Theresa May has been accused of making a “dog’s dinner” of Brexit by second referendum campaigners and their pooches. The prime minister was hounded by pup-owners who gathered in Westminster to condemn the “diabolical” situation just 19 days from Brexit. She will put her EU divorce deal back to parliament for a second time on […]
President Donald Trump on Monday will ask the U.S. Congress for an additional $8.6 billion to help pay for his promised wall on the U.S-Mexico border to combat illegal immigration and drug trafficking, officials familiar with his 2020 budget request told Reuters. The demand, which drew swift criticism from Democrats, is more than six times […]
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he would be disappointed if Pyongyang were to resume weapons testing and reiterated his belief in his good relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un despite the collapse last week of their second summit. “I would be surprised in a negative way if he did anything that was not per our […]
WASHINGTON — Judge T.S. Ellis III offered some pointed advice for those who expected him to throw the book at President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, for perpetrating a decade-long, multimillion-dollar fraud scheme. “Go and spend a day in the jail or penitentiary of the federal government,” Judge Ellis said on Thursday night from […]
WASHINGTON — The Air Force secretary, Heather A. Wilson, said on Friday that she would resign after two years of reining in Trump administration plans for a widely criticized Space Force and overseeing a branch of the military that is involved in lengthy air campaigns over Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. Ms. Wilson, one of the […]
OTTAWA – Ontario’s social services minister, who has been under fire over changes to autism funding, is now travelling with a provincial police detail following alleged threats. Children, Community and Social Services Minister Lisa MacLeod did not attend a large protest over the autism program at the legislature Thursday because of concerns about her personal […]
President Trump claimed on Friday that his former personal lawyer and fixer, Michael D. Cohen, “directly” asked him for a pardon, a sharp escalation of a fight over the veracity of Mr. Cohen’s testimony last week to the House Oversight and Reform Committee. Mr. Trump made the claim on Twitter, referring to Mr. Cohen’s testimony […]
EU chief Michel Barnier tonight unveiled an ‘offer’ to the UK on Brexit just four days before a crucial vote. The Brussels chief negotiator took the unprecedented step of publicly tweeting his plan for a compromise on the Irish backstop. Theresa May has for weeks being trying to rework the backstop – a clause in […]
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning has been sent to jail for refusing to testify to a grand jury investigating Wikileaks. U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton ordered Manning to jail for contempt of court on Friday after a brief hearing in which Manning confirmed she has no intention of testifying. She told […]
The Speaker of the Alberta Legislative Assembly sent out a memo to MLAs and caucus staff on Thursday making it clear he was not impressed with a UCP video that appears to have secretly recorded opponents. “It has come to my attention that there are allegations of caucus staff video recording persons in the Edmonton […]