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• Chuck Schumer believed Republicans would dump ‘turd’ Trump after 2020 and return to Bush’s party, book claims

  19-03-2025 23:53 via independent.co.uk
  
  Senator has cancelled his own book tour following blowback for his decision to vote against a government shutdown
  
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• Foreign minister ‘strongly condemns’ China’s executions of four Canadians

  19-03-2025 23:37 via theguardian.com
  
  Mélanie Joly says Ottawa would ask for leniency for other Canadians facing the same fateNever miss global breaking news. Download our free app to keep up with key stories in real time.Canada has strongly condemned the execution of four of its citizens who were put to death in China on drug-smuggling charges, amid lingering diplomatic tensions between the two countries.The minister of foreign affairs, Mélanie Joly, said on Wednesday that all four were dual citizens and were executed
  
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• Fired FTC commissioner raises concern over Trump ties to tech billionaires

  19-03-2025 23:09 via theguardian.com
  
  Alvaro Bedoya points to ‘interesting coincidence’ that he was dismissed after criticizing Amazon’s Jeff BezosA day after his abrupt firing by Donald Trump from the Federal Trade Commission, Alvaro Bedoya raised questions about the US president’s relations with some of the country’s richest men.Appearing at a hearing of the joint judiciary committee of the state legislature in Colorado on Wednesday, the ousted Democratic commissioner said it was an “interesting
  
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• Website called ‘Dogequest’ created to dox Tesla owners nationwide

  19-03-2025 23:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘At DOGEQUEST, we believe in empowering creative expressions of protest that you can execute from the comfort of your own home,’ site says
  
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• Amtrak CEO steps down as Musk insists ‘sad’ rail service needs to be privatized

  19-03-2025 23:01 via independent.co.uk
  
  Stephen Gardner left position to ‘ensure that Amtrak continues to enjoy the full faith and confidence of this administration’
  
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• Judge rails against DOGE for ‘terrorizing’ U.S. Institute of Peace after using ‘guns and threats’ to shut it down

  19-03-2025 22:55 via independent.co.uk
  
  Judge Beryl Howell delivers withering rebuke of Trump administration’s ‘offensive’ attempts to shutter independent agency
  
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• Trump’s JFK file release left out two-thirds of promised documents, expert says

  19-03-2025 22:51 via independent.co.uk
  
  Just over 1,100 redacted documents have been fully released, according to researchers
  
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• Ontario’s police force using ‘growing ecosystem’ of Israeli spyware – report

  19-03-2025 22:42 via theguardian.com
  
  Findings raise questions about extent and scope of Canadian authorities’ use of cyberweaponsResearchers have uncovered “possible links” between Ontario’s provincial police force and an Israel-based military-grade spyware maker called Paragon Solutions, raising questions about the extent and scope of Canadian authorities’ use of cyberweapons.The new findings were published by the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, which tracks and identifies digital threats ag
  
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• Columbia has a day to decide: Agree to Trump demands in antisemitism fight or lose $400 million

  19-03-2025 22:42 via independent.co.uk
  
  Academics around the country are watching the case of the Ivy League school, as Trump administration threatens sweeping consequences against universities over alleged antisemitism
  
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• 'It's him, it's him!' - Mother spots son deported from US in mega-prison footage

  19-03-2025 22:34 via bbc.com
  
  Some relatives of accused and deported gang members say their sons have been wrongly swept up in a Trump administration crackdown.
  
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• Mother charged following DUI crash that killed her children in Napa

  19-03-2025 22:32 via independent.co.uk
  
  Yesica Barajas, 31, of Napa, has been charged with two felony counts of gross vehicular manslaughter, following the incident on March 16
  
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• White House calls judge challenging Trump deportation order a ‘Democrat activist’

  19-03-2025 22:24 via theguardian.com
  
  Press secretary says judge who weighed legality of Trump deportation order ‘does not have that authority’The White House on Wednesday labeled the federal judge challenging the Trump administration on whether it defied his court order to halt flights deporting migrants without a hearing “a Democrat activist”.The press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, singled out by name at a White House press briefing federal judge James Boasberg, who weighed the legality of Donald Trump&rsquo
  
