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1. Starmer sets up taskforce for 4m UK children in poverty  BBC
2. ‘It’s put so many families in poverty’: people on the impact of the two-child benefit cap  The Guardian
3. Sir Keir Starmer criticised for keeping child benefit cap - new poverty taskforce launched  Sky News
4. Ministerial taskforce launched to kickstart work on child poverty strategy  GOV.UK
5. Starmer announces child poverty taskforce amid pressure to scrap benefit cap  The Telegraph

A child poverty taskforce has been announced with a pledge to leave "no stone unturned" in tackling the issue.

Several European countries could reopen their embassies in Afghanistan — which would mean recognizing the Taliban*, Bloomberg reported, quoting unnamed sour. What is behind the apparent trend?

In two NASCAR Cup Series (NCS) starts on the oval configuration at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS), Spire Motorsports has logged one top-20 and two top-25 finishes.

Watch live as Donald Trump attends the Saving America movie event premiere in Milwaukee on Wednesday (17 July).

Former comments about the UK being an ‘Islamist country,’ made by J.D. Vance, Trump’s vice-presidential running mate, have many British politicians up in arms.

Former President Donald Trump narrowly survived an assassination attempt on Saturday. All Americans were urged to tone down the rhetoric. For Democrats that idea didn't last long.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson said he would be calling for embattled Secret Service boss Kimberly Cheatle to resign from her post following her agency's bungled security operation that led to the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.

Citizens will vote in fall's election to fill two seats on the council and three on the school board.

Beijing - Firefighters in China pulled six bodies from a shopping centre on Wednesday, state media reported, with an unknown number still trapped after a blaze broke out in a 14-storey building.

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Alexia Ocasio limited Australia to five hits, two in the bottom of the seventh, when the Boricua were sitting on a 5-0 lead. Puerto Rico will take a 1-0 record in the Placement Round. Australia will start from 0-1.

TikTok owner ByteDance can't avoid the bloc's crackdown on digital giants, a European Union court said Wednesday in a decision that found the video sharing platform falls under a new law that also covers Apple, Google and Microsoft. The EU's General Court rejected ByteDance's legal challenge against being classed as an online "gatekeeper that has to comply with extra obligations under the 27-nation bloc's Digital Markets Act. The rulebook, also known as the DMA, took effect this year and seeks to... Читать дальше...

Operatives of Ekiti State Police Command have arraigned 44-year-old man, Sodiq Adebayo and 19-year-old Divine Lapkur before magistrate courts in Ado Ekiti. While Adebayo was dragged to court over alleged possession of weeds suspected to be Indian hemp, Lapkur was in court for alleged burglary. In the case of Adebayo, the police prosecutor, Inspector Sodiq

The WNBA has inked a new media rights package worth about $2.2 billion over 11 years, The Athletic reported. It's roughly four times the value of the league's current media deals.

Around 175 prisoners are to be moved out of HMP Dartmoor, adding to overcrowding pressures in the prison system.

The Artemis II mission, scheduled for 2025, will carry NASA astronauts around the Moon for the first time in 50 years.

The AP story began, “The Gods must be angry — or just laughing.”

Mexican authorities have ordered removal of a 10-foot statue of Poseidon, Greek God of the Sea, installed near a Yucatan beach.

(Photo credit: Junfu Han / USA TODAY NETWORK) The Houston Texans have signed free agent wide receiver Quintez Cephus, according to his agents. SportsTrust Advisors announced the deal on Tuesday but did not disclose any contract terms. Cephus, 26, missed the entire 2023 season while serving a suspension for violating the NFL's gambling policy. He was reinstated by the league in April and signed with the Buffalo Bills, w