After suffering a rugby injury at 17, Morgan Purnell decided to get into reselling vintage clothes.
He made £142,235 ($191,241) in 2025, with Vinted accounting for the biggest portion of sales.
Purnell uses social media to promote his business, and AI to streamline processes.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Morgan Purnell, a 20-year-old entrepreneur who runs a vintage-clothing resale business and is based in Surrey, UK. It's been edited for length and clarity.
My dream when I was a kid was to play professional rugby. But when I tore 2 ligaments in my right knee when I was 17, it knocked me out of rugby for about a year and a half. My entire identity was stripped overnight.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who has been mediating talks, said today that "a final, agreed upon text of the peace deal has been reached" and his country is working the U.S. and Iran to "finalize next steps." NBC News' Gabe Gutierrez and Matt Bradley detail the potential Memorandum of Understanding between the U.S. and Iran.

(NewsNation) — Four months into the search for her missing mother, Savannah Guthrie shared a new message pleading for her mother to come "home."
The TV anchor shared an Instagram Story featuring a photo of a painting appearing to depict the ascension of Jesus Christ. Over the photo, the words "Oh my, my soul it cries out, soul, it cries out," were written.
Underneath, Guthrie wrote "bring her home," followed by a yellow heart emoji.
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Guthrie had often urged her mother's alleged abductors to "bring her home" in previous social media posts. She had also shared an image of the same painting in March, with the words "I believe" written over it.

June 7 (Reuters) - The White House is considering a plan to buy the Chagos Islands from Mauritius, the Telegraph reported on Sunday.
U.S. officials have ‌drawn up a proposal to bypass the U.K. and make their own deal ‌to take control of Diego Garcia, the report said.
The plan is among several options being drafted by the White House, in a paper aimed at providing alternatives to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer ceding sovereignty of the Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius, the report said.
"President Trump has been consistent in his position that the United Kingdom should not give away the British Indian ‌Ocean Territory, which includes our ⁠joint U.S.-UK military facility on the Diego Garcia atoll," a U.S. official told Reuters.
"Diego Garcia's strategic location in the Indian Ocean makes it ⁠a vital and indispensable military installation of significant importance to the national security of the United States," the official said, adding the U.S. remains in regular discussions with Britain to preserve the island's viability as a regional security platform.

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By Phil Stewart and Eman Abouhassira
DUBAI/WASHINGTON, June 6 (Reuters) - U.S. forces struck Iranian coastal radar sites on Saturday after shooting down drones launched by Iran toward the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. military said, in the latest escalation complicating efforts to end the war between the two countries.
The U.S. military believed the four Iranian drones were targeting ‌regional maritime traffic, a U.S. official told Reuters. U.S. Central Command said on X that the U.S. then struck Iran's surveillance sites in Goruk and Qeshm Island, both in the Strait ‌of Hormuz.
Iran's foreign ministry said that the U.S. action broke an April 8 ceasefire and that such repeated violations showed Washington had no intention of reducing tensions. It warned that the United States would bear responsibility for the consequences of its "illegal actions."

Scotland football fans say they are devastated as last-minute changes to travel permits could prevent them from travelling to the World Cup.
UK citizens who want to go to the United States for up to 90 days without a visa need to apply to the country's Electronic System for Travel Authorization (Esta).
But dozens of fans who filled out the form have said on social media that their application status had changed this week from "approved" to "travel not authorised".
Some have told BBC Scotland News they could lose out on thousands of pounds in travel costs due to the changes, with Scotland's first World Cup game kicking off in less than two weeks.
Scott Braid, 43, from Kirkcaldy, was due to fly out to Boston on 12 June with his wife and two kids.

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After Alyssa Burkett was murdered, detectives quickly learned that the prime suspect was the father of her child, Andrew Beard. But as the investigation unfolded, they would find out that Beard wasn't the only one involved in the murder plot.
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Shortly after 24-year-old Alyssa Burkett pulled into her parking **** e at work in Carrollton, Texas, a man with a gun shot her in the head through her car window and fled.

SEOUL, June 4 (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited a newly operational nuclear ‌material production facility and called for an "exponential" ‌expansion of the country's atomic ***** nal, state media KCNA said on Thursday.
Kim said production capacity for weapons-grade nuclear material had reached more than double its previous level over the past five years and instructed officials to further ‌increase output to ⁠meet long-term strategic goals.
During the visit, Kim was briefed on new production processes incorporating ⁠more advanced technology and reviewed current output targets and future plans, KCNA reported.
Kim said the expansion was necessary given what he called worsening security threats and long-term ‌confrontation with hostile forces, and reaffirmed the country’s policy of continuously increasing its nuclear deterrent.
KCNA said a key consultative meeting on bolstering nuclear forces was held the same day, at which Kim outlined guidelines ‌for accelerating both the qualitative and quantitative expansion of North Korea’s nuclear ***** nal.

Former Jill Biden spokesman Michael LaRosa accused the former first lady of trying to "change the tape" after she revealed in a recent interview that she feared President Biden was having a stroke during his disastrous 2024 debate performance.
Jill is facing criticism for an apparent reversal of her feelings about her husband's performance in his debate against then-candidate Donald Trump.
"They're trying to change the tape in people's minds about who she is... that's why she's sort of changing her tune a little bit about her reaction in real time," LaRosa said. "She wants to say, 'Oh no, my reaction was just as concerning and was just as severe as everyone at home. I was shocked.'"
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He said Jill was "the face and the voice of the initial reaction for the country," and that if she had reacted at the time with the sentiments she later shared with CBS, "it would have been a more human response."

Protesters and police have been clashing outside of an immigration center in Newark, New Jersey, for more than a week. Newark’s mayor implemented a curfew for the area that will be in effect from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. going forward after several people were arrested on Saturday. NBC’s Valerie Castro reports for Sunday TODAY.

Michael Burry took aim at ****** eX and Anthropic's valuations on his Substack.
The "Big Short" investor said ****** eX's IPO filing doesn't support a $1 or $2 trillion price tag.
Burry said Claude-maker Anthropic might never be worth $1 trillion as he expects demand to cool.
Michael Burry says he has major doubts about ****** eX and Anthropic's lofty valuations.
In recent discussion threads on his Substack, the investor of "The Big Short" fame questioned the worth of Elon Musk's rocket, satellite, and AI company, and the maker of popular AI model Claude.