U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday named Joseph Maguire, the nation’s top counterterrorism official, as acting national intelligence director, part of a leadership shake-up at the agency that oversees 17 U.S. spy agencies. Maguire will become acting director on Aug. 15, the same day that National Intelligence Director Dan Coats’ resignation takes effect. It’s also […]
Richard Braine has been elected as the next leader of UKIP, the party has announced. Mr Braine succeeds Gerard Batten, who had been in post since February 2018. The new leader, who is the party’s west London chairman, took 53% of the vote. His closest rival, Freddy Vachha, finished with 20% of the vote, whilst […]
MINISTERS are close to agreeing a package of financial support for British Steel which could save thousands of jobs, the Mirror understands. The cash, worth a reported £300million, is to help pave the way for a takeover of the embattled company by a Turkish military pension fund. British Steel, which employs more than 3000 people […]
WASHINGTON — Alleged white supremacists were responsible for all race-based domestic terrorism incidents in 2018, according to a government document distributed earlier this year to state, local and federal law enforcement. The document, which has not been previously reported on, becomes public as the Trump administration’s Justice Department has been unable or unwilling to provide […]
Mr Farage and Brexit Party chairman Richard Tice have made it very clear they are in it for the long haul, unveiling 150 prospective Parliamentary candidates in anticipation of a general election. The idea of the Conservatives joining forces Brexit Party has been suggested – but Health Secretary Matt Hancock for one was vociferous in […]
Border chiefs need a "bomb up their a**e" after months of "incoherent" messages ahead of Brexit , truckers have warned. Michael Gove , who is in charge of no deal preparations, Home Secretary Priti Patel and Transport Secretary Grant Shapps met with organisations, including the Road Haulage Association (RHA) yesterday in Dover. They held discussions […]
John Woodcock MP said Labour would pay the price and get rid of the Trident nuclear weapons system if it meant forming an alliance with Nicola Sturgeon’s SNP to oust Prime Minister Boris Johnson and call a General Election in the autumn. The former Labour MP posted on Twitter: “And the SNP’s price that Jeremy Corbyn […]
Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, one of the most influential American authors, died yesterday aged 88. She was the first black woman to receive the Nobel Prize in literature – and won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel Beloved. And President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. "Her writing was not […]
(Reuters) – Democratic U.S. senators Edward Markey and Richard Blumenthal have written to Facebook Inc (FB.O) questioning whether there was a “worrying pattern” of poor privacy protection for children using its Messenger Kids app. The senators were “disturbed” to learn that the application allowed thousands of children to join group chats in which not all […]
Senator Joan Freeman has said her run for the presidency is “one of the best things” she has done despite her campaign spending more than €250,000 on the failed bid for Áras an Uachtaráin. Ms Freeman had the second highest level of expenses disclosed to the State’s election watchdog, with spending of €253,194 declared. Only […]