LONDON, Oct 24 (Reuters) – Rishi Sunak will become Britain’s next prime minister after he won the race on Monday to lead the Conservative Party, tasked with steering a deeply divided country through an economic MORE
LONDON — U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss resigned Thursday following a failed tax-cutting budget that rocked financial markets and which led to a revolt within her own Conservative Party. Truss said in a statement outside MORE
The Conservative Political Action Conference has deleted and backtracked on a Friday tweet that adopted pro-Russia rhetoric, amid the Kremlin’s annexation of Ukrainian territories. “We must oppose Putin, but American taxpayers should not be shouldering MORE
Brothers of Italy leader Giorgia Meloni has claimed victory in a general election that seems set to install her as Italy’s first female prime minister, leading the most far-right government since the fascist era of MORE
NATO will boost its high-readiness forces to more than 300,000 troops, the alliance’s chief announced on Monday, in part of plans that he described as “the biggest overhaul of our collective defense and deterrence since MORE
International hacker group Anonymous has leveled a threat at Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene: “History will not be kind to you, nor will we.” The threat comes a day after Greene released a nearly 10-minute video MORE
We’ve known for several weeks that Republicans in multiple states created forged election materials, pretending to be “duly elected and qualified electors,” and sent the documents to, among others, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. MORE
(CNN)Rep. Jim Jordan forwarded a text message to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on January 5, outlining a legal theory that then-Vice President Mike Pence had the authority to stand in the way MORE
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh appeared to signal an openness to overturning the longstanding precedent established in 1973’s landmark Roe v. Wade on Wednesday as he questioned counsel. Kavanaugh cited a number of high-profile Court MORE
Michael Flynn, Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, appears to have called QAnon “total nonsense” and a “disinformation campaign” created by the CIA and the political left – despite his own extensive links to the MORE
(CNN) Stores in Oklahoma are struggling to keep ivermectin, a drug used to de-worm large animals, in stock. In Mississippi, 70% of the recent calls to the state’s poison control center are about ingestion of MORE
Director-producer Richard Donner, best known for helming the “Lethal Weapon” film series, “The Goonies” and the original “Superman” film, died on Monday. He was 91. Donner’s production company confirmed news of his death to Variety, MORE
(CNN) A multistory residential building partially collapsed early Thursday in the South Florida community of Surfside, killing at least one person and sparking an intense search and rescue effort in the debris field.The collapse happened MORE
Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis won over former President Donald Trump in a straw poll for 2024 presidential candidates conducted by the Western Conservative Summit, the poll’s organizer reported Saturday. DeSantis led the poll with MORE
Actor Jim Caviezel, who used to be famous for starring in movies like “The Count of Monte Cristo” and “The Passion of the Christ,” joined an all-star lineup of far-right conspiracy theorists at a COVID-19 MORE
Two Virginia police officers have been sued for allegedly drawing their guns on a uniformed Army officer during a traffic stop and spraying him with a substance. One of them has since been terminated. On MORE
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) has been accused of traveling to Cancun, Mexico, amid the ongoing crisis in Texas, where millions have been left without power or heat in freezing temperatures. Photos circulating on social media MORE
With his mother’s Bible in hand and his political mentor at his side, Alex Padilla on Wednesday became the first Latino to represent California in the U.S. Senate. The COVID-19 pandemic and security concerns following MORE
Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Marriott International and a major health insurance company confirmed on Sunday that they were rethinking their political donations following the deadly Capitol siege on Wednesday. Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA), which MORE
(CNN)As images and social media posts of Wednesday’s insurrection at the US Capitol circulate online, some of those who were present are being identified, and some have lost or left their jobs because of it.Navistar, MORE
A senior Chinese official has defended a sudden increase in the coronavirus death toll in the central city of Wuhan, putting the spike down to standard statistical analysis and once again denying any suggestion of MORE
For a solid month, the rapturous reviews for Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s leadership during the coronavirus outbreak made her ascent to a plum role on the national political stage look like a very sure bet MORE
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives who are at the highest risk of losing their seats swept in a massive amount of campaign cash in the first three months of the year—an early sign MORE
As former Vice President Joe Biden has become the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, securing the endorsement of former progressive rival Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont this week, speculation has mounted about who the candidate will MORE
Some strains of Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can survive temperatures of 60 degrees Celsius (140 degrees Fahrenheit) for an hour, researchers have found. To kill the virus in a laboratory setting, the team MORE