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1 Liz Truss Elected Britain’s New Prime Minister
The results are in and Number 10 Downing Street will have a new occupant. Liz Truss won 57% of the Tory membership vote to become Britain’s next Prime Minister, replacing Boris Johnson. The new leader won over the voters with the promise of large tax cuts, with close to $35 billion in taxes set to be cut in her plan. In her acceptance speech, Truss thanked the Conservative Party for “organizing one of the longest job interviews in history,” and took up for her “friend” Johnson, reminding the crowd that he delivered Brexit and “rose to the challenge” of the pandemic and the war in Ukraine. Johnson is offering his resignation to the Queen at Balmoral Castle in Scotland today, then Truss will have an audience with Queen Elizabeth II and be appointed as her new Prime Minister. The new PM will make her first major speech from Downing Street at around 10am today. Truss is the third female PM in the country's history.
2 Judge Rules To Have Special Master Review Trump Documents
A federal judge shook up the investigation into documents found at Mar-a-Lago by granting former President Donald Trump’s request for a special master to review the evidence seized last month. US District Judge Aileen Cannon’s ruling clears the way for a third-party attorney to review all the seized materials. The ruling is a win for the Trump team, but experts say it may only lead to a delay in the federal investigation, and the former President’s team didn’t get everything they asked for; the judge didn’t rule that materials seized by the FBI from his home should be returned to him. The judge ordered both sides of the case to “confer,” including the proposed candidates to serve as the special master and file a “joint filing” by Friday.
3 One Suspect Dead, One At Large As 10 Stabbed To Death In Canada
Canadian authorities say one of the two men suspected of stabbing 10 people to death in Saskatchewan has been found dead, but the other is still being sought. The two men have been charged with murder and other counts; the men are also suspected of injuring 19 people in series of knife attacks on Sunday in an Indigenous community and a nearby town. The dead suspect is 31-year-old Damien Sanderson, who was found dead on Monday outside a house being examined by authorities. His brother Myles Sanderson is the suspect still at large. Damien’s death brings the fatality count to 11, with 19 total injured in the attacks at 13 different crime scenes. Police say the motive in the attacks isn’t known, but it appears some of the victims were targeted and others were attacked at random. The chief of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations suggested in a statement that the stabbings could be drug-related.