Month: February 2026

Collins is expected to face tough re-election battle as Democrats seek to flip seat in this year’s midterm electionsUS politics live – latest updatesSusan Collins, the Maine Republican senator who is a top target of Democrats in this year’s midterm elections, on Tuesday launched her campaign for a sixth term in office.She is expected to face one of the toughest re-election battles of the year, as victory in Maine is […]

As he faces calls from lawmakers to resign, Lutnick testifies that he and his family visited disgraced financier in 2012US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick had lunch with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on the disgraced financier’s private island, he said on Tuesday, as he faces mounting calls to resign from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.“I did have lunch with him, as I was on a boat going across […]

Polling is bad, crucial tests are looming, his party is a tinderbox and the leadership genie is hard to rebottleUK politics live – latest updates“Is it over?” That was the question that Labour MPs have been asking themselves and each other. But the meaning has shifted over the last 24 hours.After last Wednesday afternoon’s chaos in the Commons over the release of the Peter Mandelson documents, MPs widely believed it […]

Ashwin Prasad says far fewer people in work than there could be and ministers ‘tinkering at the edges’ of problemThe UK is “sleepwalking into a quiet epidemic” of joblessness with millions of people out of work and on benefits, the boss of the nation’s biggest supermarket chain has warned.Ashwin Prasad, who runs the UK arm of Tesco, said he believed far fewer people were in work than should be and […]

Ex-players and fans say good sense prevails after Pakistan reverses its decision to boycott Sunday's clash.Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article