Politics

The candidates to be Conservative Party leader – and the UK’s next prime minister – are set to take part in a BBC televised debate on Tuesday evening. Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt, Michael Gove, Sajid Javid and Rory Stewart will take part in BBC One’s Our Next Prime Minister programme from 20:00 BST. While questions […]

SYDNEY, Australia — In the otherwise boisterous world of the Australian news media, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, known as the ABC or ABC News, tends to resemble a very serious aunt. The public broadcaster is smart, loquacious and a bit boring; even audience members for its live news discussion program, “Q&A,” can sometimes be seen

WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Tuesday that he had spoken with President Xi Jinping of China and that the two would have an “extended” meeting at the Group of 20 meeting next week in Osaka, Japan. His comments were the first confirmation that the two leaders would actually meet after trade talks stalled in

BRUSSELS — As tensions between Washington and Tehran escalate, European leaders find themselves in an uncomfortable place they have feared ever since President Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal 13 months ago and restored punishing sanctions against Tehran. While the Europeans want to preserve the deal — which they see as important for

TIBURON, Calif. — In January 2011, four and a half years before Donald Trump glided down the escalator at Trump Tower and began a campaign for the White House that few conservatives were taking seriously, Michael Savage invited him on the radio and declared that he had found a president. It was their first interview.

WASHINGTON — Jamaal Bowman, a middle school principal from the Bronx, will announce on Tuesday his plans to challenge Representative Eliot L. Engel, the New York Democrat who leads the powerful House Foreign Affairs Committee, in the 2020 race. The contest could serve as a key test of whether liberal insurgent groups can convert a

WASHINGTON — Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota plans on Tuesday to unveil a list of well over 100 actions she would take in her first 100 days as president if she were elected, a show of policymaking force that is intended to provide a crystal-clear view of the early days of her administration. The list

Women are forced to choose between “being an MP and being a mum” because of Parliament’s rules, a pregnant Labour MP has said. Walthamstow MP Stella Creasy told Victoria Derbyshire that following her second miscarriage, she led a public meeting on knife crime and “tried not to think about how my baby had died inside

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that Virginia may ban uranium mining in the state. The case, Virginia Uranium v. Warren, No. 16-1275, was decided by fractured vote, with two three-justice blocs agreeing on the bottom line but differing in their reasoning. A third group of three justices dissented. The case started with

Pete Buttigieg pulled himself off the presidential campaign trail on Monday and returned to his day job as mayor of South Bend, Ind., after a police officer there shot and killed a black man. “I know that whenever an incident like this happens, there is tremendous hurt that can come about,” Mr. Buttigieg said at