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• Chuck Schumer tries to put out a five-alarm fire after Democrats ‘caved’ on shutdown vote

  19-03-2025 22:21 via independent.co.uk
  
  Analysis: The Senate minority leader faces the loudest complaints about his leadership from his colleagues in recent memory, writes John Bowden
  
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• Trump whines about ‘absolutely terrible’ Fox News White House correspondent, says she should work for CNN

  19-03-2025 22:18 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘I watched Jacqui Heinrich from Fox over the weekend and I thought she was absolutely terrible. She should be working for CNN, not Fox,” Donald Trump raged on Truth Social
  
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• Istanbul mayor arrested days before likely presidential nomination

  19-03-2025 21:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Ekrem İmamoğlu of CHP opposition party detained alongside 100 others accused of corruption and links to terror groupsTurkish police have arrested the mayor of Istanbul, detaining the primary challenger to the president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in dawn raids that also ensnared 100 politicians, businesspeople and municipal officials accused of corruption and links to terror groups.Ekrem İmamoğlu, the mayor, released a video statement as police gathered outside his residence
  
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• Farmer’s house in danger from climate change, court told in RWE case

  19-03-2025 21:27 via theguardian.com
  
  German coal giant is one of world’s biggest polluters and should contribute to flood defences, says farmer in PeruA Peruvian farmer’s home is in “concrete danger” from climate change, a court has heard, in the resumption of a decade-long legal battle to get German coal giant RWE to contribute to flood defences in the Andes.Lawyers for Saúl Luciano Lliuya, who say his home is threatened by rapidly melting glaciers, told the upper regional court in Hamm on Wednesday
  
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• Conservative commentator and failed 2022 candidate eying another run for Michigan office

  19-03-2025 21:18 via independent.co.uk
  
  Tudor Dixon, who was the Republican nominee for governor of the Great Lakes State in 2022, said she has yet to decide whether to opt for the battleground state’s open Senate seat or governor’s office.
  
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• Tim Walz calls Elon Musk a ‘South African nepo baby’

  19-03-2025 21:16 via independent.co.uk
  
  Walz is just one of several Democrats who have referred to Musk’s immigrant background
  
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• Now Zelensky has his opportunity to beckon Trump back into Ukraine’s corner

  19-03-2025 21:16 via independent.co.uk
  
  Putin’s rejection of ceasefire terms means Zelensky has been handed a chance to bring the US president on side - and he is beginning to understand his new American audience, writes Sam Kiley in Odesa
  
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• Sia files for divorce from husband Daniel Bernard nearly 2 years after marriage

  19-03-2025 21:11 via independent.co.uk
  
  Sia has filed for divorce from second husband Daniel Bernard after two years of marriage
  
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• Key swing Republican hits out at Trump and Musk in scathing speech

  19-03-2025 21:01 via independent.co.uk
  
  Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska told state lawmakers she was not afraid of billionaire Elon Musk primarying her
  
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• Pentagon defends removing webpage of MLB’s color-barrier breaker Jackie Robinson: ‘DEI is dead at the Defense Department’

  19-03-2025 20:49 via independent.co.uk
  
  Robinson famously broke baseball’s color barrier in 1947 with the Brooklyn Dodgers, but his story has been scrubbed from the Pentagon’s website
  
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• British couple held by Taliban due in court on unknown charges, family say

  19-03-2025 20:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Peter Reynolds, 79, and wife, Barbie, 75, expected to appear in Kabul on Thursday after detention last monthA British couple in their 70s imprisoned by the Taliban are due in court in Kabul on Thursday but have not been informed of the charges, their family has said.Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife, Barbie, 75, who run a training business in Afghanistan, were detained last month when they travelled to their home in Bamiyan province. Continue reading...
  
