EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you all the news you need to know as you start the day.

1. #TUSLA: The head of child and family agency Tusla has warned staff, via email, to expect “further adverse media and political commentary for the agency” this week, ahead of the publication of a report sparked by the agency’s handling of a file pertaining to claims made against Garda Sergeant Maurice McCabe.

2. #SHOT: Controversial chart-topping rapper XXXTentacion was shot dead yesterday in Florida in a possible robbery, authorities said.

3. #TRUMP: China has accused US president Donald Trump of “blackmail” and warned it would retaliate in kind after the US president threatened to impose fresh tariffs on Chinese goods, pushing the world’s two biggest economies closer to a trade war.

4. #ESRI: The Economic and Social Research Institute has said there is very little scope for cutting the overall tax burden in the next Budget, in their Quarterly Economic Commentary, RTÉ reports.

5. #CANADA: Canadian MPs yesterday passed a bill that would allow free consumption of cannabis.

6. #DEVINE: Sinn Féin senator Máire Devine is to return to Sinn Féin today after being suspended three months ago for retweeting a tweet about a prison officer killed by the IRA in the 1980s.

7. #WEATHER: It’s set to be a cloudy day with some heavy rain this afternoon in the north and west. It will be cool in these areas, but warm and humid in the south and east with highest temperatures of 17 to 22 degrees, according to Met Éireann.

8. #IMMIGRATION: Reporters have obtained audio from inside a US Customs and Border Protection facility, in which children can be heard wailing for their parents. The audio has been released by ProPublica.

9. #APOLOGY: Men who were convicted of engaging in same-sex sexual activity in Ireland before it was decriminalised are to receive an official apology today in the Dáil and Seanad, RTÉ reports.