Exclusive: universal payment is ‘preferred position’ of DHSC in effort to help people self-isolate Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Ministers are considering paying £500 to everyone in England who tests positive for Covid-19, in a dramatic overhaul of the self-isolation support scheme, the Guardian can reveal. […]
Year: 2021
Senate Republican leader says former president needs time to prepare The Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, is proposing to push back the start of Donald Trump’s impeachment trial by a week or more to give the former president time to review the case. House Democrats who voted to impeach Trump […]
Warnings in place as care homes evacuated, roads blocked and body found in river Flood warnings remain in place across north-west England and Wales on Thursday evening following a tumultuous 24 hours in which hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes, and the body of a man was recovered […]
Treaty signatories include Africa’s most populous country and Europe’s least populated, but Russia and Nato on the sidelines An international treaty banning all nuclear weapons that has been signed by 51 countries and that campaigners hope will help raise the profile of global deterrence efforts comes into force on Friday. […]
Teenager ‘set upon’ on Thursday afternoon in the Handsworth area of north west Birmingham A 15-year-old boy has died after being attacked by a group of youths in the Handsworth area of Birmingham. The boy was “set upon” by the gang in Linwood Road just after 3.30pm on Thursday. He […]
Some orders undo significant actions from Trump administration, including the Paris climate agreement, while others address Covid Biden returns US to Paris climate accord hours after becoming president World leaders hail ‘new dawn’ under Biden as Chinese media says ‘good riddance’ ‘Democracy has prevailed’: front pages across world hail Joe […]
Biden marks start of presidency with flurry of executive orders Five key takeaways from Biden’s historic inauguration US records second-highest daily toll of Covid deaths at 4,229 Sign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing by email 8.54am GMT Here’s something to get your ears around – a […]
Believers who were stymied by Trump’s exit could turn to white nationalism and other extremist beliefs, experts say Shortly before Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, Dave Hayes – a longtime QAnon influencer who goes by the name Praying Medic – posted a […]
Whatever his post-presidency life entails it will unfold at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach Donald Trump departed the White House on Wednesday with the promise: “We will be back”. But on Thursday the now former US president was awakening to a different reality as the newest of Florida’s 4.5 […]
Pledging ‘truth and transparency’, Biden’s press secretary was startlingly civil – as far from Sean Spicer as it is possible to be At the end of Sean Spicer’s debut press briefing at the dawn of the Donald Trump presidency, a journalist remarked to me: “I feel like I’m back at […]