And will Trump try to influence the election of the next Pope? Read full article at source...
Correction: It is long past time to clean house at the State Department. After decades of bloat turned into authoritarian attempts to quash and suppress dissent and debate inside the US, the need has never been greater for reform that strips the bureaucracy down to a level where focus on diplomacy and national security are...
I would not be surprised to see a denial of this report, probably before I’m done writing about it. NPR is reporting that, according to an anonymous US official, the White House is now looking for a new Secretary of Defense to replace Pete Hegseth. The White House has begun the process of looking for...
    WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance stood at the head of the table in the Roosevelt Room during one of the most significant moments of his life, joined by his mother, Beverly Aikins. Despite the presence of about 20 family members and friends, including his wife, Usha, and their three children,...
Trump’s many national emergency declarations take “misuse of this law to a new level,” one critic said. A new report details how President Donald Trump has issued more national emergency declarations than any other modern-day president during their first 100 days in office, showcasing the lengths he has gone to bypass Congress and enact policy...
Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff has said he did not leave the house for six months after his Top Gear crash, which left him with both physical and mental scars. The cricketer-turned-TV presenter sustained serious facial and rib injuries in a crash while filming the BBC motoring programme in 2022. Speaking about the incident on ITV’s The...
Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu BBC News, Washington Watch: White House says man mistakenly deported to El Salvador will ‘never’ live in US again The White House has dug in on its refusal to return a man who US officials have acknowledged was wrongly deported last month from Maryland to an El Salvador mega-prison. Press secretary Karoline...
Former US President Joe Biden has used his first speech since leaving the White House to attack the work of his successor, Donald Trump. Speaking at a conference in Chicago, Biden said Trump has “done so much damage and so much destruction” in his first days in office. Read full article at source...
Joe Biden has used his first speech since leaving office to criticise the Trump administration’s welfare policies. The ex-US president told a conference in Chicago that the government had “taken a hatchet” to Social Security, a system which Donald Trump and Elon Musk – who is leading the White House’s cost-cutting efforts – have said...
Getty Images Gene Hackman with his wife Betsy Arakawa in 1986 Nests and some dead rodents were found in outbuildings of the house where Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead. New Mexico Department of Public Health records seen by BBC News document evidence of the animals in eight detached...
PA Media Three houses were badly damaged in the blast A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a fatal house explosion that damaged multiple homes and cars in Nottinghamshire. Emergency services were called to John Street in Worksop at 19:39 BST on Saturday evening. David Howard, 53, was found in the rubble...
US Vice-president JD Vance has dropped the College Football Playoff National Championship trophy at the White House on Monday during Ohio State Buckeyes’ visit. The 2025 College Football champions were invited by President Donald Trump to celebrate the team’s title-winning season with a ceremony on the South Lawn. Read full article at source...
Gavin Bevis BBC News, East Midlands Supplied David Howard died at the scene, police said A man who died in a house explosion that saw dozens of people evacuated from their homes has been named as David Howard. Emergency services were called to John Street, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, on Saturday shortly before 20:00 BST. Nottinghamshire Police...
US President Donald Trump is in “excellent cognitive and physical health”, says his White House physician. In the first annual physical of his second presidential term at a Washington DC-area hospital, Trump was also found to have “scaring on the right ear from a gunshot wound”, after an assassination attempt last July. “President Trump remains...
A man has died in a explosion which destroyed a house and led to evacuations. Multiple homes in John Street, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, were evacuated and emergency services were called to the scene on Saturday evening, just before 20:00 BST. On Sunday, police confirmed the body of a man, in his 50s, had been found in...