When Senator Bernie Sanders delivered a wide-ranging speech on education Saturday, he became the first major Democratic candidate to propose a detailed plan to racially integrate schools, calling for $1 billion in funding to support local integration efforts, such as magnet schools and busing. It was the type of robust agenda that integration advocates say […]
The City of Surrey is launching public engagements on its proposed new police department Thursday. Residents are being invited to the Cloverdale Recreation Centre from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. for a consultation session on the proposed force. The city says it wants to collect input on the priorities that residents want to shape the […]
The European elections will see each of the 28 EU member states take to the polls over the next three days to compose a new EU Parliament. The UK and Netherlands are the first countries to cast their ballots, followed by Ireland on May 24. Polling stations opened this morning at 7am, and will close […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Retired Navy Admiral and former U.S. special operations chief William McRaven has no regrets about criticizing President Donald Trump, though he said on Wednesday that friends in the military faulted him for disparaging the commander-in-chief. McRaven, who oversaw the 2011 raid that killed former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, has taken […]
Nurses have slammed Health Secretary Matt Hancock for suggesting a school ban on unvaccinated children. Mr Hancock warned mandatory vaccination could be an option to force parents to get jabs done by the age of five. It comes after take up for jabs which protect against diseases such as the measles virus has fallen to […]
As Theresa May gathered her inner circle at No 10 around her, they will have had one word on their minds: When? That the Prime Minister is stepping down – and soon – has been known since her showdown with Tory backbench chiefs a fortnight ago. But while her closest aides and most loyal ministers […]
Leader of the House of Commons Andrea Leadsom has quit the cabinet. The MP for South Northamptonshire said she no longer believes the Government’s approach will deliver Brexit. The resignation came amid a backlash against Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plan from Conservative MPs. Who is Andrea Leadsom? Andrea Jacqueline Leadsom was born on May […]
British Steel was plunged into insolvency today in a major collapse that puts thousands of jobs at risk. Rescue talks with the government broke down in a move the GMB union warned was "devastating for thousands of workers". The UK's second-biggest steel producer employs 4,500 people mostly in Scunthorpe, and 20,000 more depend on its supply […]
A former energy secretary has called for the MPs' pension fund to stop investing in fossil fuels. Sir Ed Davey warned the financial crash will look like a "picnic" if the "carbon bubble" bursts. He said the Parliamentary Pension Fund should set an example in a programme of "decarbonising capitalism" and warned that the value […]
The Prime Minister wrote a three-page letter to Jeremy Corbyn as her latest proposals receive a hostile backlash from critics in her own Conservative Party. Mrs May’s deal opens up the possibility of a second referendum, while also confirming MPs would get a vote on keeping the UK in the customs union until the next […]