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Britain has voted to leave the European Union, results from Thursday's landmark referendum showed, a stunning repudiation of the nation's elites that deals the biggest blow to the European project of greater unity since World War Two. World financial markets plunged as nearly complete results showed a 51.8/48.2 percent split for leaving.
The United States is reacting cautiously to the decision by Britain's voters to bolt the 28-nation European Union , with a White House official saying only that President Barack Obama is being kept up to date on developments. The official, who insisted on speaking anonymously because of the ongoing events overseas, said Obama was expected to speak with Prime Minister David Cameron "over the course of the next day."
Prime Minister David Cameron may go down in history as the man who led Britain out of the European Union, but his political defeat in the Brexit referendum means there is a strong chance he will not be around by the time it all becomes official. As Britain voted to become the first state ever to withdraw from the bloc on Thursday, Cameron's epitaph may have been sealed after six years in power.
Barack Obama's habit of avoiding Islamic nomenclature and highlighting American gun violence whenever Muslim terrorists strike is surely, in part, a product of his fear of anti-Muslim xenophobia in the United States. Before the rise of Donald Trump, Americans on the right might have scoffed at that concern as an expression of left-wing anti-conservative bigotry.
The Leave campaign will win the UK referendum on EU membership, CNN predicts. With more than 98% of districts reporting, there are not enough votes left uncounted to change the result.
This was not the most important line in Clinton's Ohio economic policy speech, only the most amazing. Surely there cannot be a more vacuous, meaningless piece of political rhetoric.
A majority of voters in the United Kingdom of Great Britain have decided to break up with the European Union, British mass media outlets are projecting, stunning financial markets and pundits who had predicted a victory for the Remain campaign when all was said and done. At around midnight Eastern time and 9 PM Pacific, the Leave side had a lead of over 700,000 votes, and was winning handily in England and Wales, but losing Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Gibraltar.
The U.S. Supreme Court on June 23 announced that it was evenly divided over President Barack Obama's immigration executive actions. According to reports, the one-sentence ruling means that the programmes proposed by Obama will not go into effect and is very unlikely that it will go into effect for the rest of Obama's tenure.
After a 4-4 decision, an injunction against President Barack Obama's immigration program remains effective, blocking an estimated 4 million undocumented immigrants from applying for temporary work authorization. Representatives at the Hispanic American Association of East Texas in Tyler, which serves seventeen counties, say they were prepared to see hundreds through their doors, if the high court decision held in favor of the program.
A deadlocked Supreme Court decision that blocks President Barack Obama from granting amnesty to the parents of legal U.S. residents who are in the country illegally will deprive many of those people of the right to sign up for health insurance in California, analysts of the decision said Thursday. Most immigrants who are in the country illegally already are barred from signing up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, the federal health care law widely known as Obamacare.
President Barack Obama is threatening to veto a $1.1 billion bill to combat the Zika virus the House passed early Thursday. The compromise between the House and Senate is heading to a vote in the Senate, where Democrats hope to block it.
Unidad Latina en Accion will hold a protest Thursday in front of the federal courthouse in New Haven in response to the 4-4 ruling by the Supreme Court that blocks President Barack Obama's immigration plan. In November 2014, President Obama released a plan to keep millions of illegal immigrants from deportation.
A $1.1 billion compromise measure to combat the Zika virus made it through the House on Thursday, but faces a filibuster from Senate Democrats and opposition from the White House over spending cuts and GOP provisions on health care and the environment. The 239-171 pre-dawn vote sent the measure to the Senate, where a test vote was planned for next week.
APRIL 18: Tea Party Patriots supporters participate in a rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court April 18, 2016 in Washington, DC. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of United States v.
Republican Sen. Marco Rubio's decision to run for president set off a scramble to replace him. His last minute decision to run for re-election set off a scramble - though much smaller - to get out of the Senate... Republican Sen. Marco Rubio's decision to run for president set off a scramble to replace him.
A group of female human rights activists from Mexico is calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to show his true feminist credentials and challenge their country's president on its human rights record. Trudeau will host Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto during a state visit next week before the North American leaders' summit that will also include U.S. President Barack Obama.
A frontal boundary will trigger scattered showers and thunderstorms rom the Southwest to the Central Plains and east over the No... . This is the Weather Underground forecast for Thursday, June 23, 2016 for the central region of the United States.
DNA test results show a Colorado prison inmate is not Prince's son, a person who has seen a sealed document said. Strong storms, possibly including tornadoes, are in the forecast for parts of the Midwest as humid air surges in while temperatures climb into the 90s.
Strong storms, possibly including tornadoes, are in the forecast for parts of the Midwest as humid air surges in while temperatures climb into the 90s. Powerful storms packing multiple tornadoes swept through parts of the Midwest Wednesday night, damaging homes and a gas station in central Illinois and sending tens of thousands of soccer fans seeking shelter during the... Jurors could rewrite a key chapter of rock 'n' roll history as they deliberate whether Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Robert Plant lifted a riff from fellow rockers for its epic "Stairway to Heaven."