Scotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf claims a Holyrood election could be called as he refuses to say if he will resign if he loses a looming vote of no confidence.
Not that Putin reacted, of course.
The former president took aim at MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell after a day of testimony in his hush money trial.
Donald Trump's trial in Florida on charges of illegally keeping classified documents after leaving office has been indefinitely postponed, a judge decided on Tuesday, greatly reducing the odds he will face a jury in either of the two federal criminal cases against him before the November 5 US election. Trump, seeking to regain the presidency, previously had been scheduled to go to trial on May 20 in the documents case brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith, but the prosecution and defence had bot
It “could actually be worse" for the former president, explained NYU law professor Ryan Goodman.
Sir Keir Starmer faced a backlash from the Left wing of his party after welcoming defecting Tory MP Natalie Elphicke to the Labour benches.
"If he doesn’t win this race, it may not be Donald Trump that beats him," suggested former Obama adviser David Axelrod.
Some had asked whether a jury selected in Manhattan, which voted overwhelmingly against Trump, could be fair in judging the former president. But now that we have moved beyond this point, the real problem Trump has is that his best arguments are legal in nature: prosecutors appeared to cobble together misdemeanours and felonies in order to find something with which to “get Trump.”
Neal Katyal spotted one positive from the “atrocious” development.
The decision has been criticised
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty images/ReutersOne thing is clear from Stormy Daniels’ testimony on Tuesday in Donald Trump’s New York “hush money” trial: she’s not doing this for herself.Between detailing her career in adult films to an entire courtroom of strangers to getting fired from her podcast for not speaking enough about Trump, there’s very little upside in this for Daniels.In fact, I’ve been indignant on her behalf for years that she was only paid $130,000 for
The Fox News host offered a deeply misogynistic take on the adult film star's testimony about her alleged affair with Trump.
Seacox Heath, a 50-room Gothic mansion, would make a fabulous country retreat for a shy and retiring pop star or Hollywood actor. Except for almost 80 years, it has instead been a tiny slice of Moscow’s empire on the Kent/Sussex borders.
The DWP issued a review warning to those on Universal Credit, State Pension, PIP, DLA, Housing Benefit and Pension Credit
Israel’s long-anticipated assault on Rafah has begun. The city is thought to contain four battalions of Hamas soldiers, making it the terrorist’s last stronghold in Gaza. The operation is essential to securing Israel’s borders and safety when military operations end. Yet immense international pressure is being applied to Benjamin Netanyahu in an attempt to force a ceasefire on incredibly unfavourable terms.
Russia only had one tank on display during its Victory Day parade this year. Every year, Moscow wraps itself in patriotic pageantry for Victory Day, a celebration of its victory over Nazi Germany in the Second World War. Today marks the 79th anniversary and Mr Putin addressed the parade in the Red Square, talking up his country's military capabilities in a speech aimed as much at a foreign audience as a domestic one.
The European Union is missing a “big bunch” of British common sense after Brexit, Hungary’s foreign minister has said.
Britain is a wonderful, welcoming country that has embraced newcomers fleeing persecution or poverty for centuries. Our gradual affirmation of religious toleration after the English Reformation and the Scottish Enlightenment, our individualism, our early adoption of capitalism, our commitment to the rule of law, our pioneering role in the eradication of slavery, all helped forge a culture that to this day remains more open to outsiders than those of European neighbours.
A third mass grave was discovered Wednesday at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Gaza’s media office announced, including some containing bodies without heads, raising concerns of potential war crimes after Israeli military sieges on the territory’s hospitals. The new discovery raises the total to seven mass grave sites between three Gaza hospitals, containing the bodies…
British ambassador called to the foreign ministry in Moscow
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