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• Elon Musk and Nigel Farage: A timeline of Reform’s relationship with the tech billionaire

  10-01-2025 13:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  These two figureheads of the right don’t always agree...
  
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• Trump’s hush money sentence ensures a convicted felon is going to the White House

  10-01-2025 17:46 via independent.co.uk
  
  Anyone not named Donald Trump would have likely gone to jail, but he can’t throw out a unanimous decision from a jury of his New York neighbors, Alex Woodward writes from Manhattan criminal court
  
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• Anita Bryant, a popular singer who became known for opposition to gay rights, dead at age 84

  10-01-2025 17:32 via independent.co.uk
  
  Anita Bryant, a former Miss Oklahoma and popular singer who became known over the second half of her life for her outspoken opposition to gay rights, has died
  
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• Everything we know about ‘armed’ arson suspect arrested near Kenneth blaze as LA wildfires rage

  10-01-2025 17:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  LAPD believe Kenneth Fire was started intentionally after breaking out on Thursday, with Palisades and Eaton fires still burning, as death toll reaches 10
  
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• Trump sentencing live updates: President-elect lashes out after judge orders unconditional discharge

  10-01-2025 17:13 via independent.co.uk
  
  President-elect appears virtually in Manhattan Criminal Court but has already vowed to file a further appeal against a prosecution he has branded an act of ‘lawfare’ by his political enemies
  
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• Winter storm wallops Southeast putting 50 million at risk of snow, ice

  10-01-2025 17:06 via independent.co.uk
  
  The National Weather Service says heavy snowfall and icy conditions are likely Friday in Mississippi, Georgia, Kentucky and Tennessee
  
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• Families of 9/11 victims’ two-decade wait for justice goes on as Biden blocks plea deal for accused mastermind

  10-01-2025 16:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  The highly-divisive plea deal has been blocked again
  
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• US and UK will target Russia’s energy sector with new sanctions as Biden prepares to leave office

  10-01-2025 16:35 via independent.co.uk
  
  Biden administration officials say the sanctions are being imposed now because they are not likely to add to inflation
  
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• Trump avoids jail in hush money sentence but is set to be first felon president

  10-01-2025 16:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  The president-elect criticized prosecutors and labelled the case a ‘witch hunt’ in his final remarks
  
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• Trump defiant he did nothing wrong as judge lets off felon president-elect with slap on wrist

  10-01-2025 16:33 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump will not face any jail time or fines for his 34 felony convictions
  
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• ‘Putin is afraid’: Russia won’t drop Navalny ‘terrorist’ status even though he’s dead

  10-01-2025 16:30 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Putin is doing this to scare you. He wants you to be afraid even to mention Alexei and gradually forget his name’
  
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• LA fires live updates: Santa Ana winds set to return as crews scramble to control blazes that left 10 dead

  10-01-2025 16:22 via independent.co.uk
  
  Death toll continues to climb as the arson suspect, allegedly armed with a ‘propane tank’ or ‘flamethrower,’ is being held in police custody
  
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• Trump sentencing live updates: President-elect to enter office a felon as judge orders ‘unconditional discharge’

  10-01-2025 16:21 via independent.co.uk
  
  President-elect appears virtually in Manhattan Criminal Court but has already vowed to file a further appeal against a prosecution he has branded an act of ‘lawfare’ by his political enemies
  
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• Listen live to TikTok’s final pleas against possible ban in Supreme Court

  10-01-2025 16:17 via independent.co.uk
  
  Watch live as the US Supreme Court hears oral arguments in a bid by TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, to block a law intended to force the sale of the app by 19 January or face a ban on national security grounds.
  
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• Trump avoids punishment in hush money sentence but is set to be first felon president

  10-01-2025 16:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  New York Justice Juan Merchan said “the only lawful sentence” remaining for Trump’s crimes is that of an unconditional discharge
  
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• Not a sweet goodbye: Biden is less popular leaving office than Trump and Obama were

  10-01-2025 16:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  The outgoing president’s approval ratings are comparable to Richard Nixon, who resigned amid the Watergate scandal
  
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• What was the ‘Pizzagate’ conspiracy theory that Edgar Welch believed in as gunman is killed by police?

