Sunday Crunch, the weekly lunchtime digest of the best stories kicking off the week in British politics, is the Sunday edition of the London Playbook.

“If you know what people are thinking about when they’re coming into church on Sunday morning, it’s very important to acknowledge that,” Budde says.

Agencies are gripped with uncertainty about how to implement the blizzard of new policies as workers frantically try to assess the impact on their lives.

“This is a blatant affront to democracy. Lukashenko doesn’t have any legitimacy.” EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said.

Ambassador John Bolton had his security clearance and secret service protection revoked as part of President Trump’s political retribution tour. He discusses the consequences to America’s national security of Trump’s actions, and previews the upcoming Senate confirmation hearings for Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel.

In his first week back in office, Donald Trump pardoned every single person charged with a crime in connection to the January 6th insurrection and House Speaker Mike Johnson has created a new January 6th select subcommittee to re-investigate the events of that day. “People saw it. They believe it. You can't attack the FBI and their credibility,” says Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), the former chairman of the original Jan. 6 committee. “That’s not the democracy that we’ve come to love and support.”

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South Korean prosecutors indicted the impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol on insurrection charges over his declaration of martial law, a move that plunged the country into political turmoil.

Susie Chun Oakland arrived to a crime scene at McKinley High School in Honolulu that March morning nearly a half century ago.

U.S. president would like to see Arab countries take in more Palestinian refugees.

Federal economic data is one of the purest forms of infrastructure, says Erica Groshen, a former commissioner at the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

President Donald Trump’s rise is not an anomaly – he is the product of forces set in motion 50 years ago, driven by massive deregulation and key Supreme Court decisions that dismantled a century of safeguards against corporate political spending, explains Thom Hartmann, author of ‘The Hidden History of American Oligarchy.’ Together, these forces steered America toward oligarchy. Trump recognized the cracks in our system—and moved in to exploit them. In this next chapter of America’s story, “Velshi” will track those who wield economic power to undermine everyday Americans–including the tech-industrial complex now occupying the halls of American power.

President Donald Trump’s rise is not an anomaly – he is the product of forces set in motion 50 years ago, driven by massive deregulation and key Supreme Court decisions that dismantled a century of safeguards against corporate political spending, explains Thom Hartmann, author of ‘The Hidden History of American Oligarchy.’ Together, these forces steered America toward oligarchy. Trump recognized the cracks in our system—and moved in to exploit them. In this next chapter of America’s story, “Velshi” will track those who wield economic power to undermine everyday Americans–including the tech-industrial complex now occupying the halls of American power.