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PMQs live: Starmer to face MPs as minister declines to rule out tax rises due to welfare concessions
Pat McFadden says there will be ‘financial consequences’ to Keir Starmer’s climbdown amid renewed speculation over Labour’s budget plansWelfare bill climbdown will have ‘a cost’ at budget, says ministerOn Wednesday,...
Trump’s sweeping tax cut and spending bill heads to House – US politics live
Vote expected to be tight after so-called ‘big beautiful bill’ cleared the Senate by the narrowest of margins with JD Vance breaking a tieSenate Republicans pass Trump’s sweeping policy billWhat’s...
Sikh activist who died in UK could have been poisoned, says pathologist
Family of Avtar Singh Khanda, who was thought to be on Indian authorities’ radar and died in 2023, call for inquestThe family of a Sikh activist who died suddenly in...
Three die in Spain as extreme temperatures grip Europe – live updates
Two people killed in Catalan wildfires and a child reportedly succumbs to heatstroke in a car in the regionPolitical cowardice hindering Europe’s climate effortsIn other news, French president Emmanuel Macron...
US vet uses cod skin to save bald eagle in time for Fourth of July
Adult raptor was found with one of its legs ripped open from knee to ankle and appearing severely underweightA veterinarian saved the life of a badly injured American bald eagle...
How Mamdani connects climate policy to his affordability agenda as he runs for New York mayor
Many of the democratic socialist’s policies aim to slash carbon emissions and boost environmental justiceAs she canvassed for Zohran Mamdani in New York City on Tuesday last week, Batul Hassan...
Trump’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ tour was a calculated celebration of the dystopian
The detention center visit seemed to represent a landmark in a defining issue since even before his first term: migrationDonald Trump’s tour of the bloodcurdlingly-monikered – and hastily-constructed – “Alligator...
Google undercounts its carbon emissions, report finds
Research says Google’s carbon emissions went up by 65% between 2019-2024, not 51% as the tech giant had claimedIn 2021, Google set a lofty goal of achieving net-zero carbon emissions...
Lucy Letby alleged to have murdered and harmed more babies
CPS says it is considering more charges against former nurse after evidence from detectives in CheshireDetectives investigating the former nurse Lucy Letby have passed evidence to prosecutors alleging she murdered...
NSW weather: storm brings 13-metre high waves and wild winds as BoM warns of ‘second surge’
Vigorous coastal low forecast to keep sending severe weather across eastern New South Wales for much of Wednesday, before gradually easing on ThursdayNSW and Sydney weather live updates – latest...
Miscarriage of justice watchdog chief quits after public confidence ‘badly damaged’
Karen Kneller resigns from Criminal Cases Review Commission, heavily criticised for bungling of Andrew Malkinson caseThe chief executive of the miscarriage of justice watchdog for England, Wales and Northern Ireland...
Greggs feels the heat as shoppers shun pastries in hot June
Shares fall almost 13% after bakery chain’s profit warning over heatwave hit to salesThe UK’s biggest bakery chain, Greggs, has said last month’s heatwave harmed its sales and profits as...