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What Mr. Trump Said “In the last administration, President Obama signed the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty. And in his waning days in office, he sent the treaty to the Senate to begin the ratification process. This treaty threatened your subjugate — you know exactly what’s going on here — your rights, your constitutional and international […]

Mr. Trump plunged into a risky nuclear negotiation with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, despite Mr. Abe’s warnings to hold a tough line with Pyongyang. Officials in Tokyo worry that a nuclear deal could hurt Japan, if Mr. Kim agrees to give up his intercontinental ballistic missiles, which can reach the United States, without surrendering his

“Under this president and this vice president,” Mr. Pence said, “no one is taking your guns.” The N.R.A. was hit with a rebuke for its lobbying tactics this month when the Democratic-controlled House approved a revamped Violence Against Women Act that would bar those convicted of abusing, assaulting or stalking a domestic partner from buying

The campaign group Operation Black Vote has exclusively told BBC 5 Live’s ‘The Sista Collective‘ podcast that all-black shortlists could be the answer to tackle a lack of diversity in local councils. It’s after figures gathered by the group suggest 1 in 3 ‘single tier’ local councils in England have no or only one black,

WASHINGTON — The Russian graduate student who ran a secret operation to influence conservative Americans was sentenced on Friday to 18 months in prison, ending what prosecutors called a lengthy effort to create inroads with officials potentially useful to Russia in the future. The woman, Maria Butina, 30, pleaded guilty late last year to conspiring

Alastair Campbell says he would find it difficult to vote Labour in the European elections if the party does not pledge to hold a referendum on the Brexit deal. Tony Blair’s former director of communications, a supporter of the People’s Vote campaign, told Nick Robinson’s Political Thinking Podcast that it would be an “error of

Asked if he would say he was sorry to the women who have complained that he touched them inappropriately over the years, Mr. Biden repeatedly refused to give a direct apology. “Here’s the deal: I have to be much more aware of the private space of men and women — it’s not just women, but

The EU must change if it wants to win over those who voted for Brexit, said Pamela Anderson. She called for a grassroots movement to “demand a more democratic EU” In a personal film for BBC1’s This Week, the actor and activist said: “We should understand Brexit not as a rejection of Europe, but as

Rumors of the economic expansion’s death appear to have been greatly exaggerated. Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of goods and services produced in the economy, rose at a 3.2 percent annual rate in the first three months of the year, the Commerce Department said Friday. That is significantly better than most economists expected, and

The leak from a National Security Council meeting is “very serious”, “a complete outrage” and “beyond the pale”, the former head of the civil service has said. Lord O’Donnell told the Today programme that the leak “breaks down trust” within the cabinet and could change the whole framework of how the government is managed. It