Author: Matt C.

Government defeats by MPs for each Prime Minister
Thatcher – 4 in 11 years
Major – 6 in 7 years
Blair – 4 in 10 years
Brown – 3 in 3 years
Cameron – 10 in 6 years
May – 33 in 3 years
Johnson – 3 in 24 hours

Breaking: The House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed the Homeland Security department for documents connected to Trump’s alleged offer to pardon officials who break the law while carrying out his wishes on immigration policy https://t.co/3l8hgD6Rv4?amp=1

UK lawmakers pass a no-deal Brexit bill, another major blow for Trump ally Boris Johnson https://t.co/GQFxe5feaG?amp=1

Conspiracy theorist and lawsuit magnet Alex Jones lost another legal battle last week when a court struck down an appeal related to a defamation lawsuit against him and his website Infowars https://yhoo.it/30URkiB

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam announced the formal withdrawal of a controversial extradition bill that has plunged the Chinese-ruled city into its worst political crisis in decades. Read more: https://reut.rs/2zQ3Ggk

Turkey President Erdogan says that Ankara might need to obtain nuclear weapons

The charges come with 30-year combined maximum prison sentence — a maximum of 20 years for wire fraud and 10 years for money laundering — but the government is recommending Grimes serve less than five years. https://t.co/VPQmhGEZcK?amp=1

JUST IN: Mattis: “I don’t know how I could have spoken more loudly” against Trump than by quittinghttp://hill.cm/YxbWEKB

The Trump administration reconsiders abrupt denials of deportation exemptions for health care https://t.co/0tfAiOGspC?amp=1