We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Stephen Gethins, who was a former SNP Europe spokesman, warned the UK will be worse off the harder the Brexit deal is. He told BBC’s Newsnight that the UK Government have made an “absolute mess” of Brexit. Mr […]
Read moreStaff will be told to stop “all but essential” movement between care homes to protect residents during a feared second spike of coronavirus. Tighter new restrictions for the sector are planned ahead of winter, as COVID-19 cases continue to rise again and people complain they cannot get tested. In areas subject to local lockdowns, it is understood care homes may […]
Read moreWASHINGTON — A top Justice Department official on Thursday supported a suggestion by Attorney General William P. Barr to consider bringing sedition charges for violent crimes committed during nationwide protests this summer. The deputy attorney general, Jeffrey A. Rosen, said in an email to federal prosecutors that they should consider use of the sedition statute and other federal laws to […]
Read moreWe will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Brussels sources said the bloc is now closely examining its “governance” position to ensure any future relationship pact with the UK is unbreakable. Michel Barnier is said to be assessing a much stricter framework to enforce the […]
Read moreWe will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. The former Labour MP has been rewarded by Boris Johnson with a seat in the House of Lords. Ms Stuart was previously the MP for Birmingham Edgbaston from 1997 until 2017 when she stepped down. Taking the […]
Read moreThe air quality in Portland has become the worst in the world — with Seattle, Los Angeles and Denver also ranking up there with notoriously polluted places like Delhi and Shanghai. Why it matters: Big-city residents often consider themselves smugly immune to the physical wreckage of calamities like wildfires, floods and hurricanes. The pernicious smoke now blanketing the splendid cities of […]
Read moreIllustration: Aïda Amer/Axios Oscar, the health insurance company co-founded in 2012 by Joshua Kushner and Mario Schlosser, has hired banks to help the firm go public in 2021, Axios has learned from multiple sources. Background: Oscar was launched to provide health insurance to individuals under the Affordable Care Act, but has since diversified into other health insurance markets. The New […]
Read moreWe will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. The Government has put pressure on peers to not block the Internal Market Bill, which passed its first hurdle in the Commons on Monday with a majority of 77. Mr Johnson’s spokesman said he “expects the Lords […]
Read moreWe will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. No10 hit back at Michel Barnier’s claims that the UK had caved to EU demands on fisheries, insisting the opposite had happened. According to Channel 4 News’ Gary Gibbon, the British Government is celebrating EU compromises on […]
Read moreWASHINGTON — Openly contradicting the government’s top health experts, President Donald Trump predicted on Wednesday that a safe and effective vaccine against the coronavirus could be ready as early as next month and in mass distribution soon after, undermining the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and calling him “confused” in projecting a longer time frame. Trump […]
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