  10-01-2025 16:11 via independent.co.uk
  
  Edgar Maddison Welch, who was shot dead by North Carolina police Saturday in a seemingly unrelated incident, stormed Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in Washington D.C. in 2016 with an AR-15 assault rifle
  
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• Trump reacts after his chat with Obama at Jimmy Carter’s funeral goes viral: ‘I got along with just about everybody’

  10-01-2025 15:57 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘It did look very friendly, I must say. I didn’t realize how friendly it looked,’ Trump says of interaction with Obama during funeral
  
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• Watch live: Outside US Supreme Court as TikTok’s final pleas against possible ban heard

  10-01-2025 15:26 via independent.co.uk
  
  Watch live as the US Supreme Court hears oral arguments in a bid by TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, to block a law intended to force the sale of the app by 19 January or face a ban on national security grounds.
  
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• Wives of Mallorca players say they were harassed after Spanish Super Cup game in Saudi Arabia

  10-01-2025 15:21 via independent.co.uk
  The wives of two Mallorca players say they were harassed by local fans after a Spanish Super Cup game played in Saudi Arabia that ended in a victory for Real Madrid
  
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• Watch live: US Supreme Court hears TikTok’s final pleas against possible ban

  10-01-2025 15:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  Watch live as the US Supreme Court hears oral arguments in a bid by TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, to block a law intended to force the sale of the app by 19 January or face a ban on national security grounds.
  
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• George W Bush pats Barack Obama’s belly as he takes seat at Jimmy Carter’s funeral

  10-01-2025 14:24 via independent.co.uk
  
  George W Bush gave Barack Obama a belly tap at Jimmy Carter's funeral on Thursday, 9 January, as presidents past and present gathered for the memorial service.
  
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• Watch live: Outside court as Trump to be sentenced in hush money case days before inauguration

  10-01-2025 14:17 via independent.co.uk
  
  Watch live as Donald Trump is scheduled to be sentenced in New York state court in Manhattan on Friday, 10 January, for his criminal conviction stemming from hush money paid to a porn star.
  
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• Paris accuses Algeria of trying to humiliate France by refusing to admit a deported influencer

  10-01-2025 13:53 via independent.co.uk
  
  French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau has accused Algeria of “trying to humiliate France” after the North African country refused to admit one of its nationals who was being deported
  
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• What was the ‘Pizzagate’ conspiracy theory that Edgar Welch believed in as gunman killed by police?

  10-01-2025 13:39 via independent.co.uk
  
  In 2016, Edgar Maddison Welch stormed Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in Washington D.C. with an AR-15 assault rifle and a revolver after believing a hoax conspiracy theory that prominent Democrats were behind a child sex trafficking ring
  
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• Elon Musk and Nigel Farage: A timeline of Reform leader’s relationship with the tech billionaire

  10-01-2025 13:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  These two figureheads of the right don’t always agree...
  
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• German government considers quitting Elon Musk’s X after far-right endorsement

  10-01-2025 12:46 via independent.co.uk
  
  Musk urged Germans to vote for the far-right Alternative for Germany
  
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• Arson suspect arrested by citizens near Kenneth fire armed with a ‘propane tank or flamethrower’

  10-01-2025 12:43 via independent.co.uk
  
  Man claims he used incendiary device ‘to smoke marujuana’ because he ‘couldn’t afford a lighter,’ witness says
  
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• Marriage annulled after bride says wedding was social media stunt

  10-01-2025 12:37 via independent.co.uk
  
  Judge rules woman believed ‘she was acting in social media event’ at December 2023 wedding
  
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• Ukraine-Russia war latest: Kremlin welcomes meeting with Trump as ‘supermarket hit with US missile’ in Donetsk

  10-01-2025 12:35 via independent.co.uk
  
  Russia accused Kyiv of using a US-supplied HIMARS to strike a supermarket in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine
  
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