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Brexit: Jeremy Corbyn on Theresa May’s EU policy

Britain is in “limbo” with “deep uncertainly” for businesses and workers over the government’s handling of Brexit, the Labour leader said. He told MPs that the prime minister finally reached out to opposition, not at the eleventh hour, but at “five past midnight”. But Jeremy Corbyn said the talks were “serious, detailed and ongoing”, adding […]

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Giuliani Says There Is ‘Nothing Wrong With Taking Information From Russians’

PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, insisted on Sunday that it was acceptable for a political campaign to use hacked information about its opponent obtained from a foreign adversary — though he personally would have advised against it. “There’s nothing wrong with taking information from Russians,” Mr. Giuliani said on

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Prodded by Putin, Russians Sought Back Channels to Trump Through the Business World

WASHINGTON — At 9:34 on the November morning after Donald J. Trump was elected president in 2016, Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and an informal envoy for President Vladimir V. Putin, sent a text message to a Lebanese-American friend with ties to the Trump campaign. Mr. Dmitriev wanted to connect quickly

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‘I Don’t Want to Die’: Asylum Seekers, Once in Limbo, Face Deportation Under Trump

[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] Indra Sihotang was desperate to stay in New York. Minutes from being deported to Indonesia, the 52-year-old father clung to a chair bolted to the floor at Kennedy International Airport, struggling against four immigration officers trying to tear him

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Conservative and Labour support by young and old voters

Almost half of Conservative voters are 65 or older, research for Onward, a right-leaning think tank, has found. Onward director Will Tanner, also a former adviser to Theresa May, spoke about the “skewing” of Tory supporters towards older age, while the Guardian’s Jessica Elgot looked at the different pattern for Labour. UK viewers can watch

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U.S. to Clamp Down on Iranian Oil Sales, Risking Rise in Gasoline Prices

NEW ORLEANS — The Trump administration is poised to end a program that has allowed five large nations, including China and India, to buy Iranian oil despite American sanctions, two senior American officials said on Sunday, a decision that is intended to squeeze Tehran’s government but could lead to higher oil and gasoline prices. The

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