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Minister pledges more sports and drama in curriculum review as row deepens over two-child benefit cap• Interview Labour’s Bridget Phillipson: ‘I will help working-class pupils defy the odds to succeed’Expanding opportunities for working-class children by broadening the school curriculum to include more sport, drama, art and music alongside core academic subjects will be top priorities for the Labour government, the new education secretary says today.In her first newspaper interview since being appointed to the cabinet by Keir Starmer, Bridget Phillipson insists her aim is to “break the link between background and success”, and to ensure every child has the same level of opportunity, regardless of their parents’ means. Continue reading…



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Author : Toby Helm, Political Editor

Publish date : 2024-07-20 18:49:50

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Policy will move to keeping vulnerable pupils in school as focus shifts to root causes of exclusionsIsolation booths, frequent suspensions and strict behaviour regimes look set to be phased out in England as the Labour government shifts focus on how to keep the most vulnerable pupils in school.Education leaders close to the new government say ministers are planning to change the inspection regime so that all schools are judged on whether they are properly representative of their local community, and aiming to stop schools telling parents their child with special educational needs would be better off at another school, or being repeatedly suspended because they aren’t meeting strict behaviour rules. Continue reading…



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Author : Anna Fazackerley

Publish date : 2024-07-20 15:35:11

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US secretary of state Antony Blinken said that a long-sought ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was within sightSix civilians, including a journalist and his wife and two children, were killed on Saturday in an Israeli airstrike on the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, Wafa, the Palestinian news agency, reported. We will provide you with more information as soon as it has been verified.At least 38,919 Palestinian people have been killed and 89,622 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Saturday. Continue reading…



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Author : Yohannes Lowe

Publish date : 2024-07-20 10:13:34

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Jackson Lee, who was first elected to Congress almost 30 years ago, had said she was being treated for pancreatic cancer last monthUS representative Sheila Jackson Lee, a strong progressive voice in the Democratic party who was outspoken on African American and women’s rights, has died, her family posted on X late on Friday.Jackson Lee, of Texas, announced last month she had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and was undergoing treatment. She was 74, according to US media. Continue reading…



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Publish date : 2024-07-20 04:16:15

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Tyler Dykes, 26, who said at sentencing he is supporting Trump to be president, pleaded guilty to assault chargesA Marine who stormed the US Capitol and apparently flashed a Nazi salute in front of the building was sentenced on Friday to nearly five years in prison.Tyler Bradley Dykes, of South Carolina, was an active-duty US marine when he grabbed a police riot shield from the hands of two police officers and used it to push his way through police lines during the attack by a mob of Donald Trump’s supporters on 6 January 2021. Continue reading…



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Publish date : 2024-07-20 01:41:19

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Seven more congressional Democrats call for Biden to step aside in 2024 race today; president says he ‘looks forward to getting back on campaign trail’Biden reportedly feeling ‘betrayed’ by allies as speculation mounts over withdrawalBiden wants to see proof he can’t win. The polls show a nail-bitingly close raceThe report is consequential because Biden relies heavily on his family to make major political decisions. They are his inner circle and his brain trust and include his wife, Jill Biden, his only living son, Hunter Biden, and his sister, Valerie Biden.Behind the scenes, those close to Biden, his family and top allies, are reportedly seething over the way he is being treated. They believe the effort to dislodge him from the campaign has been “backhanded and disrespectful” according to the NBC report, which says the family is “distraught and moving through the stages of anger and grief over how people they perceived to be friends have treated the president”. Continue reading…



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Author : Joanna Walters (now) and Lauren Gambino (earlier)

Publish date : 2024-07-19 18:16:29

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Microsoft says cause of global chaos fixed; CrowdStrike CEO ‘deeply sorry’ but services may take days to recover as major disruption unfolds across USUS transport, police and hospital systems hit by CrowdStrike IT outageWhat we know so farHave you been affected by outage?The deputy spokesperson for New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams, said that “critical infrastructure and emergency operations, including the 911 call system, have not been impacted”.In a series of tweets, Fabien Levy wrote:As this outage only affects Windows-based devices receiving automatic updates, our team at@NYCOfficeofTech has been working for the last few hours to halt any automatic updates and minimize potential service disruptions.” Continue reading…



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Author : Maya Yang (now) and Joanna Walters (earlier)

Publish date : 2024-07-19 14:03:56

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US now only country not to restore funding to refugee agency; IDF looking into drone attackSee all of our Israel-Gaza war coverageThe UK will resume funding to the UN Palestine relief agency Unrwa.Britain’s foreign minister, David Lammy, who is part of the recently elected new Labour government, told parliament he was reassured that the agency had taken steps to “ensure it meets the highest standards of neutrality”. Continue reading…



