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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he won’t fire his chief aide for allegedly violating the national coronavirus lockdown rules that he helped to create.

The British government is digging in to defend Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s top adviser, Dominic Cummings, for traveling more than 250 miles (400 kms) to his parents’ house during a nationwide lockdown

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for the new coronavirus, the first leader of a major nation to contract COVID-19, but he insisted Friday that he remains in charge of the U.K.’s response to the outbreak. Two of Johnson’s top aides in the fight against the virus — his health secretary and top medical adviser — also...

British Prime Minster Boris Johnson has ordered the closure of most retail stores and banned public gatherings of more than two people who do not live together in a stepped-up response to slow the new coronavirus.

Britain and the European Union have set out tough opening gambits in negotiating a post-Brexit trade deal

Brexit happens on Friday night without a huge fanfare

Britain has decided to allow Huawei to build aspects of its new high-speed mobile network – but will exclude it from “core” parts of the new network. It’s a pivotal decision with implications for Britain’s diplomatic relations with the United States and China. The infrastructure program is seen as being critical to Britain’s economic future as the country leaves the...

British prosecutors have charged the wife of an American diplomat over the death of a teenage motorcyclist in a road accident. British police say Harry Dunn died when he was hit by a car driven by Anne Sacoolas, whose husband was stationed at a U.S. military base in England. Sacoolas claimed diplomatic immunity and left Britain after the crash. Dunn’s...

Leaving the European Union is not the only split British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has to worry about. Johnson’s commanding election victory this week may let him fulfil his campaign promise to “get Brexit done,” but it could also imperil the future of the United Kingdom of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Scotland and Northern Ireland didn’t vote...

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson is trying to get his campaign back to the issue of Brexit after being accused of a lack of empathy for looking away from an image of child sleeping on a hospital room floor while awaiting treatment. The story of 4-year-old Jack has overshadowed campaigning for Thursday’s general election as Johnson and his Conservatives pushed...

Police have arrested a man suspected of stabbing at least four people in a shopping center in the English city of Manchester on Friday, NBC News reported. Greater Manchester Police confirmed that four people were stabbed and were were taken to a hospital. Counter-terror police are leading the investigation but there has been no suggestion so far that the incident...

Grammy-nominated rapper 21 Savage was taken into federal immigration custody early Sunday, authorities said. The artist, whose given name is Sha Yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, was arrested in a targeted operation in the Atlanta area involving local and federal law enforcement officers, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Bryan Cox said in an emailed statement. Abraham-Joseph is a British citizen who...

Prince Charles was honored Wednesday on his 70th birthday.

President Donald Trump is asserting that he didn’t criticize British Prime Minister Theresa May during an interview this week with The Sun newspaper in which he questioned May’s handling of the Brexit.

President Trump Protest organizers said they planned to stage anti-Trump demonstrations in some 50 cities around the U.K.

Meghan Markle attended the traditional Christmas service at St. Mary Magdalene Church with members of the British royal family. It is the first time a royal fiancee has been invited to Christmas celebrations.

Thousands of people ran in panic or took shelter in stores along busy Oxford Street.

British police said Thursday they have “reasonable grounds” to suspect that local authorities may have committed corporate manslaughter in a deadly high-rise fire in London. The Metropolitan Police force said it has officially informed the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, which owns the Grenfell Tower public housing block, and the management group the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Association...

The terror threat level remained at critical in the UK Wednesday as authorities continued their investigation of the Manchester concert blast. Robert Kovacik reports live from Manchester for Today in LA on Wednesday, May 24, 2017.