Politics

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced Wednesday that the federal government would sharply curtail federal spending on medical research that uses tissue from aborted fetuses, mainly by ending such research within the National Institutes of Health. The move fulfills a top goal of anti-abortion groups that have lobbied hard for it, but scientists say the […]

A Conservative MP asked about “a minority of hate-fuelled demonstrators” who shouted “Nazi scum” in the face of American tourists during President Trump’s visit to the UK. Tim Loughton said such actions ahead of D-Day commemorations “demeaned the memory” of veterans. Standing in for Theresa May at PMQs, David Lidington said the right to demonstrate

Joseph R. Biden Jr., who has shunned today’s Democratic Party orthodoxy on issues from crime to compromising with Republicans, again broke with his party’s base and many of his campaign rivals on Wednesday when his campaign confirmed that he still backs the Hyde Amendment, a measure that prohibits the use of federal funds for abortion

Measures to enhance the protection for service personnel facing claims of criminal acts abroad will not apply to those who served in Northern Ireland over the last few decades. Families of those shot by British servicemen want to see some retired soldiers face investigations and trials. But retired veterans, and some MPs, are pressing the

WASHINGTON — Vice President Mike Pence and other top administration officials will meet Wednesday with Mexico’s top diplomat as both sides try to avert the potentially crippling economic consequences of President Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on all Mexican imports. Mr. Trump has vowed to impose a 5 percent tariff on all goods from Mexico

The shadow business secretary has criticised government policies on climate change and what she said was a lack of help for the UK steel industry. At PMQs, Rebecca Long Bailey accused the Conservatives of offering only “empty rhetoric” to steel workers, and “running down clock on our planet”. Conservative David Lidington – standing in for

Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey on Wednesday unveiled a plan to tackle affordable housing that would provide a tax credit for renters to ensure they would not spend more than 30 percent of their income on rent — a sweeping new entitlement program that his campaign estimated would reach 57 million Americans, including 17

The Conservative leadership candidate Rory Stewart has strongly criticised Boris Johnson and other candidates for “misleading” voters over Brexit. Mr Stewart told BBC Radio 5 Live there was “not the slightest hope” of securing a revised Brexit deal from the EU by 31 October – as Mr Johnson has promised. He also said there was

LONDON — In a wide-ranging interview on Wednesday, the third and last day of his state visit to Britain, President Trump said there was “a chance” of military action against Iran, cast his ban on transgender people serving in the military as an economic decision and admitted using the word “nasty” in connection with Meghan,

WASHINGTON — The Russian government is likely to try to influence the 2020 presidential election, not through the release of stolen emails and other documents but through faked videos, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said on Tuesday. The United States has become adept at quickly identifying the perpetrators of so-called hacking and dumping