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Group that includes congressional leaders and leading intelligence committee members is traditionally briefed on major national security actionsDonald Trump has defended his tariff regime as he prepares to give a speech on the US economy and cost of living at a rally in Pennsylvania this evening.Posting on his social media platform Truth Social in the early hours of Tuesday morning, Trump wrote:Because of Tariffs, easily and quickly applied, our National Security has been greatly enhanced, and we have become the financially strongest Country, by far, anywhere in the World. Only dark and sinister forces would want to see that end!!!The

Former deputy PM addresses Commons as MPs back deal to allow protection from unfair dismissal to start after six months of employmentVictims of NHS maternity failings received “unacceptable care”, leading to “tragic consequences”, Lady Amos, the head of an investigation into maternity care in England, has said. Jamie Grierson has the story.When Angela Rayner told MPs last night that the government should not “blink or buckle” on workers’ rights (see 8.58am), she was referring to the fact that, even when the employment rights bill becomes law, there are many areas where how it gets implemented remains to be decided by

Tech company has installed the advertising screens in hundreds of apartment blocks across 20 British citiesDigital billboards that can film viewers’ responses to adverts have been installed in hundreds of apartment blocks, in a move that civil liberty campaigners called “creepy as hell”.The supplier, 30Seconds Group, says the cameras allow them to track “occupant engagement” from residents who are a “captive audience” as they wait for lifts to their apartments. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/09/uk-campaigners-condemn-digital-billboards-track-viewers Author : Matthew Weaver Publish date : 2025-12-09 07:00:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Agents who kneeled in 2020 accuse Kash Patel of retaliation and say they were trying to calm volatile situationTwelve former FBI agents fired after kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest in Washington have sued to get their jobs back, saying their action had been intended to de-escalate a volatile situation and was not meant as a political gesture.The agents say in their lawsuit that they were fired in September by Kash Patel, the FBI director, because they were perceived as not being politically affiliated with Donald Trump. But they say their decision to take a knee on 4 June