R EFORM UK, the right-wing populist party led by Nigel Farage, won just five of the 650 seats in Britain’s parliament in last ...

Several GCSE and A-level exams could be taken on screen from 2030 - Exams regulator Ofqual is consulting on allowing exam boards to each submit proposals for two qualifications with onscreen elements.

Welcome to slot-machine Britain, where election day gives the people a chance to pull the lever on a one-armed bandit. Our bewildering range of outcomes emerges not so much from a belief that the ...

Former Prime Minister Edward Heath famously asked voters whether his government or labour unions ruled Britain. Left-wing ...

Virginia Eubanks is a journalist, writer and political scientist at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Her most recent book is Automating Inequality (2018). In Rewiring Democracy, ...

• The longest shutdown in US history is over after President Donald Trump signed a funding bill to reopen the government. The House approved the bill earlier tonight in a 222-209 vote, with nearly ...

After 43 days, the federal government shutdown that grounded flights, threatened food aid programs and forced tens of thousands of federal workers to miss multiple paychecks is now over. On the ...

The U.S. government is due to lumber back to life on Thursday after the longest shutdown in U.S. history snarled air traffic, cut food assistance to low-income Americans and forced more than 1 million ...

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WASHINGTON — Though Congress appears to have a deal to end the government shutdown, a vote on that agreement is being held up by an unexpected issue: hemp. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is objecting to ...

The 15th Senate vote to end the shutdown passed 60-40. On Nov. 9, eight Senate Democrats, including New Hampshire Sens. Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen and Maine Sen. Angus King, broke with their ...

The 41-day-long government shutdown isn't over, even though the Senate took the first steps to passing funding that would buy Congress time until Jan. 30 to to pass a budget. If the Senate passes the ...