Britain’s House of Lords, the unelected upper chamber of Parliament, will no longer include hereditary peers under a bill that gained final approval Tuesday night. Under the law, the remaining earls, ...

Scottish Secretary Douglas Alexander has said he is determined to honour the memory of victims of the Dunblane massacre by upholding the UK’s tight gun laws. Mr Alexander said many people are still ...

Farewell, then, hereditary peers: you were Tony Blair’s unfinished business - COMMENT : Expelling the rump of hereditaries is a very New Labour reform – pragmatic, incremental and unprincipled, says J ...

Aviles' husband says he gave federal lawmakers "graphic texts" Gonzales sent her "about sexual demands and positions." ...