The Football Foundation is to provide financial backing for an education scheme set up in the name of Stephen Lawrence, the teenager murdered in a racist attack in 1993. The English football charity – which is backed by funding from the Football Association (FA), Premier League and government – will provide career development opportunities for...
Vitaly Shevchenko Russia editor, BBC Monitoring Getty Images In the fourth year of its full-scale invasion, Russia is still making billions for its war on Ukraine by selling fossil fuels abroad Russia has continued to make billions from fossil fuel exports to the West, data shows, helping to finance its full-scale invasion of Ukraine –...
Well, go figure. When you have a couch that contains $53 billion-plus, it’s not too difficult to find a few million between the cushions. Amusingly, Harvard hasn’t yet realized the implications of their latest chessboard move in their match against the Trump administration: Harvard University is dedicating $250 million of its own funds to support...
As congressional Republicans consider slashing the federal safety net to fund tax giveaways for the wealthy, polling published Thursday by KFF shows that a large majority of Americans oppose cuts to health programs, including Medicaid. The research group asked respondents about potential funding cuts for various programs, and found that 84% oppose cuts to Social...
“We want to examine whether athletes may be more predisposed to injuries because of the functional changes in terms of their anatomy and physiology during the menstrual cycle,” said Simon Augustus, senior lecturer in sport biomechanics at the university. “We know hormones fluctuate during different phases of the cycle but we don’t yet know how...
Charities have criticised the government for cutting the amount of funding families in England can access to pay for therapy for adopted children by 40%. Adoption UK said the news was “distressing” for families, who had already faced “an agonising wait” to find out whether the adoption and special guardian support fund would continue. Last...
Paul Glynn Culture reporter Getty Images A share of the revenue streaming services make from subscription fees should be paid into a fund to support British high-end TV production, an influential group of MPs has said. In a new report, the Culture, Media and Sport (CMS) committee urged the government to improve support measures for...
This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica....
The Trump administration and Republicans in Congress are waging a multi-front war on nutrition benefits for children, with the U.S. Department of Agriculture moving this week to end programs that provided over $1 billion in funding for schools and charity organizations to buy food from local farmers as GOP lawmakers simultaneously take aim at school...