Reform UK will officially take over control of Kent County Council on Thursday following its sweeping victory in May's local elections. Kent party leader Linden Kemkaran will be sworn in as council leader at a meeting in Maidstone's County Hall at 10:00 BST, before going on to appoint the new cabinet.

Trump's Justice Department said it would abandon consent decree negotiations despite the benefits some say result from their implementation.

The Justice Department announced Wednesday it was canceling proposed consent decrees reached with Minneapolis and Louisville to implement policing reforms in the wake of high profile police killings.

Reform UK has officially taken over control of Durham County Council, renaming several key departments to remove references to climate change and equality and inclusion.The party, which has 65 councillors,

DOJ is abandoning efforts for court-approved settlements with Minneapolis and Louisville after finding they had violated Black people's civil rights.

Vermont legislators are struggling with what to do next with a major education reform bill, which Gov. Phil Scott is pushing them to pass this year. Sharp disagreements among lawmakers have emerged in the Vermont Senate over the past week, as education leaders publicly lobby against the chamber’s latest version of legislation.

Opposition councillors have criticised a decision by Derbyshire County Council's new Reform UK leaders to scrap the authority's climate change committee as "short-sighted" and "threatening".

The U.S. Coast Guard is facing its largest readiness crisis since World War II, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Wednesday as she promised an overhaul of the service that she called the “point of the spear” in the nation's defense.

With the fifth anniversary of George Floyd's death approaching, Congress has yet to pass legislation to reform or abolish qualified immunity. The Supreme Court has declined to take up multiple cases challenging the doctrine.

The new Reform UK leader of Derbyshire County Council has been formally approved at a meeting at the council's headquarters. Alan Graves was voted in by councillors as leader with a term of four years, having been elected by Reform's new cluster of Derbyshire councillors to lead the authority at a party meeting last week.