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• Zelenskyy says Ukraine ready to implement limited energy and infrastructure ceasefire after ‘positive’ and ‘frank’ Trump call – as it happened

  19-03-2025 20:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Zelenskyy said he accepted US proposal of unconditional ceasefire on frontline in ‘substantive’ conversation with TrumpOpening the press conference, Finland’s Stubb says Europe faces “one of those moments of choices between two different worlds: Yalta or Helsinki; in other words, spheres of influence or equal rights and duties for all states.”He stresses that Ukraine has “an undeniable right to defend itself on its own and supported by its partner,” a ri
  
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• Trump administration live updates: Trump pauses $175m in funding to UPenn over transgender swimmer

  19-03-2025 20:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  Paused funds sourced from Defense Department and Department of Health and Human Services, report says, university claims no official notification
  
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• Onetime art adviser to actor Leonardo DiCaprio gets 2.5 years in prison for $6.5 million fraud

  19-03-2025 20:26 via independent.co.uk
  
  A New York art adviser who once counted actor Leonardo DiCaprio among her wealthy patrons has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison after admitting to cheating clients out of $6.5 million in connection with the sale of 55 works of art
  
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• Trump and Zelenskyy share ‘frank’ but ‘very good’ call as Ukraine accepts partial ceasefire

  19-03-2025 20:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Ukraine’s president says his country is ready to implement pause in strikes on energy and infrastructureDonald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy had a “very good telephone call” on Wednesday, according to Trump, in the first conversation between the US president and his Ukrainian counterpart since their disastrous showdown in the White House three weeks ago.Zelenskyy described the call as “positive, very substantive and frank”, and said he had signed up to a partial cea
  
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• Their 3-year-old slipped out a sliding glass door and drowned. Now they want Amazon to pay

  19-03-2025 20:24 via independent.co.uk
  
  Exclusive: Kai Bernabe’s parents are blaming the 3-year-old’s death on an allegedly faulty sliding-door lock they purchased on Amazon
  
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• Conservative commentator eyeing run for Senate or governor in Michigan

  19-03-2025 20:16 via independent.co.uk
  
  Conservative podcaster Tudor Dixon weighs a future run in adopted state after attacking Democrat Gretchen Whitmer for presiding over ‘lost generation’
  
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• Tom Girardi’s lawyers trying to delay hearing on the result of his mental health evaluation

  19-03-2025 20:11 via independent.co.uk
  
  A prosecutor fighting against the pushback of sentencing said the ‘defendant has had ample time to retain any expert to review’
  
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• Putin’s drone attacks make mockery of Trump peace deal for Ukraine

  19-03-2025 19:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  In ‘fantastic’ phone call with Zelensky, Trump confirms a partial ceasefire on energy is part of plan to bring ‘real end to the war’ – despite Putin breaking agreement to stop targeting energy grid in mass drone strike just hours after promising not to
  
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• Minnesota lawmaker who introduced ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ bill charged with prostitution after minor sting

  19-03-2025 19:33 via independent.co.uk
  
  Eichorn was arrested Monday night, hours after introducing a controversial bill
  
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• Israel launches ‘limited ground operation’ to retake Netzarim corridor in Gaza

  19-03-2025 19:33 via theguardian.com
  UN calls for investigation after staff member among 20 people reportedly killed in renewed airstrikesIsraeli forces have launched a “limited ground operation” to retake the Netzarim corridor, a newly widened road protected by fortified bunkers that divides Gaza and is seen as essential to controlling the devastated Palestinian territory.The move is a significant escalation of Israel’s new offensive in Gaza and came less than 36 hours after a massive wave of airstrikes that kill
  
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• EU accuses Google and Apple of breaking its rules, risking Trump clash

  19-03-2025 19:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Tech companies could be fined billions if EU finds they have breached the Digital Markets ActBusiness live – latest updatesThe European Commission has accused the US tech companies Google and Apple of breaking its digital rules, in a landmark action that could escalate transatlantic tension with Donald Trump.The US president has sought to exert pressure on the EU to back away from tougher regulation of American technology groups, warning that he could retaliate by imposing tariffs on forei
  
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• Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump tells Zelensky US could take ownership of energy plants after new Putin airstrikes

  19-03-2025 19:22 via independent.co.uk
  
  Ukrainian president hits out at Russian leader after Moscow bombs energy grid despite promising US president to stop for 30 days
  
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• Right-wing commentator eyeing run for Senate or governor in Michigan

  19-03-2025 19:22 via independent.co.uk
  
  Conservative podcaster Tudor Dixon weighs a future run in adopted state after attacking Democrat Gretchen Whitmer for presiding over ‘lost generation’
  
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• Amy Gleason - who the Trump admin claims is running DOGE - has been working at another agency for weeks

  19-03-2025 19:18 via independent.co.uk
  
  Justice Department originally tried to seal document naming administrator’s second position
  
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• Trump has removed one thing from the Oval Office that has been there for 50 years. But why?

