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A new report says climate change is pushing more girls into child marriages and teen pregnancies, as droughts, floods and rising poverty force families to marry off daughters or leave them exposed to exploitation. Coverage highlights the issue as an often-overlooked social cost of global warming, with readers debating how directly environmental crises translate into harm for young girls.
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Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown holds a six-point lead over Republican Jon Husted in a new poll ahead of the Ohio Senate race, one of the most expensive contests of the midterm election. Barack Obama is set to campaign with Brown and gubernatorial candidate in Cleveland. The race has drawn attack ads, with fact-checkers flagging misleading Republican claims and scrutiny of a PAC ad and Brown's own ad targeting Husted's remarks on poverty.
- 3Rashford news sparks jokes about hungry children in Spain●the homeless and hungry kids in Spain hearing this Rashfood news;
Spanish football circles are reacting to news about Marcus Rashford, with a popular joke suggesting homeless and hungry children in Spain reacting to the announcement. Rashford is well known for his campaign against child food poverty in the UK, and commenters are playing on that reputation as his next club move dominates transfer talk.