WASHINGTON — The House overwhelmingly approved a revised North American trade pact by a vote of 385 to 41 on Thursday, giving President Trump and the Democratic majority an improbable bipartisan victory less than 24 hours after Mr. Trump was impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors. The implementing legislation for the revised United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Thursday that White House lawyer Pat Cipollone is likely to be the main lawyer to represent him in the U.S. Senate’s impeachment trial. Trump’s lawyers are likely to argue that there is no evidence that the president did anything wrong and that the House of Representatives investigation […]
A painful week has passed since I was sat on a bench in a draughty town hall during the early dawn of a Tory majority government. If it was painful to watch the blue rosettes celebrate the narrow victory of Iain Duncan Smith at 3am, it’s been even more painful to watch the Queen read […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top Republican in the U.S. Senate on Thursday called on his fellow senators to correct what he called the “toxic” impeachment of President Donald Trump, sending the strongest signal yet that lawmakers will not remove Trump from office. In a harsh attack, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell accused the Democratic-dominated House […]
Britain has had its second Queen's Speech in three months as Boris Johnson lays out his plan for a Tory majority government. The Prime Minister today claimed the "seismic election" has given way to the "most radical Queen's Speech in a generation" that will "release the country from the stranglehold of indecision". While the last […]
WASHINGTON — For the most unpredictable of presidents, it was the most predictable of outcomes. Is anyone really surprised that President Trump was impeached? His defiant disregard for red lines arguably made him an impeachment waiting to happen. From the day he took office, Mr. Trump made clear that he would not abide by the […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A key U.S. House committee on Wednesday released a draft of a bipartisan consumer privacy bill, which would set nationwide rules for handling of personal information online and draw new safeguards around how companies can collect and use such data. The draft from the House Energy & Commerce Committee is the latest […]
Donald Trump has been impeached in the United States House of Representatives. The House has found the Republican president abused his office by asking Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, his biggest rival in the 2020 election. Members have so far voted in favour of the first article of impeachment, that Trump abused his power. The […]
A FINE Gael TD who made a compensation claim for whiplash after his car was pranged at 5mph has accused the insurance sector of telling “porky-pies”. Alan Farrell took a €15,000 legal case as a result of the road accident – but was only awarded €2,500 after a judge described his injuries as “very minor”. […]
The federal government is entitled to the former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden’s proceeds from his new memoir and from several of his paid speeches because he did not submit the material, which referenced intelligence activities, to federal agencies in advance, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. Judge Liam O’Grady of the United States District Court in […]