Americans say by a 13-point margin that President Donald Trump should allow the winner of the presidential election to nominate a replacement for the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a new HuffPost/YouGov poll finds. Roughly half, 49%, say Trump should wait so that whoever wins the election can nominate Ginsburg’s replacement. Another 36% […]
WASHINGTON — White House aides improperly intervened to falsely assert that a manuscript by the former national security adviser John R. Bolton contained classified information in an attempt to prevent its contents from becoming public, a lawyer for the career official overseeing the book’s prepublication review said in a letter filed in court on Wednesday. […]
With a fall vote on President Donald Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court all but assured, the next question is what Democrats will do to counteract a firmly conservative high court if they manage to take both the presidency and the Senate. Many Democratic voters and some politicians are calling for major changes on the […]
The government is pushing ahead with plans to introduce stronger legal protections for UK troops serving overseas – despite calls for ministers to think again about their plans to give “a free pass over alleged war crimes”. MPs will on Wednesday debate the Overseas Operations Bill in the House of Commons, as the government seeks […]
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is trying to drum up support at the United Nations for a new vision of human rights that prioritizes religious liberty and property rights, but European allies are concerned and showing little support for his doctrine, U.N. diplomats and human rights experts familiar with the matter said. In […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. European Commission vice-president Maros Sefcovic said the bloc expects “nothing more, nothing less” than for the terms of the UK’s EU Withdrawal Agreement to be fully implemented before the end of the […]
It’s called a “dog whistle,” a word or phrase in a speech that is unobjectionable on the surface but conveys a coded message to partisans, by analogy to high-pitched sounds that are audible to dogs but not to people. Richard Nixon leaned on it heavily during his 1968 presidential campaign, referencing “law and order” and […]
Pubs, bars and restaurants throughout England will be forced to close at 10pm from Thursday, Boris Johnson will announce in a new coronavirus crackdown. In a House of Commons statement followed by a TV address to the nation, the prime minister will unveil a range of new measures to tackle the dramatic surge in COVID-19 […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Conservative MP for Ipswich Tom Hunt argued the EU was being intransigent in the Brexit trade deal talks with the UK. Posting a video to his Twitter, Mr Hunt argued the UK […]
New lockdown restrictions should come into force in London, Sadiq Khan has said, following a meeting with officials across the capital. In a statement, the mayor of London said “we have no choice but to look at other measures to slow the spread” because of problems with the testing system. Mr Khan said he had […]