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Child poverty strategy unveiled – but not everyone’s happy

A new long-awaited child poverty strategy is promising to lift half a million children out of poverty by the end of this parliament –...

Sports

Sources: Penn St. turns focus to ISU’s Campbell

Max OlsonDec 4, 2025, 08:08 PM ET Close Covers the Big 12 Joined ESPN in 2012 Graduate of the University of Nebraska Open Extended...

Business

Oil prices are down, but petrol prices are clearly not: What’s going on – and will it get better?

It’s a debate that has raged since the end of the COVID pandemic but, despite regulatory scrutiny, it’s fair to say there’s been no...

Sports

Pirates send Oviedo to Red Sox in 5-player deal

Jorge CastilloDec 4, 2025, 08:28 PM ET Close ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the Washington Wizards from 2014 to 2016 and the Washington Nationals from...

Sports

NASCAR’s France labeled ‘brick wall’ on rev share

Associated Press Dec 4, 2025, 07:38 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The attorney for the two teams suing NASCAR portrayed series...

Sports

Week 15 preview: A look at Championship Week matchups and players to watch

Dec 4, 2025, 07:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions After Georgia knocked off Watch college football and much more in the newly enhanced ESPN...

Sports

Predictions and the bet to make on all nine conference championship games

Pamela MaldonadoDec 4, 2025, 06:54 AM ET Close Pamela Maldonado is a sports betting analyst for ESPN. Open Extended Reactions After a long regular...

Business

Bank of America boss Brian Moynihan warns countries to ‘be careful’ when raising tax

The chairman and chief executive of one of the world’s biggest banks has said countries have “got to be careful” with their budgets and...

Sports

Three MLB free agents to invest in — and three to avoid

Kiley McDanielDec 4, 2025, 07:00 AM ET Close ESPN MLB Insider Kiley McDaniel covers MLB prospects, the MLB Draft and more, including trades and...

Sports

Who has the most work to do? Where all 30 MLB teams stand ahead of winter meetings

Bradford DoolittleDec 4, 2025, 07:00 AM ET Close MLB writer and analyst for ESPN.com Former NBA writer and analyst for ESPN.com Been with ESPN...

Politics

Nigel Farage launches tirade at BBC over allegations he was racist at school

Nigel Farage has launched a tirade against the BBC after he was asked about claims he used racist and antisemitic language when he was...

World

Fresh sanctions on Russia seem futile – Putin is more belligerent than ever

There is a sense of impotent futility to the latest sanctions imposed by the UK on Russia in the wake of the Dawn Sturgess...

Technology

SoFi’s stock drops on $1.5 billion share sale announcement

Anthony Noto, CEO of SoFi, speaking with CNBC at the annual Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho on July...

SoFi's stock drops on .5 billion share sale announcement

Politics

Starmer wants to lift half a million children out of poverty, but does his plan go far enough?

A new long-awaited child poverty strategy is promising to lift half a million children out of poverty by the end of this parliament –...

Technology

Apple announces departure of general counsel and policy chief

Lisa Jackson, senior vice president of environment, policy and social initiatives at Apple Inc., speaks during the TechCrunch Disrupt 2017 in San Francisco, California,...

World

Gaza longs for normality, but quasi-anarchy reigns and Hamas is once again exerting control

There is a desperate desire for normality in Gaza – for full shops, functioning hospitals, open schools, habitable homes and usable roads. For electricity...

Business

Direct trains from UK to Germany ‘one step closer’, but nothing yet on journeys to Berlin

The UK has come a “step closer” to having direct, high-speed rail connections to Germany, the Department for Transport has said. A partnership between...

World

Impotent sanctions on Russia are no match for solid financial support to Ukraine

There is a sense of impotent futility to the latest sanctions imposed by the UK on Russia in the wake of the Dawn Sturgess...

World

Israel allowed to take part in Eurovision 2026 – as several countries withdraw

Israel will be allowed to compete in next year’s Eurovision Song Contest, organisers have said – with several broadcasters saying they will now boycott...

Politics

Reeves between a rook and a hard place after claims she ‘made up’ chess championship

As an opening gambit at PMQs, Kemi Badenoch attacked Labour’s knight, the prime minister, over his Treasury queen, Rachel Reeves. “We now know the...