On Brexit Day, the Prime Minister faces an uphill struggle as her key Government allies the DUP join Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in saying they will vote against her Withdrawal Agreement. Mrs May split the legally binding treaty segment of her Brexit deal from the declaration on future relations with the EU in order to […]
Linda E. McMahon, one of five women in President Trump’s cabinet and the former chief executive of World Wrestling Entertainment, is expected to resign on Friday as the head of the Small Business Administration, sources familiar with her decision said on Friday afternoon. One of Mr. Trump’s most prolific donors during the 2016 presidential campaign, […]
Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement has been defeated by MPs, the latest setback for a beleaguered prime minister whose days in office are numbered. On the day Britain was originally supposed to leave the European Union, the prime minister’s gamble of splitting her deal into two parts backfired. The withdrawal agreement was rejected by 344 votes […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans in the U.S. Senate will attempt to alter its rules next week in order to accelerate the confirmation of President Donald Trump’s nominees for some judgeships and sub-Cabinet level positions in his administration. Democrats, who control 47 of the Senate’s 100 seats, have slowed the confirmation of scores of such appointees. […]
Mr Johnson is expected to be a frontrunner in the Tory leadership race when Theresa May leaves office and has never denied his ambitions to get to Number 10. When asked whether he would make a good successor to Mrs May, Mr Trump said: “I like Boris Johnson a lot. He’s a friend of mine.” […]
The House of Commons rejected it with a majority of 58, by 344 votes to 286. The Prime Minister said the consequences would be “grave”, adding: “I fear we are reaching the limits of the process in this House.” She said: “The legal default now is that the United Kingdom is due to leave the […]
Detained immigrants separated from their children sue the Trump administration. Migrants separated from their children after they were detained for illegally entering the United States have filed a class action lawsuit, claiming there are “hundreds” of parents in the same situation, and that the Trump administration is violating their due process rights. Class action The […]
(Reuters) – A former U.S. National Security Agency contractor, portrayed as an eccentric hoarder by his lawyers, pleaded guilty in a Baltimore, Maryland court on Thursday to stealing classified documents in a deal likely to put him in prison for nine years. Harold Martin, 54, who worked for several private firms and had clearances to […]
US president cites differences with Rex Tillerson as reason for his removal from secretary of state’s post. US President Donald Trump has sacked Rex Tillerson as secretary of state, citing differences, and replaced him with Mike Pompeo, CIA director. The move by Trump is the biggest shake-up of his cabinet since taking office. “Mike Pompeo, […]
A House of Commons vote that will give Theresa May’s Brexit strategy a desperately needed lifeline – or potentially kill it off for good – is being held on the day the UK was supposed to leave the EU. On a day of reckoning for the prime minister, as protests by pro-Brexit campaigners and far-right […]