Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) plans to launch a speaking tour alongside Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), beginning at a retirement community in Florida. Residents of the community, The Villages, tell CNN’s Randi Kaye what they think of Gaetz. #AC360 #CNN #RandiKaye
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Sir Keir Starmer is facing calls to “change direction” from Labour’s left wing after he became the first leader to see the party lose Hartlepool in 47 years. Labour suffered a “shattering” defeat in Thursday’s by-election as they lost out to the Conservatives by 6,940 votes. The result boosts Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s majority in
More than 25 people in Colombia have been killed in violent protests fueled by frustration over Covid-19’s economic impact. #CNN #News
Polling stations have closed on an election day that could have profound implications for the future of the United Kingdom and the Labour Party. Dubbed Super Thursday, the polls closed at 10pm in the largest test of political opinion outside a general election in nearly 50 years. The future of the Labour Party and the
The polls open at 7am today for the biggest set of elections outside a general election in almost 50 years. Voters will cast their ballots despite the many COVID-19 restrictions still in place, with 48 million people given the chance to have their say. In Scotland and Wales, the electorate will decide on their national
The UK is sending two Royal Navy boats to Jersey “as a precaution” after threats of a French blockade of the island’s main port. Downing Street confirmed Boris Johnson spoke to Chief Minister of Jersey Senator John Le Fondre on Wednesday evening “about the prospect of a blockade of Saint Helier” – the island’s main
Rep. Liz Cheney says the Republican Party is at a “turning point” and must decide whether to accept or reject Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election, in a new op-ed for the Washington Post. #CNN #News
There have been two positive COVID cases among the Indian delegation in the UK for this week’s G7 meeting, Sky News understands. Although it is not a G7 member, India was invited to attend the first in-person meeting of the group’s foreign ministers in more than two years in London this week. The meeting was
India’s leader holds rally with thousands as virus rips through country CNN’s Clarissa Ward reports from New Delhi on the growing criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his failure to control a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic in India. #CNN #News #CNNi
Former CIA Director John Brennan tells Christiane Amanpour that the United States needs to lead the way to ensure that democratic governments around the world are able to stand up against autocratic regimes that are gaining ground on the global stage. #CNNI #News
Jury consultant Alan Tuerkheimer explains why there could be grounds for appeal in Derek Chauvin’s case after a photo of one of the trial jurors showed him wearing a Black Lives Matter shirt at the March on Washington. #CNN #News
In a few days, voters will go to the polls for the first time since Labour’s red wall turned blue in a bumper set of local and mayoral elections. And it will be Sir Keir Starmer’s, rather than Boris Johnson’s big test. It is the first time the Labour leader has faced the electorate since
Sir Keir Starmer has admitted Labour still have “a mountain to climb” to win back voters ahead of this week’s local elections – as some polls showed his party behind the Conservatives in key races. On Thursday, people in England, Scotland and Wales will head to the polls in a bumper set of elections with
CNN’s Matt Rivers takes a closer look at the dangerous world of human smuggling and follows a smuggler group as they race toward the US-Mexico border wall. #CNN #News #CNNi
Boris Johnson has said there is a “good chance” the one-metre plus social distancing rule can be scrapped from 21 June. During a campaign visit in Hartlepool, the prime minister told reporters: “I think we’ve got a good chance, a good chance, of being able to dispense with one-metre plus.” Under the government’s roadmap for
Nicola Sturgeon has thrown down the gauntlet to Boris Johnson over a second independence referendum, telling Sky News that if the UK government doesn’t challenge the Scottish government in court, then “by definition it would be a legal referendum”. Scotland’s first minister, who will claim the right to hold a second independence referendum by the
The prime minister has been “crystal clear” about how the refurbishment of his Downing Street flat was financed, the foreign secretary has told Sky News. Speaking to Sophy Ridge on Sunday, Dominic Raab said Boris Johnson had “covered the cost himself” and “followed all the relevant codes of conduct”. But another senior Conservative, the party’s
The UK is in the “last lap” in its fight against coronavirus, the foreign secretary has told Sky News. But Dominic Raab said a “careful” approach to easing COVID-19 restrictions was still necessary, with “steady steps” the “smart way to go”. Defending the pace of the government’s roadmap for easing measures, he told Sophy Ridge
There’s a generation in Scotland that’s only known its government run by the SNP. That won’t change this week as everything points to Nicola Sturgeon winning a majority. Barring a huge political upset, Scotland’s under-20s will get the result they’ve had all their lives. Mairi Matheson and Lloyd Cameron are among them – two teenagers
The drip feed of allegations has been relentless, and the questions seemingly never-ending. How did Boris Johnson fund his trendy make-over of the Downing Street flat? What messages did he exchange with businessman James Dyson? Just how many times did David Cameron text Rishi Sunak? But perhaps the biggest question of all – just how