WASHINGTON (Reuters) – With each passing day, South Carolina looms larger as perhaps Joe Biden’s last line of defense if he hopes to secure the Democratic presidential nomination next year. While polls show the former vice president trailing in other early voting states such as Iowa and New Hampshire, South Carolina – with its sizable […]
The Treasury has "postponed" production of the new Brexit 50p coins as the likelihood that the UK will not leave the EU by October 31 recedes. A Treasury source told The Daily Telegraph: "We have paused production of the Brexit coin and will take a final decision in due course." It is likely that hundreds […]
Boris Johnson has announced that he expects the European Union to grant an extension to the October 31 deadline, but the term has yet to be revealed. The Prime Minister said he will lay down his plan to hold a general election on Monday, but he will need at least two thirds of MPs to […]
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Tom Cotton on Wednesday asked intelligence officials to investigate whether the popular Chinese-owned app TikTok poses national security risks. In a letter bit.ly/2BEFX3r to Joseph Macguire, acting director of national intelligence, the senators raised concerns about the video-sharing platform’s collection of user data […]
Votegate TDs Timmy Dooley and Niall Collins are coming under pressure to provide phone records to a Dáil probe into the matter. Fine Gael last night claimed the records should be examined as part of an ethics investigation that is to start next week. A Dáil committee is being convened during the Halloween break to […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans pressed their effort to discredit the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump on Thursday with plans for a Senate resolution calling it illegitimate, while the White House lauded lawmakers in his party who stormed into a high-security room and interrupted testimony. The House of Representatives is examining whether there are […]
Welcome back to the Impeachment Briefing. After a number of days dominated by the findings of the Democratic-led investigation, Wednesday brought an unconventional Republican response. [Sign up to get the Impeachment Briefing in your email inbox every weeknight.] What happened today About two dozen Republican members of Congress stormed the secure office suite where a […]
John Bercow announced he would step down as House of Commons Speaker in September this year, concluding a 10-year career in the position. The Speaker – who caused outrage on Monday when he refused a second meaningful vote on Boris Johnson’s withdrawal agreement – said he would stay on as Speaker until Brexit on October […]
WASHINGTON — It’s been more than a year since any sort of war room has been run out of the basement of Stephen K. Bannon’s Capitol Hill townhouse. And it’s been even longer since Mr. Bannon, who was pushed out as White House chief strategist in August 2017, ran a war room for President Trump. […]
In a furious attack, the Prime Minister tore into the Labour leader for blocking his EU departure deal while also refusing to allow a general election to finally break the parliamentary deadlock. Britain will now have to “wait and see” how long a Brexit delay the EU will impose as a result of the opposition’s intransigence, […]