We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Brexit offers the British Government the chance to renew and extend the UK’s commercial ties with the rest of the world after more than 40 years of limits, according to Liz Truss. […]
This article was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. A federal appeals court has refused to review the 2010 war crimes conviction of a former Guantánamo Bay prisoner who after his return to his native Sudan ran away and rejoined Al Qaeda. The former prisoner, Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al-Qosi, 60, pleaded […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Republicans Overseas Spokesperson Greg Swenson insisted he is “absolutely” proud that Donald Trump is the Republican candidate for President. When asked if he is proud of the Republican candidate, Mr Swenson told LBC: […]
Sixty percent of voters — nearly 70 million people — are projected to vote by mail nationwide during the coronavirus pandemic. Those who study absentee rejection rates estimate that 1 percent to 2 percent of those votes — potentially more than 1 million — won’t count, which could make a difference in battleground states. “The […]
By Giovanni Russonello Amy Coney Barrett joins the court as the conservative majority limits ballot-counting in Wisconsin. It’s Tuesday, and this is your politics tip sheet. Sign up here to get On Politics in your inbox every weekday. Where things stand Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed to the Supreme Court yesterday by a deeply divided […]
Trick or treating can take place in some areas of England despite coronavirus restrictions, Downing Street has suggested. Ahead of Halloween on Saturday, Number 10 said carrying out the traditional custom would be dependent on those local COVID-19 measures in place under the government’s three-tier system. Asked about the prospect of trick or treating being […]
On a recent Wednesday afternoon, congressional candidate Steve House walked into a cluttered pawn shop along East Colfax Avenue in Aurora as an employee, recognizing his incoming customer, playfully shouted, “Hey, no politics in here!” Wearing a suit and tie, and speaking genially behind a black mask, the Republican underdog for Congress is known in […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Michael Portillo has issued a damning prediction about the state of democracy, as the US election approaches. The former Conservative MP opened his Times Radio show on Friday by suggesting “the absence of […]
In 2018, when Democrat Diane Mitsch Bush ran to represent southern and western Colorado in Congress, the strategy in Delta County was “knock, knock.” “We probably hit 5,000 doors,” said Debbie Fisk, the chair of the Democratic Party in the deep-red county of about 30,000 residents. Mitsch Bush lost that year but is back on […]
An MP in Greater Manchester has been released from hospital after contracting coronavirus. Yasmin Qureshi was admitted last Saturday with pneumonia, when she began to feel “much worse” having already isolated at home for 10 days with COVID-19. After some “excellent care” from medics at Royal Bolton Hospital, the Labour MP for Bolton South East […]