Global National: July 4

As expected, the British Labour Party and its leader, Sir Keir Starmer, are heading for a landslide majority victory in the country’s parliamentary election, according to exit polls, ending the incumbent Conservatives’ 14 years in power. How Rishi Sunak and the Conservatives lost voters. Hurricane Beryl has left a trail of destruction across the Caribbean, including Jamaica, where at least two people have been killed. How thousands of Jamaicans have been left with nothing; how the storm crashed a Canadian couple’s honeymoon, and how Mexico is now bracing itself for the worst. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is putting in early work to win over voters before the next federal election, including campaign-style visits to evangelical Christian churches in Liberal ridings. As David Akin explains, while evangelicals don’t play as active a role in politics in Canada compared to the U.S., the Tories are courting their votes. And after decades of searching, a Holocaust survivor’s daughter has finally found the family she never knew existed. How Elana Milman successfully retraced her roots.