#Political Controversy

Articles (30)

• 🇺🇸 AP report: Trump administration admits a glaring error in its New York health fraud accusations — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  The error, which the administration admitted first to The Associated Press, prompted health analysts to question how many of the Republican administration's sweeping anti-fraud efforts around the coun...

  Related: #Healthcare Policy, #Government Accountability
• 🇺🇸 No One Knows Where US Vaccine Policy Goes Next — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s sweeping changes to federal vaccine guidance are paused for now. But even if they’re reversed, lasting damage has already been done.

  Related: #Public Health Policy, #Science and Governance
• 🇺🇸 New Charter Allows RFK Jr. to Reclaim Vaccine Policy Despite Court Ruling — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  The charter, published on Thursday, alters the makeup and purpose of the panel, opening the door for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to reclaim his revision of national vaccine policy.

  Related: #Public Health Policy, #Administrative Law
• 🇺🇸 Independence Arch, or "Arc de Trump," plans include taxpayer funds — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  The president says the arch will commemorate the nation's 250th anniversary.

  Related: #Government Spending, #National Commemoration
• 🇺🇸 No Charges for Wisconsin Mayor Who Removed Ballot Drop Box in 2024 — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  A special prosecutor said a review of the incident found there was not sufficient evidence to charge Doug Diny, the mayor of Wausau.

  Related: #Election Law, #Local Government
• 🇺🇸 Zeldin gives keynote address at climate skeptic conference — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin gave the keynote speech Wednesday at a conference hosted by a climate denial group. Zeldin told the attendees of the conservative Heartla...

  Related: #Climate Policy, #Environmental Governance
• 🇺🇸 Elon Musk’s DOGE stole your Social Security data — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  The Trump administration is accused of stealing the Social Security data of 500 million Americans, living and dead, and sharing it with Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) for misus...

  Related: #Data Privacy, #Government Accountability, #Technology Ethics
• 🇺🇸 Indianapolis councilman says shots fired at his house and a 'no data centers' note left on his doorstep — 07/04/2026 [USA]

  A city commission voted last week to allow rezoning for the data center in council member Ron Gibson's district. He has publicly backed the project.

  Related: #Urban Development
• 🇺🇸 Attorney General Pam Bondi out at DOJ — 02/04/2026 [USA]

  President Trump has announced that Attorney General Pam Bondi is out at the Justice Department. Her departure comes amid simmering frustration over her leadership and handling of the Epstein files.

  Related: #Government Resignation
• 🇺🇸 Newsom Says He Regrets Remarks Comparing Israel to ‘Apartheid State’ — 24/03/2026 [USA]

  The California governor suggested that he had meant to refer to Israel’s potential future direction, not its current policies. “I revere the state of Israel,” he said.

  Related: #Israel-Palestine Relations, #Democratic Politics
• 🇺🇸 They once called him a ‘goose-stepping extremist.’ They’re now sitting out his comeback bid. — 22/03/2026 [USA]

  Brandon Herrera, the GOP nominee in Texas’ 23rd congressional district, won’t get help from pro-Israel and GOP Jewish groups. But they aren’t backing his Democratic opponent, either.

  Related: #Campaign Strategy
• 🇬🇧 ‘Vile’ Trump condemned for gloating over Robert Mueller death — 21/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Outrage mounts after president posted on Truth Social he was ‘glad’ former FBI director and special counsel had died</p><p>Donald Trump has been condemned as a “vile, disgusting man” and a “sick hu...

  Related: #Public Condemnation
• 🇺🇸 Two former FBI agents who investigated Trump sue over firings — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  Two former FBI agents are suing after they say they were fired “solely” based on their work on the criminal investigations into President Trump. The two Washington Field Office agents, who are unnamed...

  Related: #Legal Action
• 🇺🇸 Trump says people with learning disorders shouldn’t be president — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  President Trump said that California Gov. Gavin Newsom shouldn’t be president because he has dyslexia, a common learning disability that Newsom has spoken about publicly.

  Related: #Disability Rights
• 🇬🇧 Nigel Farage condemned over call to ban public prayer for Muslims in the UK — 19/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Reform party leader criticised for making comments after event held in London’s Trafalgar Square this week</p><p>Muslim leaders have condemned Nigel Farage’s call to ban public prayer by Muslims in...

