Thousands of members have quit Fine Gael in recent years as nearly a decade in power has taken its toll on the party. Leaked figures obtained by the Sunday Independent reveal the scale of Fine Gael’s decline across the country with the party losing a fifth of its membership since 2013. Please log in or […]
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Saturday that public opinion is now on the side of an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump following the release of new information about his conversations with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Pelosi this week announced her support for an investigation after the surfacing of a whistleblower complaint that […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Mark Sanford faces many obstacles in his quixotic presidential quest: lack of money, lack of Republican Party support, the persistent ridicule of President Trump and, perhaps worst of all, the burden of having perpetrated one of the most excruciating gubernatorial episodes in American history. But although people might see him and instantly […]
LAS VEGAS — Joseph R. Biden Jr., under daily attack from President Trump and facing renewed scrutiny of his family, used his first public event since Democrats began an impeachment inquiry to lash back at the president, saying he had “violated his oath of office” and asserting, in a newly emerging campaign message, that he […]
A majority of the public support higher taxes on the wealthy, a new poll has found. Research carried out by Tax Justice UK and Oxfam found more than two-thirds (69%) of those polled thought that earnings from wealth should be taxed at the same level as, or more heavily than, earnings from income. And 52% […]
The Brexit Party MEP, who has served as a politician in Britain since 1987, revealed the differences between UK and EU politics while working in Brussels as she exclusively spoke to Express.co.uk in central London on Friday night ahead of her party’s conference. Ms Widdecombe launched an attack on the “bureaucratic” EU over Brexit and […]
WASHINGTON — House Democrats pushed ahead Friday with a rapidly unfurling impeachment inquiry into President Trump, planning subpoenas and plotting out a witness list for a proceeding that could yield its first hearing as early as next week. “Everything is real time,” Representative Mike Quigley, Democrat of Illinois and a member of the Intelligence Committee. […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – California Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein on Friday called for a probe into whether a Trump administration threat earlier this week to withhold transportation funding from California over claims of poor air quality was politically driven. On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler sent a letter to California’s top air regulator […]
WAUKESHA, Wis. (Reuters) – Terry Dittrich has been working with Donald Trump’s re-election campaign on a simple strategy to win the critical battleground of Wisconsin next year: Turn out even more gun lovers, anti-abortion conservatives and illegal immigration critics than in his surprise 2016 victory in the state. The move by Democrats in the U.S. […]
WASHINGTON — Despite opposition from many local residents, the Trump Organization on Thursday received approval in Scotland for what will be the largest new company-financed real estate development project since President Trump was elected: a major expansion of its golf resort near the northeast port city of Aberdeen. The plans call for the construction of […]