June 14, 1777. The basic design for the American flag was adopted at the Continental Congress during the American Revolution. Legend has it seamstress Betsy Ross sewed the first flag at the request of General George Washington.
Here’s when you may be asked to pay back your winter fuel benefits to the Department for Work and Pensions
Hayes and Harlington MP John McDonnell has raised in the Commons this anti-social behaviour causing ‘suffering’ to local residents
A Conservative councillor has described the actions of Liberal Democrat-led Chippenham Town Council as “deplorable” in a dispute over Winter Fuel Payments (WFP).
The Home Office has earmarked more than £500 million to manage Channel migrants arriving on small boats for up to a decade, according to official documents.
Labour’s plans to put more bobbies on the beat are set to fail because record numbers of officers are quitting or planning to leave, the Police Federation has warned.
Mr Salmond was reportedly helping the Alba Party chair open a bottle of ketchup when he suffered a heart attack and died during lunch
The California Coastal Commission denied a request to allow SpaceX to increase its number of launches at Vandenberg Space Force Base to 50 a year.
Shadow Cabinet Office minister John Glen said Labour frontbenchers have been ‘beset by a series of scandals’
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused India Monday of making a "fundamental error," as an escalating row over the killing of a Sikh separatist on Canadian soil last year saw both countries expel each other's ambassadors.Both countries have traded barbs since then, culminating with the expulsions Monday of each other's ambassadors and five other top diplomats in both countries.
Former president Barack Obama has aggressively ramped up campaigning for Vice President Kamala Harris because he’s fretting that a Democratic loss in this year’s presidential election will erode his legacy, according to sources who spoke to CNN.The network reported that Obama wanted to keep his political role to that of emeritus elder statesman, and had in recent years kept his Democratic activities to behind the scenes meetings with elected congresspersons including House Minority Leader Hakeem
Health secretary launches withering blast at Tory leadership hopeful.
Former mayoral candidate also asks why senior Labour figures including the prime minister and Sadiq Khan were handed freebies to her shows
When Kamala Harris famously refused to seek the death penalty against a young gang member accused of killing a cop two decades ago, she said then that her opposition to capital punishment was well-reasoned and absolute.
The government has u-turned on a promise to fund desperately needed repairs at this hospital. We ask, does the health secretary think these conditions are acceptable?
A man has been taken to hospital after a flat fire in Woolwich.
The cost of gifts to ministers will be made public, the Labour chair has said.
‘You are pivotal to this great cause of our times,’ Keir Starmer tells global bosses in London as he targets wealth creation
Sure, political communications is a vital tool in any government's arsenal. Take today's investment summit. After overcoming a minor public relations crisis, in which the transport secretary appeared to go to war with ports operator DP World, the event is looking like a success.
The proposed micro plants would generate enough energy to power 244,000 homes in south Wales
Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, has admitted discussing Taylor Swift’s security arrangements with the Metropolitan Police amid a growing row over Labour interventions for her concerts in London.
