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Farage had previously failed to get elected to the House of Commons seven times.

Trump Ally And Brexit Champion Nigel Farage Wins Seat In Blow To U.K. Conservatives

The Independent

 For someone often derided as dull, Keir Starmer has delivered a sensational election result.Starmer has led Britain's Labour Party to a landslide election victory, and on Friday will become prime minister — the first leader from the center-left party to win a U.K. national election since Tony Blair, who won three in a row starting in 1997.It's the latest reinvention for a man who went from human rights attorney to hard-nosed prosecutor and from young radical to middle-aged pragmatist. Like Blair, who refashioned the party as “New Labour” in the 1990s, 61-year-old Starmer led Labour to victory over Rishi...

He's derided as dull, but Keir Starmer becomes UK prime minister with a sensational victory

Reuters

CLACTON-ON-SEA, England (Reuters) -Nigel Farage, leader of the right-wing Reform UK party, won a seat in the British parliament for the first time on Friday in the seaside English town of Clacton-on-Sea, as voters deserted Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservative Party.

Nigel Farage wins seat in UK parliament

CNN’s Clare Sebastian reports on Labour leader Keir Starmer’s rise in UK politics. Exit polls indicate Starmer will become the new UK prime minister once the votes have been counted in the 2024 UK elections.

Who is the UK’s new prime minister?

In little over four years, Starmer has pulled off a once-impossible coup and dragged his Labour Party from the margins of British politics to a thumping victory in Thursday’s general election.

Can Keir Starmer give Britain the change it desperately wants?

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CNN’s Elle Reeve travels to Colorado for a “Never Trumpers” meeting and follows up with them after the CNN Presidential Debate.

‘Never Trumpers’ react to Biden’s debate performance

Andrea Lawful-Sanders talks with CNN after she interviewed President Biden following his poor performance at the debate. 

Hear what radio host thinks about Biden after interviewing him

Former U.S. defense official Evelyn Farkas says Putin is counting on weak U.S. leadership, as China tests America’s political will.  

‘It’s a bit of a dangerous moment’: Defense expert on U.S. presidential race

Eyewitnesses have recounted scenes of chaos and confusion after a religious festival in northern India ended in tragedy when over 100 people were killed in a crowd crush.

‘Anyone who fell did not get up’: Survivors recall chaos and confusion at deadly crush in India

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The FBI has seen a rise in scams targeting timeshare owners. In this kind of scam, criminals con these part-time property owners into shelling out hefty sums of cash, all under false pretenses related to their timeshare properties.

FBI warns that Mexican cartels are targeting Americans with timeshare scams

Three-quarters of US voters say the Democratic Party would have a better shot at holding the presidency in 2024 with someone other than President Joe Biden at the top of the ticket, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. His approval rating also has hit a new low following a shaky performance in the first debate of this year’s presidential campaign.

CNN Poll: Most voters think Democrats have a better chance of keeping White House if Biden isn’t the nominee

The FBI report identified ways to identify mass shooters before they strike. Historical data shows there’s an uptick in US mass shootings in early July.

FBI reveals keys to spotting a mass shooter before an attack

Videos taken on July 2 show Mount Etna, Europe’s tallest and most active volcano, spewing lava, Reuters reports.

Drone footage shows Europe’s most active volcano roaring with lava

People who take Ozempic or Wegovy may have a higher risk of developing a rare form of blindness, a new study suggests. Still, doctors say it shouldn’t deter patients from using the medicines to treat diabetes or obesity.

‘This debate was a shot heard round the world,’ says foreign policy expert Richard Haass

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

World leaders have been quick to congratulate their ‘friend’ Sir Keir Starmer on his huge General Election victory.Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was among the first to share a message as he said he hopes to build a “progressive, fair future” with the Labour leader – who he described as “my friend”.“Congratulations, (Sir Keir), on a historic U.K. election victory,” Mr Trudeau posted to X.“Lots of work ahead to build a more progressive, fair future for people on both sides of the Atlantic. Let’s get to it, my friend.”Congratulations, @Keir_Starmer, on a historic U.K. election victory.Lots of work ahead to...

World leaders quick to welcome ‘friend’ Keir Starmer as new PM

Emergency managers have become the nation’s de facto problem solvers — but are now running on empty, writes former FEMA Administrator Pete Gaynor. And that’s a problem.

Opinion: Our disaster responders are exhausted. This puts Americans at risk

TheDailyBeast

LONDON—Nigel Farage’s MAGA-inspired Reform party pulled off a political breakthrough in Britain on Thursday.The populist right-wing party, which was only set up four years ago, was on course to win 13 seats in parliament, according to the exit poll. That would be a stunning turn-up for a party that was only expected to win two or three seats in total.As the votes were counted it looked as though the exit poll may have overestimated their return across the country, but Farage easily won a seat in the House of Commons for himself, providing him a huge opportunity to spread his...

Nigel Farage Celebrates Major New MAGA Breakthrough

LONDON (Reuters) - Veteran left-winger Jeremy Corbyn won his parliamentary seat, beating the candidate of the Labour Party he used to lead and promising to be a thorn in the side of Keir Starmer's incoming government after an acrimonious falling out with his successor.

Left-wing champion Corbyn defeats Labour to win parliament seat

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Labour’s landslide victory is a personal triumph for Keir Starmer that once seemed impossible

The Labour Party’s resounding victory in the UK general election marks a historic moment in modern British political history and a huge personal triumph for Keir...

Labour’s landslide victory is a personal triumph for Keir Starmer that once seemed impossible

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