable circumstance.
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This spiritual inheritance spurred my defection: by the end of my teens, I'd lost interest in trying to reconcile big-tent Southern evangelicalism with my burgeoning political beliefs.
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But the timing of the latest defection is most potent since it comes amid large-scale protests Saturday in Venezuela and other cities around the world, Walsh said.
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Scalise stewed over Frelinghuysen's defection from the party line and strongly supported putting his leadership role up to a vote before his Republican colleagues, according to the report.
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The coalescing within the caucus comes after a high-profile defection over the weekend, with Van Drew informing his staff that he planned to switch parties over impeachment.
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The former diplomat said he had come up with a detailed plan for his defection, first ensuring that his two sons joined him and his wife in London.
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The day Mr. Thae broached his plan for defection with his sons, he told them that he wanted to break the "chain of slavery" for them, he recalled.
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Although Republican backing for Trump's wall is clearly waning, it would still take a pretty dramatic turn in public opinion for a large-scale defection in the Senate conference.
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Collins's defection, however, lacks any immediate political motive, and is potentially costly in opening her up to a Trumpian primary challenge when she's next up for reelection in 2020.
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LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - From a global perspective, the political crisis in Lower Saxony, which was triggered by the defection of a Green parliamentarian, looks a storm in a teacup.
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But these laws have rarely been tested, and there is little the state can do to prevent a defection by an elector who is willing to accept the penalty.
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Many potential switchers at UKIP's conference also said they worried defection would be futile as the Conservatives have no formal structure to give members a direct say on policy.
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Utilities can charge fixed grid-connection fees to all customers, but if those get too high, they start to push customers toward full grid defection — ditching the utility entirely.
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He is popular with rank-and-file LDP members but less so with colleagues in parliament, some of whom still recall his temporary defection from the party decades ago.
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With Strange holding the seat, there are 52 GOP senators (plus Vice President Mike Pence), so they can handle the defection of two senators and still pass a bill.
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The man was transferred to Omura Immigration Center in Nagasaki on Sunday, where immigration officials will decide his future based on confirmation of his identity and claims of defection.
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They ride to Winter Olympics events in eight buses with a police escort and are chaperoned by minders who prevent contact with strangers and of course the unthinkable: defection.
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His defection was a stunner, given his experience as a health care legislator, and it was a blow to House leaders the same week they were supposed to vote.
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Pyongyang has not commented on the defection of its soldier, who is now in stable condition despite sustaining multiple injuries sustained from gunshot wounds to his arm and torso.
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Indeed, the infamous tape was the final straw for many in the Republican Party, leading to a mass defection that very well may end up sinking his presidential campaign.
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For the most part, the survey found that advisors are benefiting from the strong market performance of recent years and the continuing defection of clients from commissioned broker-dealers.
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Outside, where a winding line of students and other voters hoped to get in, a smattering of dissent persisted, with occasional pleas for a defection to third-party candidates.
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And though she recognized her own guilt about it as a form of vanity, Hal could not help but connect the beginning of Oliver's downfall with her own defection.
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The rise of the far right and the threat of defection put rightward pressure on the Conservatives, with the Brexit referendum being the chief concession to the Conservative base.
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It remained unclear what his defection meant in a continuing spy war between the Koreas, which remain technically at war after a cease-fire ended open conflict in 1953.
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He also said the colonel's defection could be seen as a sign that some of the North Korean elites were not happy under the supreme leader, Kim Jong-un.
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The defection of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), a former ally of Rousseff's to which Temer actually belongs played a huge part in tipping the numbers against Rousseff.
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Analysts said a defection during the Olympics would be highly unlikely because the North has almost certainly vetted its delegation carefully and would keep its people under close watch.
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The defection of conservative Democrats to the Republican Party continued a long-term trend — at the same time, many moderates have moved leftward and many liberals further left still.
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His rags-to-princes tale has Cold War intrigue, a thriller-worthy defection, a partnership for the ages with Margot Fonteyn, and a dizzying, pop-star level of fame.
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In Pyeongchang, South Korean security forces will also be watching, as neither side will want the publicity of a defection undercutting the message of unity between the two Koreas.
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A nuclear deterrent is essential to that, says Thae Yong-ho, North Korea's former deputy ambassador to London, who staged a high-profile defection to South Korea in 2016.
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Mr. Liberman's defection from the right-wing religious axis and his refusal to join a government with ultra-Orthodox parties has thrust Israel's secular-religious divide to the fore.
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On or about August 28, 2013, Witt sent Individual A an email saying that she was about to board her flight from Dubai to Tehran -- her defection was underway.
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If Trump saw this defection as betrayal, and he surely did, news that several insiders at the White House are actively working against him will only make Trump livid.
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Angry at Mr. Romney's defection, Mr. Trump waited a day to appear in person with supporters in the East Room in a ceremony that veered between celebration and confrontation.
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Several Republican candidates already planning on running for the district's Republican nomination have warily eyed Mr. Van Drew's defection while making clear they intend to stay in the race.
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But so far, at least two GOP senators have said they will not vote to approve the measure, meaning the bill is just one Republican defection away from failure.
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At the same time, international isolation and difficult financial realities led to the rampant defection of top baseball stars, the decrepit condition of stadiums and a shortage of equipment.
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The decision led to the departure of her finance director Michael Pratt, a defection that appeared especially conspicuous given the tight-knit nature of Warren's inner circle of advisers.
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It was in Cochabamba where a decision by local police commandos last Friday to join demonstrators protesting Mr. Morales's contested re-election spurred a nationwide defection of security forces.
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North Korea: The country's ambassador to Italy disappeared from its embassy in Rome in November in what appeared to be a defection attempt, according to a South Korean lawmaker.
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The likely defection of two Senate Republicans has left their leaders no margin for error when they unveil another version of legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act today.
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Trump managed to stop the stream of turncoats with his debate performance Sunday evening but has taken the defection as a license to attack Democrat Hillary Clinton without restraint.
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The exposure of the communications system and Ms. Witt's defection came at a critical time for the United States, just as it was negotiating the nuclear deal with Tehran.
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He's demonstrated a shrewd skill for preservation, both of himself and of the group, a talent that went unappreciated among the militia and motivated his defection to the Saviors.
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At the same time, Teams, which emulates many of Slack's functions, is seeing increased market share, relatively higher adoption rates, and low rates of defection, according to the data.
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Their defection was compensated by the fact the center-right opposition party Forza Italia did not take part in the vote, saying they agreed with the aims of the decree.
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The anti-defection legislation took a beating last week when the Supreme Court ruled that the renegades from Karnataka could not be compelled to stick to voting with their party.
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A Florida Democratic state senator is bolting Joe Biden's campaign to support Michael Bloomberg, the first signs of defection in the Sunshine State, which has long been considered Biden Country.
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"Focus on: the steady corroboration of the whistleblower's complaint; the bloody retreat in Syria & swift Russian, Iranian & Turkish gains; the defection and/or doubts of a (small) handful of Republicans..."
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Thae's defection follows a string of recent such flights by North Koreans, including 12 waitresses at a North Korean restaurant in China who defected to South Korea earlier this year.
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North Korea's highest profile defection to date was Hwang Jang Yop, who fled to South Korea also in 1997 after holding high-profile positions in the North Korea's Worker Party.
