#resignations

#resignations

Like many rich and powerful men before him, the British politician Peter Mandelson remained in politics even after his many connections to Jeffrey Epstein became public in the years after the sex criminal's death. But last year, Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer fired Mandelson as U.K. ambassador to the United States after new documents showed the extent of their friendship - including emails in which Mandelson wrote that he was "furious" about Epstein's 2008 conviction for soliciting a minor.

A push by the Department of Justice to open an investigation into the widow of Renee Nicole Good after her tragic killing at the hands of a federal immigration officer has sparked a mass resignation of federal prosecutors in Minnesota, reports say. According to reports, at least a dozen federal prosecutors across Washington and Minnesota have indicated their plans to resign.

Investigating officials to determine if they broke the law, defied policy, failed to de-escalate, and resorted to deadly force without basis is one of the Civil Rights Division's most solemn duties,

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a longtime Trump ally who recently split with the president, made headlines last week by announcing her plans to resign in January. Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), a Trump critic, told Axios he nearly resigned over the Trump administration's 28-point peace plan for the Russia-Ukraine war. "I have made the decision, after conversations with my beautiful bride and my girls over the Thanksgiving holiday, to focus on my family and return home after this Congress," Nehls said in a statement.

The BBC has apologised to Donald Trump over the editing of a Panorama that led to the resignation of its director general, Tim Davie, and the BBC News chief, Deborah Turness. However, the corporation has rejected his demands for compensation, after lawyers for Trump threatened to sue for $1bn (759m) in damages unless the BBC issued a retraction, apologised and settled with him.

Quick update on Keir Starmer's government of national renewal: having just lost his deputy and housing secretary over her failure to pay the required stamp duty, the prime minister has also lost his US ambassador over his known close association with a known paedophile sex trafficker. Hang on he's now also lost his director of political strategy for relating some dirty jokes about Diane Abbott.