British Conservative lawmaker Rishi Sunak will replace Liz Truss as the next leader of the ruling Conservative Party and the country’s prime minister, 1922 Committee Chairman Graham Brady announced on Monday. Sunak won the race after his only opponent, Penny Mordaunt, dropped out. Sunak will officially become prime minister once he is appointed to the…
Month: October 2022
Commission of January 6 announces that it sent a subpoena to Trump to testify
The Select Committee of the House of Representatives investigating the assault on the US Capitol, on January 6, 2021, announced this Friday that it officially sent a subpoena to former President Donald Trump to testify. Precisely as he portrays him as the central figure in a multi-step plan to overturn the results of the 2020…
Court of Appeals temporarily halts Biden's student debt relief program
A federal appeals court placed a temporary administrative pause on President Joe Biden’s student debt relief program, barring the administration from repaying the loans as planned while the court reviews a challenge. The order comes from the US 8th Circuit Court of Appeals and responds to a case brought by six Republican-led states. A district…
Record two million encounters with migrants at the US border in fiscal year 2022
US border authorities recorded more than 2 million encounters with migrants in fiscal year 2022, some of whom repeatedly attempted to cross the border, according to recently released data from US Customs and Border Protection. The new data shows a marked increase from fiscal year 2021, when there were more than 1.7 million encounters, which…