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Britain's Labour Party will replace Conservatives marred by Brexit, immigration and the economy. Keir Starmer will take over as prime minister.

UK voters punish Conservatives after 14-year rule, hand Starmer-led Labour landslide win

UPI News

Britain's Labor Party is expected to win the biggest majority of any single party since 1832 in parliamentary elections Thursday, according to a final poll.

Polls suggest Fourth of July landslide for Labor Party in Britain's general election

HuffPost

The center-right Conservative Party has governed Britain for the past 14 years, but frustrated voters are ready for a change.

Labour Party To Win U.K. General Election, Exit Polls Show

A landslide victory in Britain for a party that hasn't won an election since Tony Blair. The next British prime minister will be Keir Starmer from the center left Labour Party, who spoke early this morning. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) KEIR STARMER: Change begins now. (CHEERING) INSKEEP: Literally true. There's...

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New York Post

It’s official — Britain has a new prime minister. 

Sir Keir Starmer has promised to deliver “an age of national renewal” after the party brought a crushing end to the Conservatives after a 14-year rule.

Starmer, leader of the Labour Party, and his team secured a massive landslide victory Friday morning — the worst defeat in the Conservative Party’s history.







Starmer and his wife, Victoria, arrived at Buckingham Palace Friday for a private appointment with King Charles, during which the monarch, 75, asked the PM to form a new government.

During the “kissing hands” ceremony, Charles officially named Starmer Britain’s new leader after...

UK’s Keir Starmer officially becomes Prime Minister, promises ‘age of national renewal’ as Labour Party celebrates landslide victory

MADISON, Wis. — President Biden on Friday told ABC News that he had "a bad episode" and a "bad night" as he explained last week's terrible debate performance that has led to calls from his fellow Democrats for him to drop out of the presidential race. "I was exhausted,"...

President Biden says 'I was exhausted' during the debate against Trump

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Bucks County Beacon

“[I]nvoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God,” the Constitution of the Confederate States of America composed by southern slaveholders in 1861 sought to “establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.” The authors of Project 2025, the latest playbook for restructuring the federal government in order to accomplish the policy goals of Christian Nationalists, similarly declare their manifesto will “decide America’s future” by securing their “God-given individual rights to live freely” and exercise dominion over others.

Legislating Inequality: The Christian Confederate Roots of Project 2025

Saint Augustine, FL

Jacksonville Today

Shed Dawson didn’t want to come back to St. Augustine. St. Augustine is where he was arrested. It’s where he was beaten. And it’s where he left because he was blackballed out of finding a job.

Waves of Change: Civil rights demonstrators return to St. Augustine

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Total Apex Sports & Entertainment

Have you ever wondered why certain people conveniently betray the trust of their loved ones? It could be their zodiac signs having a good influence on their lives. Betrayal of trust hits differently when it is coming from family, a bosom friend, a spouse, or other loved ones.

3 Zodiac Signs That Will Betray Your Trust

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Cheryl E Preston

Fifty percent of Norfolk church has high blood pressure. 3WTKR reports that Pastor Reverend Dr. Geoffrey Guns of Second Calvery Baptist Church in Norfolk made a startling discovery in March. He asked congregants who had high blood pressure to stand and half of the congregation rose to their feet.

Virginia pastor reveals half of his African American congregation has hypertension

LONDON — The U.K.'s Labour Party won a huge parliamentary majority in the country's general election, but a quirk of the British electoral system means it did so with just 34% of the total votes cast. Results show that the opposition Labour Party has won 412 parliamentary seats of...

Britain's Labour pulled off a thumping election victory with just 34% of the national vote

Last week, Vladimir Putin vowed to make new nuclear weapons and consider placing them close to NATO countries. Meanwhile, here in the US, the government boosted its nuclear weapon spending by 18% between 2022 and 2023. The world is closer to nuclear war than it's been in at least forty...

The game theory that led to nuclear standoffs

Hey America, sorry we missed your birthday. In the absence of any gift ideas from you — why can you never decide what you want? — we tried to get you a calm presidential election and peaceful transfer of power. When those didn't qualify for Prime shipping, we...

She ate HOW many hot dogs? He wore WHAT on his head? Find out in the quiz

CBS San Francisco

Britain's Labour Party headed for a landslide victory Friday in a parliamentary election, an exit poll and partial returns indicated, as voters punished the governing Conservatives after 14 years of economic and political upheaval. As the sun rose, official results showed Labour had 326 of the 650 seats, as vote counting continued. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak had already acknowledged the defeat and said he called center-left Labour's leader Keir Starmer to congratulate him on becoming the country's next prime minister.Sunak said that the British people have "delivered a sobering verdict."    Starmer will face a jaded electorate impatient for...

Britain's Labour Party projected to win huge majority as Sunak concedes

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The e-Texan

New York – As Trump anticipates his sentencing on July 11th in the New York hush money case, Florida Judge Aileen Cannon made a ruling this Monday. Despite rejecting Trump’s legal team's request to dismiss several charges in the classified documents case, she conceded on a minor point. She removed a portion of the charges that referenced an uncharged allegation, but upheld the other charges.

Legal expert says Trump should not be jailed after New York guilty verdict because he is ‘too old’

Despite Labour’s huge UK election win, it lost several seats after a strong showing from pro-Palestinian candidates, in a sign of anger over the party’s Gaza stance.

The Labour party’s position on Gaza appears to have cost it votes in the UK election

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner and Chancellor Rachel Reeves are among a record 11 women in the new PM's team.

Starmer names first cabinet after landslide win

Missouri State

CJ Coombs

According to Shakey's website, this pizza parlor is only in California, North Carolina, and Washington state in the U.S. now. This was my family's go-to pizza joint when my father was stationed with the Air Force outside of Omaha, Nebraska. We liked it so much, that when we were transferred again, it was hopeful we'd find another one.

Shakey's Pizza Parlor and nostalgia: the first franchised pizza restaurant also landed in Missouri

The Hill

The Labour Party is projected to win a landslide victory Thursday evening, ending 14 years of Conservative Party rule in the United Kingdom. Labour is on track to win 410 seats in the British House of Commons, a sizable margin above the 326 seats needed for a majority, according to a nationwide exit poll conducted…

Labour Party poised to win UK government after 14 years of Conservative Party rule

The Independent

Labour has slipped behind the SNP days before the General Election, a new poll suggests.A survey by Savanta for The Scotsman suggests 31% of Scots could vote Labour on Thursday, three points down on the last poll, while support for the SNP is unchanged at 34%.According to analysis by Professor Sir John Curtice, Labour, which won just one seat north of the border in the 2019 election, is on course to have 22 Scottish MPs while the SNP will keep 24 seats.The poll, carried out between June 28 and July 2, suggests the Conservatives are on 15%, up one point,...

Labour slips behind SNP ahead of election day, poll suggests

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It's Election Day in the U.K. — the Labour Party is favored to return to power

This is the day the U.S. celebrates its Declaration of Independence from the British government. In a moment, we'll hear from NPR listeners about what that...

It's Election Day in the U.K. — the Labour Party is favored to return to power

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