The government shutdown is wreaking havoc on many Americans: Hundreds of thousands of federal employees don’t know when they’ll see their next paycheque, and low-income people who rely on the federal safety net worry about whether they’ll make ends meet should the stalemate in Washington carry on another month. But if you’re a sportsman looking […]
EL PASO, Texas (Reuters) – A tent city in Texas for migrant teens will close, the U.S. government said on Friday, and the children held in what had become a controversial symbol of President Donald Trump’s migration policy will be transferred to sponsors or other shelters. The shelter in Tornillo, Texas opened in June to […]
TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Friday suspended the local sheriff criticized for the police response to last year’s mass shooting that left 17 dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. DeSantis said Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel showed leadership failures in the shooting that left 14 students and three […]
The cruel benefit freeze that is slicing billions of pounds a year from struggling families could finally end next year. Most working-age benefits have not risen a penny since 2015, meaning people are paid £3.9billion a year less than they would have been. The freeze is finally scheduled to come to an end next year […]
Jeremy Hunt said parliament would “try very hard to rule out” a no-deal divorce with the EU and leave the UK in “paralysis”. “The big risk and what people worry about is that we don’t actually deliver what people voted for,” he said. His intervention is the most significant from a cabinet minister acknowledging that […]
It’s still not certain on what exact date Albertans will be heading to the polls, but Alberta’s political parties are still getting a jump-start on being ready for when the election comes. Candidates across the province are doorknocking in their constituencies, despite not knowing exactly when the vote will be taking place. Related Calgary pollster […]
WASHINGTON — As the partial government shutdown took hold over the holidays, President Trump seemed to express wonder at being alone in the White House with little but the cheeriness of heavily armed guards to keep him warm for the better part of a week. “I was waving to them,” Mr. Trump said just after […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said on Thursday that President Donald Trump should declare a national emergency and bypass Congress to fund a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “refusal to negotiate on funding for a border wall/barrier – even if the government were to be reopened – […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday canceled a planned visit to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, later this month amid a shutdown of the federal government, signaling he was prepared for the political showdown to stretch into late January. It was unclear whether the partial government shutdown, now in its […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Vice President Mike Pence said on Thursday the DACA program allowing people who were brought illegally into the United States as children to stay in the country was not on the negotiating table until the U.S. Supreme Court weighed in. Speaking to reporters about the impasse over border security that has partially […]