All Joe Biden’s embarrassing falls Joe Biden is now almost exclusively using shorter, retractable stairs to board Air Force One after repeated stumbles on the plane’s steps raises questions about his health leading into the presidential election. Two of President Joe Biden’s advisers have privately acknowledged the intentional move to steer the 80-year-old to the now-frequent use of the shortcase, […]

Michael Gove warns by-elections will be difficult Rishi Sunak faces a nerve-wracking wait until the early hours to see if the Tories have managed to win the three by-elections. Voters headed to the ballot box in Uxbridge and South Ruislip, Selby and Ainsty, and Somerton and Frome, on Thursday with polling closing at 10pm. The results are expected in the […]

Boris Johnson believes Tories can win next General Election Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is said to be eyeing up a November 2024 date for a general election. Sources told Bloomberg that the PM is waiting til the last minute to go to the polls to give the economy as much time as possible to recover. Mr Sunak can call a […]

Well before the prosecutors investigating Donald J. Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election laid out for him three laws that could be the basis for an indictment, one of the statutes, covering obstruction of an official proceeding, had already been used against — and challenged by — scores of rioters who took part in the storming of the Capitol. […]

Margaret Thatcher heaped lavish praise on Tony Blair for his response after 9/11 as her fellow Tories warned that Britain faced its own imminent terror attack. The former Tory Premier wrote privately to the then Labour PM to applaud his support for the US after the Twin Towers attacks and other atrocities in September 2001 which killed almost 3,000 people. […]

Jeremy Corbyn criticises Labour over ‘two child’ benefits policy Jeremy Corbyn warned Sir Keir Starmer that Labour MPs are “seething with anger” over his U-turn on the two-child benefit cap. The Labour leader on Sunday confirmed he will not ditch the measure despite previously pledging to, in a move that has sparked a civil war within the party. But his predecessor […]

An agreement between Denver and Aurora that allowed the two cities to deploy their police officers to help each other during protests has been suspended after an Aurora City Council vote on Monday night. Aurora won’t be sending its officers to Denver, as it did during the 2020 racial justice protests after the killing of George Floyd, until Denver agrees […]

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken called on the Senate to quickly confirm more than three dozen State Department nominees, charging that delaying tactics employed by Republican senators seeking leverage on unrelated issues were “undermining national security.” Mr. Blinken’s comments reflect growing alarm in the Biden administration about Republican moves to block nominees across the government, including at the Defense […]

Russia has announced that it is pulling out of a UN-brokered deal that ensured the security of Ukrainian grain exports through the Black Sea. Monday’s development once again raises fears about global food supplies and price increases. The last ship to sail under the deal, Turkish-flagged TQ Samsun, reportedly left the Ukrainian port of Odesa Sunday morning and is heading […]