Former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak will become Britain’s next Prime Minister after winning the Conservative leadership race Monday.

Sunak will be Britain’s first leader of color and the nation’s third leader this year. He now faces the task of stabilizing the party and country in a time of economic and political turmoil.

His only rival, Penny Mordaunt, conceded and withdrew after failing to reach the nomination threshold of 100 conservative lawmakers needed to stay in the race.

Another former Minneapolis Police Officer has pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd.
In exchange for J. Alexander Kueng’s guilty plea, a count of aiding and abetting second-degree murder will be dismissed. Kueng is the second officer to plead guilty after Thomas Lane earlier pleaded guilty to the same count.

Their former colleague, Tou Thao, is scheduled to face trial this week in Hennepin County District Court.

A teenager pleaded guilty Monday to terrorism and first-degree murder in a Michigan school shooting that killed four students and put focus on the boy’s home life and the alleged role of his parents in the tragedy. Ethan Crumbley pleaded guilty to all 24 charges, nearly a year after the attack at Oxford
High School in southeastern Michigan.

Sam Larson can be reached at lars4378@stthomas.edu