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Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE March 25, 2019, 10:45 PM GMT / Updated March 25, 2019, 11:29 PM GMT By Alex Moe and Rebecca Shabad WASHINGTON — Six Democratic committee chairs in the House sent a letter …

Mixed martial arts champion Conor McGregor has announced his retirement on Twitter. McGregor, 30, wrote: “Hey guys quick announcement, I’ve decided to retire from the sport formally known as ‘Mixed Martial Art’ today. “I wish all my old colleagues well going forward in competition. “I now join my former partners …

Image copyright EPA Image caption Senator Pauline Hanson’s chief of staff, James Ashby, was filmed in conversations in Washington DC A right-wing party in Australia discussed softening the nation’s strict gun laws as it sought donations from a US lobby group in a bid for greater political power, video recordings …

George Papadopoulos, the first Trump campaign aide charged in Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s Russia investigation, disavowed his guilty plea in a book released on Tuesday, claiming he was unfairly pressured into cutting a deal. Papadopoulos, who was plucked out of obscurity to work as a foreign policy adviser for Donald …

Australian researchers have discovered huge underwater lakes beneath the largest glacier in east Antarctica. The lakes were detected by scientists setting off small explosives 2m below the surface of the Totten glacier and listening to the reflected sound. The Australian Antarctic Division glaciologist Dr Ben Galton-Fenzi said the research was …

March 25, 2019, 11:41 PM GMT By Janelle Griffith The San Antonio City Council voted recently to block Chick-fil-A from opening a restaurant at San Antonio International Airport, citing what it called the company’s “legacy of anti-LGBT behavior.” The council voted 6-4 Thursday to approve a concession agreement for the …

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Mr Thaksin said the country’s current electoral system “worried” him Thailand’s former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has alleged that the election on Sunday was plagued with “irregularities”. Mr Thaksin, who was ousted in 2006 and lives in self-imposed exile, told the BBC the inconsistencies …

U.S. Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell on Monday blocked a second attempt by Democrats to pass a measure aimed at prodding the Justice Department to release to the public Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s report investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Earlier this month, the House of Representatives …

The federal court has again criticised the controversial judge Alexander “Sandy” Street, after he again failed to publish reasons for a decision in time for an asylum seeker to appeal. Street, who sits on the federal circuit court, took 75 days to publish written reasons for a judgment he delivered …

Get the Think newsletter. SUBSCRIBE March 26, 2019, 12:04 AM GMT By Jessica Levinson, professor at Loyola Law School Some of the most consequential cases this U.S. Supreme Court term deal with a decidedly unsexy topic: drawing legislative district lines. This week, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in …