Representative Kenny Marchant of Texas is planning to announce his retirement on Monday, according to two Republican officials, becoming the fourth Republican House member from Texas in recent weeks to head for the exits rather than face re-election in 2020 in a state that is rapidly becoming more competitive. Mr. Marchant, who was first elected […]
Tourism Minister Shane Ross is being blamed for the Government’s failure to introduce a tougher crackdown on short-term letting platforms such as Airbnb. An internal row between the Departments of Housing and Transport, Tourism and Sport (DTTAS) has resurfaced after it was reported yesterday the Government ignored a plan drawn up by officials to ban […]
The Prime Minister has said he will be giving a cash injection of £850million to add hundreds of new hospital beds and improve facilities in 20 hospitals across the country, according to The Sunday Telegraph. The money is part of a £1.8billion funding boost for the NHS in addition to the £20billion-a-year former Prime Minister […]
Protesters once again took to the streets of Moscow Saturday, decrying the exclusion of some independent and opposition candidates from an upcoming city council election that has shaken up Russia’s political scene. Moscow police detained 600 protesters Saturday, an arrest monitoring group and the Russian Interior Ministry said, a week after authorities arrested nearly 1,400 […]
Every Saturday morning, we’re publishing “This Week in the 2020 Race”: a quick way to catch up on the presidential campaign and the field of 24 candidates for the Democratic nomination. Debate Night 1: An ideological rift The first night of this week’s Democratic debates in Detroit pitted the two leading liberals against lesser-known moderates, […]
The Prime Minister faced his first defeat in the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election after the Liberal Democrats made a pact with Remain parties giving them a 43.5 percent majority. The Tories secured just 39 percent of the vote with The Brexit Party coming in third with 10.5 percent of the vote. Labour suffered a crippling […]
Remain parties made a pact with the Liberal Democrats winning by a margin of 1,425, securing 43.5 percent of the vote compared to the Tories’ 39 percent. The Brexit Party came in third with 10.5 percent of the vote. Labour suffered a crippling defeat, falling into fourth place and only taking just over 5 percent […]
CINCINNATI — After imbibing days of wall-to-wall news coverage of the 2020 Democratic debates, President Trump seemed to feel a little left out. “The Democrats spent more time attacking Barack Obama than they did attacking me, practically,” he marveled. And so the neglected president flew to Ohio on Thursday night to try to wrest back […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday defended Baltimore, the city where she grew up, against repeated verbal attacks by President Donald Trump, and she charged that the president’s own son-in-law was a “slumlord” there. Trump has criticized an African-American congressman, Representative Elijah Cummings, and his district, which includes part […]
Jane Dodds has been elected MP for Brecon & Randonshire after gaining the seat from the Conservatives. She won by 1,425 votes, beating disgraced former Tory MP Chris Davies. The result means that the Liberal Democrats will now have 13 MPs sitting in the House of Commons. It also means that new Prime Minister Boris […]