Politics

Labour’s Thangam Debbonaire has said that those in government facing allegations of bullying get promoted, but those who stand up to it lose their jobs. The prime minister rejected her claims and said he “loathes bullying”, and accused Labour of “systematic bullying” against those who “stick up for the Jewish community”. UK viewers can watch […]

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Michael R. Bloomberg dropped out of the presidential race on Wednesday, just over three months after he began a campaign that was fueled by his vast fortune and quickly grew to a sprawling political operation but failed to win the groundswell of moderate support he had sought. Mr. Bloomberg endorsed

Conservative MPs Tom Tugendhat and Iain Duncan Smith raised concerns with Digital Minister Matt Warman on the use of Huawei in the UK’s 5G network. Earlier in the debate, former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith has said Dr Ian Levy, who is Technical Director of the National Cyber Security Centre, described Huawei security as “shoddy”.

Maya Buffett-Davis, 23, said she arrived at the museum at 6 p.m. after a full day of classes at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is from Berkeley, and had registered to vote as a Los Angeles resident several weeks ago. But when she got to the front of the line after four hours

Workers will get statutory sick pay from the first day off work, not the fourth, to help contain coronavirus, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn asked Mr Johnson if the sick pay announcement would help those currently not eligible for statutory sick pay – such as those on zero hours contracts,

WASHINGTON — Iran’s growing stockpile of nuclear fuel recently crossed a critical threshold, according to a report issued Tuesday by international inspectors: For the first time since President Trump abandoned the 2015 nuclear deal, Tehran appears to have enough enriched uranium to produce a single nuclear weapon, though it would take months or years to

“Opposite” is notionally about health care, but if the sound was turned off, you would hardly know it. There are no hospitals or patients, no sickness or injury, no healing. (Yes, there’s the doctor, but she’s alone.) It’s as if the ad knows, deep down, that presenting a rosy picture of an actual American health

British sisters Maya and Gemma want to make gender-based street harassment illegal. They founded the Our Streets Now campaign and collect stories of public harassment. The sisters have been inspired following the introduction of a new law in France that makes street harassment illegal. Offenders can be issued with on-the-spot fines. But there are concerns

The president has theorized that the virus is likely to dissipate during warm weather. “A lot of people think that goes away in April with the heat — as the heat comes in,” he said. “Typically, that will go away in April.” Many health experts say that it is true of some strains of influenza

WASHINGTON — President Trump met on Tuesday at the White House with Attorney General William P. Barr and key Republican lawmakers in an effort to resolve a fight in Congress over domestic spying powers before three F.B.I. counterintelligence investigation tools expire next week. The meeting came as a range of surveillance critics on Capitol Hill