Pentagon says it is investigating US senator over video urging troops to refuse illegal orders

The government has offered to make changes to the bill to both the Greens and the Liberals hoping to reach a deal on legislation that can pass the Senate Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Years of debate about environmental law reform have come down to a tense standoff in the final sitting week of federal parliament for the year, with Labor claiming it can do a deal that will pass the Senate by Thursday. The government is still pushing to pass its major changes, despite not yet having reached an agreement with either…

In a city where football is more than a sport, the gun death of John Beam has provoked an outpouring of emotion Football in Oakland, California, is more than a sport. It’s a community. In many schools, coaches are like parental figures who get young people through vulnerable times, into universities and sometimes even drafted to the National Football League. So when gun violence came for longtime Oakland football coach John Beam, whose mentorship had changed the lives of generations of students, the devastation reverberated around the city. Continue reading… Source link India News Several Flights Cancelled As… BNP…

Chancellor told PFI-style schemes familiar from New Labour era are ‘fiscal illusion’ offering no value for money Rachel Reeves has been urged by 40 Labour MPs to drop plans to fund NHS buildings with private finance initiatives (PFI) that would saddle the health service with debt. The Labour MPs, including Cat Eccles, Clive Lewis and Rebecca Long-Bailey, pressed the chancellor to commit to investment in the NHS without the use of private capital and warned that a return to the New Labour era of private funding for public projects would be damaging for trust in the government. Continue reading……