Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. Nearly all U.S. Senate Republicans and Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania on Friday evening blocked a resolution that reiterated Congress’ authority to declare war and would have ordered President Donald Trump to stop taking military action against...
The top court in the US has ruled judges in lower courts have limited ability to block presidential orders, giving President Donald Trump what he called a “giant win”. The case surrounded whether Trump’s attempt to use an executive order to end birthright citizenship for non-citizens and undocumented migrants was allowed. In a 6-3 ruling,...
About 80 Labour MPs are supporting a fresh effort to block the government’s planned changes to the benefits system, the BBC has been told. The MPs have signed an amendment that would give them an opportunity to vote on a proposal to reject the welfare reform bill in its entirety. Dozens of Labour MPs have...
Getty Images Dame Esther Rantzen told the BBC in 2023 that she had joined assisted dying clinic Dignitas Dame Esther Rantzen has appealed to the House of Lords not to block a bill giving terminally ill adults in England and Wales the right to an assisted death, after it was backed by MPs on Friday....
NBC News is calling it an “emerging coalition” and I guess there’s some truth to that. This is just what Tucker Carlson and MTG have been saying turned into a more direct effort to keep the US out of Iran. A group of lawmakers spanning a broad ideological spectrum is raising alarms about the possibility...
As I pointed out here, the case that Los Angeles doesn’t need any additional law enforcement help is looking pretty thin after a dozen or more businesses were looted last night. And yet, Gov. Newsom is suing the Trump administration and today California’s AG Rob Bonta asked for an Emergency Restraining Order to stop the...
Getty Images Trump alleged that both organisations have engaged with “biased and partisan news coverage” US President Donald Trump has issued an executive order calling for all federal funding to the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR) to be blocked. On Thursday evening, Trump alleged that both organisations have engaged with “biased...
A bipartisan bill to put a congressional “check” on Trump’s tariff powers faces steep odds of passage. A new poll shows that a majority of Americans oppose tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump and want Congress to take action to limit current and future tariffs. The poll comes as bipartisan support grows for a bill...
This proves once again that Supreme Court decisions require careful reading rather than broad assumptions. Federal judges in both Texas and California read the per curiam order issued late Monday in challenges to deportations of alleged Tren de Aragua organized-crime members — and issued separate stays today. The first came in New York: A...
President Donald Trump’s administration has asked the Supreme Court to block lower court rulings requiring that a man deported to El Salvador be returned to the US. A federal judge in Maryland ordered the government to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back by Monday night. The order was upheld by an appeals court on Monday. The...
Adam Laver BBC News, Yorkshire BBC Lisa and her daughter Mia visited the Loading Bay on Duke Street after watching the Extraordinary Portraits show Thousands of art fans have queued around the block in Bradford to see an exhibition of portraits of extraordinary members of the public. The BBC show Extraordinary Portraits, hosted by comedian...
On Thursday, the Senate rejected Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vermont) resolutions to block the sale of $8.8 billion in weapons to Israel by an even wider margin than in similar votes last year — despite Israel having since violated the Gaza ceasefire agreement. The Senate’s opposition to the resolutions comes as Israel has maintained a total...
Graham Fraser Technology Reporter Getty Images Roblox is one of the world’s largest games platforms, with more monthly users than Nintendo Switch and Sony PlayStation combined. In 2024 it averaged more than 80 million players per day – roughly 40% of them below the age of 13. Parents will be able to block their children...
Representatives Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) have introduced legislation to block nearly $4 billion in proposed weapons sales to Israel, after Israel has unilaterally ended the ceasefire agreement in Gaza and embarked on what appears to be the most violent phase of its genocide yet. On Sunday, Jayapal’s office announced the introduction of...
Trump’s call for the judge to be impeached came after his administration blatantly ignored one of the judge’s orders. In a Tuesday morning rant on Truth Social, President Donald Trump called for a federal judge to be impeached after the judge had issued orders — which were blatantly defied by Trump — halting some of...