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The hardline Republican congressman Jim Jordan says he won’t force a third vote on his bid to become speaker of the US House of Representatives after failing to win over enough support among fellow Republicans.
Climate campaigners may be united in their opposition to new coal mines. But there’s another major environmental issue facing the globe, that of catastrophic biodiversity loss.
The House of Representatives has backed a series of bills around stricter gun controls – while a committee will also begin its public hearings today to investigate what really went on during the storming of the US Capitol on January 6th last year.
We are in Cornwall ahead of the G7 summit.
Gary Gibbon
The EU member nations representatives met tonight to consider what should happen in the end of no deal. They felt they didn’t yet have authority to make the call on whether mini deals should be attempted around areas like aviation to avoid chaos and a bad image round the world. Ominously for the UK, the…
The US economy appears to have retreated from the threat of recession after congress voted in favour of a fiscal cliff package which will raise taxes for the wealthy and delay spending cuts.
In a special edition of the American Fourcast, Matt Frei talks to former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Elon Musk and the man whose name she will not mention.
We spoke to Suresh Grover, who is director of the anti-racist charity the Monitoring Group, Paulette Hamilton is the Labour MP for Birmingham Erdington, and Gulwali Passarlay, who came to the UK having fled Afghanistan and now campaigns for refugees’ rights.
The actor Amanda Abbington says she first complained to the BBC about her dance partner Giovanni Pernice within days of starting Strictly Come Dancing.
With the Democrats worried that Joe Biden’s campaign troubles could ruin their chances of winning the November 5 election, Biden insists he will stay on, but many want him to step down. So who could replace him?
Ahead of the exit poll last night – every expectation had been that the far right National Rally would have the largest number of representatives in parliament with Marine Le Pen’s prodigee, the 28-year-old Jordan Bardella at its helm.
Meanwhile, just 34% think Labour will meet its net migration pledge.
India is more than halfway through its marathon six week-long general election, which is due to end on June 1st.
Russia has reacted with fury and has warned more in Ukraine will die after the US House of Representatives passed a military aid package worth more than $60 billion.
In Washington the House of Representatives votes on a number of foreign aid bills including financial support for Israel and Ukraine in their war with Russia.