Monday’s Mini-Report, 7.20.26

Today’s edition of quick hits. * The former Manchester mayor becomes the U.K.’s seventh prime minister in a decade: “Andy Burnham became the United Kingdom’s prime minister on Monday following the resignation of his predecessor, Keir Starmer. As is tradition, King Charles III invited Burnham to form a new government. The two had a meeting at Buckingham Palace on Monday, during which Burnham became the new prime minister.” * Just days after Trump said Putin wants to end the war: “Russia bombarded Ukraine’s capital with one of the largest ballistic missile assaults of the war before dawn on Sunday, Ukrainian officials said, the third major attack on the capital, Kyiv, in the past 35 days. As smoke still hung over the city and rescue teams raced to strike locations, city officials said one pe