Politics

Laura Smith has told Radio 5 Live she isn’t “ashamed” after being photographed at a job centre. The former Labour MP, who lost her Crewe and Nantwich seat during the 2019 general election, says she’s “like anybody else who finds themselves out of work”. She told Radio 5 Live’s Chloe Tilley: “I’ve got two young […]

WASHINGTON — President Trump asserted without evidence on Thursday that a top Iranian commander killed in an American airstrike was plotting to blow up the American Embassy in Baghdad. The president’s unsubstantiated account comes as Democrats have been demanding details about the intelligence the Trump administration received that led to the killing of Maj. Gen. Qassim

WASHINGTON — Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday once again rebuffed growing calls to send the House’s articles of impeachment against President Trump to the Senate for trial and refused to provide a timetable for doing so, saying only that after weeks of delay, she would probably move “soon.” Ms. Pelosi reiterated a call for Senator

President Trump, responding during a White House address on Wednesday to the missile strikes by Iran, assailed the nuclear agreement reached by his predecessor and praised American military might. The 10-minute address contained numerous inaccuracies and claims that lacked evidence. Here’s a fact check. What Mr. Trump Said “Iran’s hostilities substantially increased after the foolish

WELLS, Minn. — Michael R. Bloomberg walked among the silos, bundled and reddening in the nine-degree air, negotiating the icy path that delivers a billionaire presidential candidate past the grain bins and the cameras and the tractor — straight into the middle of somewhere his advisers decided he should be. That place, at approximately 2

A day after President Trump backed away from further military conflict with Iran, a commander of the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps declared that Iran would soon take “harsher revenge” on the United States for a drone strike last week that killed a top Iranian general. The slain commander, Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, had led

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — The snowy owl was first spotted just beyond the 18th hole of one of the most expensive golf courses ever built. The bird was resting on a sandy beach filled with seashells and driftwood at the edge of Liberty State Park. Waves lapped the New Jersey shoreline of the Hudson River

“I call on the Iraqi factions to be deliberate, patient, and not to start military actions, and to shut down the extremist voices of some rogue elements until all political, parliamentary and international methods have been exhausted,” he was quoted as saying. Pope Francis referred to the conflict on Thursday during an annual address to

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — The snowy owl was first spotted just beyond the 18th hole of one of the most expensive golf courses ever built. The bird was resting on a sandy beach filled with seashells and driftwood at the edge of Liberty State Park. Waves lapped the New Jersey shoreline of the Hudson River

The Sunrise Movement, the collection of young climate activists who have roiled Capitol Hill and the Democratic presidential primary, will announce on Thursday that it is endorsing Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, in another sign that left-wing advocacy groups have increasingly coalesced around his candidacy. In a landslide vote — more than 75 percent of