(Reuters) – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s stunning upset over a member of the Democratic congressional leadership in 2018 made her a household name and inspired similar insurgent campaigns around the United States. Now the democratic socialist from New York City, best known by her initials AOC, must survive her own challenge from within the party in a […]
(Reuters) – Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will testify before the U.S. Congress on June 16 and 17 in hearings on the central bank’s semi-annual monetary policy report. By statute, the Fed delivers the report providing an overview of the economy twice a year, usually in February and again in June or July, and the […]
(Reuters) – Republican President Donald Trump is facing criticism for his decision to hold a campaign rally next week on Juneteenth, a holiday marking the end of slavery, in a city known for a horrific race massacre in 1921. Trump announced on Wednesday that his campaign will hold its first rally since the coronavirus shuttered […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top U.S. military officer on Thursday said he should not have joined President Donald Trump as he walked from the White House to a nearby church for a photo opportunity after authorities cleared the way of protesters using tear gas and rubber bullets. “I should not have been there,” Joint Chiefs […]
U.S. Rep. Ken Buck of Windsor must defend actions he took as Colorado Republican Party chairman or face a possible investigation by a state office that oversees attorneys’ conduct. A representative for the Colorado Office of Attorney Regulation wrote to Buck earlier this month asking that he answer questions about a recorded conversation in which […]
(Reuters) – Democrats on Wednesday challenged an Arizona rule that they said could result in “thousands” of mail-in ballots not being counted in what could be a critical U.S. election battleground state. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) and two allied groups sued the Arizona Secretary of State to allow voters five business days after federal […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A retired judge urged a federal court on Wednesday not to allow the Justice Department to dismiss its criminal case against President Donald Trump’s former adviser Michael Flynn, citing evidence of a “gross abuse of prosecutorial power.” The U.S. district judge hearing the case, Emmet Sullivan, tapped John Gleeson last month to […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives took up the issues of police violence and racial injustice in America on Wednesday in the first congressional hearing since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis sparked protests around the world, with Floyd’s brother due to testify. “Justice for George,” Floyd’s 42-year-old brother Philonise Floyd […]
Home Secretary Priti Patel has rejected claims the government doesn’t understand racial inequality as she recounted being called a “P**i” as a child in the playground. Following a weekend of protests across the UK as part of the Black Lives Matter campaign, Ms Patel condemned a “lawless minority” who “regrettably turned to violence” during the […]
A senior government minister has been accused of showing “real ignorance” after claiming the UK was not racist and that the recent Black Lives Matter protests were solely about events in the US. Health Secretary Matt Hancock claimed, in an interview on Sky’s Sophy Ridge On Sunday programme, that the demonstrations seen in cities like […]