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He made the gamble only in order to see off a challenge from the Europhobic wing of his Tory party and the defection of voters to the UK Independence Party.
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Will they admit Obamacare was built on a series of lies, ever-increasing premiums and deductibles, and spawned a defection of large insurers to drop out of government health markets?
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A chance at redemption comes from an ex-colleague, who promises Paul a plum position at a competing firm—if he can arrange the defection of his best co-workers.
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A leadership change in Zimbabwe, a terrorist attack in Egypt, a defection in the Korean Peninsula, and a series of volcanic eruptions in Indonesia are all explained in today's coverage.
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But all three noted that Russian intelligence assets tended to keep their identities intact after defection despite usual pleas from their handlers to adopt fake names and go into hiding.
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If Democrats unite in opposition to Trump's choice — which they did not do when the Senate confirmed Justice Neil Gorsuch last year — one Republican defection would doom the judge's confirmation.
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With a 51-49 majority in the Senate, Republicans can only afford one defection if the Democratic caucus unanimously votes against Kavanaugh, allowing Vice President Pence to break a tie.
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Krueger, a former production chief, was hastily installed as CEO designate in December 2014 and formally took office in May 2015 following the defection of Herbert Diess to rival Volkswagen.
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The South's government promptly announced their defection, which was the most sensational in years, involving a large group of people who, as workers abroad, belonged to the North Korean elite.
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Her government said the group defection indicated that North Korea's elite — which includes those citizens trusted to work abroad — was becoming disillusioned with Kim Jong-un, the country's young leader.
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The incident comes at a time of heightened tensions between North Korea and the international community over its nuclear weapons program, but Pyongyang has not publicly responded to the defection.
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Similarly in the Senate, Republicans' slim 51-49 majority means that Flake's defection could be enough to help sink a nomination, or at the very least trigger a tie-breaker.
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By sending the performers across Panmunjom less than three months after the soldier's defection, Mr. Kim wanted to punctuate the dramatic shift in mood between the two Koreas, analysts said.
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The command also released closed-circuit television footage that illustrated the North Korean's dramatic defection through the Joint Security Area north of Seoul, the South Korean capital, on Nov. 13.
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The latest reports follow the defection of 13 North Korean workers from a restaurant run by the secretive North in China in April, a case South Korea described as unprecedented.
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It was Lieberman's defection over personal animosity and principled objection to the power of the ultra-Orthodox that precipitated the April election and prevented Bibi from forming a coalition afterward.
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However, the defection of 3 moderate Democrats highlights why passing a big climate bill will be extremely hard even if Democrats somehow eke out a small Senate majority in 2020.
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Like many other major U.S. retail names, Macy's has been struggling with plummeting mall traffic and a defection of customers to a new range of online and fast-fashion stores.
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Two days later, 12 of the restaurant's waitresses and one manager arrived in Seoul, the South Korean capital, in the biggest mass defection case involving North Koreans in several years.
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Last year, a North Korean soldier was shot multiple times by his compatriots while darting to the south-administered portion of the DMZ in a defection attempt caught on camera.
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TOKYO — North Korea's acting ambassador to Italy disappeared from the embassy in Rome in November, apparently in a defection attempt, according to a South Korean lawmaker briefed by intelligence officials.
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Trump is vulnerable to any erosion in his already weak approval rating, be it from an economic downturn, more Russia revelations or simply the defection of a few key allies.
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The damage assessment after Ms. Witt's defection could not determine definitively if she gave up the names of double agents, but the former official said their covers were subsequently blown.
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London (CNN London)The cozy world of Swiss banking is being rocked by a criminal investigation linked to the defection of a top Credit Suisse executive to crosstown rival UBS.
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While millions of suburban whites who voted for Trump in 2016 cast ballots in 2018 for Democratic House and Senate candidates, "the defection runs much deeper than that," Morris said.
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The defection of the PMDB, a former ally of Rousseff's that her Vice President Michel Temer actually belongs to, has played a huge part in tipping the numbers against Rousseff.
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It was by far the most important defection to Mr. Trump's insurgency: Mr. Christie may give cover to other Republicans tempted to join Mr. Trump rather than trying to beat him.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - Parasitic worms found in a North Korean soldier, critically injured during a desperate defection, highlight nutrition and hygiene problems that experts say have plagued the isolated country for decades.
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The timing will differ in different markets, but partial grid defection enabled by solar+storage will spread like a virus, starting in sunnier and more expensive areas and spreading from there.
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All it would take is to have one defection or absence on the Republican side to have a tie vote to break a filibuster or to confirm the Supreme Court nominee.
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Thae was North Korea's deputy envoy to the United Kingdom and, after his high-profile defection in 2016, South Korea's intelligence agency gave him a job at its affiliated think tank.
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And if the massive defection of Republicans sparked by rejection of Trump's candidacy spills over further down the ballot, some of the House seats considered "safely" Republican could be in play.
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Manchin is widely assumed by fellow Democrats to be the most likely defection given his state's conservative politics and his acknowledgment last week that he might run for reelection in 2024.
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VICE recently tracked down Diamondstone to find out whether the Liberty Union Party has forgiven Sanders for his defection, and whether its members plan to endorse him in the Vermont primary.
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It was the recent defection of Mr. Temer that helped seal her fate, providing opponents in the lower house the crucial bloc of votes they needed to push forward with impeachment.
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She campaigned hard along the Ohio River, knowing that she must stanch the defection of working-class voters, especially white men, to Mr. Trump in two crucial states, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
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With Murkowski's defection, GOP leaders do not have the votes to move forward to an ObamaCare repeal bill that passed the Senate in 2015, but was vetoed by then-President Obama.
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US man arrested In a bizarre twist, Monday's successful defection from North Korea came as an American man was arrested in South Korea apparently attempting to go in the other direction.
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A Sanders victory will not clear the way to his nomination unless it triggers a defection by scores of superdelegates - party office-holders and officials - from Clinton's camp, an unlikely outcome.
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Senate Republicans breathed a collective sigh of relief early Saturday morning when a $1.4 trillion tax bill that had teetered on the brink of failure passed with only one GOP defection.
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Johnson is the leader of a minority government, following the defection of one former Conservative MP to the Liberal Democrats and Johnson's decision to expel 21 members of his own party.
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Mr. Temer's party enjoys scant public support and members of Ms. Rousseff's Workers' Party, angry over his defection to the opposition last month, are likely to stymie his work in Congress.
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Their first bill passed in the Senate 51-49, with the sole Republican defection from Bob Corker, whose concerns about increasing the deficit are reportedly not resolved by the new bill.
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The case has become a problem for the government of President Moon Jae-in, who took office a year after the defection and has enthusiastically promoted better ties with North Korea.
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The first high-profile defection from the San Antonio Spurs this off-season was not the disgruntled All-Star forward Kawhi Leonard but instead their long-serving point guard, Tony Parker.
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Monday's escape was only the third defection across the so-called Joint Security Area in Panmunjom since the end of the Cold War, according to the BBC citing South Korean media.
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Krueger was hastily installed as CEO designate in December 2014 and formally took office in May 2015 following the defection of fellow BMW board member Herbert Diess to rival Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE).
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Back in the U.S.S.R. (so much for all that defection talk, commenters), Gabriel dropped by to see how she was doing and to tell her that "Clark" was thinking about her.
