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Rishi Sunak meets members of the audience after delivering a speech during a Conservative Friends of India event at the Dhamecha lohana center on Aug. 22, 2022 in Harrow, England.

India applauds Britain's 1st Indian-origin leader Sunak, 75 years after colonial rule

People across India are cheering for Rishi Sunak, who has embraced his Indian and Hindu heritage, becoming the newest British prime minister.

Rishi Sunak will become Britain's new prime minister

Rishi Sunak will become Britain's new prime minister — its third in two months. He won the race to be leader of the Conservative Party today.

Author Colleen Hoover signs her novel, "It Starts with Us."

Author Colleen Hoover went from tending cows to writing bestsellers

The top-selling author in the country right now is a 42-year-old mom and former social worker who lives in the same small Texas town where she's spent practically her entire life.

Rishi Sunak meets supporters as he arrives to attend a Conservative Party leadership election hustings at the NEC, Birmingham, England, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022.

Rishi Sunak will become the next U.K. prime minister

A popular former chancellor of the exchequer under Boris Johnson's premiership, Sunak will be the first person of color to take the top job and the youngest prime minister in more than 200 years.

Nevada Republican U.S. Senate candidate Adam Laxalt (center) takes a group photo with supporters during a Hispanic Heritage Month Fiesta at the RNC Hispanic Community Center on Oct. 13, in Las Vegas. Republicans are making inroads to appeal to Latino voters.

Democrats are losing Latino voters as Republicans eye opportunities these midterms

While Democratic strategists acknowledge past mistakes and make renewed pledges to woo Latino voters, Republicans are also making inroads.

Here's what eight refugees cherish as a touch of home (clockwise from top left): Ukrainian sheet music; an Afghan dress; incense stones from Yemen; a ceremonial cup and plate from an Indian village; a word from the K'iche' language from Guatemala; a diary kept by a trans woman from Honduras; a Liberian woman's passport; and (center) a Tibetan dumpling that has proved popular in Kashmir.

Precious memories: 8 refugees share the things they brought to remind them of home

If you had to leave your home, you'd bring essential items for survival. But if you could take one sentimental object, what would it be? We asked refugees from Ukraine, Afghanistan, Honduras and more.

Allan Nakkash wants to know how to have conversations that don’t become extreme or shut people down. He works in a store in La Mesa, CA, January 4, 2022.

Let’s talk about it: The right way to have hard conversations about race and ethnicity

We explore the art of having civil conversations with those you passionately disagree with.

Iraqis displaced from the city of Fallujah collect aid distributed by the Norwegian Refugee Council, which has been awarded this year's $2.5 million Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize.

A $2.5 million prize gives this humanitarian group more power to halt human suffering

Jan Egeland of the Norwegian Refugee Council, which has been awarded the Hilton Humanitarian Prize for helping millions in crisis, talks about unprecedented challenges and dreams of a better future.

Iranian American journalist, who was held in Iran's Evin prison, on its fire

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Iranian American journalist Jason Rezaian, who for a year-and-a-half was held in Iran's Evin prison, which caught on fire Saturday, killing eight people.

Republican state officials in Louisiana are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on which voters should be categorized as Black when testing whether a map of election districts dilutes the political power of Black voters.

Who counts as Black in voting maps? Some GOP state officials want that narrowed

Republican officials in Louisiana are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to set a narrower definition of "Black" for redistricting that excludes some Black people and could minimize their voting power.

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