The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday about Colorado's universal pre-K program and whether religious schools can bar certain families despite the state's anti-discrimination law.
Agriculture, youth visas and emissions agreements nearly tied up under PM’s plan for a much closer relationship with Brussels The UK-EU food produce deal: what was agreed and will it affect shoppers? Andy Burnham is preparing to announce billions of pounds of trade deals with the EU covering everything from youth visas to pet passports under his vision of a much closer relationship with the bloc. With the prime minister scheduled to meet his European counterparts in Brussels on 20 November, officials have all but agreed three deals that would allow farmers to sell freely to the continent and t
From Anchorage to Atlanta, from Austin to Doral, American voters spoke to AFP on Tuesday, the day of a crucial mid-term election, where the Democrats could inflict a setback on Donald Trump...
Andy Burnham’s commitment to a structured dialogue with Caribbean governments is a step forward, but they need more than words There was a risk, in the run-up to the Commonwealth heads of government meeting (Chogm) this week, that important discussions could be derailed by the UK government’s refusal to apologise for slavery and the slave trade, combined with its continuing rejection of calls for financial reparations. For the Caribbean governments and campaigners pushing for these steps, the siting of the biennial gathering in Antigua and Barbuda offered a vital opportunity to press their cas
The latest edition of Radical Thinking, the Guardian’s new podcast, should be required listening at a Treasury still stifled by outdated orthodoxies As prime ministers have come and gone at bewildering speed in recent years, the search for elusive economic growth has become the overriding fixation of the British political class. In the lead-up to the 2024 general election, Sir Keir Starmer declared that “growth must become Labour’s obsession”, given the financial constraints that any new government would be under. The scale of Labour’s progressive offer, it was made clear, would be umbilically