Bernie Sanders was at it again — center stage, his baritone building to something — right hand raised and restless, as if he were scribbling his words on an invisible chalkboard. “Medicare for All is comprehensive,” he insisted, swatting away concerns that his health care plan might imperil benefits for union members. “It covers all […]
DETROIT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Democratic Party’s two leading progressives came under fire on Tuesday from a debate stage stuffed with moderates who said their “impossible” proposals and “wish-list economics” risked keeping Republican President Donald Trump in the White House for four more years. U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders stood side by side on […]
President Trump blamed the news media for a poll released Tuesday that found that 80 percent of African-Americans surveyed consider him a “racist.” “The fake news doesn’t report it properly, people like you. Fake news does not report it properly,” Trump told reporters gathered outside the White House. Trump was asked for his reaction to […]
WASHINGTON — Gen. John E. Hyten of the Air Force defended himself on Tuesday against accusations that he sexually assaulted a senior Army colonel who worked for him, telling a Senate hearing on his nomination to be President Trump’s next vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff that he was innocent of the claims […]
WASHINGTON — Gen. John E. Hyten of the Air Force defended himself on Tuesday against accusations that he sexually assaulted a senior Army colonel who worked for him, telling a Senate hearing on his nomination to be President Trump’s next vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff that he was innocent of the claims […]
Jeremy Corbyn has demanded Boris Johnson stop “bending the knee to corporations” and ban fracking. Labour say the UK is already set to miss the Government’s own targets for reducing greenhouse gases by 50 years. And if shale gas exploitation continues at its current rate, a new analysis suggests it will be impossible to hit […]
Mr Murray had written a piece for the National Review in support of Brexit about a week-and-a-half before the referendum. Sitting alongside Matthew Parris, of The Times, he explained to host Emily Maitlis how he felt three years on. The political commentator said: “Underlying all of this is a very simple problem. “Which is that […]
TOLEDO, Ohio/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren told a town hall in Ohio on Monday that if elected to the White House, she would use the leverage of the United States to raise labor and environmental standards via global trade agreements. “Before we start negotiating with anyone, we say: ‘You’ve got to raise […]
It is a truth in need of being universally acknowledged, that when the winner of Love Island has a greater democratic mandate than the Prime Minister there is something seriously awry. And don't give me the "but 17.4m voted for this". Had Boris Johnson entered Downing Street on June 24, 2016, and announced he'd be […]
As aides and allies watched Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s first debate performance last month, their initial optimism about his abilities turned to alarm as Senator Kamala Harris laced into him over race and busing. It wasn’t just Mr. Biden’s halting answers that worried some of them. They thought he was showing his age — that, […]