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A ban on the burka is “not our policy as a party”, the Conservative shadow chancellor has told Sky News, despite Robert Jenrick saying yesterday that it should be banned.Sir Mel Stride suggested that there are circumstances where a ban on full face coverings as a whole would be permissible, and denied that calling specifically for a ban on the burka is “anti-British”, defending Mr Jenrick’s comments. The shadow chancellor is the latest to weigh in on the row after Mr Jenrick said on Tuesday that he would “probably ban the burka” – an Islamic veil that covers the whole…
new video loaded: What Happens if Obamacare Subsidies Expire?Consumers are facing greater costs for their 2026 A.C.A. health coverage as Congress continues to debate whether to extend subsidies that help people afford their premiums. Margot Sanger-Katz, a health care policy reporter for The New York Times, explains why.By Margot Sanger-Katz, Laura Bult, Claire Hogan, Zach Wood and Stephanie SwartOctober 22, 2025
PHOENIX — PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has filed a lawsuit that seeks to get Democrat Adelita Grijalva sworn in as the state’s newest member of Congress after U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson has refused to seat her a month since winning the post.The Democratic attorney general filed the lawsuit Tuesday in Washington on behalf of Grijalva. It asks a judge to let other people, such as federal judges, who are authorized to administer the oath swear in Grijalva if Johnson has not done so. Mayes has said previously that the delay in giving Grijalva, the first…
Shares of Texas Instruments sank more than 8 per cent on Wednesday in premarket trading, after the chipmaker’s downbeat fourth-quarter profit and revenue outlook deepened worries over a drawn-out recovery in the analog chip market as tariff uncertainty plagues the wider industry.While TI has reduced some of its business exposure to the Trump administration’s tariffs through trade deals, uncertainty over additional levies and trade negotiations has weighed on investor sentiment and delayed the pace of recovery.”The recovery pace is much more gradual than anticipated,” said J.P. Morgan analysts, adding the wider industry “could still be muted by tariff/trade and sluggish…
WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the federal government owes him “a lot of money” for prior Justice Department investigations into his actions and insisted he would have the ultimate say on any payout because any decision will “have to go across my desk.”Trump’s comments to reporters at the White House came in response to questions about a New York Times story that said he had filed administrative claims before being reelected seeking roughly $230 million in damages related to the FBI’s 2022 search of his Mar-a-Lago property for classified documents and for a separate…
A White House official has said there is “zero truth” to a report that Donald Trump is considering commuting Sean “Diddy” Combs’s prison sentence as early as this week.On Monday, US entertainment site TMZ reported the US president was “vacillating” on whether or not to reduce the music mogul’s sentence, citing a “high-ranking White House official”. Combs was sentenced to 50 months in prison and given a $500,000 fine at a hearing on 3 October, after being found guilty of prostitution charges relating to his former girlfriends and male sex workers at the end of his high-profile trial in the…
The U.S. Department of Justice is reviewing a request from New Jersey Republicans to send election monitors to oversee the handling of mail ballots in a key county that will help settle the state’s Nov. 4 governor’s race. The New Jersey Republican State Committee told Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, in a letter that federal intervention is necessary to ensure an accurate vote count in Passaic County. State officials disputed that characterization and called any federal intervention “highly inappropriate.”The suburban county has been a Democratic stronghold. But it shifted to President Donald Trump’s…
JAKARTA :Indonesia’s central bank unexpectedly held its key interest rate steady on Wednesday, surprising markets with a pause in its easing cycle after cutting rates at its past three meetings.Bank Indonesia kept the benchmark 7-day reverse repurchase rate at 4.75 per cent. Of 28 economists polled by Reuters, 21 had expected a 25 basis points cut, with the rest predicting no change.The overnight deposit and lending rates were also kept at 3.75 per cent and 5.50 per cent, respectively.Governor Perry Warjiyo told an online press conference that while domestic economic conditions were good, growth needed to be pushed to reach…
WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON (AP) — Leaders at the Pentagon have significantly altered how military officials will speak with Congress after a pair of new memos issued last week.In an Oct. 15 memo, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and his deputy, Steve Feinberg, ordered Pentagon officials — including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — to obtain permission from the department’s main legislative affairs office before they have any communication with Capitol Hill.The memo was issued the same day the vast majority of Pentagon reporters exited the building rather than agree to the Defense Department’s new restrictions on their work,…
BEIRUT — BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese pop star turned Islamist militant who turned himself in this month after 12 years on the run appeared in court Tuesday in Beirut for the first time.Fadel Shaker had been hiding out in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh since bloody street clashes erupted between Sunni Muslim militants and the Lebanese army in June 2013 in the coastal city of Sidon.He was tried in absentia and sentenced to 22 years in prison in 2020 for providing support to a “terrorist group.”As part of the deal that persuaded Shaker to turn himself in,…