WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg to step down following reports of agency’s toxic workplace culture.
A Labour council which “unfairly” fined thousands of motorists millions of pounds is being urged to issue refunds after a mistake in the wording on its penalty charge notices (PCNs) meant they were “legally void”.
Reform overtaking the Tories according to one poll is undoubtedly a watershed moment in British politics. But Nigel Farage’s suggestion that “a vote for the Conservatives is now a vote for Labour” isn’t quite right. Because Reform simply doesn’t have the numbers to replace the Tories; only to destroy them, with no clear idea of what would follow. When the red mist clears, what we’re going to be left with is a future far worse than even the wettest of Conservatives could muster.
Wes Streeting has warned of a ‘nightmare in Downing Street’, echoing The Sun’s headlines in the run-up to the general election in 2019.
From her archive, Christiane Amanpour’s report on the deplorable treatment of India’s underclass, and the origins of a political movement that delivered India’s shock election results.
The Supreme Court on Friday struck down a federal ban on bump stocks approved by former President Donald Trump, the high court’s latest stroke limiting the power of federal agencies to act on their own.
It is a picture that will go down in the annals of French political history.
Sources say contenders jostling for support amid fears of historic wipeout in election
The Supreme Court’s decision this week rebuffing an effort to restrict access to mifepristone is unlikely to be the final word on the abortion pill.
Twenty years ago, when the Hunting Act was passed, most of us thought that hunting as we knew it would end. That was wrong. Hunts changed, adapting to trail hunting and exempt hunting. The former involves laying a scent – a trail – for hounds to follow, but with no killing of live quarry. Today, hunting is still flourishing and is as popular as ever.
Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday that the House will take their contempt of Congress case against Attorney General Merrick Garland’s to court, after the Justice Department (DOJ) refused to pursue charges. “It is sadly predictable that the Biden administration’s Justice Department will not prosecute Garland for defying congressional subpoenas even though the department aggressively prosecuted…
Marine Le Pen’s party is breaking record high scores across vast areas of the country, polls show, with an increase in its influence inevitable
Reform UK will release its “contract with the people” in full on June 17, Nigel Farage has announced as he set out more of the party’s economic pledges to repair the “skint” UK.
Nigel Farage has predicted the Tories will soon descend into "warfare" as a former Conservative minister warned voters about a "Labour elective dictatorship" if they voted for Reform. The Reform UK leader told The Sunday Telegraph that divisions in the party were only going to "get worse" in the run-up to polling day on 4 July. Mr Farage was speaking as three polls this week painted a bleak picture for Mr Sunak - and a sunny one for his party.
Former French Socialist president Francois Hollande on Saturday said he is to stand again for parliament in legislative elections -- a political comeback that took even his allies on the left by surprise.Hollande is not the first president to run for legislative elections after leaving the Elysee Palace.
STORY: A police officer shot and injured a magistrate at a court in Kenya's capital Nairobi on Thursday (June 13), before being killed in a shootout with other officers.That’s according to the judiciary.The chief registrar said in a statement that Monica Kivuti, a magistrate at the Makadara Law Courts, was shot after rejecting a bond request for the police officer's wife.A statement from the chief justice Martha Koome said Kivuti and three other officers were injured in the ensuing shootout. Koome said "it is clear that the intention of the perpetrator was to kill the magistrate," ordering security at all courts across the country to be reinforced.Nairobi Police Chief Commander Adamson Bungei:"Our officers who were within the court, were able to act swiftly and we managed to neutralize the situation and now we can say that our magistrate and the officers are stable."A police report seen by Reuters stated that the policeman's wife had requested release on bail after pleading guilty to obtaining almost $23,000 by false pretenses.
Peter Pellegrini, an ally of Ukraine-sceptic Prime Minister Robert Fico, was sworn in as Slovakia's new president on Saturday, pledging to unite the politically polarised central European country.The new president, himself a former prime minister, was elected in April with 53 percent of the vote.
The U.S. attorney general didn't break a law by defying a Republican subpoena for an audio recording of President Joe Biden, the department said.
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey will trail his party’s police and crime policies.
The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down a ban on bump stocks, the gun accessory used in the deadliest shooting in modern American history — a Las Vegas massacre that killed 60 people and injured hundreds more. The court's conservative majority said Friday that then-President Donald Trump's administration overstepped its authority with the 2019 ban on the firearm attachment, which allows semiautomatic weapons to fire like machine guns. Here's what to know about the case: What are bump stocks?
Spanish prosecutors handling a case against Catalan separatist leaders have defied an order to apply an amnesty law to defendants charged with embezzlement. The legislation, which the minority government of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez pushed through in return for support in parliament from the separatists, is set to wipe clean the criminal records of almost 500 officials and activists involved in Catalonia's pro-independence push since 2011. Spain's government depends on the support of Junts and several regional groups to pass legislation, and the future of that support is not certain.
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