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Not another one. On Tuesday evening, the government announced that it wasn’t going to make digital ID cards mandatory after all. Just months after Keir Starmer had made digital ID cards the cornerstone of his plans to stop migrants working illegally.It’s getting hard to keep up. At Christmas, we had the U-turn on inheritance tax on farms. In the New Year, we had a U-turn on business rates for pubs. All U-turns that were undoubtedly for the better. All U-turns that came with their own numbing predictability. Almost as if the government hadn’t thought things through. Surely not.History repeats itself,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Ill., and over 70 other Democratic lawmakers in the House of Representatives are signing on to three articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in the wake of the deadly shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis last week.”Secretary Noem, you have violated your oath of office, and there will be consequences. I am watching you. Members of Congress are watching you. The American people, most importantly, are watching you,” Kelly said as she announced her effort Wednesday.Kelly described her impeachment articles. One accuses Noem of obstruction…

The United States has started evacuating hundreds of troops from its largest air base in the Middle East ahead of potential military action by President Donald Trump against Iran, according to a U.S. official and a person familiar with the matter.The troops at Al Udeid Air Base are moving to other facilities and hotels in the region, taking them out of harm’s way should any U.S. attack trigger retaliation from Tehran against American interests, the sources said.The Qatari government said personnel were being withdrawn from the base “in response to the current regional tensions.” It said in a statement that…

New Delhi: The recent deviation in a PSLV-C62 mission of Indian Space Research Organisation, which likely led to the loss of 16 satellites, has renewed attention on how India manages financial risk in space missions. A review of ISRO’s past practices shows that insurance decisions have varied based on the satellite’s origin and the launch vehicle used. Domestic Launches: No Insurance ISRO has consistently stated that launches conducted using its own launch vehicles are not insured. After the PSLV-C39 / IRNSS-1H failure in 2017, then ISRO Chairman A. S. Kiran Kumar told IANS: Add Zee News as a Preferred…

Keir Starmer has promised action against union activists and campaigners who pushed for the cancellation of a school visit by an MP who is vice-chair of Labour Friends of Israel.Pro-Palestine activists and National Education Union members said they opposed the visit by Damien Egan, the Labour MP for Bristol North East, because they viewed him as supportive of Israel’s military operation in Gaza.The cancellation took place in September but the issue was raised on Sunday by the communities secretary, Steve Reed, who said a Jewish colleague was banned from visiting a school amid concerns his presence would “inflame” teachers.At prime…

When Rodríguez announced the releases, Christopher Hernandez-Roy, a leading authority on Venezuela and senior fellow at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank, said there were four “unlawfully detained” being held in the country. The U.S. and opponents to the Venezuelan regime have long demanded the release of detained opposition figures, activists and journalists, who they say are used as a political tool by the ruling party.Venezuela’s government has denied that prisoners have been unjustly detained and had accused them of plotting to destabilize Maduro’s regime.Venezuela’s government said Monday that 116 prisoners had been released though rights…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., is reportedly the subject of a federal investigation following a controversial video in which she and several other lawmakers encouraged service members to “refuse illegal orders.”The senator told The New York Times that she discovered the probe was launched by U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro’s office. The Times reported that Pirro’s office sent an email to the Senate’s sergeant-at-arms requesting an interview with Slotkin or her private counsel. Slotkin reportedly described the probe to the Times as an effort by an authoritarian president to use…

New Delhi: India’s GDP will likely expand 7.5-7.8 per cent in the current fiscal (FY26), driven by festive demand and robust services activity, a report said on Wednesday. The report from Deloitte India, however, noted that the growth could moderate to 6.6–6.9 per cent in FY27 because of a high base and lingering global uncertainties. The business consultancy noted that real GDP grew 8 per cent in the first half of 2025–26 (April–September), underscoring the economy’s resilience amid trade disruptions, policy shifts in advanced economies and volatile capital flows. “India’s resilience is no accident. It stems from sustained pro-growth policies,”…

WASHINGTON — The U.S. could have to pay as much as $700 billion if it were to achieve President Donald Trump’s goal of buying Greenland, according to three people familiar with the cost estimate.The estimate was generated by scholars and former U.S. officials as part of planning around Trump’s aspiration to acquire the 800,000-square-mile island as a strategic buffer in the Arctic against America’s top adversaries, these people said. It attaches a price tag of more than half the Defense Department’s annual budget to Trump’s national security priority, which has stoked anxiety across Europe and on Capitol Hill amid his…

Reeves plays down significance of digital ID card U-turn, saying workers will still have to verify ID digitallyRachel Reeves, the chancellor, has accused the media of exaggerating the extent of the digital ID U-turn.In an interview on BBC Breakfast this morning, she said: On the digital ID, for starters, I do think this story has been a bit overwritten. We are saying that you will need mandatory digital ID to be able to work in the UK. Now the difference is whether that has to be one piece of ID, a digital ID card, or whether it could be an…