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Susan Collins, Alaska's Lisa Murkowski and Arizona's Jeff Flake will be on board for a vote in which the GOP can only face one defection if all the Democrats hang together.
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Thae Yong-ho, who was the North's No. 2 diplomat in London until his defection to South Korea last summer, said he fled partly because of Mr. Kim's reign of terror.
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Thae Yong-ho, who was the North's No. 2 diplomat in London until his defection to South Korea last summer, said he had fled partly because of Kim Jong-un's ruthlessness.
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On Thursday, Kenji led a surprise defection in Popular Force that deprived Keiko's followers of the votes they needed to remove Kuczynski from office in the wake of a graft scandal.
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Mr. Trump, railing against his former confidant in the months since his defection from the orbit, at times sounded "like a mobster," Mr. Cohen said, in case anyone strained to follow.
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LeClair, who says she donated an estimated $5 million to the church over the years, claims it targeted not only her family but also her livelihood in the wake of her defection.
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Last month in the southern state of Karnataka the defection of more than a dozen legislators from the ruling Congress-led coalition paved the way for Modi's BJP to form a government.
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Speaking in separate news conferences Monday, the ministry spokesmen confirmed that reports from South Korea's semiofficial Yonhap News Agency on the defection were accurate but said they could give no further details.
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John McCain (R-AZ) still recovering from surgery in Arizona, Capito's defection ensures that McConnell doesn't have the 50 votes he needs to advance the bill — at least not until McCain returns.
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Every story about Ordóñez's defection, which came just a few days after his teammate Eddie Oropesa hopped a fence and made his own escape, mentions that Megret's car was a red Cadillac.
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This defection in turn leads Dinesh and Gilfoyle to conspire mutinously to stay at Raviga's Pied Piper, under the arrogant assumption that they can get the compression platform operating without Richard's help.
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In a further propaganda coup for Seoul, the gregarious Thae, newly granted South Korean citizenship following his high-profile August defection, is embracing life in the capitalist South as a public figure.
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It is the second defection across the heavily-guarded border in less than two months; another North Korean soldier was shot multiple times while dramatically escaping to the South on November 13.
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Suprun recently made his plans known to not vote for Trump — who won his state's 38 electoral votes easily — in a New York Times opinion piece detailing the reasoning behind his defection.
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Because Republicans hold a majority in the Senate, confirmation is likely, but with the Senate narrowly divided 51-49, they cannot afford a defection in their ranks if all Democrats vote no.
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Already, Pompeo has lost the support of Republican Rand Paul, a Kentucky senator who serves on the committee, which is a significant defection given the GOP's one-vote advantage on the panel.
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As well as highlighting internal party divisions, Bernardi's defection would also underline a hard turn to the right in Australian politics typified by the resurgence of Pauline Hanson's nationalist One Nation party.
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"Belief in these fake news stories is very strongly linked to defection from the Democratic ticket by 803 Obama voters," wrote the researchers, Richard Gunther, Paul A. Beck and Erik C. Nisbet.
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The area proved to be the leading edge of a historic labor defection from Democrats that played out across Michigan and several other Midwestern states where unions have long enjoyed outsize influence.
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He said he also realized, after arriving in the South, that the timing of the group's defection was moved up more than a month to help rally conservative votes in parliamentary elections.
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Republicans quickly pounced, arguing that Van Drew's defection is evidence that Democrats, pressured by "radical" liberal activists, have overreached in taking the drastic step of impeaching Trump over his dealings with Ukraine.
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But as Mr. Tillerson's confirmation hangs in the balance, Mr. Rubio is still the likeliest Republican defection on the committee, which includes 11 Republicans and 10 Democrats, potentially imperiling Mr. Tillerson's chances.
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But the defection of Mr. Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, is a dramatic capstone on the evolution of a party that has thoroughly succumbed to the vise-grip of Mr. Trump.
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Her defection came amid anti-government protests in cities across Iran Saturday and international pressure after Iran admitted it had accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger airliner, killing all 176 people aboard.
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In the ensuing years of self-recrimination, his Marxism died, though, like Chambers, he felt that his life might be at risk if he declared his defection too openly or too soon.
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Instead, the broader impact of these groups has been measured in how they have pushed mainstream parties in a more firmly nationalist direction — especially on immigration — to slow the defection of supporters.
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It seemed to be under discussion whether he would switch before the impeachment vote or if the White House wanted him to vote against impeachment as a Democrat to show a defection.
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His defection adds to the obstacles Prime Minister David Cameron faces in overcoming Britain's ambivalence about its ties to the continent before Britons vote on whether they want to stay in the bloc.
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Yet even remembering that day, knowing how much he said he wanted to play in the majors, I was still shocked when I heard about his defection, only a year after our interview.
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Seoul (CNN)A senior North Korean diplomat, along with his wife and children, has safely defected to South Korea, making it the highest-level diplomatic defection from North to South Korea in history.
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If you add those seats to the contests that are already leaning Democrat, the GOP can still withstand a 10 percent defection rate, and hold the House with 223 of the 435 seats.
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SEOUL, Dec 21 (Reuters) - A North Korean soldier defected to South Korea early on Thursday, a South Korean defence ministry official said, the second known defection from the North in about five weeks.
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The White House legislative team—the staffers in charge of coordinating with Congress—looks bad as well, since they were apparently totally surprised by the defection of two conservative senators on Monday evening.
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Humana, one of the largest Medicare Advantage insurers in the country, is the third major defection since the middle of 2015, when former Obama administration official Marilyn Tavenner took over as AHIP's CEO.
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Defection is an unspoken fear at the Games, with North and South keen to avoid any incident that could ruin the mood of rapprochement, nowhere more evident than on the ice hockey rink.
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The defector is in custody and is likely being questioned as authorities investigate the reasons behind his defection, and seek other information about his life in one of the world's most reclusive states.
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A defection by even 15 percent or 20 percent of Republican evangelicals from lock-step support for the party could be a major contributing factor to a collapse of its national electoral viability.
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Gus Dominguez, a Cuban-American working at an advertising firm in Los Angeles, happened to be visiting a Miami radio station to help promote Canseco's candy bar while word spread of Arocha's defection.
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Related: South Korea Is Claiming the Most Senior Military Defection from the North Yet Local South Korean television network SBS, citing military officials, said that the test could happen as early as Saturday.
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Mr. Trump's aides banked on Mr. Guaidó's call for mass protests and the defection of the Venezuelan officials on Tuesday as a turning point in the three-month campaign to oust Mr. Maduro.
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In a pivotal sequence about his defection to the West, at Orly airport in Paris in 1961, we hear a passage in voice-over from his journal, read by the actress Sian Phillips.
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The provision prompted the defection of 13 House Republicans from New York New Jersey, California and North Carolina, who voted against the tax bill over concerns it would raise taxes for their constituents.
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Because of the continued absence of Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican being treated for brain cancer, the defection of a single Republican can doom a nominee if Democrats remain united in opposition.
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And if not for the last-minute (and arguably self-interested) defection of Senator Edmund Ross of Kansas, Johnson would have been cast from office, the first president to be impeached and removed.
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Iranian government officials provided Witt with "goods and services, including housing and computer equipment," in order to facilitate her work on behalf of the government of Iran after her defection, the indictment said.
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While acknowledging the defection, Clinton pollster Joel Benenson earlier Monday brushed aside any notion that Clinton would not perform well in the primaries because she does not have a broad base of support.
