The government’s compromise to avoid a Commons defeat on Brexit has been rejected as "unacceptable" by leading rebel Dominic Grieve. Theresa May had convinced most rebels – who want MPs to have the final say – to back her in a key vote on Tuesday night by giving them assurances. But the wording of the […]

The Justice Department’s internal watchdog found that former FBI Director James Comey’s actions in the Hillary Clinton email investigation deviated from the department’s norms but that Comey was not motivated by political bias, according to two sources familiar with the report. The inspector general is releasing a sweeping report Thursday detailing a series of failures […]

The New York attorney general on Thursday sued President Donald Trump’s charitable foundation along with its directors — the President, his sons Eric and Donald Jr. and daughter Ivanka, alleging they violated state and federal charities law. Attorney General Barbara Underwood alleges a pattern of persistent illegal conduct over more than a decade that includes […]

Oklahoma’s Republican Sen. James Lankford rejected colleague Bob Corker’s comments that the Republican Party is in a "cult-like situation" with President Donald Trump in which it will not publicly disagree with Trump. "We’re in a strange place. It’s becoming a cultish thing, isn’t it?" Corker, a Tennessee Republican senator, told CNN’s Manu Raju on Wednesday […]

A British woman was one of two tourists found dead on a beach in Portugal after apparently falling from a wall, the Foreign Office has said. The woman and an Australian national were found on Tuesday in Ericeira, a town 25 miles (40 km) north of Lisbon. Portuguese officials said the pair are thought to […]

A daredevil raccoon has been safely rescued after leaving the internet on tenterhooks by scaling a 23-floor building in St Paul, Minnesota. The critter, dubbed #MPRraccoon after the radio station opposite the high-rise, trended worldwide on Twitter. Crowds gathered at the building after it went viral, and local media streamed its perilous climb for almost […]

The 2026 World Cup will be held in the United States, Canada and Mexico after their joint bid beat Morocco’s proposal to host it. The ‘United 2026’ bid was selected by Fifa member nations, winning 134 votes compared to 65 for Morocco. The 2026 tournament will be the biggest World Cup ever held – with […]

SNP MPs have walked out en masse from Prime Minister’s Questions after their Westminster leader was thrown out of the chamber in a row with the Speaker. Ian Blackford refused to sit down when ordered to by John Bercow having asked for the Commons to sit in private. This was in protest at a lack […]