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Donald Trump’s State of the Union: surprise standing ovation from Democrat women
Trump’s calls for co-operation on the border wall may have fallen flat, but the President took a softer tone, rather than his trademark fury at the State of the Union address.
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Labour MP Chris Williamson: “Government’s decision to recognise Juan Guaidó is a democratic outrage”
Jon Snow is joined by the Labour MP Chris Williamson, who like Jeremy Corbyn, has supported the Chavez and Maduro governments in Venezuela.
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Venezuelan President Maduro rejects calls for democratic elections
The beleagured Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro has rejected an ultimatum from European leaders to call new, democratic elections within eight days – instead accusing the opposition leader Juan Guaido of violating the constitution, by declaring himself interim president. But in another blow for Maduro – Venezuela’s top military diplomat to the United States has switched…
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Democrats to investigate claims Trump ‘told his former lawyer to lie to Congress’
The United States House Intelligence and Judiciary Committees are to investigate whether President Trump told his former lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress under oath. It comes after Buzzfeed News reported claims that the President instructed Mr Cohen to lie about a plan to build a Trump Tower in Russia. The President’s current lawyer, Rudy Giuliani,…
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Trump holds shutdown talks with leading Democrats
In the United States, leading Democrats have emerged from a meeting with President Trump aimed at ending the partial government shutdown, saying he’d threatened to keep it going for “months or even years.” It comes after one newly-elected Democrat used a profanity while calling for the President to be impeached. Whatever happened to the season…
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US government shutdown continues as Democrats refuse funds for Mexico wall
There is no end in sight for the partial shutdown of the United States government as Democrats refuse to grant President Donald Trump the funds he wants to build a wall along the border with Mexico. A government shutdown occurs when Congress fails to agree on a budget for the next fiscal year – it…
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US midterm elections: Democrats take House, Republicans make gains in Senate
For the first time since his Presidency began two years ago, Donald Trump faces his first real check on power. For whilst he held and increased his majority in the Senate, he lost the House of Representatives.
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Meet the Democrat challenging political conventions in Texas
The Democrats are hoping they claim an unexpected mid-term win in Texas, even though they haven’t won a state race there since the 90s. The current senator is Republican Ted Cruz but there’s a wonderkid challenger who’s making him sweat. We caught up with both candidates on the campaign trail last week, when the caravan…
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Trump accuses Democrats of playing ‘con game’ over Supereme Court nominee Kavanaugh
The United Nations General Assembly is traditionally a forum to discuss matters of international significance, but with accusations of sexual misconduct swirling around President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, he could not help but defend his man. Sitting next to the Colombian President, Trump called into question the account of a second accuser and said the…
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Far-right Sweden Democrats make gains in elections
In Sweden, the increased vote for the nationalist Sweden Democrats has shifted the political landscape for the two traditional political blocs who are trying to form a coalition government. The general election result has left the Social Democrats and Alliance Party neck and neck with around 40 per cent of the vote. The far-right SD…
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Far-right Sweden Democrats expected to make gains in elections
The anti-immigrant, euro-sceptic Sweden Democrats are set to make historic gains in this weekend’s elections.
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The bloody Chicago Democratic Convention: 50 years on
Kiran Moodley looks back at the Democratic convention in Chicago in 1968 when the party nearly split in two on the issue.
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Fake news and data manipulation causing a ‘democratic crisis’ says MPs
Revelations about the extent of Russian interference in foreign elections – including hacking and spreading disinformation – are just the tip of the iceberg, MPs have warned The digital, culture, media and sport committee said the country was facing a “democratic crisis” because fake news and manipulated data were becoming so pervasive. The MPs want tougher…
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The female Democrats running for office in the fight back against Trump
In America, the women’s marches in protest against President Trump and the Me Too movement have been significant cultural and political mustering points over the last year and a half. Well, now it all appears to have led to a surge in the number of female candidates running as Democrats in the mid-term elections this…
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Trump condemns ‘extremist open-border Democrats’
President Trump may have done a U-turn on separating children from their families at the Mexican border, but his anger at being forced to row back remains white hot. Railing against what he called “immigration laws supported by extremist open-border Democrats”, he complained of having to employ more judges to deal with the backlog of…