  19-03-2025 19:17 via independent.co.uk
  
  Origins of the Swedish ivy remain unclear as Trump administration replaces it with golden artifacts from White House collection
  
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• White House says intelligence sharing with Ukraine will continue after Trump call with Zelensky

  19-03-2025 19:10 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump floated having the United States take ownership of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure during the hour-long call
  
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• Investigation reveals heavy metals, including ‘potentially harmful’ levels of lead, in baby formula

  19-03-2025 19:04 via independent.co.uk
  
  While there are several safe options, Consumer Reports said more than a dozen formulas have ‘potentially harmful’ levels of contaminants
  
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• Arizona executes Aaron Gunches in state’s first execution in nearly two years

  19-03-2025 19:01 via independent.co.uk
  
  Death row inmate was convicted of the 2002 murder of Ted Price
  
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• ‘Livid’ Rupert Murdoch reportedly ‘berated’ Wall Street Journal editor for article promoting former CNN reporter’s newsletter

  19-03-2025 18:52 via independent.co.uk
  
  Rupert Murdoch was apparently outraged that the newspaper he owns published a piece that touted the success of a newsletter recently launched by former CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy, a longtime critic of Murdoch and Fox News
  
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• Trump provokes a MAGA backlash as he wades into Middle East wars

  19-03-2025 18:45 via independent.co.uk
  
  Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene have both expressed skepticism over the strikes and prospect of a wider war against Iran.
  
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• X finally valued at $44 billion, the exact sum Elon Musk paid for the social media site in 2022

  19-03-2025 18:33 via independent.co.uk
  
  Just last fall, an investment firm estimated that its shares in the site had plunged nearly 80 percent in value —placing the price tag on the social media platform at less than $10 billion
  
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• Can AI help you win your March Madness bracket? One disruptor bets $1 million on 'yes' (and Houston)

  19-03-2025 18:30 via independent.co.uk
  
  Perhaps the surest sign that artificial intelligence really is taking over the world will come the day it wins your favorite March Madness bracket pool
  
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• Steve Bannon admits Maga operatives ‘working’ on third term for Trump

  19-03-2025 18:29 via independent.co.uk
  
  Speaking of his adoration for Trump, the former chief strategist said ‘he’s on fire, and I’m a huge supporter. I want to see him again in 2028’
  
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• The Latest: DOGE official to take USAID leadership role despite department helping to dismantle it

  19-03-2025 18:21 via independent.co.uk
  
  According to an email obtained by The Associated Press, a senior official at Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is taking a leadership role at the U.S. Agency for International Development, giving DOGE direct authority over an agency it has worked to dismantle
  
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• ‘As real as it can get’: EU to loan €150bn for European defence from invasion

  19-03-2025 18:19 via theguardian.com
  
  EU launches scheme to buy more weapons in Europe as Russia remains ‘a threat for the foreseeable future’Europe needs to be able to deter potential invaders by 2030, the EU executive has said as it launched a push to buy more weapons in the bloc and from allied countries, rather than from the US.The UK, US and Turkey will be excluded from defence contracts funded by a €150bn (£125bn) EU loans programme, unless they sign a security and defence partnership agreement with the
  
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• Six Flags roller coaster caused college graduate’s fatal brain injury, family says

  19-03-2025 18:17 via independent.co.uk
  
  Christopher Hawley died a day after riding the ‘unreasonably dangerous’ X2 roller coaster in June 2022
  
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• Storm Martinho: Warnings for rain, wind and travel chaos in Spain after deadly Storm Laurence floods

  19-03-2025 18:07 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Canary Islands government has warned against unnecessary travel ahead of Storm Martinho’s arrival on Thursday
  
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