Sunak invites unions to talks from Monday – but offers no hint he’s willing to compromise on current pay offers In his interview Rishi Sunak said he hoped talks with the unions about pay could start on Monday. Yesterday the government proposed talks with the public sector unions on their pay settlement for 2023-24, and…
By Dominik Stecuła, Colorado State University and Matthew Levendusky, University of Pennsylvania Simmering tension in American politics came to a head two years ago, when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol to try to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election. The failed insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, resulted in several…
HARTFORD, Conn. — A Connecticut state representative, considered a rising political star, was killed when a wrong-way driver crashed head-on into his vehicle early Thursday morning as he returned home from the governor’s inauguration ball, state police said. The other driver also died. Quentin Williams, a 39-year-old Democrat from Middletown, died in the crash that…
Tribune News Service Rajmeet Singh Chandigarh, January 5 As the countdown for the Punjab leg of Bharat Jodo Yatra by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi begins, turban has become a permanent dress code of the Punjab Pardesh Congress Committee (PPCC) chief Amarinder Raja Warring. Call it a coincidence or his family tradition, the PPCC…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom will kick off his second and final term on Friday by contrasting his leadership of the nation’s largest Democratic stronghold with Republican leaders he’s branded as threats to freedom and democracy — including former President Donald Trump. Newsom’s inaugural ceremonies will begin with a morning march through…
CNN — Kevin McCarthy is the latest Republican leader to find out that it’s impossible to get ahead of his party’s inexorable march to its far-right extremes. The Californian, who has lost a stunning 11 consecutive House roll call votes in his bid to become speaker, was the first major GOP leader to embrace ex-President…
The invention of the television may have been the worst development in history for our political system. After all, if it weren’t for televisions in every house in America, many of us wouldn’t see the travesty that appears to be unraveling our government. The fiasco over the election of the speaker of the House of…
Kim Jong Un, who turns 39 on Sunday, is the third generation of his family to successively rule North Korea since 1948. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s presentation of his young daughter at recent public events is likely an attempt to show his people that one of his children will one day inherit the…
Some New Yorkers had strong reactions after President Joe Biden’s announcement Thursday that his administration will immediately begin turning away Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. “It’s always the Black and brown countries who contribute to this government that gets the bottom end of the stick,” said Johane Gracia, resident…
I am writing this on New Year’s Day, the day on which Thomas Jefferson said, “I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and…
