WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The chairman of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee said on Wednesday there did not appear to be support at the moment for a formal impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump following the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on the Russia probe. “It very well may come to a formal impeachment […]
Mike Greene, the Brexit Party candidate for the Peterborough by-election, said it was unstatesmanlike to skip the decision, irrespective of personal views. Mr Corbyn boycotted the state banquet held by the Queen on Monday night, “climate change denial” and “racist and misogynist rhetoric”, instead choosing to address an anti-Trump rally in Trafalgar Square yesterday. Mr Greene, […]
Mike Greene is hoping to become the Brexit Party’s first MP. Mr Greene, who featured as a guest on Channel 4 show The Secret Millionaire, is running against Tory candidate Paul Bristow and Labour MP Lisa Forbes, along with a further 12 candidates. The bookies have cast Mr Greene as the likely winner to become […]
(Reuters) – Virginia’s Democratic governor on Tuesday called for a special legislative session to consider new gun control laws following a massacre of 12 people, but a top Republican lawmaker immediately pushed back on a plan he called “hasty and suspect.” Governor Ralph Northam has previously faced resistance from the legislature to increase restrictions on […]
Tory MP James Cleverly has pulled out of the race to take over from Theresa May saying that the party wasn't ready to skip a generation. The Brexit minister said he had hoped MPs would allow him to be the "face and voice" of other important issues that face the country beyond leaving the EU. […]
The Prime Minister and her husband Philip presented Donald Trump with a framed typescript draft of the 1941 Atlantic Charter, agreed by president Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, setting out their vision for the post-war world. The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said the Atlantic Charter was “one of the first steps towards the formation […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress on Monday approved legislation providing $19.1 billion in emergency funding for disaster recovery efforts throughout the United States, including Puerto Rico, sending it to President Donald Trump to sign into law. Final passage came as the Democratic-led House of Representatives voted 354-58 for the measure, which lawmakers and Trump […]
The Queen may have had a subtle message for Donald Trump in her speech at a state banquet in his honour last night. The monarch spoke about Allied nations building an “assembly of international institutions” in the aftermath of World War II. It was seen by many as a message about Trump’s hostile approach to […]
WASHINGTON — Emmet T. Flood, the White House lawyer who oversaw the administration’s response to the special counsel investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, will step down from the job this month, President Trump said on Saturday. The departure of Mr. Flood, who first rose to prominence when he defended President Bill Clinton […]
Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., one of a small handful of Democratic candidates to agree to a town-hall event on Fox News, visited the friendlier terrain of MSNBC on Monday. Quick on his feet and skilled at finding applause lines, Mr. Buttigieg, 37, has thrived in the town-hall format before. It was his […]