Politics

MT. VERNON, Iowa — Pete Buttigieg rose from small-city obscurity to the top of Iowa’s presidential polls by saying yes to every interview and presenting himself as an aggressively transparent candidate poised to take on President Trump and his array of known and unknown conflicts. Yet the South Bend, Ind., mayor now faces cascading questions […]

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has revealed a “secret” government Brexit report that he claims “exposes the falsehoods that Boris Johnson has been putting forward”. Mr Corbyn said the document is proof that there would be customs checks between Northern Ireland and Great Britain after Brexit under Mr Johnson. Mr Johnson responded saying he hadn’t seen

WASHINGTON — House Democrats released a report on Saturday intended to lay out the legal and historical underpinnings of their case for impeaching President Trump while also countering Republican accusations that the investigation of the president’s conduct in office has been unfair and illegitimate. Democrats have accused the president of abusing his power by trying

Boris Johnson has said it is “sad” that former Conservative PM Sir John Major is urging voters to back rebel independent candidates running against Tory ones in the general election. Mr Johnson said he “respectfully disagrees” with Sir John, who is calling on people to support David Gauke, Dominic Grieve and Anne Milton, who were

President Trump is taking on Americans’ flushing habits and the country’s water efficiency standards. “We have a situation where we’re looking very strongly at sinks and showers and other elements of bathrooms, where you turn the faucet on — in areas where there’s tremendous amounts of water, where the water rushes out to sea because

Conservative leader Boris Johnson has said lying politicians should “go on their knees”. He was responding to a question from the audience who asked what should happen to politicians who lie. Jeremy Corbyn said that politicians should be held to account in a democratic fashion. Mr Johnson was also asked about the resignation of the

WASHINGTON — Iran on Saturday freed an American graduate student who had been imprisoned in Tehran for more than three years on suspicion of being a spy, in an exchange of prisoners at a moment of high tensions with Washington. The American, Xiyue Wang, was flown in a Swiss government airplane from Tehran to Zurich,

Throughout the 2019 general election campaign, the BBC wants to answer your questions about the issues that matter most to you. The economy – including spending, jobs and pay – is one of the areas that people have said they are most concerned about. BBC Business Editor Faisal Islam looks at the economic issues at

His grip on Republican senators has held in the lead-up to a historic impeachment trial. Members of the House have faced the prospect of retiring before going against him. And he frequently boasts about his strong approval ratings among Republican voters. Yet for a party leader who inspires fear in Washington, President Trump has been

The Lib Dem leader was reminded of voting for austerity cuts in the coalition government, and asked why voters should trust election pledges to reverse them. The BBC’s Andrew Neil looked at Jo Swinson’s voting record, in favour of the so-called bedroom tax, benefits cap and private health care contracts. She said it was not