The Conservatives plan to intensify their attacks on Reform’s economic policy as they gear up for a fight to the death between the two big parties of the right, a battle brought to new levels of acrimony by Robert Jenrick’s defection. While Jenrick, the former shadow justice secretary, insisted he was “uniting the right” in […]
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The Ashes 2025-26: ‘England’s Ben Stokes is a lion leading lambs – he needs team-mates to step up’
But Stokes will lead an XI that is almost unrecognisable from the last Test of the previous Ashes series in 2023. England will have five survivors. If Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood had been fit, Australia could have had as many as nine. There was a thought before this series that it could be decided […]
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino to step down in January : NPR
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino speaks during a news conference on an arrest of a suspect in the January 6th pipe bomb case at the Department of Justice on Dec. 4, 2025. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images FBI deputy director Dan Bongino said Wednesday he plans to step down from […]
Oxfam chief forced to step down over ‘serious issues’ with conduct, charity says
The chief executive of Oxfam GB has been forced out by the charity’s board after an independent review found “serious issues” with her behaviour and decision making. The organisation’s trustees decided Dr Halima Begum’s position was “untenable” because of an “irretrievable breakdown in its trust and confidence” in her ability to do the job. About […]
Senators take first step toward reopening the government after historic shutdown : NPR
Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., speaks to reporters in the U.S. Capitol Building on Sept. 30. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images A bipartisan group of Senate Democrats and Republicans reached a deal to reopen the government after the longest shutdown in U.S. history, voting on the first procedural step on the […]
US Senate vote marks step towards ending federal shutdown | US federal government shutdown 2025
The US Senate on Sunday took a key vote on a bill that would end the record-setting federal government shutdown without extending the healthcare subsidies that Democrats have demanded. Senators began voting on Sunday night to advance House-passed stopgap funding legislation that Senate majority leader John Thune said would be amended to combine another short-term […]