A new Probe Research study on Manitobans’ voting intentions indicates that the Progressive Conservatives would win an provincial election if it were held tomorrow. A total of 44 per cent of those polled said Premier Brian Pallister and his PC party would get their vote, with the NDP coming in second at 27 per cent […]
Former general joins a long list of Trump aides who have either quit or been sacked by the US leader. White House Chief of Staff John Kelly will leave his post at the end of the year, United States President Donald Trump has announced. An announcement about Kelly’s replacement was expected in the coming days, […]
Labour MP Kate Osamor has said she remains "proud, not ashamed" to be living in her council house despite reports she earns £77,000 a year. The 50-year-old’s council home is believed to be worth £750,000, according to reports. It is understood she is living there with her son Ishmael Osamor, 29, who resigned as Labour […]
France will overtake the United Kingdom to become the world’s sixth biggest economy next year as the impact of Brexit bites, a reports has said. The Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) said "disruption" to the British economy was inevitable due to lower inward and business investment. However, the CEBR’s World Economic League Table […]
WASHINGTON — As the third government shutdown of the Trump era dragged into Christmas, lawmakers from both parties said on Monday that the partial lapse in government funding was in large part the consequence of Congress’s ceding of power to the executive branch, a longstanding trend that may have peaked in the Trump era. On […]
The departure of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis in a week will thrust President Donald Trump’s largely unknown choice for acting Pentagon chief into the military hot seat and shift attention to the search for a permanent replacement who will probably face sharp Capitol Hill questioning about the administration’s murky foreign policy. Trump tweeted Sunday that […]
Move sets up a possible showdown later this month over President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall. US Congress on Thursday approved a two-week stopgap spending bill to avert a government shutdown, setting up a potential showdown over President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall later this month. Without action by Congress, funding for several federal agencies, […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump and top Democrats in Congress sparred over the partial shutdown of the U.S. government on Monday, with no sign of tangible efforts to re-open agencies closed by an impasse over Trump’s demand for funds for a border wall. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and his counterpart in the House […]
WASHINGTON — When lawyers for Texas and 19 other states were deciding where to file a lawsuit seeking to wipe out President Barack Obama’s health care law, they had many choices. But they settled on a federal courthouse in Fort Worth, Tex. Forum shopping in litigation is common, and liberal lawyers challenging Trump administration initiatives […]
Jeremy Corbyn pays tribute to people who emulate the Good Samaritan from the Bible in his Christmas Message today. In an online video, the Labour leader draws on the parable from St Luke’s gospel to praise those who help the nation’s destitute, saying they are people who will not "walk by on the other side". […]