PMQs: Sunak destroys Starmer over immigration record We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info A new-found bond between Emmanuel Macron and Rishi Sunak has boosted confidence that […]

WASHINGTON — The police department in Louisville, Ky., engaged in a far-ranging pattern of discriminatory law enforcement practices, the Justice Department said on Wednesday after conducting a two-year investigation prompted by the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor by the police in 2020. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, appearing in Louisville alongside the city’s mayor and acting police chief, announced an […]

FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats, in Washington, DC, on March 8. Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images The Chinese government has the ability to control the software on millions of devices by virtue of its relationship with TikTok's owner ByteDance, FBI Director Chris Wray told the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday. […]

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered his highly anticipated semiannual monetary policy testimony before the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday. Citing stubbornly elevated inflation and stronger than expected economic data, Powell told lawmakers the “ultimate level of interest rates is likely to be higher than previously anticipated.” Powell also said the Fed would be prepared to reaccelerate the pace of […]

As Representative Barbara Lee hits the campaign trail for a Senate seat in California, significant hurdles await her. The race is expected to be one of the most competitive, and expensive, in the country. Even more daunting, she will face one of the strongest glass ceilings in American politics. When Ms. Lee, 76, was first elected to Congress in 1998, […]

Colorado’s only transgender lawmaker called out what she described as dangerous rhetoric by Republican House members Friday, one day after GOP lawmakers sought to inject anti-trans language into a resolution about women’s rights. “Whether you like it or not, I am your colleague,” Rep. Brianna Titone, an Arvada Democrat and the General Assembly’s first openly transgender member, said from the […]

From the start, prosecutors overseeing the trial of five Proud Boys charged with sedition in connection with the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, have faced a conundrum. Scores of members of the far-right group took part in the storming of the Capitol and often played a decisive role in breaching barricades and assaulting the police. But the […]

Extraordinary Farming Lives: Amanda Owen introduces show We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Dutch farmers are furious after being warned their government could take their farms […]