WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Friday pressured Mexico to stop people from crossing into the United States, one day after threatening to impose new tariffs on Mexican imports in a bid to get the country to crack down on illegal immigration. Trump said on Thursday he would ratchet up tariffs unless Mexico stopped […] Read more
Israeli lawmakers voted to dissolve parliament early on Thursday, paving the way for a new election after veteran Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to form a coalition government before a midnight deadline. The ballot is widely expected to take place in September, the second this year. It represented unprecedented upheaval, commentators said, even in a […] Read more
The Brexit Party is forecast to become the largest national party seated in the European Parliament, according to projections from Europe Elects, a further signal that eurosceptic parties will make major gains in the EU elections. The projections come as YouGov released a survey on Wednesday indicating the upward trajectory for Nigel Farage’s party remains […] Read more
Ministers from Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPO) resigned en masse on Monday in the wake of a scandal involving party leader Heinz-Christian Strache. The FPO, the junior partner in Austria’s ruling coalition, had warned earlier in the day that it would do so if Chancellor Sebastian Kurz moved to have the FPO Interior Minister Herbert […] Read more
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House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler threatens to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress. Nadler demands that Barr’s Justice Department provide access to the unredacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report. Nadler sounds off on Barr in a speech at a Judiciary Committee hearing that Barr refused to appear. The online […] Read more
WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange is set to face a US extradition hearing on Thursday morning just a day after he received a jail term for breaching his bail conditions in the UK. The 47-year-old is wanted in the US on a charge relating to conspiring to hack government computers with whistleblower Chelsea Manning. Manning, who […] Read more
Stacey Abrams, who narrowly lost a bid to be Georgia’s governor last year, will not challenge Republican Sen. David Perdue in the state’s 2020 U.S. Senate race. But she’s not ruling out a run for the White House. “My responsibility is not simply to run because the job is available. I need to run because […] Read more
Scotland should hold an independence referendum before the current Scottish parliamentary term ends in May 2021, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Wednesday. “A choice between Brexit and a future for Scotland as an independent European nation should be offered in the lifetime of this parliament,” Sturgeon told Holyrood, Scotland’s devolved parliament. She said she […] Read more
His report is done, but Robert Mueller’s work will live on for a while longer. Over the course of its sprawling 22-month investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, the special counsel’s team referred 14 criminal cases to other offices, Mueller’s 448-page report revealed. Only two of those referrals — one involving former Trump […] Read more
