WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top Democrat on the U.S. House Judiciary Committee said on Tuesday he plans to have a subpoena ready just in case Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker tries to dodge “uncomfortable questions” when he testifies before the panel on Friday. “To be clear, I hope never to use this subpoena,” committee Chairman […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Stacey Abrams, who nearly became both the first African-American and first woman to be governor of Georgia, will deliver the Democrats’ response to the State of the Union address on Tuesday, test-driving the party’s 2020 challenge to President Donald Trump. After losing a Southern state that Trump won in 2016 by less […]
Fianna Fáil TD Barry Cowen has said the government “would be gone if it wasn’t for Brexit”. It comes as his party criticised the government over the National Children’s Hospital cost overrun and the nurses’ strike. The costs of the hospital have spiralled to more than €1.7bn and nurses are on their second day of […]
Three years ago David Cameron was in the middle of his EU renegotiation strategy , jetting around European capitals trying to convince bloc leaders to be sympathetic to the UK so he could campaign for Britain to stay in the union at the June 2016 referendum. Fast forward 36 months and his successor Theresa May […]
After being presented with four options for how to potentially reconfigure the offices of Edmonton city councillors and support staff, a city committee voted to approve a plan to make only minor renovations to city hall on Monday. The city’s council services committee considered making significant changes to address a number of potential issues in […]
WASHINGTON — President Trump is expected to announce in his State of the Union speech a national commitment to end transmission of the virus that causes AIDS, with a goal of stopping its spread in this country by 2030. A senior administration official with knowledge of Mr. Trump’s preparations confirmed the plan on Monday, in […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump plans to pick Treasury Department official David Malpass to be the U.S. nominee to lead the World Bank, Politico reported on Monday, citing senior administration officials. The administration plans to announce its pick on Wednesday, Politico reported. Malpass, the U.S. Treasury’s top diplomat, would replace Jim Yong Kim […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A powerful U.S. Senate committee on Monday invited seven pharmaceutical companies to testify at a hearing later this month examining rising prescription drug prices. Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Democratic Senator Ron Wyden, ranking member of the committee, invited executives from AbbVie Inc, AstraZeneca PLC, Bristol-Myers […]
WASHINGTON — The voters of Utah and Idaho, two deeply Republican states, defied the will of their political leaders in November and voted to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. Now those leaders are striking back, moving to roll back the expansions — with encouragement, they say, from the Trump administration. Utah’s ballot measure, […]
WASHINGTON — Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s guest for the State of the Union address is a woman who cornered Sen. Jeff Flake on live television to protest his support for Brett Kavanaugh. Ana Maria Archila, who lives in the star freshman Democrat’s New York District, said she will wear white and a pin that the congresswoman […]