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Author : Sammy Gecsoyler

Publish date : 2024-07-19 10:02:48

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Painting, concealed inside one of his well-known works, emerged during work for exhibition celebrating northern artAn unseen self-portrait of one of the most popular northern English artists of his generation has been discovered hidden on the back of another painting.The discovery of a new work by Norman Cornish – arguably the most famous artist to emerge from the north-east of England in the 20th century – was made during preparations for a big show of works by him and another titan of northern art, LS Lowry. Continue reading…



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Author : Mark Brown North of England correspondent

Publish date : 2024-07-19 06:00:34

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People told to stay at home due to unrest in Harehills area of West Yorkshire city A police car was flipped on its side and a bus set alight after unrest broke out in Leeds on Thursday evening and residents were advised to stay at home.Footage appeared to show people throwing objects at the police vehicle before it was pushed over in Harehills, just east of the city centre. The home secretary, Yvette Cooper, condemned the “shocking scenes and attacks”, saying “disorder of this nature has no place in our society.” Continue reading…



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Author : Robyn Vinter in Leeds, Nadeem Badshah and agencies

Publish date : 2024-07-19 03:04:07

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Penny Wong confirms that German freedom of information advocacy non-profit Wau Holland Foundation will be invoiced for the charter flight portion of the bill. Follow today’s news headlines liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastShorten says last CFMEU Labor donation was over two years agoEarlier on the Today Show, the NDIS minister, Bill Shorten, was asked about the CFMEU and said that the last donation received by the Labor party from them was more than two years ago.We’ve said that we’re suspending all donations from the CFMEU. In fact, we’ve suspended the CFMEU from the Labor party … The last donations were over two years ago. We’ve taken the action to stop any financial relations with the CFMEU.I want to make clear there is zero tolerance for anyone who tried to subvert the demerit and penalty system. This taskforce will help ensure the penalties apply to all road users. Continue reading…



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Author : Emily Wind

Publish date : 2024-07-19 00:03:37

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President’s political future remains at center of Democratic turmoil as Trump prepares to address Republican delegatesBiden reportedly more open to calls to step asideTrump’s speech: how to watch and what’s at stakeSidney Blumenthal, former senior adviser to President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, has written a column for the Guardian, arguing that Trump’s near assassination transformed his theology, giving the decidedly earthly ex-president a powerful spiritual sheen.The attempted assassination of Donald Trump has transformed the theology of Trump. He has long portrayed himself as an innocent lamb falsely accused, the target of slings and arrows to bear the suffering of believers. Now the bullet and the blood of Butler, Pennsylvania, have sanctified him for the faithful and brought forth a new gospel. Continue reading…



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Author : Maya Yang (now); Léonie Chao-Fong and Hamish Mackay (earlier)

Publish date : 2024-07-18 20:01:48

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Prime minister says productive has been ‘successful and productive’ as world leaders discuss Ukraine and European securitySome more of the arrivals pictured at Blenheim Palace for a summit for the European Political Community (EPC) today, courtesy of the newswires:Here are some of the discussions that have taken place at previous EPC summits, according to the gov.uk website:At the last meeting in Granada, the UK led discussions on AI and illegal migration. In Moldova, the focus was on supporting the host country in the face of Russian hybrid threats, as well building energy resilience. While at the first EPC meeting in Prague, talks centred around Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and the need for Europe to stand united against his aggression. Continue reading…



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Author : Lili Bayer (now) Amy Sedghi and Hamish Mackay (earlier)

Publish date : 2024-07-18 16:34:40

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Former health secretaries Jeremy Hunt and Matt Hancock criticised for their failure to better prepare the UK for the pandemicThe UK was “dangerously mistaken” to believe that it was one of the best prepared countries in the world to respond to a pandemic, Baroness Heather Hallett said.In 2019, it was widely believed in Britain and abroad that the UK was “not only properly prepared but was one of the best-prepared countries in the world to respond to a pandemic,” she said.There will likely be a next time. The expert evidence suggests it is not a question of ‘if’ another pandemic will strike but ‘when’.The evidence is overwhelmingly to the effect that another pandemic – potentially one that is even more transmissible and lethal – is likely to occur in the near to medium future. Continue reading…



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Author : Tom Ambrose

Publish date : 2024-07-18 11:44:55

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UK foreign secretary says he has talked to Trump running mate, who shares working class and Christian background• UK politics live – latest updatesDavid Lammy has said he is already engaging with Donald Trump’s controversial running mate, JD Vance, and can identify with him because of their common working class and Christian backgrounds.The British foreign secretary was speaking just hours after the possible future US vice-president reiterated his “America first” views, pledging to the Republican national convention (RNC) that he would not send US soldiers to war abroad unnecessarily. Continue reading…



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Author : Lisa O’Carroll and Kiran Stacey

Publish date : 2024-07-18 08:44:43

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