Potential move against ex-national security adviser comes amid effort to prosecute president’s political enemies A federal grand jury is expected on Thursday to indict John Bolton, the former national security adviser in Donald Trump’s first term, according to a person familiar with the case. Bloomberg and Reuters first reported that officials would ask the grand jury to indict Bolton on Thursday. Thecharges are part of the widening effort to prosecute the president’s political enemies. The precise details are not immediately clear, but court records tied to the case, including the search warrant for Bolton’s home, are related to Espionage Act violations. Continue reading...

Exclusive: Fantasy about ‘a beautiful creature with wings’ has been compiled from drafts, storyboards and sketches He rose from the slums of Victorian London to become arguably cinema’s first great comic artist, with The Great Dictator and Limelight among his masterpieces. Now the script of Charlie Chaplin’s unfinished final film is to be published, having been pieced together from drafts, storyboards and sketches, on which he had been working before his death in 1977, at the age of 88. Continue reading...

Giacomo Matteotti was an Italian politician and member of the Chamber of Deputies in the early 1920s. A leader of the Italian Socialist Party, he was one of the fiercest opponents of Mussolini and his rising Fascist Party. He paid for this opposition with his life.   In late 1922, after the March on Rome, Mussolini became Italy's Prime Minister. In the April 1924 general elections, the fascists and their allies won two-thirds of the seats in the parliament through intimidation tactics, fraud and violence. Matteotti denounced these abuses in an address to Italy's parliament on May 30, 1924, claiming that the elections were illegitimate and should be invalidated.

The host’s monologue noted that the suspension of his late night programme had ignited a national debate over free speech Jimmy Kimmel returned to air on Tuesday saying Donald Trump “tried his best” to cancel him, but instead forced millions of people to watch his show, hitting back against the corporate suspension that ignited a national debate over free speech and outcry over the bullying tactics of the Trump administration. “It’s been overwhelming” Kimmel said during his first monologue since Disney, which owns ABC, suspended his late-night show from the network last week under pressure from Trump officials over his comments on the shooting of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk. “I’ve heard from a lot of people over the last six days, I’ve heard from people all over in the world over the last six days, everyone I have ever met has reached out.” Continue reading...

The prime minister said his decision came after Israel’s failure to meet key conditions, and in the hope of peace and a two-state solution

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Brexit removed many checks and balances from the UK government. That’s why leaving the European convention on human rights would be a huge risk, says constitutional expert Vernon Bogdanor

The Reform leader has been in the US, bemoaning Britain’s ‘awful authoritarian situation’. It’s a shame about his party’s own anti-media huff back home, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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