During the latest episode of Brexitcast, the BBC’s political editor raised an eyebrow to claims that Xavier Bettel, Luxembourg’s Prime Minister, didn’t intend to “humiliate” Boris Johnson. She was talking about the recent event which saw Mr Bettel apparently mock the UK’s Prime Minister for not showing up to a joint press conference. Katya Adler, […]
The city is looking at options for helping vulnerable residents in the face of a program cut by the provincial government. Members of Hamilton’s emergency and community services committee voted on Thursday to ask staff to outline the costs and other details of a temporary program, that would offset the loss of the Transition Child […]
I’m not a flouncer. I don’t model myself on Lord Heseltine Jacob Rees-Mogg Mr Rees-Mogg made his remarks at Cadogan Hall last night as he answered questions posed by the Daily Telegraph’s Christopher Hope, as well as audience members. Asked whether there were “any circumstances in which he would stay in the Cabinet if the […]
WASHINGTON — Mark Sanford, the former Republican governor of South Carolina who once brought squealing pigs into the State Capitol to make a point about pork barrel spending, is running against President Trump because of his failure to cut government waste. “He’s not delivering on what he said he was going to do, which is […]
WASHINGTON — As President Trump weighs potential gun safety legislation, his attorney general on Wednesday floated a plan to expand background checks for gun buyers, but the idea was met with skepticism from key Republicans and appeared to face serious obstacles on Capitol Hill. The proposal being circulated by Attorney General William P. Barr is […]
The former Prime Minister felt a “mounting sense of panic” when a poll predicted victory for the nationalist campaign while he was staying at Balmoral. He made the astonishing suggestion that the monarch “raise an eyebrow” on the issue in talks with officials. Mr Cameron’s decision to involve the Queen in politics and to reveal the […]
When President Trump attended a fund-raiser at a private home in Beverly Hills on Tuesday night, there was a familiar face in the crowd: Thomas J. Barrack Jr., the billionaire investor and old friend of the president’s who has come under scrutiny by federal prosecutors looking into possible foreign influence over Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign. […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump blasted the Federal Reserve for delivering only a quarter-percentage point interest rate cut on Wednesday, saying the U.S. central bank and its chair, Jerome Powell, had “No ‘guts,’ no sense, no vision!” “A terrible communicator,” Trump said of Powell in his latest Twitter attack on the Fed and Powell, […]
(Reuters) – A prominent California Democratic Party donor, Edward Buck, was arrested on Tuesday night and charged with operating a drug den after a man overdosed in his West Hollywood home, officials said. Buck, 65, who has donated to former President Barack Obama and former Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, is a well-known activist […]
The Supreme Court is in the second day of its hearing into whether Mr Johnson acted within the law in proroguing Parliament. Judges are hearing two separate appeals, one lodged by anti-Brexit businesswoman Gina Miller, and one by the Government appealing against the ruling by Scotland’s Court of Session that the original decision was unlawful. However, […]