Politics

Susan Collins claimed credit for securing a vote on witnesses. “It’s important that we have an up or down vote on the issue of subpoenaing witnesses and documents,” said Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine.Credit…T.J. Kirkpatrick for The New York Times Senator Susan Collins, a centrist Republican from Maine, claimed credit on Wednesday for pressing […]

Members of the European Parliament have expressed “grave concern” about aspects of the government’s plan to safeguard the rights of EU citizens in the UK after Brexit. Anyone living here by the end of the year can apply to stay, and the government says their rights to live and work will be permanently protected by

WASHINGTON — As a young federal prosecutor in Los Angeles 30 years ago, Adam B. Schiff won the conviction of an F.B.I. agent who was seduced by a Soviet spy and traded secrets for gold and cash — a case, he said then, “of government misconduct and government corruption of the highest and most disturbing

Nurseries say they cannot afford to run their services because the government has failed to properly fund its free childcare policy. Staff are being forced to take on extra jobs because wages are so low, the BBC has been told. At one nursery in Suffolk, owner and manager Katherine Wright says she would earn more

Pelosi criticizes Trump and McConnell over evidence the Senate might not hear. Speaker Nancy Pelosi arriving Wednesday on Capitol Hill.Credit…Erin Schaff/The New York Times On the day that she plans to send articles of impeachment to the Senate, Speaker Nancy Pelosi kicked off the morning with a pair of early-morning Twitter posts criticizing President Trump

Jeremy Corbyn has asked Boris Johnson why he is yet to present a plan to solve the social care crisis. The prime minister promised to sort out the issue once and for all as he entered Downing Street last year. Mr Johnson said it could be done with the “co-operation” of other parties and praised

It’s the fourth quarter. The game is close. And you are benched. That could sum up the frustrations of four senators — two of them front-runners for the Democratic presidential nomination — who will be duty bound to leave the campaign trail next week to sit in judgment of President Trump. The Senate impeachment trial

Jeremy Corbyn raised the “indignity” of a 92-year-old RAF veteran who spent 12 hours on a hospital trolley because there were no beds in a Leicester hospital. The Labour leader said more than 2,000 patients faced a similar wait last month. Boris Johnson said MPs had “every sympathy for people in that position”, but most

Four Democratic primary candidates locked in a near tie in Iowa. Less than three weeks until the caucuses there. And the looming spectacle of a contentious impeachment trial against a president running for re-election. Seems like the perfect conditions for a stormy debate. Nope. Last night’s Democratic debate was the biggest stage these candidates will

DES MOINES — After nearly an hour, the question that progressives had been fearing finally arrived. Senator Bernie Sanders laughed. Senator Elizabeth Warren did not. “I didn’t say it,” Mr. Sanders insisted, with Ms. Warren turning his way, as he denied her explosive account that he told her privately in 2018 that a woman could