NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! China may soon gain greater influence over the Panama Canal following the collapse of a proposed deal between U.S.-based BlackRock and Hong Kong’s CK Hutchison, which had initially sparked tensions with Beijing. The original agreement would have transferred control of dozens of international ports — including two…
The government shares the public’s “huge frustration” at the pressure the asylum system puts on housing supply, Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds has said. Speaking to the BBC, he acknowledged concern about the Home Office competing with local councils to find temporary homes for asylum seekers and homeless people respectively. He said the solution lay in…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., expressed support for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s apprehension of illegal alien child sex offenders, while Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., advocated for the individuals to face the death penalty. ICE noted in a Monday press release that it “arrested 214 illegal aliens…
PA Media King Charles has held talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Sandringham, after a free trade deal was signed between the UK and India. UK cars and whisky will be cheaper to export to India and Indian textiles and jewellery cheaper to export to the UK under the multi-billion pound export boost….
Danny Fullbrook BBC News, Essex Peter Walker BBC News, Essex PA Protesters gathered near The Bell Hotel in Epping while the council met A council has voted unanimously to urge the government to close a hotel housing asylum seekers after a series of public demonstrations. The total number of people arrested after unrest outside the…
Henry Zeffman Chief political correspondent Getty Images Former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn is launching a new political party to “take on the rich and powerful” and campaign for the redistribution of wealth. The independent MP for Islington North said the party – which does not yet have a name – would offer an alternative…
Bill Edgar Local Democracy Reporting Service Pamela Tickell BBC News, North East and Cumbria BBC Reform UK took charge of Durham County Council following the elections in May Diversity training for councillors at a Reform-led council has been removed. The equality, diversity, inclusion and climate change modules were removed from the Member Induction and Development…
Nigel Farage has urged Technology Secretary Peter Kyle to “do the right thing and apologise” after he suggested that by opposing the government’s online safety law, the Reform UK leader was on the side of sex offenders like Jimmy Savile. Reform has said it would scrap the new law, arguing it does not protect children…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Colorado Springs, Colo. – A typically drama-free bipartisan meeting of the nation’s governors got off to a rocky start when The Atlantic reported ahead of the National Governors Association (NGA) summer meeting in Colorado Springs, Colorado, that some Democratic governors were considering withholding their dues, arguing that…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A federal judge in Boston on Monday blocked the Trump administration from ending federal Medicaid reimbursements for Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide, ruling that the effort is likely unconstitutional and in violation of the group’s First Amendment protections. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee in Boston,…