  Related: #Religious Freedom
• 🇺🇸 Huckabee Sanders say she was asked to leave restaurant because employees felt 'threatened' — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said she was asked to leave a Little Rock restaurant because its employees were “threatened” during a recent dining excursion. “Last week I was having lunch with t...

  Related: #Public Civility
• 🇬🇧 Trump mocks Japan about Pearl Harbor in response to question about Iran war — 19/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>US president was meeting with Japanese PM when he said: ‘Who knows better about surprise than Japan?’</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/feb/17/sign-up-for-the-breaking-ne...

  Related: #International Relations
• 🇬🇧 Badenoch backs Tory MP in row over Muslim prayer event — 19/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  The Tory leader has faced calls to sack a colleague who called public prayers an "act of domination".

  Related: #Religious Tensions
• 🇬🇧 Nigel Farage criticised for calling Welsh people 'foreign speakers' — 19/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Reform UK's leader made the comment in a paid-for video message on the Cameo app.

  Related: #Language Identity
• 🇺🇸 Trump Makes Joke About Pearl Harbor In Meeting With Japanese Prime Minister — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  When Donald Trump met in the Oval Office on Thursday with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, he was asked why he didn’t tell U.S. allies about plans to strike Iran. “You don’t want to signal too ...

  Related: #Diplomatic Relations
• 🇺🇸 Georgia was going to dump voting machines that Trump hates until things got complicated — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  It seemed like the stars had aligned for Republicans to get rid of their biggest targets - Georgia's touch screen voting machines.

  Related: #Election Security
• 🇺🇸 Starmer calls on Badenoch to sack shadow minister over Muslim prayer comments — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  Shadow justice secretary Nick Timothy described public prayers as ‘an act of domination’

  Related: #Religious Sensitivity
• 🇬🇧 Sack top Tory for calling Muslim Trafalgar Square prayers 'act of domination', says PM — 18/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Sir Keir Starmer has called for a senior Conservative who said Muslims praying in Trafalgar Square was "an act of domination" to be sacked.

  Related: #Religious Tensions
• 🇺🇸 Tuberville defends remarks linking Mamdani to 9/11 — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) on Tuesday gave a vague defense of his social media post linking New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks while downplaying whether the remarks w...

  Related: #Historical Narratives
• 🇬🇧 Newly unearthed Nigel Farage videos reveal support for rioter, neo-Nazi event and far-right slogans — 17/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Exclusive: Analysis of more than 4,000 of Reform UK leader’s paid-for Cameo videos also shows they contain misogynistic remarks and antisemitic conspiracies</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.c...

  Related: #Far-right Extremism
• 🇬🇧 Wyoming passes new six-week abortion ban that lawmakers call ‘insult to voters’ — 15/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>The bill continues a cycle of abortion restrictions repeatedly blocked by the state supreme court</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/feb/17/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-u...

  Related: #Abortion Legislation
• 🇺🇸 A president suing himself? Why experts say Trump’s $10bn lawsuit might fail — 13/03/2026 [USA]

  Experts say Trump's decision to sue over his leaked tax returns risks putting him in charge of arranging his own payout.

  Related: #Legal Challenge
• 🇺🇦 Peter Magyar’s Ukraine problem — 13/03/2026 [Ukraine]

  As Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has effectively drawn Ukraine into his domestic fight for reelection, his main competitor has found himself in a tricky situation. Peter Magyar, a 44-year-old...

  Related: #Foreign Policy
• 🇺🇸 Democrats rip Tuberville over 'vicious, racist' post linking Mamdani, 9/11 — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  Democratic lawmakers ripped Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R) on Thursday after he made a post connecting New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s (D) Ramadan iftar at City Hall with the Sept. 11, 2001, a...

  Related: #Racial Insensitivity
• 🇺🇸 Harmeet Dhillon and colleges; Jake Lang and MAGA; Stephen Colbert's 'censorship hoax' — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon has been pushing America's colleges and universities to comply with the Supreme Court's ruling barring race-based affirmative action policies, and she's gett...

  Related: #Media Criticism