The director of a Virginia public library has resigned following demands from outraged parents that the library be defunded over “pornographic” children’s books.
Michelle Ross resigned effective immediately as director of the Samuels Library in Front Royal in northern Virginia on Thursday. The move came during an emergency meeting of the Samuels Public Library Board of Trustees, who accepted her resignation.
“The board is 100 percent behind Michelle’s decision. We understand that it’s the best thing for her — her
ATHENS — Greece’s minister for citizen protection resigned on Friday after he was spotted on a holiday as wildfires spread across the country.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis accepted the resignation of the minister responsible for public security services, including police, who have assisted the fire service with multiple wildfires in tourist destinations, near towns and military bases in the past two weeks.
Eyewitnesses, according to local media outlets, spotted the now ex-minister, Notis Mitarachi, on Patmos island.
“He showed up
When Nigel Farage campaigned for a fellow populist, Donald J. Trump, in 2020, he seemed like a faded star seeking the spotlight abroad after it had swung past him at home. Mr. Farage, who helped mobilize the pro-Brexit vote in 2016, was marginalized in Britain, then consumed by the pandemic.
No longer: For three weeks, Mr. Farage, has been back on the front pages of British papers, with an attention-grabbing claim that his exclusive private bank, Coutts, dropped him as
Alison Rose, the chief executive of NatWest, one of Britain’s largest banks, resigned on Wednesday, just weeks after becoming embroiled in a dispute over the closure of the bank account of Nigel Farage, who is best known as a champion of Britain’s exit from the European Union.
The departure of Ms. Rose, the first woman to lead a major British bank, who had been charged with transforming an institution marred by scandal, was swift.
Less than a month ago, Mr.
Liz Truss dramatically quit today, admitting defeat following crisis talks with Tory chiefs in Downing Street and with MPs in open insurrection.
After just 44 disastrous days in No10, the PM took to a lectern outside the famous black door to confirm her departure, sealing her fate as the shortest-serving premier in modern political history.
Revealing she had informed the King of her decision, she said: ‘I cannot deliver on the mandate…. I will remain as PM until a successor
Brandon Lewis war der vierte Kabinettsminister, der nach dem Chris Pincher-Debakel die Regierung von Boris Johnson verließ.
Der Abgeordnete von Great Yarmouth sagte: „Eine Entscheidung, die Regierung zu verlassen, wird niemals auf die leichte Schulter genommen, insbesondere in einer so kritischen Zeit für Nordirland.
„Ich habe mir viel Zeit genommen, um diese Entscheidung zu überdenken, nachdem ich Ihnen letzte Nacht ausführlich jede Position dargelegt habe.“
Herr Lewis fügte hinzu: „Wir haben jetzt jedoch den Punkt überschritten, an dem es kein
Father-of-six Dominic Perrottet was once the hot favourite to replace Gladys Berejiklian as the Premier of New South Wales.
But the Catholic conservative Treasurer faces a tough fight for the Liberal Party leadership from leading moderates with Planning Minister Rob Stokes and Tourism Minister Stuart Ayres, the partner of Foreign Minister Marise Payne, shaping up as contenders with better odds.
At 39, Mr Perrottet would be the youngest leader in the history of Australia’s most populated state, making him a
