Just weeks ago, American diplomats thought Sudan was on the verge of a breakthrough agreement that would advance its transition from military dictatorship to full-fledged democracy, delivering on the soaring promise of the country’s revolution in 2019. Sudan had become an important test case in President Biden’s core foreign policy goal of bolstering democracies worldwide, […]
The United Auto Workers, a politically potent labor union, is planning to withhold its endorsement of President Biden in the early stages of the 2024 race, according to an internal memo from its president to members on Tuesday. The memo, written by Shawn Fain, the Detroit-based union’s president, said the leadership of the United Auto […]
Michael Gove is being sued by a major housebuilder because he blocked a development he felt was not “aesthetically pleasing”. Berkeley Homes is taking the Housing Secretary to court over his decision to overrule planning inspectors and refuse permission for a 165-home project in Kent. Lawyers for the company have written to Mr Gove informing […]
Sir Keir Starmer was yesterday accused of “flip-flopping” after U-turning on a pledge to abolish university tuition fees. The Labour leader vowed to scrap the £9,250 a year charges when he ran for the leadership in 2020. But Sir Keir yesterday confirmed Labour is preparing to abandon the commitment and blamed the UK’s economic woes. […]
The leading Republican candidate for president, Donald J. Trump, is likely to skip at least one of the first two debates of the 2024 Republican presidential nominating contest, according to five people who have discussed the matter with the former president. Last month, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, Ronna McDaniel, announced that Fox […]
WASHINGTON — Faced with an impasse over raising or suspending the nation’s debt limit, some White House officials are looking to a clause in the 14th Amendment to ensure the United States does not default on its debt. The amendment, adopted after the Civil War, conferred citizenship to former slaves — and contains a more […]
WASHINGTON — President Biden is closing in on two nominations for the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors that would give the Fed its first Latina board member and its second ever Black vice chair, according to several people familiar with the process. Mr. Biden is close to nominating Adriana Kugler, an economist with Colombian heritage […]
The fate of property tax policy will likely be in the hands of Colorado voters this November as lawmakers and the governor try for long-term solutions to the state’s skyrocketing property values. Gov. Jared Polis and the members of the Democratic majorities in the state Senate and House of Representatives unveiled Monday a proposal that […]
As they investigate former President Donald J. Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, federal prosecutors have also been drilling down on whether Mr. Trump and a range of political aides knew that he had lost the race but still raised money off claims that they were fighting widespread fraud in the vote results, according […]
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed united on Wednesday, in the last scheduled argument of its current term, in its distaste for how county officials in Minnesota had treated a 94-year-old woman who had stopped paying property taxes on her condominium after moving into an assisted-living center. By the time the county seized the property, […]