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Jess Phillips has marked her tenth year reading out in the House of Commons the names of women thought to have been killed by men in the past year. The Minister for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls spent five minutes listing 95 names in front of fellow MPs, who listened on in silence. … Read more
More than 100 government employees have been ordered to return to work, just weeks after the Trump administration let them go. On Tuesday (March 4), around 180 former employees of the US’ top public health agency, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), were summoned back to their jobs in an email, just two weeks after … Read more
US president Donald Trump wasted no time signing off on multiple executive orders after being sworn in as the 47th president of the US. One order included imposing ‘catastrophic’ tariffs to ‘hold China, Mexico and Canada accountable for their promises to halt the flood of poisonous drugs into the US’ by placing 25 percent tariffs on goods imported from Canada and … Read more
The US president’s near-100-minute speech was action-packed, as he detailed how Vladimir Putin has provided ‘strong signals’ to the US for peace and disclosed a letter received from President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy amid the chaos that unfolded in the Oval Office last week. Vance was in attendance at the Capitol in the address to Congress on Tuesday (March 4), with … Read more
Last month, Donald Trump signed off on an order imposing ‘catastrophic’ tariffs to ‘hold China, Mexico and Canada accountable’ for their ‘promises of halting illegal immigration and stopping poisonous fentanyl and other drugs from flowing into’ the US. The order – which came into effect on March 4 after a 30-day pause – sees an additional ten percent tariff placed on … Read more
The department as we know it today was officially created by the government in 1979, but President Andrew Johnson actually signed legislation creating the first Department of Education all the way back in 1867, according to the department’s website. The original job of the department was to collect information and statistics about the nation’s schools, but it was … Read more
Trump presented his presidential speech to Congress earlier this week, where he revealed Vladimir Putin has provided ‘strong signals’ to the US for peace and detailed a letter received from President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy amid the ongoing war in Europe. Just last week, the 47th POTUS accused Zelenskyy of ‘gambling with World War 3’, while Vice President JD Vance insisted that Zelenskyy was treating both … Read more
The UK has been warned that it does not have the capability to defend itself against a concentrated intercontinental ballistic missile attack. The verdict came from a report by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) as it warned that effective defence systems for European countries remain an “ambition” rather than a reality. The issue in the … Read more
Rod Stewart’s daughter, Ruby, has unleashed the wrath of President Donald Trump’s supporters after she took to social media to blast the US leader. Ruby, 37, weighed in on the discussion surrounding Congressman AI Green being removed from Congress after he heckled Trump. As members of the Democrats booed the 47th President, AI Green of … Read more
A vile Afghan “asylum seeker” has been found guilty of raping a 15-year-old schoolgirl after spotting her alone in a town centre. Sadeq Nikzad approached the girl in Falkirk, Stirlingshire in October 2023 – when he asked for her phone number and whether she had a boyfriend, the High Court in Edinburgh heard. Nikzad, 29, … Read more