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A government minister has defended long delays to a military spending plan that are also stalling the UK’s next-generation Tempest fighter jet programme, but refused to say when it will be complete.The defence investment plan (DIP), originally expected last autumn, has faced repeated postponements amid warnings that the military faces a £28bn funding gap over the next four years.Luke Pollard, the minister for defence readiness and industry, told the Guardian the plan is “a bigger task than many people outside defence realise”.It will mean “fundamentally changing the shape of our armed forces, so pivoting, in particular, towards more autonomy”, he…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who criss-crossed the country last year on a “Fight Oligarchy” tour with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., spent over $550,000 in 2025 on private jet travel for himself using campaign funds, a Fox News Digital review of Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings found.The majority of the spending came in the first two quarters, which cover up until July. That is also when Sanders and AOC had the majority of their tour stops across the country. In April, between stops on the tour, Fox News Digital exclusively obtained…

Wes Streeting is to offer resident doctors a bigger pay rise than other NHS staff as part of a new package of measures to try to end their long-running dispute.The health secretary also plans to guarantee resident doctors in England that hospitals will be fined if they do not give them good working conditions, such as rest areas and access to hot food.Streeting is looking at making a series of improvements to previous offers he has made, which may persuade the British Medical Association (BMA) to call off its nearly three-year-long campaign of industrial action.Senior figures in the NHS briefed…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! White House border czar Tom Homan mocked anti-ICE agitators who have set up roadblocks and checkpoints in Minneapolis as a “joke” on Wednesday, saying they are only harming their own communities.Homan made the statement during a press conference in Minnesota on Wednesday, telling reporters that local police were dismantling the checkpoints.”When I was made aware that the roadblocks exist, I called the chief of police, and he went and disbanded them after I got off the phone with him. He has promised to take enforcement action,” Homan said after being asked about…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! For weeks, President Donald Trump has promised the Iranian people that “help is on the way” while positioning a massive U.S. naval armada within striking distance of Iran’s coast. But as the White House pivots toward a diplomatic summit in Istanbul Friday, analysts warn the president may face a growing credibility test if threats are not followed by action.By threatening “speed and fury” against a regime accused of killing thousands of protesters, Trump has drawn a red line — one that analysts say echoes President Barack Obama’s 2013 warning over Syria’s use…

Starmer says Mandelson has been stripped of role as privy counsellorKemi Badenoch says all MPs will be disgusted by the latest Jeffrey Epstein revelations. But the decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as an ambassador reflects on the PM’s judgment. Was he aware that Mandelson had continued his friendship with Epstein after Epstein’s first conviction?Starmer says Mandelson betrayed his country and his party by leaking secrets. He lied before the appointment process. The government has referred him to the police. He says he has asked officials to draft legislation to stop Mandelson of his title.This morning he has agreed with the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Shortly after a student was killed in a fatal accident involving a school maintenance vehicle, the board for Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) held a closed-door safety training for staff in which dozens of actors simulated parents unleashing “terrorist activity,” according to a report.Nick Minock, a reporter for Washington, D.C., area outlet ABC7, posted on X that the controversial Virginia school board hired 30 actors to portray Loudoun County parents in a mock terror attack scenario.Minock wrote that the actors filled the seats like parents normally do during school board meetings, but…

Today’s advocates of a windfall tax on the UK’s highly profitable banking sector detected a whiff of familiarity in Peter Mandelson’s suggestion, back in 2009, that JP Morgan should “mildly threaten” the chancellor.Feeding a Wall Street financier market sensitive titbits was an extraordinary breach of trust – perhaps even illegal, it seems – but for Labour veterans of the financial crisis, Mandelson’s collusion with the banks against his own colleagues was the worst betrayal.The then business secretary told Jeffrey Epstein by email that he was “trying hard” to change government policy on a bankers’ bonus tax; and appeared to recommend…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! New York and New Jersey sued the Trump administration Tuesday for cutting off $16 billion in federal funding for a new rail tunnel project under the Hudson River connecting the two states.The federal government is accused of “illegally withholding” funding committed to the Gateway project and the two states are seeking emergency relief to force the release of funds frozen by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). With construction already underway, the states are seeking a quick ruling because the project could be forced to shut down as early as Friday, potentially eliminating…