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The Dixiecrat defection also contributed to the Democrats' adoption, in 1956, of a bonus system, awarding extra votes to delegates from states that had voted for the Party nominee in the previous election.
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The indictment states that she gave up the identity of her fellow Air Force counterintelligence agents to Iran, allowing Tehran to subject the military service members to cyberattacks after her August 2013 defection.
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He blamed his colleagues on the left of the PD for their unstinting hatred of him, and their defection from the party to found a leftist group that all but disappeared in the voting.
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But it's true that even as Trump performed historically badly with young voters, Clinton was hurt by relatively low turnout among under-30s and a relatively high level of defection to third-party candidates.
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Prime Minister Erna Solberg would then face the choice of letting Listhaug go, weakening the cabinet and risking a defection by her Progress coalition ally, or to decide that the whole government should resign.
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The announcement of the high-level defection followed news last week that 13 North Korean nationals who had been working at a Pyongyang-owned restaurant had defected to South Korea, officials in Seoul announced.
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MLB teams would have paid the federation a release fee for each Cuban player signed, providing a windfall for Cuban baseball, which has suffered from dwindling budgets and the defection of its best players.
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COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's president suspended parliament on Thursday until May 8, days after a failed no-confidence motion attempt against the prime minister and the defection of several ministers forced a cabinet reshuffle.
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They'd need two dozen Republicans to switch sides, and while it's clear from the defection of three Senators from the party line that such bipartisan support is possible, it's far from a done deal.
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All of NBC's prime-time coverage on the West Coast was tape-delayed, including both opening and closing ceremonies, and it's of little surprise that's where the network had its most massive viewer defection.
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Albanian insults aimed at Mao Zedong in the 1970s; the defection of a tennis player to America in 1982; the accidental bombing of China's embassy in Belgrade in 1999: all have caused emotional scarring.
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The defection of six staff in New York in September left Scotia with fewer than five people in metals in the city, while boosting BMO's New York staff count in metals to around eight.
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A Cuban defection was nothing new for Reilly, of the Boulders, who was with the Niagara Falls Rapids in 1993 when the team hosted the baseball tournament for the World University Games in Buffalo.
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In states Clinton unexpectedly lost - including Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin - she saw lackluster turnout among black voters and a defection of some white working-class voters and union members, who once reliably voted Democratic.
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"North Korea replaced almost all of its troops, if not all, at the Joint Security Area for their failure to prevent the defection," said Kim Young-woo, chairman of the National Assembly's defense committee.
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Mr. Johnson's declaration was far and away the highest-profile defection from the prime minister's campaign to keep Britain inside the bloc when the matter is put to a national referendum on June 23.
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"It was Fox News that wanted to renew Bill O'Reilly because of the Megyn Kelly defection," Mr. Newman said, adding that Mr. O'Reilly was a wealthy man who had no need for extra money.
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But the military drills with the United States and the recent defection of a North Korean soldier to the South have reignited tensions and undercut hopes for a thaw in time for the Olympics.
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But many details of the defection remained a mystery and fueled suspicion, including how the restaurant workers managed to plot their escape despite being trained to spy on one another for signs of disloyalty.
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Though punishments for disseminating foreign media are extreme, many defectors estimate that up to eighty per cent of the people they know have access to foreign media, which can be an impetus to defection.
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But customer defection rates fell to record lows in the last quarter as most people already have cell phones, a situation that creates less urgency to launch costly promotions to lure customers, analysts said.
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Cruz's defection means Ozerden will need Democratic votes to have his nomination advanced to the full Senate for a vote, where a larger GOP majority could give him a better chance of being confirmed.
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The justice, Rafael Solis, was speaking in an interview with The New York Times after his resignation on Thursday, which marked the highest-profile defection yet in the country's nine-month-old political crisis.
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The use of an actor (Igor Vernik, speaking credible French and English as well as Russian) playing the auctioneer, Avedon and an apparatchik who reports Nureyev's defection, provides a dramatic fillip and smooth linkages.
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"The Trump Administration might want to keep Paris defection in its pocket, because jettisoning it later could serve as a way to gin up political support closer to the 2020 re-election race," they note.
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The defection was the first from the Liberal ranks since Trudeau took power after an October 2015 election, when Alleslev overturned a large Conservative majority in her parliamentary constituency to win by around 1,100 votes.
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Chief Executive Rupert Pearce said after the results on Wednesday he was taking action, including bolstering its VSAT satellite technology introduced earlier this year to stem a defection of its maritime customers from legacy products.
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His defection is noteworthy as it appears to be the first major poach that Didi has made from Uber, and it falls in the self-driving car space where Uber has made a huge push.
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The defection of the country's largest political party, the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, from a ruling coalition with Rousseff's Workers' Party on Tuesday has only increased the likelihood that she will be removed, analysts say.
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Earlier on Wednesday, British Prime Minister Theresa May held "constructive" talks in Brussels as she sought concessions on Brexit from a skeptical EU and her strategy came under strain after the defection of three lawmakers.
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Democrats from states that Trump won Since intra-party debates could result in the defection of some Republicans (as it did in health care), picking up even one Democratic vote could make all the difference.
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And it is already playing a role in how liberals are responding to Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election, which was accomplished in part by a defection of downscale whites from the Democratic Party.
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Platts, which dominates the global pricing of physical oil, declined to comment on how it would respond to the potential defection of the second-biggest producer from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
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Thae is the highest-ranking official to have fled North Korea for the South since the 1997 defection of Hwang Jong Yop, the brains behind North Korea's governing ideology, which combines Marxism with extreme nationalism.
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Because of the defection of Conservative MP Phillip Lee and Johnson's decision to oust 21 Conservative members of Parliament last week, the prime minister no longer has a working majority in the House of Commons.
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Rubio backers in The Group have not aired their doubts about Cruz publicly, but they are laying the groundwork for a defection from Cruz if he fails to gain traction in the March 1 primaries.
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WASHINGTON — As Democrats cobbled together a sweeping overhaul of the nation's immigration law three years ago, Senator Chuck Schumer of New York was clear about one thing: His party could not suffer a single defection.
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Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido on Tuesday made his strongest call yet to the military to help him oust President Nicolas Maduro but there were no concrete signs of defection from the armed forces leadership.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May held "constructive" talks in Brussels on Wednesday as she sought concessions on Brexit from a skeptical European Union, her strategy under strain after the defection of three lawmakers.
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The European Union must hold the line against Warsaw's defection from the union's core values — not just for the sake of liberal democracy in Poland but also for the democratic credentials of the union itself.
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It's barely a week into the closing of the mega-merger that created Keurig Dr Pepper and already the beverage industry has seen a defection, an acquisition and a further jolt in the coffee wars.
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Before his defection, he was a career diplomat, fluent in English, who had served in Britain, Denmark and Sweden, often delivering passionate speeches glorifying the Kim family that has ruled North Korea for seven decades.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Sterling sank against the dollar on Monday as the defection of London Mayor Boris Johnson to the "Brexit" camp added to concerns that a British departure from the European Union is a real risk.
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Am I supposed to think Rick is going to just shoot him in the head, and Dwight's defection will have nothing to do with the battle to come (even if it's to turn traitor on Rick)?
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Utilities can raise fees on solar homeowners to try to capture some of those costs back, as San Diego Gas and Electric is trying to do, but that will just increase the incentive for grid defection.
