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• Election 2024 live updates: Trump names first-ever female chief of staff as Biden vows to ensure peaceful transition

  07-11-2024 23:56 via independent.co.uk
  
  President-elect Donald Trump names adviser Susie Wiles as first-ever female chief of staff after Kamala Harris delivers gracious concession speech, urging supporters not to lose heart
  
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• Three charged in connection with Liam Payne's death

  07-11-2024 23:47 via bbc.com
  
  One Direction star Payne, 31, died after falling from a hotel balcony in Argentina.
  
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• Putin hails 'courageous' Trump after election win

  07-11-2024 23:27 via bbc.com
  
  The Russian president also said that Trump's claim that he can help end the war in Ukraine "deserves attention at least".
  
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• Democrat at heart of Trump impeachment wins Virginia seat against ‘fake family’ Republican

  07-11-2024 23:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  Yevgeny ‘Eugene’ Vindman defeated Derrick Anderson on Tuesday to win a competitive seat in Central and Northern Virginia
  
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• US central bank boss says Trump can't fire him

  07-11-2024 23:16 via bbc.com
  
  The US central bank cuts interest rates, as its chairman vows to stay on the job.
  
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• Ukraine-Russia latest: Putin hails ‘courageous’ Trump after election win as president-elect says ‘we’ll speak’

  07-11-2024 23:10 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump said he had probably spoken to 70 world leaders since his historic election - but so far Putin was not one of them
  
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• Prosecutors focus on Delphi murder suspect’s ‘I did it’ confession as they make final arguments before jury

  07-11-2024 23:06 via independent.co.uk
  
  A jury will decide if Richard Allen killed two teenage girls in 2017
  
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• Cuba works to restore power after hurricane blackout

  07-11-2024 22:57 via bbc.com
  
  Hurricane Rafael brought strong winds, causing a shutdown of the country's electricity system for the second time in just weeks.
  
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• Joe Rogan now realizes voting works - but only because Trump won

  07-11-2024 22:56 via independent.co.uk
  
  Rogan, who hosted the former president on his podcast, endorsed Trump on Election Day
  
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• Elon Musk is now king of the MAGA media universe

  07-11-2024 22:39 via independent.co.uk
  
  Earth’s richest person has transformed Twitter into the cornerstone of the right-wing media ecosystem – which makes him one of the powers behind Trump’s throne, writes Io Dodds
  
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• The five most shocking results from the election

  07-11-2024 22:29 via independent.co.uk
  
  The return of split-ticket voting, Democrat voters disliking their own party, Republicans overperforming — Eric Garcia talks about how this election shattered expectations, and why
  
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• Judge slams Giuliani’s ‘farcical’ excuses for failing to turn over property to defamed election workers

  07-11-2024 22:24 via independent.co.uk
  
  The cash-strapped former New York City mayor could be held in contempt of court if he blows a deadline to surrender valuables to women he defamed in the aftermath of the 2020 election
  
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• Baseball fan sues Dodgers, claiming he’s the rightful owner of Shohei Ohtani’s historic 51st stolen base

  07-11-2024 22:21 via independent.co.uk
  
  Exclusive: “The facts are very simple,” attorney Richard Roth told The Independent. “He’s entitled to that base.”
  
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• I reported from across Pennsylvania through the election. The key to Trump’s victory was staring us right in the face

  07-11-2024 22:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  Harris’s loss was the culmination of the Democratic Party’s years-long drift away from working-class voters in Pennsylvania, writes Richard Hall
  
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• Democrats turn their rage on one man after crushing election defeat: Joe Biden

  07-11-2024 22:06 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Biden should have stepped aise earlier,’ one strategist said
  
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• Abortion rights won major victories on Election Day. But Trump and his allies could threaten them

  07-11-2024 21:58 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump says he wants to leave reproductive healthcare up to the states, where millions of women delivered a powerful rebuke to anti-abortion laws. Lawyers and civil rights groups are bracing for what’s next, Alex Woodward and Bel Trew report
  
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• Changing their tune: GOP now promoting early voting after Trump’s win

