After Brexit, is Polexit subsequent? The European Union’s insistence that price range funds are linked to the rule of legislation has incensed Poland’s leaders, who wish to defend their sovereignty and are brazenly questioning the bloc’s future. ...

New York could also be dealing with a funds disaster, however Andrew Cuomo is ready to obtain a pay rise in January that can carry his wage to $ 250,000, the best for any governor within the US. ...

Prime Minister Viktor Orban defined on Wednesday that Hungary vetoed the European Union’s 2021-2027 price range and post-coronavirus restoration fund due to the “blackmail” that calls for necessary assist for immigration. ...

Brussels’ plot to withhold price range and restoration funds from international locations it deems as not enjoying by the foundations has blown up in its face because the Hungarian PM vetoes schemes, placing EU initiatives doubtful and economies on the brink. ...

At the least 118 officers have left the Seattle Police Division (SPD) following mass Black Lives Matter protests and metropolis price range cuts. It at the moment has round 1,200 officers on its drive – the bottom quantity in a decade. ...

Seattle Metropolis Council has voted to overturn Mayor Jenny Durkan’s veto on laws that may slash thousands and thousands of from the native police finances, a transfer cheered by activist teams and reviled by some residents. ...

Russia is about to chop army spending subsequent yr in favor of boosting the nationwide financial system, marking the primary time in seven years the 2 areas have traded locations within the authorities’s price range plans. ...

With the Pentagon reportedly set to shutter the US army’s long-running newspaper, President Donald Trump has stepped in to declare Stars and Stripes secure from closure. Nevertheless, that closure has been within the works for months. ...

Seattle police chief Carmen Finest has introduced her resignation following a metropolis vote to slash regulation enforcement budgets, together with her personal wage. Finest, who was on the power for 28 years, described the cuts as “punitive.” ...

Portland noticed the very best variety of homicides in July in additional than three many years, officers say. The uptick in violence has strained police assets, which have already suffered from finances cuts. ...