First Thing: Labour win landslide UK election victory

Conservative party records worst general election performance to date. Plus, Democratic backers pause donations

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Labour has won a landslide UK election victory, bringing a crushing end to 14 years of rule by the Conservatives, who recorded the worst general election result in their near 200-year history. The Labour leader, Keir Starmer, will officially become prime minister later today after Rishi Sunak conceded.

A vote for Palestine. There were shock victories for several pro-Palestine independent candidates, with Jonathan Ashworth, one of Labour's election chiefs, voted out in Leicester South, while the former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn won in Islington North.

Will we get our money back?' According to Reuters and the Associated Press, a call with about 40 top donors over the weekend turned tense after Biden's campaign manager was asked whether the campaign would offer a refund if Biden does not run.

Don't blame me, its just my brain. Hawaii's governor, Josh Green, is reported to have asked Biden about his health yesterday. It's just my brain," Biden said, in what some heard as a joke but at least one person found odd.