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Former US president Donald Trump is to go to Scotland subsequent week.The former US president is anticipated to spend time at his golf resort Trump Turnberry in South Ayrshire, based on the PA information company. The 76-year-old will even cease off in Ireland, the place he's understood to be touchdown at Shannon Airport on May 3.He will keep at his Trump International Hotel & Golf Links on the outskirts of Doonbeg in County Clare.The go to comes as Mr Trump faces court docket motion within the United States. Please use Chrome browser for a extra accessible video participant 2:57 ...

Rep. Ronny Jackson of Texas is circulating a letter that claims President Biden ought to take a cognitive check or drop out of the 2024 election. Mr. Jackson, a Republican who served as White House doctor beneath Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, has repeatedly known as on Mr. Biden to take the che...

Former SNP treasurer Colin Beattie has mentioned he had no data of the get together's buy of a luxurious motorhome seized by police from the house of Nicola Sturgeon's mother-in-law.The Niesmann+Bischoff campervan, which might promote for greater than £100,000, was faraway from the Dunfermline dwelling of Peter Murrell's mom after the previous SNP chief govt was arrested earlier this month as a part of an inquiry into the funding and funds of the get together. Mr Murrell was later launched with out cost "pending further investigation".Mr Beattie, who stop as treasurer final week after being arrested and launched with out cost in reference to the probe, made the admission to journalists at Holyrood on Tuesday.Asked if he knew in regards to the car buy, Mr Beattie mentioned: "N...

NEW YORK (AP) — For many years, former President Donald Trump has appeared to shake off allegations, investigations and even impeachments. Now his “Teflon Don” popularity is about to face a brand new check: a jury of common residents in a lawsuit accusing him of rape. Jury choice is scheduled to start Tues...

Spiking somebody's drink or injecting them with medicine or alcohol might be made a particular offence below Labour, Sir Keir Starmer has introduced. Labour would carry within the measure if it wins energy as a part of its plan to clamp down on violence towards ladies and women. Sir Keir stated that in a roundtable with actor Emily Atack and former Love Island star Georgia Harrison, the problem of spiking was raised, as was the abuse ladies face on social media.Foreign secretary has a message for the China hawks in his celebration - politics newestSymptoms of spiking, which occurs with out the sufferer's data or consent, can embrace nausea or vomiting, hallucinations and paranoia and unconsciousness. Spiking is at the moment lined by a number of completely different offences ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Biden on Tuesday formally introduced that he's working for reelection in 2024, asking voters to present him extra time to “finish the job” he started when he was sworn in to workplace and to put aside their issues about extending the run of America’s oldest president for one more 4 years. ...

Diane Abbott made historical past when she was elected as Britain's first black feminine MP for Labour in 1987.But after many years of talking out on racism, her political profession hangs within the stability on account of broadly condemned feedback on the identical challenge. The Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP has had the Labour whip suspended following a letter in The Observer by which she recommended Jewish individuals, Irish individuals and travellers don't face racism, however as an alternative endure prejudice like "redheads".Although she swiftly apologised and retracted the remarks, some need the previous shadow house secretary to face down and there are rising requires Labour to expel her.The row comes simply weeks earlier than May's native elections and danger...

The National Park Service broke company guidelines to ship an exorbitant share of park upkeep cash to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s district, together with the complete $200 million pot of cash that Congress included in final 12 months’s budget-climate invoice. Director Charles F. Sams revealed to Co...

The chancellor has blamed the "eye-watering sums" spent on serving to folks by means of the coronavirus pandemic and vitality disaster for a rise in public sector borrowing.Public sector internet borrowing was £21.5bn final month - the second-highest March borrowing since month-to-month data started in 1993. This implies that the general public sector spent greater than it obtained in taxes and different revenue, requiring it to borrow the shortfall.The quantity additionally capped off the fourth-highest borrowing for a monetary yr since data started - £139.2bn, or 5.5% of GDP.Chancellor Jeremy Hunt blamed the COVID-19 pandemic and the rise in vitality costs, which was worsened by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. He mentioned: "These numbers reflect the inevitable consequences o...

NEWS AND OPINION: Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s sudden departure from the community on Monday generated on the spot, provocative media protection which went on for hours on finish, a lot of it bolstered with dwell updates, hints of thriller and loads of hypothesis. ...