Oct 20 WATCH: U.K. Prime Minister Truss resigns after tumultuous 6-week term By Jill Lawless, Associated Press British Prime Minister Liz Truss has resigned. She has bowed to the inevitable after a tumultuous term in which her policies triggered turmoil in financial markets and a rebellion in her party obliterated her authority. Continue reading
Oct 19 UK Prime Minister Liz Truss vows to stay as home secretary resigns By Jill Lawless, Associated Press The government of British Prime Minister Liz Truss is teetering on the verge of collapse, just hours after she vowed to keep governing. Continue reading
Oct 19 U.K. inflation at 10.1 percent, 40-year high as food prices rise By Danica Kirka, Jill Lawless, Associated Press British food prices rose at the fastest pace since 1980 last month, driving inflation back to a 40-year high and heaping pressure on the embattled government to balance the books without gutting help for the nation's poorest residents. Continue reading
Oct 16 British Prime Minister Liz Truss goes from triumph to trouble in six weeks on the job By Jill Lawless, Associated Press In just six weeks, the prime minister’s libertarian economic policies have triggered a financial crisis, emergency central bank intervention, multiple U-turns and the firing of her Treasury chief. Continue reading
Oct 14 Watch 6:12 News Wrap: Teenager accused in N.C. mass shooting, DOJ seeks end to special master review By PBS NewsHour In our news wrap Friday, police say a 15-year-old boy is in critical condition after shooting and killing five people in Raleigh, North Carolina, the U.S. Justice Department asked a federal appeals court to end an outside review of documents… Continue watching
Oct 13 Despite economic turmoil, UK Treasury chief says tax-cutting plan stays By Danica Kirka, Jill Lawless, Associated Press Britain's Treasury chief has rejected suggestions that the Conservative government would reverse course on economic plans that have roiled financial markets. Continue reading
Oct 04 UK still backs Rwandan asylum-seeker deportations despite legal challenge By Jill Lawless, Associated Press Britain's immigration minister says people who arrive by unauthorized means should not be allowed to claim asylum in the U.K. Continue reading
Oct 03 Watch 5:18 News Wrap: At least 125 killed in stampede in Indonesia, Ukrainian forces gain ground In our news wrap Monday, an Indonesian police chief and nine other elite officers were removed from their posts for their role in a stampede at a soccer match that killed at least 125 people, Wall Street kicked off the… Continue watching
Oct 03 UK scraps tax cut for wealthy that sparked market turmoil By Jill Lawless, Associated Press The British government has dropped plans to cut income tax for top earners. The move was part of a package of unfunded cuts that sparked turmoil on financial markets and sent the pound to record lows. Continue reading
Sep 29 UK's Prime Minister Liz Truss defends economic plan that sent pound tumbling By Jill Lawless, Danica Kirka, Associated Press British Prime Minister Liz Truss has defended her economic plan that roiled financial markets, saying she's willing to make "difficult decisions" to get the economy growing. Continue reading