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Mr. Newsom said he is not interested in a “midway” deal requiring California to loosen its rules. “A rollback of auto emissions standards is bad for the climate and bad for the economy,” he wrote in an email. “I applaud the automakers for saying as much in their letter today to the President. We should […]

ATLANTA — Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Thursday reversed his support for the Hyde Amendment, a measure that prohibits most federal funding for abortion, after facing nearly two days of vigorous backlash from many in his own party. Mr. Biden denounced the amendment in a speech before a Democratic National Committee gala in Georgia, where

Ensuring that natural gas does not fill the energy void left by coal will be an even trickier proposition. While the leading Democratic candidates agree that fighting climate change should be a priority for the country, none has called for limits on the expansion of natural gas. Natural gas has been referred to as a

Peterborough’s former MP Fiona Onasanya was sacked by her constituents in the first successful re-call petition prompting a by-election. The East Anglian city voted to leave the EU by 62% in 2016, but Ms Onasanya’s successor will also have to address local issues in education, crime and homelessness. For BBC1’s This Week. political correspondent Ben

We also asked On Politics readers to send in their summer predictions. Here’s what they said: I think there is at least some chance that Democrats begin to coalesce behind Biden and possibly a Biden/Harris ticket as the best possible way to beat Trump. After much talk about “energizing the base,” reality will emerge and

Conservative Nicky Morgan has criticised leadership contender Dominic Raab’s suggestion that he would be prepared to shut down Parliament to ensure the UK leaves the EU on 31 October. “Proroguing Parliament is clearly a mad suggestion,” said Ms Morgan, who is backing Michael Gove’s leadership bid. “You cannot say you are going to take back

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France — With marble crosses and Stars of David marking the graves of those who died fighting the Nazis on D-Day visible in the background, President Trump used the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy to bash the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, in an interview with Fox News.

“When we’re talking about working Americans, rebuilding the backbone of the country, we’re talking about black folks, brown folks, women, Asia-Pacific islanders,” said Symone Sanders, a senior adviser to the Biden campaign. “We want to make clear that when we say the middle class is hurting, voters understand that’s a middle class that represents everyone.”

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France — Standing on a sun-drenched bluff above the Normandy beaches, where 10,000 soldiers sacrificed themselves to a savage fusillade of gunfire and opened the way for Europe’s liberation in 1944, President Trump declared on Thursday, “We are gathered here on freedom’s altar.” Seventy-five years after the D-Day invasion, the president, who has called

The urgent talks to avert President Trump’s threat of tariffs on Mexico are running into a serious obstacle: The president’s demand that in return Mexico must promise to put a complete stop to illegal immigration into the United States. In a series of tweets and remarks over the past week, Mr. Trump vowed to impose