In the last state primary of 2020, Senator Chris Coons of Delaware faces a progressive challenger.

Shortly after the 2018 midterm elections, progressive groups looking at the 2020 Senate map alighted on one state where they had a chance to contest a safely Democratic seat against a centrist incumbent: Delaware. But a bid to oust Senator Chris Coons never became a cause célèbre on the left. …...Read More

Biden calls Trump a ‘climate arsonist’ as the president denies the science of wildfires.

With wildfires raging across the West, climate change took center stage in the race for the White House on Monday as Joseph R. Biden Jr. called President Trump a “climate arsonist” while the president said that “I don’t think science knows” what is actually happening. A day of dueling appearances …...Read More

A vulnerable Senate Republican in North Carolina tries to halt his challenger’s momentum.

Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina, one of the Republicans’ most vulnerable incumbents, tried to turn around his faltering re-election campaign on Monday night, clashing with Cal Cunningham, his Democratic challenger, in a televised debate that largely focused on the coronavirus pandemic. The contest in a key swing state is …...Read More

Over 300 schools in England and Wales forced to close or send pupils home after positive Covid tests

Advertisement Thousands of students are having their return to school curtailed because of coronavirus outbreaks in the classroom amid a fiasco over testing. Headteachers have warned that schools — which were closed for months because of the pandemic — will 'grind to a halt' if teachers and pupils can't get …...Read More

Fury as BBC pledges reform while staff pay soars 3.5% - despite stripping 1.5m of free TV licences

The BBC has come under fire after it published accounts today showing that staff pay had soared 3.5 per cent to £1.5billion this year - while the Corporation pushes ahead with its plans to strip a million over-75s of their free TV licences. Accounts published at noon showed that Zoe …...Read More

ET NOW celebrates India's most promising entrepreneurs at the 8th season of Leaders of Tomorrow eAwards

Disclaimer: Content Produced by Times Network Celebrating the success stories of India’s most innovative SMEs and start-ups,, India’s leading English business news channel, hosted the. India’s largest entrepreneurship platform, Leaders of Tomorrow in its latest season was driven by theme ‘Small to Scalable’, built upon its pedigree to focus on …...Read More

Britons face quarantine across EVERY EU country

Britons travelling to the European Union could soon face quarantine on arrival across the board as countries consider whether to adopt a standardised threshold for imposing self-isolation rules. The European Commission is pushing member states to adopt its recently published 'traffic light' quarantine system so that the entire bloc uses …...Read More

Keir Starmer blasts coronavirus test delays as he is ruled OUT of Prime Minister's Questions

Labour leader Keir Starmer will miss his weekly face-off against Boris Johnson at Prime Minister's Questions because he is still awaiting the results of coronavirus tests, it was revealed tonight. The Opposition Leader, who went into self- isolation yesterday, was forced to pull out of the Wednesday lunchtime parliamentary showpiece …...Read More

Just 78 victims of coronavirus were recorded in England and Wales last week

Advertisement The UK today recorded another 3,105 cases of the coronavirus as the outbreak continues to grow, while separate figures show the number of Covid-19 deaths has dropped to a six-month low. Government statistics show the UK's rolling seven-day average of daily infections has tipped 3,000, after doubling in a …...Read More

Dramatic moment 10 lions bred to be shot by hunters were rescued from a squalid South African farm

Footage has emerged showing the moment 10 lions were rescued after being held in captivity on a farm where they were bred for 'canned hunting' in South Africa. Canned hunting is the killing of captive-bred wild animals in small enclosures and the controversial and widely criticized 'sport' is most commonly …...Read More