Politics

The Illegal Migration Bill is heading again to the House of Lords later after MPs voted in opposition to virtually all the modifications beforehand proposed by friends.The controversial laws bans folks from claiming asylum in the event that they arrived within the UK illegally, and places a authorized obligation on the Home Office to take away them. Tonight the invoice will undergo a course of referred to as parliamentary "ping pong" - with the invoice going between the 2 homes till each are in settlement.The Illegal Migration Bill had a particularly bumpy experience within the Lords final time round, with the federal government struggling a document 20 defeats. Peers despatched the invoice again to the Commons with a protracted checklist of amendments which MPs debated and v...

President Biden portrays himself in public as a mild-mannered, soft-spoken Uncle Joe. In non-public, his demeanor towards workers turns into louder and shrewish, in accordance with new reporting from Axios. ...

House Republicans have launched a voting integrity act they name “the most conservative election bill to be seriously considered in the House in a generation.” ...

Members of a Senate subcommittee pressed PGA Tour executives at a listening to Tuesday over the golf group’s framework settlement with LIV Golf, with lawmakers questioning the tour’s surprising resolution to merge with the Saudi-funded league. ...

Top Senate Democrats mentioned Tuesday the onus is on Republican leaders to intervene over Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s maintain on lots of of navy promotions that proceed to languish with out Senate approval. ...

NEWS AND OPINION: The Republican National Committee is dutifully charting what number of trip days that President Biden has taken throughout his time within the White House. Here are the most recent numbers: ...

The G7 is ready to signal a long-term safety association with Ukraine, which Rishi Sunak has mentioned will doubtlessly "return peace to Europe".The accord marks the primary time so many nations have agreed a complete, multi-year safety association of such a nature with one other nation, No 10 mentioned. The G7 declaration, which is anticipated to be ratified within the margins of the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, is ready to supply extra defence gear, enhance and speed up intelligence sharing and bolster help for cyber defences.It plans to increase coaching programmes and navy workout routines, whereas additionally growing Ukraine's industrial capabilities, Downing Street mentioned.Ukraine-Russia conflict newest: Top Russian commander 'killed by UK-provided Storm Shadow...

Former President Donald Trump, who's already dealing with dozens of felony prices in separate state and federal felony instances, may very well be indicted in weeks, if not days, on new prices associated to his actions in Georgia following the 2020 election. ...

With difficulties at house rising and the hole within the polls widening, the newest NATO summit in Vilnius not less than provides Rishi Sunak some area to inform a optimistic story about worldwide cooperation, statesmanship and management on Ukraine.One of the 2 massive calls for being pushed for by the prime minister has already been agreed after Turkey's chief President Erdogan final night time dropped his opposition to Sweden becoming a member of NATO. The second might be to reiterate the necessity to strengthen NATO and help Ukraine, as he presses fellow member states to decide to the goal of spending 2% of their GDP on defence.Again, on this, the UK has a powerful story to inform as certainly one of solely 11 of the 31 NATO members presently fulfilling this pledge. Fran...

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan despatched a number of fiscal 2024 suggestions to the House Appropriations Committee, together with one that may relocating the FBI to Huntsville, Alabama. ...