Democrats tenaciously working to thwart the second Trump administration seemingly have thrown out their playbook from the president’s first administration — abandoning repeated attempts to impeach President Donald Trump in favor of broadening their focus on leveraging Article II of the Constitution to impede MAGA policies. Democrats, since the early days of Trump’s second presidency, have accused him of taking ...
Galvanized by President Donald Trump’s sweeping second-term agenda, a new generation of progressive Democrats is working to redefine the party’s future. The original ‘Squad,’ a group of young, left-wing lawmakers, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018 as a referendum on Trump’s first term. Now, with Trump back in the Oval Office ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday praised President Donald Trump as the ‘greatest friend’ Israel has ever had, as Hamas released the last 20 living hostages under the new peace deal. ‘No American president has ever done more for Israel,’ Netanyahu said. ‘It ain’t even close.’ He thanked Trump for ‘standing up for Israel’ at the United Nations, recognizing ...
Leading AI and tax specialists have warned that the government’s failure to reform the UK’s tax system for the age of automation could trigger what one expert calls a “fiscal collapse engineered by the Treasury itself.” Ahead of the November Budget, Chancellor Rachel Reeves faces an unprecedented balancing act: investing billions in artificial intelligence to boost growth, while preventing AI-driven ...
Beijing has issued a strong warning to Washington, promising retaliation if U.S. President Donald Trump follows through on his threat to impose 100% tariffs on Chinese imports by 1 November — a move that risks reigniting a full-scale U.S.–China trade war. In a statement on Monday, China’s commerce ministry accused the U.S. of “wilful threats” that would “escalate tensions and ...
Monday marks the 100th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher’s birth – an occasion that brings together leaders and supporters from across the Atlantic to pay tribute to her life. We at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute are honored to participate in the celebration, an occasion that also invites us to reflect on her legacy and connection with Ronald Reagan in the context of our modern era. Namely, what made her partnership with President Reagan so effective, and what might it teach us today about how civility ...
Japanese investors have poured almost £118 million into Greater Manchester over the past year, in a fresh sign of the region’s growing international profile — but business leaders say Whitehall must match that confidence with long-term support for regional growth. New figures show a surge in Japanese investment in the North West, led by companies such as Astemo, Daikin and ...
The Co-op has warned that Britain’s high streets face a tipping point, with new research revealing that 60,000 small shops and 150,000 jobs could vanish without urgent reform of the business rates system. The warning comes ahead of the Autumn Budget and follows YouGov research commissioned by the Co-op showing that seven in ten Britons (69%) doubt the Government will ...
The Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, risks fuelling inflation and damaging small business growth if she reduces the VAT registration threshold in the Autumn Budget, according to leading audit, tax and business advisory firm Blick Rothenberg. The warning comes amid growing speculation that the Treasury is considering lowering the current £90,000 VAT threshold in a bid to raise revenue and bring more ...
Lloyds Banking Group is putting its entire senior leadership team — including chief executive Charlie Nunn — through an intensive six-month artificial intelligence (AI) bootcamp as the bank commits to embedding generative AI across its operations. The programme, created by education technology firm Cambridge Spark in collaboration with experts from the University of Cambridge, is designed to teach Lloyds’ most ...