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Prospective SEC chair pressed on sale of FTX-tied firm
Lawmakers in the US Senate Banking Committee questioned prospective Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) member Paul Atkins on his ties to the cry [...]
Blinken and Lammy pressed to lift limits on long-range missiles
ReutersUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken and UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy have arrived in Kyiv on a joint visit as Ukraine continues to press f [...]
Biden was repeatedly pressed about his fitness to run. Here’s the latest.
Biden was repeatedly pressed about his fitness to run. Here’s the latest.
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Biden Officials Pressed Trans Medical Group to Change Guidelines for Minors, Court Filings Show
Newly released emails from an influential group issuing transgender medical guidelines indicate that U.S. health officials lobbied to remove age minim [...]
Tories and Labour pressed on two-child benefit cap in TV debate
The Plaid Cymru and Welsh Liberal Democrat leaders have urged the next UK government to scrap the two-child welfare benefit limit,They made the call i [...]
Parties pressed over funding of election pledges
Getty ImagesLabour and the Conservatives have been challenged over how they would fund their election pledges, ahead of their manifestos being launche [...]
Education Secretary Gillian Keegan pressed on transgender views
Education Secretary Gillian Keegan has been pressed on whether she has changed her position on the status of transgender people since 2020, when she s [...]
Sunak pressed on wife’s firms benefiting from Covid fund
Labour MP Ruth Cadbury claimed the PM was "ill judged" to fail to declare that companies linked to his wife benefited from government support he set u [...]
Barr Pressed Durham to Find Flaws in the Trump Russia Investigation
The review by John Durham at one point veered into a criminal investigation related to Donald Trump himself, even as it failed to find wrongdoing in t [...]
PMQs: Rishi Sunak to be pressed over Nadhim Zahawi's tax affairs
Rishi Sunak is likely to be grilled at Prime Minister's Questions about the conduct of his party chairman.
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Rishi Sunak pressed on one-off payments to avoid nurses strike
Prime minister Rishi Sunak has said he was pleased union leaders were meeting ministers on Monday, but would not "comment on specifics".Speaking to pr [...]
FTX leadership pressed for information by US subcommittee chairman
“FTX’s customers, former employees, and the public deserve answers,” Raja Krishnamoorthi, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy [...]
Chancellor pressed over whose idea it was to ditch tax plan
Kwasi Kwarteng has been defending the government decision to abandon the plan to abolish the top rate of income tax for the highest earnersPressed on [...]
Tory minister Lord Agnew pressed for key role for donor, says ex-MP
An ex-MP was urged to appoint a millionaire party donor to a group she led, court papers suggest.
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Truss pressed on questioning Middle East on human rights
The foreign secretary said she was "trying to remember", when asked to name what human rights issues she had raised with Gulf state leaders.Labour MP [...]