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Latest reporting, briefings and public-interest updates from the politics desk.
At least three NIH-supported grants at Emory University and the University of Pittsburgh were cancelled, affecting research into links between discrimination, neighbourhood conditions and brain health.
A UK media industry group has demanded clarity after Reform donor Arron Banks appeared to acknowledge hiring investigators to examine a Sunday Times journalist.
A Guardian analysis found that 54.7% of prominent X accounts posting about June unrest in Belfast and Southampton were located outside the UK, with US accounts supplying seven of the 12 most-viewed posts.
The U.S. Senate approved a continuing resolution 90-6 on August 7 that would fund the government through December 11, but the House must still act before the September 30 deadline.
Britain’s Conservative Party says it would end social-housing eligibility for most foreign nationals in England, a proposal criticised by housing and nursing groups and dismissed by Labour as unworkable.
A deputy customs commissioner is among 91 people detained after Ethiopian authorities identified 109 suspects in an investigation into alleged tax manipulation, forged payment records and deletion of electronic data.
Researchers at an Addis Ababa peace and security panel called for third-party mediated negotiations between Ethiopia’s federal government and Fano forces, arguing that the prolonged conflict requires a broader political and economic settlement.
Ethiopia’s National Dialogue Commission has selected a 330-member group intended to represent marginalized constituencies and deliberate on issues unresolved through the main conference process.
