President Biden staged a day of celebration on Wednesday to herald the reduction in inflation and the Inflation Reduction Act even though experts believe one had little to do with the other. Mr. Biden hosted a boisterous ceremony in the East Room of the White House while allies and aides conducted briefings, gave speeches, published newspaper articles, sent emails, went […]

A senior Tory MP has called for swifter action after it emerged the ramping up of ammunition production will take until 2025. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak last month confirmed an eight-fold increase in the UK’s production capacity of 155mm artillery shells to replenish stockpiles, which have been depleted while supporting Ukraine against Russia’s invasion. In an answer to a written […]

President Biden said on Tuesday that he would travel to Hawaii to inspect damage on Maui after the country’s deadliest wildfires in over a century ripped through the island, killing at least 99 people and devastating an entire coastal town. “My wife, Jill, and I are going to travel to Hawaii as soon as we can,” Mr. Biden said in […]

Term limits — both at the federal and local level — have been in the spotlight this year but most Denver City Councilmembers are skeptical of asking voters if they want to adjust the amount of time elected officials are allowed to serve. At least for now. The City Council’s fledgling charter review committee took up term limit reform as […]

The Prime Minister will step up campaigning against Labour when he resumes work in Number 10 tomorrow following a family holiday in the US. But Tory sources expect the Government to grind to a halt next April, when civil servants enter a period known as purdah in the run-up to the local and mayoral elections on May 2. It will […]

With the news that the Justice Department has named a special counsel to investigate a wide range of conduct by President Biden’s son Hunter Biden, his life is bound to come under even more intense scrutiny. A father of four with a law degree from Yale, Mr. Biden, 53, has acknowledged a decades-long addiction to alcohol and crack cocaine, and […]

Bibby Stockholm: Legionella bacteria in water on migrant barge Lee Anderson hit back at Diane Abbott after she insisted migrants should not have been housed on the Bibby Stockholm barge. The 39 asylum seekers who arrived on the vessel, docked in Portland Port in Dorset, this week are being removed today as a precaution due to the discovery of Legionella […]

Kerrie Wiener did not know if she had another fight in her. It had been more than a decade since her husband, Robert Wiener Jr., a U.S. Army Reserve veteran, died of lung cancer she said had been caused by toxic burn pits he encountered in Iraq. After the government rejected disability benefits for her family, Ms. Wiener said she […]

Humza Yousaf discusses his hopes for Scottish independence Scotland could face waiting almost a decade to rejoin the EU after independence, according to the SNP government’s own officials. Internal analysis by civil servants states that it may take up to eight years for an independent Scotland to become part of the Brussels club. Under a best-case scenario, the process would […]