WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 29: U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen speaks during a hearing before the House Appropriations Committee. Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will clarify the Biden administration's economic approach to China, offering Beijing fresh guidelines on where the United States is prepared to cooperate — and where it won’t compromise. Why it […]

Blaming Brexit for Dover chaos is ‘lame excuse’, Tory MP says The chief executive of Ryanair has sensationally claimed that Britain will rejoin the EU within the next 15 years as a generation of Brexiteers “will die”. Airline boss Michael O’Leary claimed the British public was sold a “tissue of lies” over the benefits of quitting the EU. He also […]

PMQs: Sunak claims Labour is 'paying for the boats' Rishi Sunak used today’s PMQs to slam the Welsh Government’s plans to give some asylum seekers £1,600 every month through their left-wing Universal Basic Income scheme. Responding to a question from a Tory MP, the Prime Minister told the Commons: “We’re stopping the boats, Labour’s paying for them!”.  Backbencher Chris Clarkson […]

Photo illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios. Photos: Chandan Khanna/AFP and Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Former President Trump today accused Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis of flying too close to the sun with his war on Disney, setting up a key test of whether the GOP base is more beholden to personality or policy. Why it matters: DeSantis' meteoric rise has been […]

MPs vote through Rishi Sunak’s Brexit deal Brexit has been blamed by a senior economist for companies leaving London and heading to New York. Simon French, Head of Research and Panmure Gordon, said valuations of the UK stock market had declined since 2016 when Britain voted to leave the European Union. The economist claimed that Brexit has been a “big […]

Humza Yousaf has been accused of “tying himself in knots” after rejecting calls to suspend Nicola Sturgeon from the crisis-hit SNP. The new Scottish First Minister yesterday defended his predecessor after a leaked video appeared to show her dismissing concerns over the party’s finances. Mr Yousaf said he was not “disturbed” by the clip and added he did not think she […]

Flag of the United Nations. Photo: Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images The UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner released a long-awaited report Wednesday detailing the Chinese government's "serious human rights violations" in Xinjiang, which the U.S. has deemed a genocide against Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities. Driving the news: The report, which was released minutes before UN human […]

A new census analysis shows the Hispanic or Latino population in the U.S. grew by 23% during the past decade — but some metro areas saw a population boom three or more times that rate. Why it matters: It's Hispanic Heritage Month. The national population is changing, and the rapidly growing and more dispersed Latino populations come with important implications […]

WASHINGTON — Why would a 21-year-old national guardsman be in a position with access to top secret documents to begin with? The dramatic arrest on Thursday of Jack Teixeira, an airman in an intelligence unit in the Massachusetts Air National Guard who federal authorities believe is linked to a leak of reams of classified documents, lays bare the sheer volume […]