Kate Whannel Political reporter PA Media In an historic vote, MPs have approved a bill which gives terminally ill adults in England and Wales the right to end their own lives. The Terminally Ill Adults Bill, which was backed by 314 votes to 291, will now go to the House of Lords for further scrutiny....
A group of protesters a gathered at Parliament Square as MPs debate the final stage of a bill today which could legalise assisted dying in England and Wales. One woman described her son dying of cancer in “excrutiating pain” and saying that assisted dying would have given him a choice. Another protester said that the...
Kate Whannel Political reporter EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Kim Leadbeater, the MP behind the assisted dying bill, has said she is “confident” MPs will back the legislation when it returns for its final stage in the House of Commons on Friday. If the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill – which allows terminally ill adults to get...
Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. Over the objections of critics who say a landmark cryptocurrency bill lacks adequate consumer and financial system protections, among other concerns, several Senate Democrats voted with Republicans on Tuesday to pass the legislation that would establish a regulatory...
BBC Jabez Petherick says hospice care made a big difference to him As a nurse who supports terminally ill patients to die in their own homes, Angelina Blair sees first hand the last few hours of people’s lives. “There are times where you put on a brave face, you smile, you give the care that’s...
The bill would gut billions of dollars in health care spending, and redistribute wealth from the poor to the rich. New polling data indicates that a majority of Americans are opposed to Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill, oftentimes referred to by President Donald Trump as the “Big, Beautiful Bill,” with only a quarter of voters viewing...
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A bill which sparked an extraordinary stand-off between some of the UK’s most high-profile artists – and their backers in the House of Lords – has finally been passed. Peers wanted an amendment to the drably-titled Data (Use and Access) Bill which would have forced tech companies to declare their use of copyright material when...
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Energy policy analysts are in broad agreement about one consequence of major legislation that Republicans are currently pushing through Congress: It will raise energy prices for the average American household by hundreds of dollars, once all is said and done. That’s...
Buried in the House’s budget reconciliation bill — now pending in the Senate — is a legislative provision that takes aim at the federal judiciary. Section 70302, titled “Restriction on Enforcement,” would undermine federal judges’ authority to enforce court orders by limiting their ability to hold government officials in contempt, a key tool for compelling...
BBC US President Donald Trump says he was “very surprised” and “disappointed” with his former ally Elon Musk’s criticisms of his centrepiece budget bill. “Elon and I had a great relationship. I don’t know if we will anymore,” Trump told reporters in the White House on Thursday. It was the president’s most direct criticism yet...
You have to hand it to the Democrats; they don’t believe in half measures when it comes to describing the parade of horribles that will result any time a Republican does anything. Oppose censorship? Fascist?! Close the border? Gestapo! Close down USAID? One hundred thousand people a month are already dying! Reduce the federal workforce?...
The Big Beautiful Bill has taken a lot of PR hits of late, including from me and Elon Musk. I love writing that line. It makes it sound like Elon Musk and I have similar influence, when everybody knows that I am the larger political force of the two. The criticisms all boil down to...
Reuters Musk – who weeks ago wore a hat reading “Trump was right about everything!” – has attacked the president’s signature bill For 130 days, tech billionaire Elon Musk was a “special government employee” working inside the Trump administration to slash what he said were wasteful government programmes and bloated departments. Now, after his exit...
In a letter sent to Senate leaders on June 3, a team of health experts at Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania warn that funding cuts included in the budget reconciliation package narrowly passed by House Republicans last month would lead to 51,000 more people dying across the United States each year. The package,...