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MLB teams will pay their Cuban counterpart a release fee for each player to be signed, providing a huge windfall for Cuban baseball, which has suffered from dwindling budgets and the defection of its best players.
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Liberty in North Korea Director of Research and Strategy Sokeel Park said the defection of senior North Korean diplomat Thae Yong Ho was a "unique situation," and could lead to threats of retaliation from North Korea.
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"Some of the corporate sponsorship could be re-directed toward the Blues, thus they do stand to potentially benefit from the Rams' defection," said Manish Tripathi, a marketing professor at Emory University who studies sports marketing.
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At the time, the Unification Ministry, which deals with North Korean affairs including defections, took the unusual step of publicizing their decision and said it was the largest group defection since Kim took power in 2011.
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Analysts said a concern for Facebook, as well as other companies such as Google or Twitter, is that there could be overreach as regulators try to rein them in, as well as a defection of advertisers.
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This week's defection of a black South Carolina lawmaker from Clinton's camp to Sanders's has raised questions about just how secure the former secretary of State's advantage might be among black voters in the Palmetto State.
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Age 24 Background Ms. Woodward grew up in London, the daughter of the supermarket heiress Camilla Sainsbury and the politician Shaun Woodward, known for his defection from the Conservative party and more recently from his marriage.
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He is the highest-ranking official to have fled North Korea for the South since the 1997 defection of Hwang Jang Yop, the brains behind North Korea's governing ideology, "Juche", which combines Marxism with extreme nationalism.
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But unlike most other supporters of abortion rights within their party, they could do something about it: With the Senate split between 51 Republicans and 49 Democrats, a defection could end a Supreme Court nominee's chances.
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Cleveland, which has been in the last four N.B.A. finals, is off to a rocky start as it tries to move on in the wake of LeBron James's free-agency defection to the Los Angeles Lakers.
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This means that she can't get the physical therapy she needs to ease the pain that comes from the two herniated discs in her back, a symptom of her genetic defection that compromises her immune system.
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However, he sounded on Thursday like he's now firmly in McConnell's corner — suggesting that Republicans have at least one fewer defection to worry about as they look to get to 50 votes to pass their bill.
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The morning after their arrival, the waitresses were in the agency's debriefing center south of Seoul when they saw themselves on TV. Far from hushing up their defection, the government had announced it to the world.
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Analysts said São Tomé and Príncipe could be just the first diplomatic defection by a small country eager to establish formal relations with Beijing instead of Taipei, as China is increasingly seen as the richer benefactor.
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Randal Grichuk and Stephen Piscotty will assume bigger roles after Heyward's defection, but the team will miss the injured Jhonny Peralta and will hope that its heartbeat — catcher Yadier Molina — holds up after two thumb operations.
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The opposition candidate, who is viewed with suspicion by militants on both sides due to his defection from the ruling "Chavismo" movement in 2010, added that he would immediately let in foreign humanitarian aid if elected.
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Context: Upton's defection brings to 22 the number of GOP no votes on the revised health bill; one more Republican "no" could kill the measure, given that Democrats all plan to vote against it. http://bit.
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The central bank's widely expected decision comes amid worries about political instability after the ruling coalition lost a local government election earlier this year, leading to the defection of 16 of its members to the opposition.
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Singers frequently appear, sometimes with a literal function (to deliver "The Motherland Song," during a patriotic school concert), sometimes with a more poetic, associative one (singing a Tartar lullaby that suggests Nureyev's loneliness after his defection).
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But there is no denying the defection of eight Labour members of Parliament, who left last month to form the Independent Group, citing Mr. Corbyn's ambivalence over Brexit and his handling of anti-Semitism inside Labour.
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The continuing defection of the I.D.C.'s eight members has been the source of great consternation for a 23-member bloc of mainstream Democrats in the Senate led by Senator Andrea Stewart-Cousins of Westchester County.
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So while the idea of some kind of mass feminist defection from Trump's base and inner circle might be a comforting fantasy for some, it ignores the fact that many women did and do support Trump.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - A North Korean soldier who suffered critical gunshot wounds during a defection dash across the border to South Korea has been transferred to a military hospital, a South Korean intelligence official said on Saturday.
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Obvious reasons aside, talent retention is crucial for companies staking their reputation on the progress of its self-driving technology — namely Uber, Google, and Tesla — because with every major defection a new competitor has been born.
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Mr. Johnson's defection highlighted the scale of the challenge Mr. Cameron faces in overcoming his country's entrenched ambivalence about its ties to the Continent before Britons vote in or out in a referendum set for June 23.
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Beginning with a brief account of the Jackson 5's enormous initial success, "Journey" skips ahead to the their defection from Motown to Epic Records, where they became the Jacksons (and lost much of their early luster).
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Stephan Weil, already facing an unexpected election after the defection of a member of his ruling coalition to Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives, is under fire for what some see as a too-cosy relationship with the company.
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Most analysts generally think Trump faces the greatest risk of defection from the Senate Republicans facing swing state reelection campaigns in 2020, such as Cory Gardner in Colorado, Martha McSally in Arizona and Susan Collins in Maine.
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Quoting an unnamed source, South Korea's JoongAng Ilbo newspaper had said the diplomat embarked on a defection journey "following a scrupulous plan" and was in the process of "landing in a third country as an asylum seeker".
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido on Tuesday made his strongest call yet to the military to help him oust President Nicolas Maduro but there were no concrete signs of defection from the armed forces leadership.
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But it looks like he might have gone too far this week: Rumors are bubbling up that some Republicans are considering a mass defection from Trump, or even trying to get him out of the race entirely.
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With at least six electors already vowing to become "faithless," the defection could be the most significant since 1808, when six Democratic-Republican electors refused to vote for James Madison, choosing vice presidential candidate George Clinton instead.
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This defection of centrists will be an electoral problem if it outweighs the higher level of grassroots mobilization of Democratic voters brought about by a platform emphasizing policies such as Medicare for All and free college education.
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The defection of Senator Cory Bernardi to form the Australian Conservatives, seven months after Turnbull's Liberal-National coalition claimed an unconvincing election victory, further weakens the center-right government's hopes of pressing ahead with its legislative agenda.
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In the conference realignment that took place in 2004 and 2005, Miami, Virginia Tech and Boston College bolted to the A.C.C. The Big East was especially furious about the defection of the Eagles, an original conference member.
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North Korea had initially asked that the art troupe be allowed to cross the border by foot via Panmunjom, in the demilitarized zone where a North Korean soldier staged a daring defection to the South in November.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - A North Korean soldier who suffered critical gunshot wounds during a defection dash over the border to South Korea this week stabilized on Wednesday after a second round of surgery, a doctor treating him said.
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LONDON — The defection of an Emirati prince to Qatar has provided a rare glimpse into tensions among the rulers of the United Arab Emirates and added an awkward complication to its feud with Qatar, its regional rival.
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Whatever support Democrats drew due to the browning of America, they argued, would be offset by white defection from the Democratic Party precisely because of white discomfort with gradually becoming a minority group in the United States.
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"With her defection, Ms. Witt provided information to the government of Iran that placed sensitive and classified U.S. national defense and intelligence secrets at serious risk," said Jay Tabb, who heads the F.B.I.'s national security branch.
