The report sets the 2024/25 baseline position – the starting point for child poverty before the landmark Child Poverty Strategy was published – and outlines how progress will be measured over the Strategy’s full ten-year course, with annual reporting providing transparency and accountability. Scrapping the two-child limit, expanding free school meals from September 2026 and launching […]

The Building Safety Regulator (BSR) plans to modify how it issues building assessment certificates (BACs). The proposed new approach will be more proportionate and targeted. It will also offer greater support to resident-led principal accountable persons (PAPs). The building assessment certificate foundation plan responds to feedback from PAPs, financial institutions and other stakeholders. It addresses the […]

The Department of War announced today the award of two Joint Laser Weapon System (JLWS) Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreements to advance the United States’ next-generation cruise missile and unmanned aerial system (UAS) defense architecture. The agreements with nLIGHT Defense and Lockheed Martin Aculight, executed by the Department’s Scaled Directed Energy (SCADE) Critical Technology Area […]

A Maryland man was sentenced today in connection with charges stemming from his attempt to join and fight for ISIS.  U.S. District Judge Adam B. Abelson sentenced Michael Sam Teekaye Jr., 22, to 15 years in prison followed by lifetime supervised release, for attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. Teekaye […]

On July 7, the U.S. Department of Education (the Department) held the first-of-its-kind Higher Education Fraud Summit featuring Under Secretary of Education Nicholas Kent, Assistant Attorney General for the National Fraud Enforcement Division Colin McDonald, and White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud Executive Director Scott Brady. The event drew over 800 participants to discuss […]

The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the following statement after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged a detainer asking North Carolina officials to not release from jail a criminal illegal alien charged with causing a car crash that killed a 6-year-old girl in Pitt County. According to local reporting, the crash occurred on […]

Less than two weeks into the response to the devastating June 24 earthquakes, the Trump Administration continues to coordinate a massive humanitarian response to support the Venezuelan people.  Through a swift, comprehensive, whole-of-government response – now reinforced by a new humanitarian air bridge between the U.S. and Venezuela – the United States is saving lives […]

Today, President Trump informed Congress of his administration’s intent to rescind Syria’s designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism (SST), following a 45-day pre-notification period. This is yet another historic step by President Trump to give the Syrian people a chance at greatness. Lifting sanctions on Syria will unlock international trade and investment, give Syria […]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Jul. 8, CMC – The government of Haiti has dispatched a humanitarian medical mission to Venezuela to assist victims of the devastating earthquakes that struck the South American country on June 24, despite the economic and security challenges facing the French-speaking Caribbean nation. The mission, led by Haiti’s Minister of Public Health and […]

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Jul. 8, CMC – Passenger traffic at the island’s two international airports declined during the first half of 2026 as the country continued to recover from the impact of Hurricane Melissa and other external challenges affecting the tourism sector. According to figures released by Mexico-based airport concession operator Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico (GAP), […]