new video loaded: Government Shutdown Looms Unless Lawmakers Extend Funding transcript Back transcript Government Shutdown Looms Unless Lawmakers Extend Funding Democrats and Republicans have not agreed to a deal to extend federal funding to avert a government shutdown. “We have disagreements about health care policy. But you don’t shut the government down. You don’t say...
Sam FrancisPolitical reporter Trump: Tony Blair wants to be on board that will oversee Gaza US President Donald Trump has said Sir Tony Blair, the former UK prime minister, wants to join the international body overseeing Gaza under an American plan to end the war. Sir Tony became the first named member of a new...
new video loaded: Trump Releases New Gaza Plan, Demands Hamas Accepts transcript Back transcript Trump Releases New Gaza Plan, Demands Hamas Accepts President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel unveiled a proposal to end the war in Gaza at the White House on Monday. If Hamas does not accept all of the terms,...
Labour delegates at the party’s conference in Liverpool have backed a motion urging the government to “employ all means reasonably available to it to prevent the commission of a genocide in Gaza”. The non-binding motion also called for a full suspension of the arms trade with Israel. Another motion called on the government to suspend...
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The government should fit solar panels to “pensioner bungalows” as part of a strategy to combat Reform UK, a Labour MP has said. Jo White, the MP for Bassetlaw, said voters needed to see a “tangible benefit” from Labour’s climate policies – and she called for grants for heat pumps and solar panels to be...
Brian WheelerPolitical reporter BBC Dame Meg Hillier says child poverty is damaging to the economy Chancellor Rachel Reeves must scrap the two-child benefit cap as an investment in the country’s economic future, a senior Labour MP has said. Dame Meg Hillier, who chairs the influential Treasury select committee, said ending the limit was not only...
Rachel Reeves says the government will ensure every young person is guaranteed either a place in college, an apprenticeship, or one-to-one support to find a job.
Simon JackBusiness editor WPA Pool/Getty Images One of the key audiences that the prime minister and the chancellor will have to convince at this year’s Labour conference are the business leaders they targeted with a charm offensive before the election last July. The party trumpeted itself as “the natural party of business” and Rachel Reeves...
new video loaded: The Man Expanding Trump’s Presidential Powers Coral Davenport, a New York Times reporter, explains how Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, plans to circumvent Congress’s budgetary powers to advance the Trump administration’s agenda. By Coral Davenport, Melanie Bencosme, Stephanie Swart, Laura Bult, June Kim and Ray Whitehouse...