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The surprise defection was the result of a deal struck between Kuczynski and Popular Force rebel lawmaker Kenji Fujimori to get his father and ex-president Alberto Fujimori out of prison, alleged Popular Force secretary general, Jose Chlimper.
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It's now acknowledged that 1994 was the Expos' best shot at finally getting to the World Series, and that season's cancellation would beget the franchise's downfall and defection, including the later trade sending Pedro to the Red Sox.
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Chris Stewart (R-Utah), who sits on the House Intelligence Committee and helped defend Trump from impeachment, said he was "very surprised" by Romney's decision and said there is "a lot of anger" among Republicans over the defection.
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But we also randomly assigned a number of mechanisms of social monitoring and sanctioning — from the simple observance of the potential defection by another black person to the threat of publication of the transgression in a community newspaper.
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His defection also comes soon after the release of a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election revealed a President and administration that frequently lie on an array of matters.
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The visit - part of the first official talks between the two Koreas in two years - was in stark contrast to the past year of spiraling tensions, punctuated by the dramatic defection of a North Korean soldier in November.
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In the absence of a military force, analysts say nonviolent, defection messaging could be the best way to lure the remaining LRA fighters out of the bush and put an end to the group once and for all.
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He was as Cuban as Puig, Abreu and company—with a harrowing story of defection and friends and loved ones still back home on the island who remained unreachable no matter how much money or influence he had.
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The latest defection from the crisis-stricken OPEC nation's government comes amid growing international pressure on Maduro over his new term, which resulted from a broadly boycotted 2018 vote dismissed by countries around the world as a sham.
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While the Speaker certainly would prefer to have not had a single defection, losing just one vote is a huge victory since just last year he lost nine votes in the House Speaker election from his own party.
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Lisa MurkowskiLisa Ann MurkowskiThe Hill's Morning Report - Progressives, centrists clash in lively Democratic debate Senate braces for brawl over Trump's spy chief Congress kicks bipartisan energy innovation into higher gear MORE (R-Alaska) was the lone Republican defection.
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It was unclear whether the man was injured during his successful escape, as another North Korean soldier was in 2017 when he led soldiers on a dramatic chase during his successful defection attempt while being shot several times.
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"By his action of defection, I have therefore relieved him from his positions as member of the SPLM/SPLA-IO Political Bureau and as chairman of the National Committee for Reconciliation and Healing," Machar said in the letter.
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The group's defection was one of the largest known cases of its kind, and the South Korean government's decision to publicize it broke with long-held practice that it does not identify defectors on safety and privacy grounds.
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His decision to vote "no" on a "skinny repeal" of the Affordable Care Act was credited with killing the last Republican attempt to repeal the law, as McCain's eleventh-hour defection sealed the GOP's defeat in the Senate.
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Mr. Salvini's defection from Mr. Conte's previous coalition government last month set off a political crisis, but the League leader's subsequent calls for an election were thwarted by the unexpected alliance of Five Star and the Democratic Party.
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At a news conference with South Korean reporters — his first meeting with outside journalists since his defection in August — he cautioned that as a diplomat, he was not privy to the status of North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
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And just hours before Ms. Ryan's defection, another Labour member of Parliament came under fire for suggesting that the seven rebel lawmakers might have had financial backing from Israel, in what critics said invoked a well-known trope.
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The main liberal opposition Minjoo Party on Monday accused the government of President Park Geun-hye of trying to influence conservative voter turnout ahead of Wednesday's parliamentary elections by announcing the defection of the restaurant workers last week.
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Related: South Korea Is Claiming the Most Senior Military Defection from the North Yet American intelligence believes North Korea's ability to reach the US is low, but its capabilities will increase, making continued investment in missile defense essential.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - The United States and South Korea kicked off annual military exercises on Monday, prompting warnings of retaliation from the North, as already-heightened tension on the peninsula has been inflamed by the defection of a Pyongyang diplomat.
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The main difference was the defection of 25 Republicans who joined Democrats in voting "no" but that didn't matter as the bill still passed by a tally of 22017 to 205 with 9 no votes (6 GOP, 3 Dems).
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Sometimes there are civil or criminal penalties for defection, though in the absence of a true social consensus regarding the norm those penalties might be too weak to support the institution (think about extralegal use of alcohol or drugs).
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That defection, of Pyongyang's deputy ambassador to the UK, caused North Korea to issue a statement calling the diplomat a criminal, with South Korean officials expressing concerns that North Korea might dispatch assassination squads to eliminate potential defectors abroad.
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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea proposed on Thursday to send family members to meet with 13 North Korean restaurant workers who arrived in South Korea this month in what was described by the South as a rare group defection.
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" The defection of three provincial MPs "could lead nowhere," Professor Tony Wright of University College, London, acknowledges; "or it could become the beginning of the breakup of the party system which has been going for the last 100 years.
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While the North had no immediate reaction to the defection announcement, it was seen in the South and elsewhere as a major embarrassment for Mr. Kim, who has disciplined subordinates by demoting them or in some cases executing them.
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The defection by several Monetary Policy Committee officials to the camp supporting a rise in base interest rates has given the pound, battered by another round of political uncertainty after this month's elections, some support in the past week.
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The 27-year-old Norwegian was the only man willing to fight Rousimar "Toquinho" Palhares following the Brazilian's defection from fighting in the USA due to a two-year suspension imposed on him by the Nevada State Athletic Commission.
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At the same time, liberals are hoping Schumer can prevent any defection from his caucus as Kavanaugh supporters target Democratic senators who are up for re-election this year in states Trump won in 2016 as possible "yes" votes.
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Ceaseless speculation about Durant's potential free-agent defection to the Knicks or the Nets — yes, I'm indeed warning you now not to sleep on Brooklyn — has only added to Coach Steve Kerr's daily challenge to keep his team focused.
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The East has actually been deeper than advertised, with Boston off to such a strong start and Toronto following up its championship run by stubbornly refusing to pout over Kawhi Leonard's free-agent defection to the Los Angeles Clippers.
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MLB teams will pay the Cuban Baseball Federation a release fee for each player to be signed from Cuba, providing a huge windfall for Cuban baseball which has suffered from dwindling budgets and the defection of its best players.
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So when she said, "Let's go home," I immediately wondered if she was, somehow, testing Philip — seeing if he still harbored the defection fantasy he voiced to her way back in the series pilot, forcing him to choose between homelands.
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With a narrow 51-49 majority, Republicans can afford only a single defection in order to confirm him (Mike Pence, the vice-president, would cast a tie-breaking vote in his favour in the event of a 50-50 split).
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In a four-part series that will air on Showtime June 12 through 15, American filmmaker Oliver Stone talks to Putin about a range of subjects, from the president's daily routine to his account of Edward Snowden's defection to Russia.
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Tensions on the Korean peninsula were exacerbated by the recent defection of North Korea's deputy ambassador in London to South Korea, an embarrassing setback to the regime of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Follow CNBC International on and Facebook.
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Part of North Korean elite The defection was a "unique situation," and could lead to threats of retaliation from North Korea, said Sokeel Park, director of research at Liberty in North Korea, a California-based group that helps North Korean refugees.
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"It is a symbolically important victory for President [Mohamed] Farmajo, who vowed to defeat Al-Shabab within two years, but it is unclear if Robow's formal defection to the government will have any major reverberations inside the insurgency," he said.
