Politics

WASHINGTON — Facebook’s announcement in late April that it had set aside $3 billion to $5 billion to settle claims that it mishandled users’ personal data suggested a strong consensus by federal regulators that the social media giant needed to be held accountable. But the reality behind the scenes at the Federal Trade Commission is […]

A professor has walked from Germany to the UK to hear what the British public think about Brexit. Prof David Martin, who lived in the UK as a teenager, hiked about 500 miles (800km) from his home city of Stuttgart to London. He said he asked everyone he met between Dover and Westminster what they

Cynthia Warmbier, the mother of Otto Warmbier, the American student who died in 2017 after being imprisoned for months in North Korea, said on Friday that diplomacy with its leader, Kim Jong-un, was a “charade” and likened Mr. Kim’s regime to “absolute evil.” “It’s obvious to the world that we’re on to him,” she said

Candidates had to draw lots after a tie in the local elections in North Yorkshire. Labour candidate Gerald Ramsden was elected to the Northallerton South seat on Hambleton District Council after drawing with the Conservative candidate on 527 votes. The returning officer then had to randomly choose between two blank envelopes with one candidate’s name

“Since these materials are publicly cited and described in the Mueller report, there can be no question about the committee’s need for and right to this underlying evidence in order to independently evaluate the facts that Special Counsel Mueller uncovered and fulfill our constitutional duties,” Mr. Nadler wrote. “As the Mueller report makes clear, this

Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable has called his party’s local election results the “big success story of the night”. The party saw gains across the country, taking seats from both Conservative and Labour-run councils. Speaking in Chelmsford, where the Lib Dems took control of the local council from the Conservatives, Mr Cable said the result

Want climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd:, our email newsletter. PAKENHAM, Ontario — By 9:30 a.m. the line for Fulton’s Pancake House and Sugarbush had snaked out the door and down the driveway toward the parking lot, like the day a new iPhone goes on sale. But the restaurant, roughly

Green Party co-leader Sian Berry has described the local election results as “very exciting”, as councils continue to declare. The party are picking up seats in “places you would not expect” such as South Tyneside and St Helens, she said. “We are getting elected in places that voted for Brexit,” she said. “We are dealing

WASHINGTON — Attorney General William P. Barr defied on Thursday a deadline imposed by a congressional subpoena to provide lawmakers with the full-text Mueller report. President Trump, meanwhile, has vowed to resist “all” subpoenas issued by House Democrats in their oversight investigations. And Mr. Trump has sued his banks and the House Oversight Committee to

Ian Blackford asked the prime minister if she would match Nicola Sturgeon’s pledge to provide free tuition for EU student through to 2021. Theresa May told the SNP Westminster leader that the Scottish government was going to give EU students free tuition up to 2024, but English students will have to pay. He followed that