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Day: December 12, 2018

May hints, she will quit
Featured, United Kingdom

May hints, she will quit

    The prime minister’s spokesman said she did not regard the vote tonight as‪ deciding who is going to lead the party into the next election, but about who takes the country through Brexit. The key argument her critics have used against her remaining as leader, is that many of her MPs do not want her to lead the Conservatives into the next election. The move came after a confident performance by Ms May at prime minister’s questions in the commons, which her husband Philip watched from the public gallery. She was to follow the session with multiple meetings with MPs and then a critical group meeting with the backbench 1922 Committee of Conservatives. Her spokesman said Ms May doesn’t believe the vote today is about who leads the party to the next election. It’s ab...
Stormy ordered to pay Trump $293,000
America, Featured

Stormy ordered to pay Trump $293,000

    A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Stormy Daniels must pay President Trump more than $293,000 (£233k) in legal fees in her failed defamation lawsuit, a decision that the president’s team hailed as a total victory but that Daniels’s attorney vowed would never hold up on appeal. U.S. District Judge S. James Otero ruled that Daniels must pay Trump $293,052.33 in attorneys fees, costs and sanctions, a figure representing 75 percent of the amount Trump had been seeking. Daniels had claimed in the lawsuit that Trump defamed her when he suggested that she had lied about being threatened to keep quiet about their alleged past relationship. Otero dismissed the suit in October, ruling that Trump’s rhetorical hyperbole was political in nature and ordering Daniels, whose given ...
London is a mess: EU to wait and see before rethink on Brexit timetable
Europe, Featured

London is a mess: EU to wait and see before rethink on Brexit timetable

    EU leaders will want to see who emerges as British prime minister from the Conservative party’s leadership contest before considering an extension of the negotiating time allowed under article 50. A special summit could be held in January to assess the situation, EU diplomats said, but agreement on a prolongation beyond 29 March 2019 would be far from certain. In her response to the vote of confidence in her leadership, Theresa May had claimed on the steps of Downing Street that whoever took her job would have to scrap or extend article 50, the mechanism taking Britain out of the EU on 29 March, “delaying or even stopping Brexit”. Brussels has repeatedly warned it would not countenance an extension of the two-year negotiating period to simply allow a “managed no-de...