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• Trump’s attack on Venezuela without alerting Congress tests limits of executive power

  04-01-2026 16:28
  Trump’s audacious arrest of Maduro marks a conspicuous break with convention, even as previously observed by the president himselfNothing speaks more eloquently of the disempowering of the US Congress under Donald Trump’s second presidency than the brazenly audacious detention of Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia.Far from recognizing it, Trump did not even acknowledge Congress’s right to know – keeping senior members in the dark until the
  
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• NHS England urged to introduce external second opinion when dismissing staff

  04-01-2026 13:00
  Narinder Kapur proposes ‘Amin’s rule’ named after Amin Abdullah who killed himself after losing his jobNHS England is being urged to introduce an independent second opinion whenever it decides to dismiss a healthcare professional, in memory of a nurse who set himself on fire after being unfairly dismissed from his job.Dr Narinder Kapur, an NHS whistleblower, is proposing “Amin’s rule”, named after Amin Abdullah, who killed himself in 2016, to plug a gap he say
  
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• How Trump circumventing Congress is different from previous presidents

  04-01-2026 12:00
  The disdain as to why information on the Maduro raid was withheld even from senior lawmakers is unmistakableNothing speaks more eloquently of the disempowering of the US Congress under Donald Trump’s second presidency than the brazenly audacious arrest of Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia.Far from recognizing it, Trump did not even acknowledge Congress’s right to know – keeping senior members in the dark until the operation to seize the strongm
  
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