1.5m UK homeowners on variable rate mortgages face new borrowing rise

Read More Almost 1.5 million homeowners with variable rate mortgages face higher borrowing costs with the Bank of England expected to push up interest rates on Thursday to 4.5%. A poll of City analysts found there was a 96% chance the central bank would increase its base rate by 0.25 percentage points when policymakers meet […]

Liz Truss’s plan to visit Taiwan called ‘worst kind of Instagram diplomacy’

Read More The Conservative chair of the foreign affairs select committee has launched a blistering attack on Liz Truss over the former prime minister’s planned trip to Taiwan, calling it “the worst kind of Instagram diplomacy”. Alicia Kearns said she thought Truss’s trip planned for next week was little more than a vanity project aimed […]

Trump repeats conspiracy theories and election lies in CNN town hall

Read More Donald Trump appeared at a CNN town hall on Wednesday night to unleash a litany of lies about the 2020 election and E Jean Carroll’s lawsuit, just one day after a New York jury found the former president liable for sexual abuse and defamation. Trump took questions from a friendly crowd of Republican […]

Feds settle with New Jersey county over ballot language barrier

The Justice Department has reached a settlement with a New Jersey county over language barriers for Spanish-speaking voters, emphasizing a growing challenge for certain minority communities nationwide. The agreement with Union County comes after federal prosecutors filed a lawsuit alleging it failed to make registration and voting notices, forms, instructions and ballots available in Spanish, […]