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Decision to advance bill that would reopen government has sparked furor from party and base; House speaker to swear in Democratic representative when chamber returns, a month after her election winSenate Democrats who defected in shutdown vote: ‘This was the only deal’How each senator voted on legislation to end US government shutdownThe eight Democratic and Independent senators who broke ranks with the party to advance a bill that would end […]

Epstein associate is also receiving special treatment in prison, Democrats say, according to whistleblowerGhislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime associate and co-conspirator who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex-trafficking crimes, is reportedly preparing a “commutation application” for the Trump administration to review, according to new allegations from a whistleblower shared with House Democrats.Democrats on the House judiciary committee announced Monday that they had received information from a whistleblower that […]

Chancellor interviewed on Radio 5 Live and says it’s unfair to penalise children in bigger families. This live blog is closedReeves signals plan to remove two-child benefit cap in budgetFarage said the problems facing small businesses were not a failure of capitalism.Some will tell you, well, the economy is failing because capitalism is failing.No, we’re not living in capitalism. We’re living in an age of global corporatism.The other great betrayal […]

Anti-corruption agency says state nuclear power operator Energoatom taking illicit payments of 10-15%Ukraine’s anti-corruption bureau said on Monday that it was conducting a large-scale investigation into the country’s energy sector, alleging kickbacks in transactions involving the state nuclear power operator, Energoatom.The bureau, which operates independently of the government, alleged that several senior figures were involved. Ukrainian media identified one of them as Timur Mindich, a businessman and associate of Ukraine’s […]