Politics

Jess Phillips says Labour members are “ready for a change,” as she announces she is joining the race to replace Jeremy Corbyn as party leader. The Birmingham Yardley MP is the third Labour MP to officially announce her candidacy, alongside frontbenchers Emily Thornberry and Clive Lewis. Speaking to reporters, she acknowledged her pitch for the […]

He dismissed concerns raised by American allies, who expressed fear of a wider war in the Middle East. A French minister suggested that “we are waking up in a more dangerous world” following the strike. “Yeah, well, the French are just wrong about that,” Mr. Pompeo said. “The world is a much safer place today.

Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts raised $21.2 million for her presidential campaign in the fourth quarter of 2019, her team announced on Friday, a slight dip from the previous quarter and behind three of her top rivals for the Democratic nomination. The total raised by Ms. Warren in the final three months of the year

The American military strike in Baghdad that killed the Iranian general Qassim Suleimani rippled instantly through the Democratic presidential primary on Friday, forcing national security issues to the fore of a race dominated so far by domestic policy and perhaps stirring debates among Democrats over matters of war and peace. The party’s presidential candidates reacted

For now, they cannot — at least in traditional ways. But they have attempted terrorism, including an abortive effort to kill a Saudi ambassador in Washington nine years ago, and late Thursday the Department of Homeland Security was sending out reminders of Iran’s past and current efforts to attack the United States in cyberspace. Until

WASHINGTON — One night in January of 2007, American Special Operations commandos tracked a notorious adversary driving in a convoy from Iran into northern Iraq: Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, Iran’s top security and intelligence commander. But the Americans held their fire, and General Suleimani slipped away into the darkness. “To avoid a firefight, and the

HANOVER, N.H. — Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota raised $11.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2019, her campaign announced on Friday, a sum that was more than twice what she collected during the prior three months but still left her no better than sixth in fund-raising for the last three months among Democrats running

At an annual charity fund-raiser in October, Anna Wintour, the editor of Vogue, shared a table with the designer Michael Kors and Pete Buttigieg, then the mayor of South Bend, Ind., who wore one of his trademark navy suits. The event was a benefit for God’s Love We Deliver, a nonprofit that began delivering meals

WASHINGTON — The killing of the powerful commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, in a drone strike on Friday sharply divided congressional leaders along party lines and reignited a debate over whether Congress should curtail the president’s war powers. The strike, which the Pentagon said President Trump ordered and was

“What we have to remind ourselves is, 2020 is not 2016. The world has changed,” she said, recalling the protest marches after Mr. Trump’s inauguration and the Democratic victories in 2018 in the House of Representatives and key governorships, and in 2019 in Kentucky, Louisiana and Virginia. “We are getting stronger and we are in