Politics

Prime Minister Theresa May suffered a humiliating defeat for her key Brexit law on Wednesday after pro-European members of her own party openly defied her orders in a vote in Parliament. The vote in the UK Parliament was described as being “knife-edge” with the BBC’s chief political correspondent, Norman Smith, called it a “Big Bananas moment” for May. In the end, May lost by a narrow margin, with 309 voting for and 305 against, and as a result, UK members of parliament - not Theresa May and her Cabinet - will have the final say on Brexit.

In what's to be a hastily organized press conference, the White House announced Wednesday that President Trump would speak about the Republican tax-reform effort at 3 p.m. Wednesday. The implication is that Trump will be laying out next steps now that GOP lawmakers have tentatively agreed on a compromise tax bill that both chambers of Congress are ready to send to the president's desk.

However, as we've learned, in the Trump era, no legislative achievement is in the bag until all the votes have been tallied.

Via The Daily Bell

The real story of online deception isn’t about the Russians. Sure, the Russians certainly have their own programs to disrupt and steer online discourse. But how quickly the public has forgotten about the U.S. government’s own internet troll program.

One day after we reported that "Congressional Republicans reached a tentative tax agreement", the news of which sparked another risk surge into the close of trading, moments ago we got the second tax deal in 24 hours - if only for algo consumption - when the AP reported that House and Senate GOP leaders have reached a "tentative deal" on tax overhaul "in principle."

One of Trump's oldest familiars, Senior White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman who is much more famous for being the former star of the initial season of "The Apprentice" - as well as a longtime supporter of President Trump - is leaving the White House next month. Her resignation will be effective Jan. 20, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told The Associated Press.

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