2019

Climate protesters interrupt Hammond’s Mansion House speech

Climate change protesters have disrupted the beginning of the Chancellor Philip Hammond’s Mansion House Speech. The protesters were removed from the City of London event for the financial services industry, and Mr Hammond was able to continue a few minutes later. “The irony of course, is that this is the government that has just led […]

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Republicans Have Found A New Mascot For Cutting Food Benefits

WASHINGTON ― As the Donald Trump administration prepares more regulations to strip poor people of food benefits, Republicans on Capitol Hill are launching something of a charm offensive. During a hearing Thursday, Republicans pointed to 66-year-old Rob Undersander, a retired Minnesota millionaire who signed up for federal food assistance last year just to prove that

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MH17 crash: Putin says Russia ‘absolutely disagrees’ with evidence

President Vladimir Putin has said Russia “completely disagrees” with the evidence put forward by the MH17 plane crash inquiry. It comes a day after four men – three Russian – were charged over the murder of 298 people on board a Malaysian Airlines flight in 2014. The BBC’s Steve Rosenberg asked Mr Putin if Russia

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Trump says Roger Penske to get Presidential Medal of Freedom

President Donald Trump says he’s awarding a Presidential Medal of Freedom to Roger Penske, the most powerful man in American motorsports. “He’s very deserving. He’s a great gentleman,” Trump said as he made the announcement Thursday at the White House. “I’ve known him a long time, and a very brilliant guy.” Trump said he spoke

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Roy Moore, Polarizing Republican, Will Again Run for Senate in Alabama

“If you think about just the data from the past cycle, he’s a few thousand votes from being a United States senator,” said Mayor Walt Maddox of Tuscaloosa, the Democratic nominee for governor last year. Mr. Moore’s rivals in the primary include Representative Bradley Byrne, whose 2010 campaign for governor fizzled out in a bruising

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Appeals court allows Trump abortion rules to take effect

A federal appeals court said Thursday new Trump administration rules imposing additional hurdles for women seeking abortions can take effect while the government appeals decisions that blocked them. More than 20 states and several civil rights and health organizations challenged the rules in cases filed in Oregon, Washington and California. Judges in all three states

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