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Queen Elizabeth II welcomes Liz Truss on Tuesday during an audience at Balmoral, Scotland, where the monarch invited the newly elected leader of the Conservative Party to become prime minister and form a new government.

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Liz Truss is now officially the U.K.'s prime minister after meeting with the queen

11:50am September 06, 2022

by The Associated Press

Truss became prime minister on Tuesday and immediately confronted the enormous task ahead of her amid increasing pressure to curb soaring prices, ease labor unrest and fix the health care system.

This is Britain's new prime minister, Liz Truss, who goes by @trussliz on Twitter. It isn't Liz Trussell, aka @LizTruss, but Trussell will play along if you mistake her for the other one.

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Stop tweeting @liztruss your congratulatory messages. That's not Britain's new PM

11:01am September 06, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

Many constituents and politicians have reached out to Britain's new prime minister on Twitter — or so they thought. Many actually tagged the account of Liz Trussell, who's been having fun with it.

Untitled, 2021. Self-portrait of Adeolu Osibodu.

A skateboarding accident led this photographer to find his passion

6:34am September 06, 2022

Photographer Adeolu Osibodu takes you on a journey through space and time as he navigates reality, traversing sky, land and sea.

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A suspect is found dead, the other is at large, following a mass stabbing in Canada

5:05am September 06, 2022

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to reporter Mickey Djuric of the Canadian Press, about a series of stabbings in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Ten people are dead and 18 were injured.

A Texas town gets its portrait on a silo

5:05am September 06, 2022

by Susan Stamberg

Australian artist Guido Van Helten is known for his large-scale murals, often painted on abandoned industrial sites. Now he's telling the stories of McKinney, Texas, on the sides of its grain silos.

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A sixth reactor at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is now off the grid

4:23pm September 05, 2022

by Geoff Brumfiel

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

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What we know about the stabbings in Saskatchewan

4:23pm September 05, 2022

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

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Liz Truss will succeed Boris Johnson as the U.K.'s next prime minister

4:23pm September 05, 2022

by Willem Marx

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

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War has decimated tourism in Ukraine, but people are still determined to travel

4:23pm September 05, 2022

by Ashley Westerman

The Carpathian Mountains are a wildly popular domestic getaway spot for Ukrainians in the summer. But Russia's invasion has deeply affected the tourism industry there this year.

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Ben Stiller talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, June 20, 2022.

Russia sanctions 25 more Americans, including Sean Penn and Ben Stiller

1:10pm September 05, 2022

by The Associated Press

Russia imposed personal sanctions Monday on 25 Americans, including actors Sean Penn and Ben Stiller, in response to U.S. sanctions against Russians stemming from the conflict in Ukraine.