Theresa May left her colleagues in howls of laughter after uttering the word ‘ejaculation’ during a risque exchange in Parliament earlier today. The Prime Minister was being grilled by MPs over her last-minute decision to postpone a crucial Brexit vote. Labour MP Rupa Huq challenged the Prime Minster over the u-turn and likened it to […]
Prime Minister Theresa May is speaking today in the House of Commons to announce she has decided to call off the vote on the Brexit deal. She said it would "be rejected by a significant margin" and that’s why the vote has been delayed. Labour MP Dennis Skinner in reaction to the news called May […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nick Ayers, Donald Trump’s top choice to be his next chief of staff, is no longer in the running and the U.S. president is now considering other candidates, sources familiar with the matter said on Sunday, the latest sign of a chaotic White House staff shake-up. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Republican […]
A House committee has released a transcript of its closed-door interview of former FBI director James Comey. The House Judiciary Committee made the document public on Saturday, just 24 hours after privately grilling the fired FBI chief about investigative decisions related to Hillary Clinton’s email server and President Donald Trump’s campaign. The transcript was released […]
Martina Fitzgerald has been left “devastated” by RTE’s decision not to renew her contract as a political correspondent, according to senior Montrose sources. Senior RTE figures say Ms Fitzgerald will take the next few days to evaluate the station’s decision not to extend her contract after it came up for renewal this year. It is […]
Donald Trump has confirmed his chief of staff John Kelly will leave his job by the end of the year. There have been persistent reports for several days that General Kelly was under increasing pressure to go. Some reports said that the retired Marine Corps general’s relationship with the President had deteriorated and they were […]
Edmonton City Council puts Lewis Farms rec centre in funding queue but won’t confirm until next fall
Edmonton City Council has given tentative approval to the $292-million Lewis Farms rec centre, however, they want to wait a whole year to nail down specific costs through a value-engineering exercise that could reduce the price. “The way I look at it is, I think this does show that the residents in the west end […]
Theresa May is agonising over whether to pull Tuesday’s big Brexit vote to save her skin. Or she could charge ahead despite certain defeat and risk her premiership crashing in flames this week. Although cold-calling is banned in the Berkshire village of Sonning where she lives, the PM is hitting the phones on Sunday, desperately […]
It began as a home-spun Facebook campaign against French fuel tax increases. But in a few weeks it has spiraled into a movement powerful enough to force Emmanuel Macron into the biggest U-turn of his presidency. Yet the “yellow–vest” movement — named for the fluorescent jackets carried by French motorists — remains an amorphous, hard-to-define […]
BLADENBORO, N.C. — Adam Delane Thompson wanted to vote but was not sure what to do with the absentee ballots he received in the mail this year for him, his fiancée and his daughter. So for guidance he called an old friend in Bladenboro, L. McCrae Dowless Jr., a low-level local official with a criminal […]