(Reuters) – The nominating contest for the 2020 U.S. presidential election will kick off Feb. 3 with the first-in-the-nation caucuses in Iowa. A dozen Democrats are vying to challenge Republican President Donald Trump in the November 2020 election, while three Republicans have mounted primary challenges against Trump. The Republican primary, even though votes will be […]
Parents who suffer the loss of a child under the age of 18 will be entitled to two weeks' statutory paid leave from work, the Government has announced. The regulations will be known as Jack's Law, in memory of Jack Herd, whose mother Lucy has been campaigning on the issue since her 23-month-old son Jack […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday ruled out a so-called witness trade in which Republicans call witnesses Democrats want in exchange for former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden testifying in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. “I think that’s off the table. First of all the Republicans have the […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats accused President Donald Trump at the start of his impeachment trial on Wednesday of a corrupt scheme to pressure Ukraine to help him get re-elected and warned that America’s global prestige will suffer if the U.S. Senate acquits him. The Republican Trump sounded a defiant note, telling reporters in Switzerland the […]
Tory ministers have paved the way to take a stricken train firm back into public ownership. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced today that South Western Railway (SWR) was “not sustainable in the long term”, after the company declared earlier this month that it made £139 million loss in the last financial year. Unreliable services and […]
SINN Féin will not ask retiring TDs, including former leader Gerry Adams, to give back any of their pension entitlements – but has promised to reduce retirement payments to future TDs and Ministers. The party’s finance spokesman Pearse Doherty was responding to a report in today’s ‘Irish Independent’ which revealed the €22m bonanza due to […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate will hear opening arguments in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial on Wednesday, beginning up to six days of presentations on the question of whether Trump should be removed from office. After battling into the early morning hours on Wednesday over the trial’s rules, senators voted 53-47 to approve […]
Yesterday’s losses triggered outrage from Brexiteers who called for the abolition of the Upper Chamber – with one even accusing peers of “taking orders” from Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament’s Brexit representative, who visited the UK earlier this week. Politico’s Playbook bulletin said: “Today’s votes will include proposed amendments on the rights of refugee children […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Monday proposed rules that would execute a potentially quick impeachment trial for President Donald Trump, with no guarantee that witnesses or new evidence would be allowed. A resolution McConnell unveiled on Monday would give House Democratic prosecutors and Trump lawyers 48 hours, evenly split, to […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday rejected the Democratic-led House of Representatives’ impeachment charges and called for their immediate dismissal by the Republican-led Senate in a memo offering a legal and political case against his removal. The 116-page Trial Memorandum sought to undercut charges that the Republican president abused his power and […]