The Brexit mutiny has taken not just the UK economy and its relationship with Europe into uncharted waters. it has also imperilled the union between Scotland and England. From Sir John Major ...
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Barack Obama warns against Brexit ‘hysteria’ in vote’s aftermath
Barack Obama has warned against financial and global hysteria after Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, saying that while full European integration may be on pause, cataclysmic changes are ...
Read More »American conservatives find new British darling in Ukip leader Nigel Farage
Once, young conservatives in the US looked across the ocean to Margaret Thatcher. Now the model is Nigel Farage. The garrulous chain-smoker, known to be fond of a pint, has ...
Read More »House Benghazi report faults military response, not Clinton, for deaths
House Republicans investigating the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, have found no new evidence to conclude that Hillary Clinton, secretary of state at the time, was culpable in the ...
Read More »Senate shoots down $1.1bn funding package to fight Zika virus
US lawmakers deadlocked over funding to fight the Zika virus on Tuesday, as Senate Democrats blocked a Republican proposal they said fell short of the challenge posed by the mosquito-borne ...
Read More »Vigil for murdered Baltimore rapper leads to police standoff and arrests
A vigil for a murdered Baltimore rapper turned into a tense standoff with police on Monday night a few blocks from the center of last year’s uprising following the death ...
Read More »Abortion advocates ‘on a high’ with a long road ahead after supreme court win
Abortion providers and advocates gathered anxiously around a computer screen in Austin on Monday morning, waiting for news from the supreme court. When the ruling came through and handed a ...
Read More »Hillary Clinton proposes student debt deferral for startup founders
Hillary Clinton put forward a set of proposals, in a newly released agenda on technology and innovation, that would treat entrepreneurs and startup workers more favorably than other student debtors. ...
Read More »Trump escalates economic tirade against free trade, China and globalism
Donald Trump raged against globalization and free-trade agreements on Tuesday and urged the US “to declare economic independence again”. At a scrap metal facility south of Pittsburgh, the presumptive Republican ...
Read More »Trump renews support for torture and compares trade deal to rape at Ohio rally
Donald Trump offered renewed support on Tuesday for the use of torture while repeatedly comparing a proposed free trade agreement to rape. Trump, who has often praised the use of ...
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