Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford both gave evidence on Thursday Republicans are pushing to vote on President Donald Trump's nominee for the US Supreme Court on Friday, after hearing dramatic testimony from him and a woman accusing him of sexual assault.Brett Kavanaugh, at times emotional and angry, denied…
AT MIDDAY on September 27th Brett Kavanaugh’s prospects of reaching the Supreme Court Bench looked distinctly shaky. Dr Christine Blasey Ford, an academic psychologist who accuses him of sexually assaulting her 36 years ago, had given a moving and credible account of the alleged attack to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Even President Donald Trump, glued…
By Lawrence Hurley, Andrew Chung and Amanda Becker WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fighting to salvage his U.S. Supreme Court nomination, Brett Kavanaugh angrily and tearfully denied on Thursday a university professor’s accusation that he sexually assaulted her 36 years ago and complained about a “political hit” after she told a dramatic Senate hearing she was “100…
A second new accusation was made in an anonymous letter sent to Senator Cory Gardner, Republican of Colorado, by a woman who said her daughter witnessed Judge Kavanaugh drunkenly push her friend, a woman he was dating, up against a wall “very aggressively and sexually” after they left a bar one night in 1998. Her…
Image copyright Researchgate.net/ Getty Image caption Christine Blasey Ford says Brett Kavanaugh attacked her when he was a teenager The story that has dominated US politics for weeks will reach fever pitch later on Thursday in a small Senate committee room.Brett Kavanaugh, the man nominated for a vacant post on the Supreme Court, and a…
THE one thing that people of all political persuasions agree on about Jeremy Corbyn is that he is an anti-establishment radical. Tories mock him as a professional protester who wants to take Britain back to the era of three-day weeks and wildcat strikes. Corbynites praise him for sticking to his pure Labour principles, whatever the…
WASHINGTON — President Trump assailed the latest woman to accuse Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, saying on Tuesday that she “has nothing” because she was “messed up” at the time, even as a key Republican senator urged colleagues to take the accusations seriously. With pressure rising in advance of a make-or-break hearing on…
Image copyright EPA Image caption President Trump is seeking to isolate Iran internationally US President Donald Trump is expected to voice fresh criticism of Iran later when he chairs a UN Security Council session on the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.It is only the third time a US leader will have presided over the…
BY 9.00am on September 6th a crowd has appeared outside Fábio Gaia’s one-storey house in Murici, a town surrounded by sugar-cane fields. The councilman attends to a stream of constituents who proffer crumpled bits of paper: prescriptions, receipts for ultrasound scans and electricity bills. It is a month before Brazil’s general election, so he promises…
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani exchanged taunts at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday with Trump vowing more sanctions against Tehran and Rouhani suggesting his American counterpart suffers from a “weakness of intellect.” Trump used his annual address to the United Nations to attack Iran’s “corrupt…
