Nicola Sturgeon announces she will resign as Scotland’s first minister—after more than eight years in the role. Are British police forces being watched by China? A watchdog warns about Chinese-made surveillance equipment used by police forces across the UK. We hear from an expert on the increasing global demand for critical minerals used to make […]
Nicola Sturgeon has announced she is to resign as First Minister of Scotland, saying: “My decision comes from a place of duty and of love, tough love perhaps, but nevertheless love [of] my party and my country.” Her decision to step down comes a month after the UK Parliament blocked radical gender reforms which had been […]
Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) was assigned to two separate committees on Jan. 17 despite coming under scrutiny from fellow lawmakers after revealing he fabricated parts of his past, including his education and employment history. The House GOP Steering Committee, a panel of around 30 House leadership members, is responsible for recommending members to serve on […]
Republicans in New York on Jan. 11 called for Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) to step down. “George Santos’s campaign last year was a campaign of deceit, lies, and fabrication,” Joseph Cairo, the chairman of the Nassau County GOP, told a press conference. “He deceived the voters of the 3rd Congressional District, he deceived the members of […]
LIMA, Peru—Peru’s newest president, Dina Boluarte, gave in to protesters’ demands early Monday announcing in a nationally televised address that she will send Congress a proposal to move up elections. Boluarte’s decision came after thousands of demonstrators took to the streets around Peru for another day on Sunday to demand that she resign and schedule […]
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday said he has no plans to resign amid mounting criticism over his handling of the immigration crisis at the U.S.–Mexico border. Republican lawmakers pressed Mayorkas about a potential resignation during a hearing before the House Homeland Security Committee. “Have you had a conversation with anyone in the administration about stepping down […]
Liz Truss, who became UK prime minister just six weeks ago, has resigned after a significant number of Conservative MPs lost confidence in her leadership. She is set to become the shortest serving British prime minister in history after failing to stem an open revolt from her own MPs demanding her departure. Speaking in Downing […]
Los Angeles City Councilwoman Nury Martinez resigned from her council seat Oct. 12 after the recent leak of a recorded conversation from a year ago made her the center of a political firestorm that’s sweeping through the second-largest city in the United States. “It is with a broken heart that I resign my seat for […]
Los Angeles City Councilor Nury Martinez stepped down as the council’s president on Oct. 10 after audio recordings of her and two other councilors’ “racist” remarks surfaced the day before, with a wave of politicians—including Mayor Eric Garcetti—calling for them to resign from the council altogether. After the audio was leaked, a slew of California officials and […]
Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) on Oct. 6 indicated he’ll accept a position at the University of Florida after reports that he would resign from the Senate. Sasse, 50, said that the University of Florida “is uniquely positioned to lead this country through an era of disruption” and that the “partisanship” in Washington “isn’t going to […]
