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Addressing the House of Commons on Monday, British Prime Minister Theresa May delayed a vote on her Brexit withdrawal or transition agreement with the European Union. The vote was originally planned for Tuesday but will now take place at an as yet undetermined date before Jan. 21, 2019. May’s delay of this vote is a big deal. It proves that her plan lacks the support of the House of Commons….

“The Guardians.” That’s what Time magazine is calling the journalists behind 2018’s “Person of the Year,” which was revealed exclusively Tuesday morning on “Today.” Time magazine’s Person of the Year covers.Time With a record number of reporters behind bars around the planet — the Committee to Protect Journalists documented 262 cases in 2017 — an avalanche of misinformation on social media and government officials from the United States to the…

In Bath Beach, two homicides claimed the lives of two men in on Sunday, including an FDNY firefighter. In the early hours of Sunday, December 9, police said Faizal Coto, 33, was involved in a possible road-rage confrontation that ended in his death. Responding to a 911 call of a vehicle collision on the Belt Parkway around 4:45 am, police discovered a 2008 Ford Mustang on the…

Alleged Russian agent Maria Butina, suspected of trying to infiltrate the National Rifle Association and influence US policy toward Russia, has pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiring to act as a foreign agent without registering with the Justice Department, according to NPR. It was not immediately clear how the deal will be structured for Butina. US District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington scheduled a hearing for Wednesday. Multiple news…

Trump’s 2020 campaign also spent about $120,000 at the president’s hotel in Washington, D.C., and $15,000 at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. The Trump International Hotel in Washington, which the president leases from the federal government, is the target of a lawsuit by Maryland and the District of Columbia. The suit charges that Trump’s control of the hotel violates the emoluments clause of the Constitution, which bars federal…

CLOSE Andrés Manuel López Obrador wins Mexican presidency, becoming first leftist to govern in decades. USA TODAY Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks during a press conference at the Treasury Hall of the National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico, on Dec. 5, 2018.(Photo: Sashenka Gutierrez, EPA-EFE) MEXICO CITY — The Mexican government has announced plans to spend $30 billion over the next five years on Central American development, an…

Former Baylor University fraternity president Jacob Anderson walks out of the courtroom in Waco, Tex., on Monday. (Jerry Larson/Waco Tribune Herald/AP) Eli Rosenberg December 10 at 10:56 PM A former fraternity president at Baylor University who had been accused of rape will not serve any jail time nor be forced to register as a sex offender after a judge accepted the plea deal he had been offered by Texas prosecutors,…

Philip Rucker Josh Dawsey Robert Costa December 10 at 7:51 PM President Trump had no Plan B. After announcing the exit of his chief of staff, John F. Kelly, and being turned down by his pick to replace him, Nick Ayers, Trump found himself Monday in an unexpected predicament — scrambling to recruit someone to help run the executive branch of the federal government and guide the administration through the…

French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a special address to the nation on Monday, his first public comments after four weeks of nationwide “yellow vest” (gilet jaune) protests. Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a special address to the nation on Monday, his first public comments after four weeks of nationwide “yellow vest” (gilet jaune) protests. Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images Trying to quell…

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Poland’s Solidarity labor union has joined forces with climate skeptics from America to call for “a restoration of the Scientific Method and the dismissal of ideological dogma” in the study of climate change as part of a joint declaration the union has submitted to the United Nations in partnership with a U.S.-based free-market think tank. This is the same labor union founded under the leadership of Lech Walesa, the Nobel…

Aaron Trejo, seen here, was charged in the killing of Breana Rouhselang. (St. Joseph County Police Department) A 16-year-old Indiana high school football player was charged with murder and feticide Monday after he admitted he brutally killed a 17-year-old pregnant cheerleader because she hid her pregnancy from him too long to get an abortion. Aaron Trejo said he stabbed Breana Rouhselang in her heart with a knife, Detective Gery Mullins said in charging…

Reading this “from across the pond” message, be grateful that you do not have to suffer the bitter Brexit debate underway in Britain. Having lived and breathed Brexit for several years now as a political consultant, it is hard to remember life before. To summarize, Britain currently faces three basic options. First, to remain in the European Union after a second referendum to that effect. Second, to leave under the…

Reading this “from across the pond” message, be grateful that you do not have to suffer the bitter Brexit debate underway in Britain. Having lived and breathed Brexit for several years now as a political consultant, it is hard to remember life before. To summarize, Britain currently faces three basic options. First, to remain in the European Union after a second referendum to that effect. Second, to leave under the…

Reading this “from across the pond” message, be grateful that you do not have to suffer the bitter Brexit debate underway in Britain. Having lived and breathed Brexit for several years now as a political consultant, it is hard to remember life before. To summarize, Britain currently faces three basic options. First, to remain in the European Union after a second referendum to that effect. Second, to leave under the…

In an early decision involving abortion, newly confirmed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sided with liberals in declining to hear a case that could have allowed states to defund Planned Parenthood in state Medicaid programs. My colleague Kimberly Leonard has more background and details of the cases, but the basic gist is that lower court rulings prevented Louisiana and Kansas from blocking abortion provider Planned Parenthood from participating in Medicaid….

There is a very real threat to liberal democracy in Trump’s America, but it has nothing to do with populism. In fact, populism — an insistence that government authority reflect the will of the people — could be a big part of the solution to the current crisis. Trump looks and sounds like a populist, a leader who whips up his supporters into chanting anti-democratic slogans like, “Lock her up!”…

Lawmakers are due to vote Tuesday on the Brexit deal, and all signs have pointed to a big defeat for the prime minister — a result that could sink May’s deal, her leadership, or both.

It looks like President Donald Trump is going to have a harder time than expected replacing John Kelly as chief of staff. Nick Ayers, who is currently Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff, was reportedly whom Trump had in mind for the job, but the 36-year-old operative is apparently out of the running. He tweeted on Sunday that he would be leaving the White House at the end of…