Washington Post World

Read Keir Starmer’s resignation speech

Here is the text of the British prime minister's resignation speech outside 10 Downing Street on Monday. It set the stage for a new Labour Party leader to become government leader by September.

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Yahoo Finance

Swift Transportation expands CDL school network to Alabama

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Yahoo Finance

This upstart launched 35 ETFs in a day - and doesn't plan to slow down

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Yahoo Finance

Explainer-Three ways Trump could get a stake in AI firms for the US

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The Guardian

Andy Burnham to stand to become Labour leader and UK prime minister

Former Greater Manchester mayor will be overwhelming favourite in ensuing contest to succeed Keir StarmerAndy Burnham is to stand to become the Labour leader and therefore prime minister, the former Greater Manchester mayor who returned to parliament last week has announced.Such a move was inevitable after Burnham overwhelmingly won a byelection in Makerfield, having stood on a platform of wanting to become an MP again so as to replace Keir Starmer. Continue reading...

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Bloomberg Markets

JPMorgan’s Lipikhina Sees Europe Stocks Lagging Despite Oil Drop

European equities may struggle to keep pace with US and emerging market peers in the second half of the year as falling oil prices threaten a key source of earnings growth, according to Nataliia Lipikhina at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

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Variety

Canada’s National Film Board Unveils Exhibition at Annecy’s New Animated Film Museum (EXLUSIVE)

The new Musée du cinéma d’animation (Museum of Animated Film) in Annecy, France, is featuring a collection of films and artifacts from the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), with many of the iconic works and archival treasures set to join the museum’s permanent exhibition as part of a partnership agreement. The Animated Film Museum […]

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Yahoo Finance

AI Developments and Iran Diplomacy Drive Market Sentiment: Dow Jones, S&P, Nasdaq, Wall Street Futures

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Yahoo Finance

Sun Pharma to acquire Innovcare Lifesciences for $28.7m

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Yahoo Finance

Nacha’s fraud rules land

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Yahoo Finance

A 62-Year-Old Wants In on SpaceX’s 37% Pop. Holding It in a Roth vs. a Brokerage Account Changes Everything at Tax Time.

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Yahoo Finance

The 0% Capital Gains Bracket Exists. Here’s Why Most People Never Use It.

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BBC Sport

How football united behind Doku after childbirth criticism

Jeremy Doku wants to fly home to attend the birth of his first child - but why has that proved controversial in some quarters?

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Yahoo Finance

SpaceX Is Already Down 18% From Its High. Here's Why Investors Shouldn't Be Concerned.

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BBC Politics

Starmer quits as Labour leader and paves way for contest for new prime minister

Sir Keir delivered a statement to announce his planned departure from Downing Street.

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The Guardian

The US re-legalized the death penalty 50 years ago. Is it working as intended?

The Marshall Project analyzed over 9,000 death sentences handed down since states brought the punishment backFifty years ago, Americans set out on a polarizing mission: to find a just and fair way to punish the worst-of-the-worst crimes by execution.In some ways, this was a surprising choice. In 1972, a narrow majority of the US supreme court had scrapped the country’s entire death penalty system, calling it “morally unacceptable”, “racially discriminatory” and “arbitrary”. It seemed possible th

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The Guardian Culture

Benita review – Alan Berliner puts new spin on late film-maker’s work in entrancing tribute

After Benita Raphan took her own life in 2021, director and friend Berliner spent years poring over her unfinished work to create a documentary unlike anything elseThis is a one-of-a-kind documentary that has been coaxed and cut together by veteran film-maker Alan Berliner (Intimate Stranger, First Cousin Once Removed), who also serves as its narrator – but most of its graphics, footage and imagery were made by film-maker Benita Raphan, also the subject of the film. As such, it’s not exactly a c

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The Guardian Culture

‘Sheer outrageousness’: writers on their favourite LGBTQ+ movie characters

From gritty criminals to teens coming to terms with their identity, pride month sees Guardian writers on their most beloved queer charactersForget about dimly lit period dramas where miserable women with no access to electricity gently sob in their heaving corsets and accidentally-on-purpose brush hands in the trembling candlelight; overblown, bombastic heist-capers and brooding, butch anti-heroes are far more up my street when it comes to lesbian cinema. What, after all, could be more intensely

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Variety

Banijay’s Immersive Experience ‘Luminiscence’ Set to Expand to Seville’s Stunning Parish of San Jacinto (EXCLUSIVE)

Banijay Iberia will bring its immersive experience ‘Luminiscence’ to Seville’s stunning Parish of San Jacinto, in its Triana district, home to famed flamenco dancers, bullfights and sailors who sailed to Spain’s New World in the Americas.  Set to debut in October, the Seville ‘Luminiscence’ marks the third city in Spain to host the global immersive phenomenon, after […]

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BBC Sport

Firefighting prop Scoble to play last Wales game

Firefighter Jenni Scoble will play her final game for Wales against the Barbarians at Twickenham on Saturday.

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