WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump escalated his attacks against four first-year Democratic congresswomen on Monday after earlier telling them to “go back” to the “places from which they came” in a series of weekend tweets that Democrats and other critics called racist. Trump’s fellow Republicans in Congress have had little public reaction to […]
ATKINSON, N.H. — Joseph R. Biden Jr. spent the first months of his presidential campaign largely ignoring his nearly two dozen rivals, seeking to stay above the Democratic fray as he cast himself as an unapologetic pragmatist who could beat President Trump in a general election. But after a rocky first debate performance, blistering criticism […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday assailed a group of Democratic congresswomen of color as foreign-born troublemakers who should go back to the “broken and crime infested places from which they came,” ignoring the fact that the women are American citizens and all but one was born in the U.S. Trump’s tweets drew […]
Labour has been warned its antisemitism row is at a “tipping point” and “many people” could quit unless it takes the issue more seriously. Dame Margaret Hodge, a Jewish MP, hit out at the party’s handling of alleged cases of antisemitism saying it had become “secretive and intimidating”. She criticised leader Jeremy Corbyn and his […]
Union leader Len McCluskey has joined criticism of Labour’s deputy leader amid an ongoing row over antisemitism. Mr McCluskey, who is the general secretary of Unite, called Tom Watson a “f****** disgrace” after the MP criticised the party’s general secretary over the handling of antisemitism complaints. Mr Watson has faced backlash because Jennie Formby is […]
WASHINGTON — President Trump said he would not impose quotas on imports of uranium, backing away from one of many trade confrontations the administration has threatened as it tries to protect American industry. Mr. Trump, in an announcement late Friday night, said that he did not agree with the commerce secretary’s findings that foreign uranium […]
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has insisted anyone who commits an act of antisemitism in the party should lose their membership or be expelled. Speaking for the first time since the airing of a BBC Panorama documentary into the issue, Mr Corbyn said every complaint was investigated but added it was “less than 0.1%” of the […]
Special counsel Robert Mueller‘s testimony to Congress has been delayed until July 24 under an agreement that gives lawmakers more time to question him. Mueller had been scheduled to testify July 17 before two house committees about the findings of his Russia investigation. But lawmakers in both parties complained that the short length of the […]
WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin informed congressional leaders on Friday that the government could run out of money in early September, pleading with lawmakers to reach a deal to raise the government’s borrowing limit before their August recess or risk a potentially catastrophic default. Mr. Mnuchin, in a letter to leadership, said that while […]
WASHINGTON — House Democrats waded further on Thursday into a dispute over Labor Secretary R. Alexander Acosta’s handling of a sex crimes prosecution of the financier Jeffrey Epstein when he was a federal prosecutor more than a decade ago, demanding a briefing from Justice Department officials and access to documents related to the plea agreement […]