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Britain’s Conservative Party has announced that Foreign Minister Liz Truss will serve as the nation’s next prime minister, succeeding Boris Johnson.

NPR’s Ari Shapiro speaks with Bill Graveland, national correspondent for The Canadian Press, on the recent stabbings in Saskatchewan.

The Ukrainian government says the sixth reactor at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is now disconnnected from the Ukrainian power grid from Russian attacks.

Moscow-backed official insists referendum will be held ‘no matter what,’ as Ukrainian forces claim gains in bid to retake captured territory

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IS declares responsibility after bomber strikes mission’s consular section, in first attack against a foreign mission since the Taliban seized power last August

Russia has imposed sanctions on 25 Americans, including actors Sean Penn and Ben Stiller. Moscow says that the move is in response to U.S. sanctions against Russians because of the conflict in Ukraine.

California heat wave: A closer look at the dangerous temperatures expected on Labor Day  KCRA Sacramento California urges residents again not to charge EVs on busy travel weekend  Fox Business Heat wave enters ‘most intense phase’; Rolling blackouts possible, California ISO warns  KTLA

Human Rights Office calls on terror group ‘to establish a moratorium on all executions’ in the coastal enclave

When Loden first uttered the phrase “the glass ceiling” in the 1970s, she hoped the invisible barrier for women that it described would soon become a thing of the past. She died last month at age 76. (Image credit: Alexander