WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. government surveillance tools fiercely opposed by privacy advocates and defended by intelligence agencies will expire after legislation renewing them stalled in the Senate on Thursday, although passage is expected next week. In a rare bipartisan vote, the Democratic-led House of Representatives backed the “USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act of 2020” on Wednesday. […]
WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) – Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden will deliver a speech on the country’s response to the coronavirus outbreak on Thursday, one day after he canceled upcoming public rallies amid widening public health concerns. Biden and White House rival Bernie Sanders have been forced to re-evaluate their approach to campaigning in the face […]
Special domestic abuse courts where criminal offences are heard alongside family law cases will be set up under a £5million trial to be unveiled in the Budget. The plans aim to offer better support to survivors of domestic abuse. Chancellor Rishi Sunak plans to announce millions of pounds to crackdown on domestic abuse when he […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation on Wednesday to extend a divisive set of government surveillance tools, a major boost for efforts to reauthorize the program before it expires on Sunday. The Democratic-led House voted 278 to 136 for the “USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act of 2020.” The vote was not along […]
The SNP politician argued that with coronavirus spreading across the world, workers in the UK will be more affected than others in the EU as the statutory sick pay in the UK is £94.25 compared to Germany’s £287. He said: “In Ireland, in response to the coronavirus, the Government has just raised their statutory sick […]
The EU’s ambassador to the UK, João Vale de Almeida, warned the coronavirus outbreak could have an impact on Brexit trade negotiations in the timetable. It comes as cases of COVID-19 have soared in Italy resulting in 631 deaths as of the time of writing. The country has since been put into lockdown until early […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday dealt a setback to President Donald Trump’s administration, ruling that the Justice Department must provide a Democratic-led congressional panel grand jury material redacted from former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. In a 2-1 decision, a three-judge panel of the […]
DETROIT (Reuters) – Joe Biden hopes to take a big step toward the Democratic presidential nomination on Tuesday when six states cast votes, while Bernie Sanders aims for an upset win in Michigan that would keep his White House hopes alive. Biden, who claimed the position of Democratic front-runner with a sweeping series of wins […]
The Department for Work and Pensions has been forced to conduct a review after it was found to have lost more employment tribunals for disability discrimination than any other employer in Britain. BBC Panorama said its research showed the DWP lost 17 of 134 claims of discrimination against its disabled workers from 2016 to 2019, […]
Four in five families hit by 'flawed' Universal Credit childcare rules are single mums, a charity warns today. Some 35,680 single mums in England faced paying up-front for childcare while claiming the six-in-one benefit last August – 79% of all families who claimed childcare. That compared to just 1,080 single dads and fewer than 10,000 […]