NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy warned Thursday that the tone of political discourse and threats to judges are undermining the ability of the U.S. to serve as an example of freedom and democracy around the world. Kennedy, a Reagan appointee who retired in 2018 during…
Claims the UK has two-tier justice are “disgusting” and “wrong”, the attorney general has said. In his first major interview, Lord Hermer told the BBC that politicians using the phrase needed to think about the “dangers” they were posing to the UK’s “essential institutions”. Lord Hermer, who is the government’s chief legal adviser, also said…
Henry Zeffman Chief political correspondent PA Media The Labour Party had not done “enough thinking” about some of its plans before taking office, the former top civil servant has said. Simon Case told the BBC Sir Keir Starmer’s top team “weren’t good enough at communicating what [they] wanted to be done” in the early days…
Ministers argue their decision on setting up an investigation into the scale of child sexual abuse by men often of Pakistani heritage came about after they had commissioned a considered piece of work by Dame Louise Casey – and that was a pragmatic sequencing of decision making, albeit under considerable political pressure. But the other…
Henry Zeffman Chief Political Correspondent Leela Padmanabhan BBC News BBC By the time polls closed at 10pm on 4 July 2024, the Labour Party knew they were likely to return to government – even if they could not quite bring themselves to believe it. For Sir Keir Starmer, reminiscing 10 months later in an interview…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: A Senate Republican wants to see the Senate parliamentarian fired and plans to introduce a resolution that would require the position to be term-limited. Fury erupted among conservatives Thursday morning following the news that Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled several key reforms and tweaks…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Spotlighting his accomplishments and highlighting his pushback against President Donald Trump‘s sweeping and controversial agenda, Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Thursday launched his campaign for a third term as Illinois governor. “I’m ready for the fight ahead,” the governor said, announcing his 2026 re-election bid in the…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., issued a subpoena Thursday to Anthony Bernal, former Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor to the First Lady, to appear for a July 16 deposition. It comes as part of the committee’s investigation into the…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! EXCLUSIVE: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 130 Iranian nationals throughout the United States in the last week, and 670 Iranian nationals are in ICE detention, as the Trump administration continues to increase arrests of Iranian nationals in the country illegally amid security concerns. Multiple federal sources…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: A group of House Republicans is demanding details on how government agencies are addressing the growing threat of unauthorized drone incursions on U.S. military installations. In letters sent Thursday, the Subcommittee on Military and Foreign Affairs requested a trove of documents and communications from the…
