The hearing Thursday before the Senate Armed Services Committee is expected to feature tough questioning for Pentagon leaders over the legality of the deployments, which in some places were done over the objections of mayors and governors.

Read our Privacy Policy Nigel Farage is raging over Sir Keir Starmer's attempt to stuff the House of Lords with allies. Reform UK was not allowed to nominate anyone for the upper chamber, despite Labour putting 25 names forward.

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President Donald Trump called his Cabinet to meet Tuesday morning as the administration insists that it was lawful for the U.S. military to kill survivors of its air strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea in September.

Rachel Reeves suffered a fresh blow as recession fears intensified after the economy shrunk once again. GDP was down 0.1 per cent in October, defying hopes of a bounceback following a 0.1 per cent decline in September and flatlining in August.