Politics

In 2017, the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme sent the Brexit Party founder Nigel Farage and Rachel Johnson, a journalist and the PM’s sister, on a ‘blind date’, to discuss their differing views on politics. Three years later a lot has changed. Will they still get along? Watch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on BBC Two and […]

DES MOINES — Once upon a time, the winner of the Iowa caucuses was obvious to everyone. For years, after the chaos ended at 1,600 precincts, the Iowa Democratic Party reported one set of results: the number of state delegates each candidate had secured. Whoever had the most was the winner. The same is true

CENTERVILLE, Iowa — Jill Biden was torn. Three months into Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s 2020 White House bid, he was struggling with the intense scrutiny that comes with being the front-runner, and she was increasingly needed on the campaign trail as a top surrogate for her husband. But Dr. Biden was reluctant to pull back

The Trump administration’s expansion of the nation’s contentious travel ban on Friday to include Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, and several other countries deeply rattled immigrants, leaving some Nigerians in New York worried that it would break family ties and have a negative effect on both countries. “Africans have very strong family ties,” said Henry

But Ms. Mazur-Hofmann, 61, doubts the good times will last. She worries about the national debt and fears Mr. Trump will cut Social Security. And even if the economy remains strong, Ms. Mazur-Hofmann said, she will not vote for Mr. Trump in November because of how he treats people. “I’ll never vote for Trump —

Bill Knapp, a media strategist for Mr. Bloomberg, formed a new consulting firm, MRB4USA LLC, to work on the 2020 bid, according to campaign officials. That company billed the Bloomberg campaign for more than $2.8 million in November and December. Another media strategy firm, Siegel Strategies LLC, named for the ad-maker Jimmy Siegel, was paid

An opera singer who the authorities say acted irrationally, danced on the top of an S.U.V. and led officers on a chase was fired at by sheriff’s deputies and Secret Service agents on Friday after her vehicle breached two security checkpoints at Mar-a-Lago, President Trump’s resort in Palm Beach, Fla. The driver, Hannah Roemhild, 30,

In a statement, the Hennepin County attorney’s office said it had “been fully cooperative with The Associated Press and Myon Burrell’s defense attorneys,” adding, “Neither The Associated Press or Myon Burrell’s lawyers have shared any new evidence with us. If any new information is presented, it will carefully be reviewed by our office.” The Minneapolis

DES MOINES — Hillary Clinton said on Friday in a podcast interview that Senator Bernie Sanders and his supporters did not do enough to unify the Democratic Party after the prolonged 2016 primary, calling the behavior of his supporters “distressing” and saying it affected the general election. “All the way up until the end, a

The UK has officially left the European Union. It’s been three and a half years since the country voted to leave in a referendum and as the clock struck 2300 GMT there were celebrations for some and commiserations for others. Nigel Farage, the leader of the Brexit Party, declared “the war is over” in a