  07-11-2024 21:33 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump remained ambiguous on early voting, which Democrats have traditionally dominated, throughout 2024 campaign
  
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• Footage shows California home engulfed by flames as massive blaze forces thousands to flee

  07-11-2024 21:28 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Mountain Fire has has torched more than 14,500 acres in the state’s southern region, resulting in two injuries and mass evacuations
  
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• A look back at our (mostly correct) Senate predictions after Donald Trump’s big win

  07-11-2024 21:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  What we got right, what we got wrong, and why the polls weren’t as reliable as everyone had hoped (again)
  
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• France condemns a spat between Israeli police and French consulate staff at a Jerusalem church

  07-11-2024 21:25 via independent.co.uk
  
  The French foreign ministry says armed Israeli police forced their way into a French-owned church compound in the contested city of Jerusalem, briefly detaining two consulate members and prompting the top French diplomat to abandon his planned visit to the site
  
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• A local Michigan official was busted for allegedly sexting a minor. He just got re-elected

  07-11-2024 21:20 via independent.co.uk
  
  Ken Fletcher can now decide whether or not he will assume the position
  
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• Inside the war between Trump’s new and former campaign managers: ‘I’m going to destroy you’

  07-11-2024 20:59 via independent.co.uk
  
  On Tuesday night as Trump swept to victory, his 2024 campaign chief Chris LaCivita and Corey Lewandowski, who ran his 2016 campaign, were reportedly at each other’s throats
  
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• Putin congratulates 'courageous' Trump on election win

  07-11-2024 20:58 via bbc.com
  
  The Russian president says he was impressed by Trump's reaction to the first assassination attempt against him.
  
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• What lame duck president Joe Biden can still do before he leaves office

  07-11-2024 20:55 via independent.co.uk
  
  Biden only has a few months left in the White House before Trump returns - but how much can he achieve in that time?
  
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• Ann Selzer explains why her very wrong Iowa poll may have helped Trump

  07-11-2024 20:18 via independent.co.uk
  
  Numerous prominent pre-election forecasts missed result as Trump swept to victory
  
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• EU leaders tell Trump to stand up to ‘bully’ Putin as Starmer is warned Britain can’t rely on US for defence

  07-11-2024 20:13 via independent.co.uk
  
  Don’t be ‘herbivore surrounded by carnivores’ says Macron as EU faces up to second Trump term
  
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• Mom accused of killing son with kettlebell then calling his dad to say ‘we don’t have a son no more’

  07-11-2024 20:12 via independent.co.uk
  
  Five-year-old Robert ‘Bodhi’ Gagner-Sarten was reportedly attacked with a ‘20-pound kettlebell’
  
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• Volunteer poll workers drown on a flood-washed highway in rural Missouri on Election Day

  07-11-2024 19:53 via independent.co.uk
  
  Authorities say a husband and wife died in each other's arms after they were swept away by floodwaters as they drove to a polling station in rural Missouri early on Election Day
  
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• Conservatives hate Mitch McConnell. But he’s the architect of the Trump comeback

  07-11-2024 19:16 via independent.co.uk
  
  Analysis: The man who has long spoken about the long game made the ultimate gamble on Trump twice. It paid off, big-time
  
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• LGBT+ crisis hotlines reported a month’s worth of calls amid Trump election win

  07-11-2024 19:03 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Trevor Project reported a nearly 200 percent increase in crisis calls from LGBT+ youths concerned about a Trump presidency
  
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• South Korean president sorry for controversies surrounding wife

  07-11-2024 18:51 via bbc.com
  
  The first lady is accused of accepting a luxury Dior handbag and stock manipulation.
  
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• Residents told to shut doors and windows after 40 monkeys escape from South Carolina research facility

  07-11-2024 18:40 via independent.co.uk
  
  Alpha Genesis, the compny that operates the lab that lost the monkeys,provides ‘nonhuman primate products and bio-research service’ to its customers
  
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• Battle of the pollsters: ‘Nostradamus’ bashes rival after both election predictions flopped

  07-11-2024 18:36 via independent.co.uk
  
  Across the board, pollsters failed to predict Trump would win by a comfortable margin
  
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• Israel passes law to deport relatives of attackers, including citizens

  07-11-2024 18:35 via bbc.com
  
  Opponents say the legislation, which would apply to close family members, is unconstitutional.
  