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Dwight's betrayal was foreshadowed back in "Hostiles and Calamities," and he has just as many reasons to hate Negan as anyone else in the Sanctuary, so his defection makes total sense during a season when so many things have not.
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SEOUL, Aug 22 (Reuters) - The United States and South Korea kicked off annual military exercises on Monday, prompting warnings of retaliation from the North, as already-heightened tension on the peninsula has been inflamed by the defection of a Pyongyang diplomat.
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Olympic boxing two-time gold medalist Robeisy Ramirez abandoned Cuba's national team during a training camp in Mexico, the Cuban Sports Institute said on Thursday, the second major defection to hit the Communist-run country's boxing squad this year.
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The defection came after North Korea declined to accept a list of South Korean journalists hoping to observe the closure of its nuclear test site on Friday, raising new questions about the North's commitment to reducing tensions in the region.
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The apparent defection led to a tense weekend in Rockland County, where the Cuban players snubbed Orlando Hernandez, the Cuban pitcher with the high leg kick whose harrowing 1997 exit by boat led to a flamboyantly productive run with the Yankees.
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Thae Yong Ho defected to South Korea in August last year and since December 2016 has been speaking to media and appearing on variety television shows to discuss his defection to Seoul and his life as a North Korean envoy.
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Thae is the most senior official to have fled North Korea and entered public life in the South since the 1997 defection of Hwang Jang Yop, the brains behind the North's governing ideology, "Juche", which combines Marxism and extreme nationalism.
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The move comes on the heels of the defection on Tuesday of another crucial ally, the centrist Progressive Party, or PP. The party, with 49 members in the lower house, left her government and pulled its one minister from her cabinet.
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Before April 30, Maduro might have had confidence in his ability to balance the divisions within his ranks, but after the defection of the head of his intelligence service, he and his closest advisers likely recognize the fragility of his coalition.
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But his defection shows the speed with which alliances are shifting in the civil war and how rapidly it is fragmenting, with battles now being fought on many fronts, often over local issues such as cattle rustling and access to grazing.
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South Korean guards fired up to 20 warning shots at North Korean troops searching for a soldier who had defected on Thursday, Yonhap news agency said, after officials in the South confirmed the latest defection across the heavily militarized border.
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South Korea's National Intelligence Service said Thursday that North Korea's acting ambassador to Italy went into hiding in November, raising questions about a possible high-profile defection as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un seeks recognition on the world stage.
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Not so with the recent defection of star baseball players and brothers Yulieski Gourriel and Lourdes Gourriel Jr. — an episode that illustrates how citizens in the most repressive country in the hemisphere are increasingly pushing the boundaries of free speech.
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I go through this with them every single day in D.C. Republicans currently have a 51-49 majority in the Senate and can only afford one GOP defection before leaning on Democrats to vote to confirm Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
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Thae Yong Ho defected to South Korea in August last year and since December 2016 has been speaking to local media and appearing on variety television shows to discuss his defection to Seoul and his life as a North Korean envoy.
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Tomas Ojea Quintana, the U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in North Korea, said he spent part of a four-day visit to Seoul looking into the claims surrounding the biggest mass defection case involving North Koreans in several years.
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When his 43 years of spying, forgeries and fake news ended with his defection, Mr. Martin-Bittman began to write books about espionage and disinformation, among them "The Deception Game" (1972) and "The KGB and Soviet Disinformation: An Insider's View" (1985).
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Lee Woo-sung, Seoul's chief negotiator, said the North had asked that the art troupe cross the border by foot via Panmunjom, located in the demilitarized zone where a North Korean soldier staged a daring defection to the South in November.
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And after the ostentatious defection of Phillip Lee, who crossed the floor to join the Liberal Democrat benches even as Mr Johnson was speaking, a rebellion by 21 other Tories had reduced his notional majority from plus one to minus 43.
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And on the plane with Mr. Heo, who managed a restaurant in China, were a dozen North Korean waitresses he was about to deliver into their hands — a rare mass defection that became a public relations coup for South Korea.
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The combination of the two Democratic clans would still leave the party just short of a 32-seat majority, because of the long-running defection of Simcha Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat who nonetheless says he has no alliance to any party.
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No, he's having to grapple with all of these problems at once while cloaked in disgrace and coping with an unprecedented defection of more than two dozen Republican former supporters who feel that endorsing him has become a moral transgression.
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With 20000 Republicans in the Senate, and two firm "no" votes already, a single new defection would doom the bill and jeopardize the Republicans' seven-year quest to dismantle the health law that is a pillar of President Barack Obama's legacy.
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But they did not get a third Republican defection that would have stopped Ms. DeVos — a billionaire who has devoted much of her life to promoting charter schools and vouchers — from becoming the steward of the nation's nearly 100,000 public schools.
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Collins is one of two Republican senators who have already said that they would not even vote to open debate on the latest version of the bill released on Thursday, meaning one more defection from the Republican ranks could kill it.
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Testimony in November by Gordon D. Sondland, Mr. Trump's ambassador to the European Union, that there had been a quid pro quo around a White House meeting and maybe around the foreign aid money prompted momentary fears of a mass defection.
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RELATED: North Korea says diplomat who defected is a 'criminal' But defection is bittersweet for Thae Yong Ho. "It made my life very miserable because I spent 50 years of my life on the wrong side, and I have to deny my past."
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South Korea's unification ministry said in a statement, reiterating comments from Thursday in response to North Korea's first offer to send the families to the South, that the defection took place according to the workers' "free will" and dismissed the offer as propaganda.
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Today Rick Noack reports that the whale appears to have defected: An alleged Russian spy whale is refusing to leave a Norwegian port city, in what appears to be a high-profile defection after a week of global attention on the unnamed beluga.
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He faced a massive defection from inside his own party on the tax issue, and a cultural assault from Pat Buchanan's nativist, isolationist 1992 primary campaign that may have fatally damaged his candidacy and presaged President Donald Trump a quarter century later.
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BUENOS AIRES, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Lawmakers from Argentina's main opposition party on Thursday vented their anger at the defection of a dozen colleagues that altered the balance of power in Congress and laid bare a power struggle within the country's broad Peronist movement.
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A recent McKinsey research report on the effects of energy storage on the power system found that "partial grid defection" — which it defines as generating 206 to 24 percent of your own energy — could become economical for most customers within a decade.
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Weeks before the country's four provincial assemblies were due to select the new senators, the government of the sparsely populated province of Balochistan, which was led by Mr Sharif's party, the PML-N, collapsed owing to the abrupt defection of several lawmakers.
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At her sentencing, an attorney for Young, Dennis Sweet, argued for leniency and cited "mental instability" at the time of her attempted defection, as well as Young's desire to become a medic for ISIS rather than a combat fighter, according to The Dispatch.
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One week later, the Washington Post revealed his threatening comments about Nancy O'Dell during a taping of Access Hollywood in 2005—an incident that culminated in the defection of dozens of senior Republican leaders from the presidential campaign of their own party's nominee.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - A North Korean soldier is expected to survive critical wounds he received when his old comrades fired a hail of bullets at him as he made a defection dash to South Korea, the South's government and military said on Tuesday.
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In the wake of their devastating loss, Democrats find themselves in the midst of ontological crisis, spurred in large part by the mass defection of disgruntled white working-class Americans from what used to be a blue firewall in the Upper Midwest.
