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Available for over a year In this week’s programme, guest Catherine Loveday, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Westminster, talks to Claudia Hammond about whether people feel emotions about politics differently in the body to everyday emotions. Visiting the Institute for the Science of Early years & Youth lab, a child developmental psychology…
Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina is entering his Republican primary on Tuesday with a powerful ally in his corner: President Trump. Mr. Graham “is doing a fantastic job” and has his endorsement, Mr. Trump has said. But they weren’t always so chummy. Mr. Graham was once one of Mr. Trump’s most vocal Republican critics,…
Sara Golaski says she is horrified by President Trump’s second term, and that it is “very important” to her that Democrats win back the Senate in the midterm elections. But Ms. Golaski, a Democrat from Bristol, Maine, says she does not think she will vote for Graham Platner, the presumptive Democratic Senate nominee, and will…
Scott Pelley worked at CBS News for 37 years, including as White House correspondent, anchor of the “CBS Evening News” and “60 Minutes” correspondent until he was fired on Tuesday. His departure came after the editor in chief of CBS News, Bari Weiss, dismissed several of his colleagues and hired a new “60 Minutes” executive…
Derek Dooley campaigned in rural Georgia this month with a lifelong friend: Gov. Brian Kemp, who also happens to be the state’s most popular Republican. Yet Mr. Dooley remains, by his own admission, the underdog in the Republican Senate primary runoff. His opponent, Representative Mike Collins, who led after both advanced to a runoff in…
A federal judge in Washington on Friday tossed a lawsuit filed by the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts against a jazz musician who canceled a performance at the venue’s annual Christmas Eve concert last year after the center’s board added President Trump’s name to the building. In an order throwing out the breach-of-contract…
The Federal Aviation Administration said the Trump administration’s plans to construct a 259-foot-tall arch less than a mile from Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport would likely not pose risks to aviation safety. But evaluators recommended that red, blinking obstruction lights similar to the ones atop the Washington Monument be added to the design — a…
Speaking to the BBC for the documentary before the sentencing of Nowak’s killer Vickrum Digwa, Badenoch said: “This is not a racist country. But now we are seeing more and more hostility to people of every ethnicity, whether they’re English or not English, because people are bringing political conflict into an area where we didn’t…
The Pentagon’s Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict office is a sensitive Defense Department branch responsible for uncovering and defending against terrorism plots and asymmetric warfare, and making sure that U.S. commandos have everything they need to carry out their missions. The office now has a new asset: a Jan. 6 rioter who pleaded guilty…
Reacting to the report, Karen Newman, vice president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said: “Our public services must set the standard for confronting anti-Jewish hatred and discrimination, and we must ensure the NHS, one of our proudest national institutions, is safe and welcoming for every staff member or service user, regardless of…