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• Elon Musk’s estranged trans daughter says she doesn’t ‘see a future’ in the US after Trump’s win

  07-11-2024 18:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Even if he’s only in office for 4 years, even if the anti-trans regulations magically don’t happen, the people who willingly voted this in are not going anywhere anytime soon,’ the Tesla CEO’s daughter wrote
  
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• Nigel Farage’s Clacton prepares to roll out the red carpet for Donald Trump

  07-11-2024 18:21 via independent.co.uk
  
  Donald Trump will soon be back on Air Force One – but can the Essex seaside town expect an unlikely visit from the presidential motorcade, thanks to the president-elect’s British cheerleader-in-chief? David Maddox reports
  
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• Zelensky urges European leaders to stay strong over Ukraine

  07-11-2024 18:18 via independent.co.uk
  
  European leaders met in Budapest a day after Donald Trump was re-elected president
  
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• Julie Johnson makes history as first openly LGBT+ Congress member elected from the South

  07-11-2024 18:14 via independent.co.uk
  
  Democrat Julie Johnson was elected to represent Texas’s 32nd District in US Congress
  
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• Elon Musk’s mother sparks backlash with ‘racist’ election day tweet

  07-11-2024 18:13 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Sad and twisted take,’ one person on X responded to Maye Musk’s post
  
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• Andy Cohen hits back at claim celebrity endorsements for Kamala Harris were ‘a flex’

  07-11-2024 18:12 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘We will persist,’ Cohen says after Donald Trump wins 2024 presidential election
  
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• Human leg bones wash up in Philadelphia park

  07-11-2024 18:05 via independent.co.uk
  
  Woman found a human femur and tibia in a grassy, rocky area along the park’s waterline
  
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• WNBA star Angel Reese shares eight-word response to Donald Trump’s shocking election victory

  07-11-2024 18:04 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘As a woman, I’m heartbroken for us all…’ Reese wrote on X
  
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• What is the 4B movement and why are women talking about it in the wake of Trump’s election win?

  07-11-2024 18:03 via independent.co.uk
  
  The 4B movement takes a bold stand against gender inequality – by boycotting men entirely
  
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• Joe Biden on US election result: Setbacks are unavoidable but giving up is unforgivable

  07-11-2024 17:58 via independent.co.uk
  
  Joe Biden broke his silence as he addressed the nation from the White House a day after Donald Trump won the presidential election.
  
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• Trump’s enemies list: The political rivals and organizations he threatened to go after

  07-11-2024 17:50 via independent.co.uk
  
  Kamala Harris previously warned that the president-elect ‘has an enemies list of people he intends to prosecute’
  
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• Election 2024 live updates: Biden vows to ensure a peaceful transition to Trump in address to nation

  07-11-2024 17:47 via independent.co.uk
  
  President-elect Donald Trump considering appointments to second administration after Kamala Harris delivers gracious consession speech, urging supporters not to lose heart
  
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• ‘The will of the people always prevails’: Biden promises ‘peaceful and orderly’ transition to Trump

  07-11-2024 17:46 via independent.co.uk
  
  Biden says he’ll ‘honor the constitution’ by preparing for a peaceful transfer of power in 74 days
  
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• ‘America will suffer again’: Independent readers react to Trump’s election win

  07-11-2024 17:45 via independent.co.uk
  
  While many expressed alarm over Trump’s re-election, Kamala Harris’s campaign also faced criticism for its overreliance on identity politics and lack of clear policy direction
  
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• Cops tipped off to woman who stopped walking her dog. Then they found her body in a freezer

  07-11-2024 17:43 via independent.co.uk
  
  The woman’s neighbor said there had been no movement around her house for at least five days
  
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• Billie Eilish pauses Nashville concert to eviscerate ‘predator’ Donald Trump

  07-11-2024 17:39 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Someone who hates women so, so deeply is about to be the president,’ the singer said before going on to dedicate her 2022 song ‘TV’ to ‘all the women out there’
  
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