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Quite the reverse: From Trump's vantage point, his best option is to shore up as much support as he can with the base of the party, using the defection of politicians like McCain and Thune to weave a stabbed-in-the-back narrative.
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Duesmann will take up his new position as soon as he is able to do so, Volkswagen said in a statement, and will be the second high-profile defection from rival German carmaker BMW after the poaching of Herbert Diess in July 2015.
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But with Trump still receiving very low marks from minority voters, and facing historically low ratings for a Republican president among white-collar whites, he can afford hardly any defection from the blue-collar and older whites that have been his staunchest supporters.
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"If North Korea persists in its wrong path, like its nuclear weapons development, this kind of incident will continue to happen in the future," South Korea's foreign minister, Yun Byung-se, warned in a speech on Tuesday, referring to the group defection.
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The video's release marks the first time the American-led UN Command has disclosed security footage of a defection across the heavily fortified demilitarized zone (DMZ) that divides North and South Korea, said Hochong Song, a public affairs officer for US Forces Korea.
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But as of now, it is in force and will remain so unless changed, and for it to be changed will require 1,237 votes, and thus the defection of hundreds and hundreds of Trump delegates on the first day of the convention.
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North Korea has reportedly replaced guards and fortified a section of its border with South Korea where a North Korean soldier staged a daring defection last week, while South Korean and U.S. soldiers have been decorated for their role in his rescue.
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Related: South Korea Is Claiming the Most Senior Military Defection from the North Yet Kim's regime has claimed the January nuclear test was in fact a hydrogen bomb, though experts have said the blast was too small for that to be the case.
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In the decades after he returned to Syria, Faris used his fame to become a colonel in the Syrian Air Force, a post he held until his defection to Istanbul on August 4, 2012, following the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War.
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But Republican Senator John McCain, who has an aggressive form of brain cancer, has been absent from the Senate for months, meaning that if all Senate Democrats vote against Trump's eventual nominee, it would take only one Republican defection to defeat his pick.
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WASHINGTON — Representative Nancy Pelosi overwhelmingly won the Democratic nomination last month to be speaker, but the defection of 32 Democratic dissidents left her short of the votes she would need to win the gavel in January, when she can lose only 17.
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Mr. Walsh, who made his name as part of the Tea Party movement and supported Mr. Trump in 2016 before concluding that he was a "con man," had hoped his defection would encourage other Republicans to follow, our colleague Annie Karni wrote.
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True to the intense attention the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have attracted since their marriage in May 2018, the press was quickly filled with stories about their finances and prospects, and about how the queen, the prince's grandmother, would handle the defection.
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In such a tight race in which no candidate has a commanding lead, polling analysts said, the defection of even a modest number of Mr. Sanders's past supporters to Mr. Yang or Ms. Gabbard could hurt his chances to win here again.
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The president has characterized the drive to remove him as an entirely partisan exercise that will cost Democrats their majority in the House, and a high-profile Democratic defection could help bolster his case while allowing him to divert attention from the vote.
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For Kavanaugh, the hours of dodging snares laid by Democratic senators boiled down to avoiding huge errors -- especially on the core issue of abortion that would risk the defection of a couple of Republican senators and jeopardize his route to the high court.
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The soldier's defection to South Korea on Thursday was the fourth this year, and the gunfire over the episode is certain to raise tensions on the Korean Peninsula just as hopes have grown for a thaw in relations between the South and North.
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One former senior intelligence official who discussed the case publicly, Douglas H. Wise, said that by the time he took over as deputy director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, a year after Ms. Witt's defection, American authorities were bracing for the worst.
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As a result, Ortega has facilitated a formidable community of ex-Scientologists, human rights activists, and those just fascinated with the church's endless stream of drama—from the mystery of church leader David Miscavige's missing wife to Leah Remini's public defection and beyond.
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Over time, as they identified as conservatives and Republicans, they learned the orthodoxies that "people like them" stood for, and were pulled along for the sake of keeping the governing coalition together, understanding that any defection would spell defeat in a two-party system.
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Now a few others have taken up livestreaming, including Son Bom-hyang, whose defection story garnered more than 5 million views, and Nara Kang, who developed a fan base after stints on TV programs and uses social media to keep in touch with her followers.
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But the Houthis responded furiously to Saleh's defection, resulting in days of furious clashes between Saleh loyalists and Iran-allied Houthi fighters in Sanaa, in which at least 125 people have been killed and 238 wounded, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross.
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READ: A glimpse of the stolen -- video shows Chibok girls Western intelligence sources close to negotiations believe, however, that the defection of manpower and erosion of support leaves Shekau more exposed and could possibly lead to a breakthrough in the search for the abducted girls.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump turned up the heat on Friday on fellow Republicans in the U.S. Senate to pass a bill dismantling the Obamacare law, but with their retooled healthcare plan drawing fire within the party even one more defection would doom it.
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" Marcarelli addresses his defection in his first Sprint appearance, titled "Paul Switched," arguing that the years he spent wandering the country to drive home Verizon's expansive cell coverage don't mean much any more — "it's 2016 now," he says to camera, "and every network is great.
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It may be that things outside of Kim's control -- like a random defection across the line -- or a mudslide that moves landmines into areas patrolled by Southern troops (as allegedly happened in August 2015) will escalate again the war of words between the two sides.
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Analysts from Japanese bank Nomura were the first major house on Thursday to flip to calling for a rise in rates this year, after the defection over the past week of three members of the BoE's policy committee to the camp backing higher rates.
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The GOP controls the upper chamber by a 2628-28500 majority, though three Republicans have already said they will support Democrats, meaning only one more defection is needed to pass the bill in the Senate, likely setting up a veto from the White House. 6900.
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He was brought back to South Korea on a military plane, and the South's spy agency, known at the time as the Korean C.I.A., announced that Mr. Lee's defection was a "fake" that had been intended to allow him to spy on the South.
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The Conservatives lost their majority in a dramatic mid-session defection, a "Rebel Alliance" of Conservative members of Parliament blocked their prime minister's plans for a no-deal Brexit, and a "Remain Alliance" of the opposition parties effectively took control of the House of Commons.
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They had decided he was bad, thereby they had to make him very bad, to make their defection feel good; they would probably claim that the 18-year-old with Crohn's disease I met in Salzman's kitchen was just there for Raniere to bed her.
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But while on tour in West Germany in 1971, he said he would remain in the West indefinitely — he did not specifically call it a defection — because of the Czech government's attempts to censor his lyrics and demands that he cut his long hair.
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Ms. Kennedy, who described herself as a former teacher and a mother of five in a minute-long YouTube video announcing her candidacy, did not mention Mr. Van Drew's defection from the Democratic Party last month or his pledge of "undying support" for President Trump.
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He assumed his defection wouldn't go over well, so on the day he gave notice, while his boss considered the rival's offer, he quietly packed up his office and loaded things like his family pictures and a framed B.B. King concert ticket into his car.
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Country Above Party, an independent federal Super PAC, was formed to "keep Justin Amash the only Independent in Congress" after threats from the president to try to unseat him next year over his staunch criticism of the White House and his defection from the GOP.
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Mr. Carvajal, who goes by the nickname "el Pollo," or "the Chicken," in Venezuela, made a dramatic public defection from his government by video, urging his former military comrades to rise up against Mr. Maduro and support Juan Guaidó, the leader of the opposition.
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