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Rishi Sunak speaks in London while running for prime minister in August 2022. He lost to Liz Truss but is now set to replace her. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Updated 12:19 PM EDT, Mon October 24, 2022 Former finance minister Rishi Sunak will be the United Kingdom’s next prime minister, replacing Liz Truss — the country’s shortest-serving leader of all time.Sunak will become the first Hindu and the first person of color to lead the UK. At the age of 42, Sunak is also the youngest person to take the office in more than 200 years.The contest was staged after Truss…

You could credit Rishi Sunak with playing the long game — were it not that his last attempt to become UK premier only ended seven weeks ago. This time, Tory MPs have propelled him to power over the heads of party members who last time disapproved of his elite credentials. These include a £630mn stake in Infosys held by his wife Akshata Murthy. Sunak supporters resist the unflattering claim that family wealth will bias him against Britons on modest incomes. What they cannot deny is that his political fortunes and the value of Murthy’s investment are playthings of the dollar.The…

South Wales Police arrested three boys aged 11 after two new homes were destroyed by a fire yesterday evening. They are on police bail while the investigation continuesThree 11-year-old boys have been arrested on suspicion of arson after two unoccupied new properties were destroyed in a fire. The homes on Gilmour Street, Tonypandy, Wales, were set alight at 6.47pm yesterday, South Wales Police said. Emergency services were called to the scene of the incident and firefighters extinguished the fire using specialist equipment, Wales Online reports. South Wales Police confirmed that three boys, all aged 11, were arrested on suspicion of…

Jack Draper has overtaken Andy Murray in the ATP rankings to become the new British No. 3.Draper – who is behind only world No. 13 Cameron Norrie and world No. 26 Dan Evans in the British rankings – achieved a career-high ranking when he rose to 45th in the world, leapfrogging former world No. 1 Murray, who dropped to No. 49.The top 10 remained almost intact, with only Felix Auger-Aliassime and Taylor Fritz switching positions in ninth and 10th place, the former overtaking the latter after winning the European Open on Sunday.Davis CupGB’s Evans could quit Davis Cup over ‘insulting,…

Arshad Sharif, a prominent Pakistani journalist who fled the country after he was charged with sedition, has died in Kenya after he was shot by police responding to reports of a stolen vehicle, authorities said. “The officers trailing the motor vehicle … alerted police in Magadi who erected a road barrier,” Bruno Isohi Shioso, a spokesperson for Kenya’s National Police Service, said in a statement. Sharif’s car allegedly drove through the road barrier and “it is then that they were shot at,” Shioso said. Sharif was “fatally wounded by a police officer,” he said, adding that the incident was being…

With inflation at a 40-year-high, many Americans are pulling back on unnecessary spending. However, sweets are not one of the categories that Americans are cutting back on, apparently.Crumbl Cookies — a specialty cookie franchise company — has finally made it to the Big Apple. PUMPKIN COOKIES THAT CAN’T BE BEAT: TRY THE DELICIOUS RECIPEThe cookie franchise phenomenon has over 590 locations across the country.The company began in 2017 in the small town of Logan, Utah. The first New York City location recently opened, and franchise owner Seth Neeleman joined “Fox & Friends” on Monday morning to discuss the brand and why people…

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The Robb Elementary educator whom Texas law enforcement initially blamed for leaving an exterior door at the school open says she is “suffering mentally” after the shooting and its aftermath.Emilia Marin spoke to ABC’s “Good Morning America” about the accusation from Texas police that a teacher had left open an exterior door at the school’s west entrance, allowing the shooter to walk in. Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw later said the teacher actually shut the door not knowing that it had not locked. “He said, ‘A teacher left the door propped open,’ and I looked at my daughter and…

Three people are dead, including a 19-year-old gunman, after a shooting at a St. Louis high school Monday morning that also sent multiple people to hospitals, police said.Chaos unfolded shortly after 9 a.m. when authorities learned of a shooter with a long gun inside Central Visual and Performing Arts High School. The school and the Collegiate School of Medicine and Bioscience, which is in the same building, were locked down. After a gunfight with authorities, the suspected shooter was taken into custody and later pronounced dead, an official with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department told reporters.He was identified as…

CNN  —  Two students were injured in a school shooting at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School in St. Louis Monday morning, according to a tweet from the district, and police report the suspect is in custody. “Police are on site at Central Visual and Performing Arts this morning following reports of an active shooter and both CVPA and Collegiate are on lockdown,” St. Louis Public Schools tweeted. The post says the “shooter was quickly stopped by police inside CVPA.” The district is reporting that two student were injured and have been taken to the hospital. A tweet from…