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Cook’s firing comes against the backdrop of the president exerting extraordinary pressure to bend the nation’s central bank to his will and lower interest rates.

Mercy Culture Church is already well down the path of exerting its political influence.

Prosecutors allege he used his position to abuse a "staggering number" of women followers, exerting control over their lives and ostracising them.

“I think anybody who has been a student of what’s going on in the Colorado River system would say that the federal government has not been exerting their authority,” he said.

There’s a version of it where I’m quite literally attached to the bus and I am physically pedaling and exerting myself as hard as I can.