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Theresa May has ruled out a David Cameron-style return to politics once she steps down at the next election. Speaking at a Chatham House event on Tuesday (30 April), Mrs May was asked by an audience member whether she would consider a return to frontline politics. She replied: I set up a global commission on modern slavery and human trafficking last October. I have just spent a day in New York at the United Nations talking about that global commission with some of my fellow commissioners and it is taking more time than I expected. That is why I am stepping down from Parliament, so I think I am going to have plenty to do.
Dr. Jill Stein was among the 80 arrested on the WashU campus. The university said everyone who was arrested will be charged with trespassing.
Georgia police used tear gas and rubber bullets against protesters as thousands rallied outside parliament in Tbilisi.
At a special meeting Tuesday night, the Anchorage Assembly unanimously passed a number of amendments and revisions to the citys 2024 operating budget.
Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Wednesday she would call a vote next week on ousting House Speaker Mike Johnson, forcing her colleagues to choose sides in a difficult showdown after Democratic leaders announced they would provide the votes to save the Republican speaker’s job.Video above: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she will force vote over Speaker Johnson’s ouster next weekSpeaking outside the Capitol, Greene ranted against Republican Party leaders at the highest levels and pushed back against their public entreaties, including from Donald Trump, to avoid another messy political fight so close to the November election. With her was Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., one of the few lawmakers to join her effort.We need leaders in the House of Representatives that are going to get this done, said Greene, R-Ga., holding up a red MAGA hat from Trump’s Make America Great Again campaign movement.Mike Johnson is not capable of that job, she said.In pressing ahead next week, she said that “every member of Congress needs to take that vote.”The standoff with Greene, one of Trump’s most enthusiastic supporters, risks throwing Republican control of the House into a fresh round of chaos as rank-and-file lawmakers will have to choose between ousting Johnson, R-La., as speaker or joining with Democrats to keep him on the job.Johnson, in his own statement, said Greene’s move was “wrong for the Republican Conference, wrong for the institution, and wrong for the country.Video below: House Speaker Johnson signals he is ready to stay as speaker with support of Democrats, insists ‘there’s no deals at all’Democrats see in Johnson a potential partner, a hard-line conservative who nevertheless is willing to lead his Republican Party away from the far-right voices obstructing the routine business of governing, including funding the government and, more recently, supporting Ukraine and other U.S. allies overseas.The Democratic leader, New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, and his team issued a joint statement this week saying it was time to turn the page on the GOP chaos, announcing that the Democrats would vote to table Greenes motion to vacate the speakers office, essentially ensuring Johnson is not evicted from office.Are you going to embrace Hakeem Jeffries? said Massie, before a poster-photo of Jeffries handing Johnson the gavel when the Republican first became speaker last fall.Johnson’s public opponents are few, at this point, and less than the eight that it took to oust now-former Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., last fall in the first ever removal of sitting speaker from the powerful office that is second in the line of succession to the president. Just one other Republican, Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona, has joined Greene’s effort.Greene and Massie said they were giving their colleagues the weekend to weigh their options before calling for the vote on her motion to vacate next week. Or, they said, Johnson could simply resign, pointing to the example of a previous speaker, Republican John Boehner of Ohio, who stepped aside in 2015 when hard-liners threatened to oust him.The turmoil has gripped a House already essentially at a standstill. Johnson has been unable to command his razor-thin majority to work together on party priorities and has been forced him into the arms of Democrats for the votes needed to approve most big bills and now, to keep his job.Johnson had been elected by Republicans as a last-ditch consensus candidate after McCarthy’s ouster, but he courted the far-right’s ire when he led passage of the $95 billion foreign aid package for Ukraine and U.S. allies that they oppose.Trump has given a nod of support to Johnson, who dashed to the former president’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida last month to shore up backing.Other Republican leaders, including Trump’s hand-picked head of the Republican National Committee, Michael Whatley, have urged House Republicans to hold off the effort before the fall election that will determine which party controls the White House and Congress.In a private meeting Tuesday, Whatley urged House Republicans to unite around their shared priorities. He delivered the same message later in the day to Greene, telling her that trying to remove Johnson was not helpful, according to a person familiar with the conversations who was not authorized to discuss them publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
A Franklin County judge granted an extension to the temporary restraining order that blocks a ban on gender-affirming care for minors in Ohio.
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The Home Office released a video of what it claimed was people being detained for flights to Rwanda
The start date of Arizona’s Civil War-era abortion ban has been pushed back into late June, extending the window in which Arizonans can still seek abortion care.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, The Associated Press has learned.
Trump Media announced plans to merge with a shell company in late 2021. The legal fallout from the deal is playing out in multiple courtrooms.