NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Republican members of Ohio’s congressional delegation say Democratic policies created societal conditions that led to a violent beating in downtown Cincinnati that went viral online. “Name one major city in America where you’d feel safe letting your kids walk alone. You can’t, and that should alarm every…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! EXCLUSIVE: Former Planned Parenthood clinic director turned pro-life activist Abby Johnson said the organization’s announcement that two of its facilities in Houston, Texas, will be shutting down this fall represents a “symbolic victory” for the pro-life movement. Johnson, who resigned in 2009, told Fox News Digital in…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Democrat New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker blasted his fellow Democrats for being complicit with President Donald Trump’s actions during a testy objection to a package of new police legislation voted on by the Senate earlier today. Booker accused his fellow Democrat senators of aligning themselves with Trump…
BBC The strategising and multi-year planning going on ahead of this week’s Spending Review is the bread and butter of any well-run economy. A Spending Review shows how resources are being allocated between departments and so indicates the government’s “when-push-comes-to-shove” priorities. But this time it will be a “different sort of Spending Review”, the chancellor’s…
Laura Kuenssberg Presenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg•@bbclaurak BBC On a normal weekend, MPs might try to snatch a bit of downtime, or squeeze in a game of pin the tail on the donkey at a constituency summer fete. Ministers might be ploughing through documents in their red box, or rehearsing the next round of “lines…
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…
Ben Chu and Tom Edgington BBC Verify Getty Images The government has confirmed details of its scaled-back plan to reform health and disability benefits, following pressure from Labour MPs. Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall said changes to Pip (Personal Independence Payment) would only apply to new claimants. She also confirmed that payments to existing…
MPs have voted for changes to the welfare system which alters the criteria for some benefits. After weeks of deliberation, and significant climbdowns by ministers to avoid defeat in the Commons, 49 Labour MPs voted against their own government. But this was not enough to defeat the bill as it was backed by 335 votes…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Senate confirmed President Donald Trump’s nominee Emil Bove as a federal judge Tuesday, handing a controversial leader at the Department of Justice a lifetime role on a powerful appellate court. Bove was narrowly confirmed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit in a…
The extraordinary thing about Tuesday’s welfare reform vote is it felt, albeit perhaps just fleetingly, like the fraught and chaotic parliamentary rows about Brexit. Or even the bumpy moments for Boris Johnson and Liz Truss. It is extraordinary to say that because the parallel seems absurd: those moments in recent years happened to prime ministers…
