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• Elon Musk breaks silence after his candidate loses Wisconsin Supreme Court race

  02-04-2025 11:38 via independent.co.uk
  
  Musk jumped on to X to scorn ‘the long con of the left’ shortly after the Democratic defeat
  
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• Fox News hires ex-congressional candidate who once praised white nationalists as freelance reporter

  04-04-2025 22:40 via independent.co.uk
  
  Five years after appearing on Tucker Carlson’s show to promote his congressional campaign that centered on banning legal immigration for 10 years, Pete D’Abrosca is now a freelance reporter for Fox News’s digital site.
  
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• Trump’s tariffs rollout sees stock market suffer worst week since 2020 as Dow drops 2,200 points by close: Live updates

  04-04-2025 22:22 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump’s trade war escalates as China strikes back with 34 percent tariffs on all U.S. goods, sending stock markets plummeting and wiping out $5 trillion in two days
  
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• Trump gives TikTok deal extension after China walked away from negotiations due to tariffs

  04-04-2025 22:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  Without a deal, TikTok would go dark in the United States on Saturday for more than 170 million users
  
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• Stock market closes week in bloodbath as Trump’s tariffs cause historic two-day drop and wipe out $6 trillion

  04-04-2025 22:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  Friday’s stock market comes after a historically bad day as investors react to Trump’s tariff plan
  
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• Dow drops 2,000 points as Trump’s tariffs send markets tumbling for a second day – business live

  04-04-2025 22:07 via theguardian.com
  US index sees biggest fall since June 2020 amid escalating global trade war as Beijing hits backwith new tariffs on US goodsChina hits back hard at ‘bullying’ tariffs as global recession fears growIMF warns of ‘significant risk’ to global economy from Trump tariffs as markets slideAnalysis: Trump’s ‘idiotic’ and flawed tariff calculations stun economistsNew Civil Liberties Alliance, a conservative legal group, has filed what it says is the first lawsuit
  
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• Stock market closes week in bloodbath as Trump’s tariffs cause historic two-day drop and wipe out $5 trillion

  04-04-2025 22:02 via independent.co.uk
  
  Friday’s stock market comes after a historically bad day as investors react to Trump’s tariff plan
  
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• Trump administration issues demands on Harvard as conditions for billions in federal money

  04-04-2025 21:54 via independent.co.uk
  
  Some alumni want Harvard to resist Trump administration demands the university must meet to receive $9 billion in federal grants and contracts being threatened during an investigation into campus antisemitism
  
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• US prepares for deadly floods with many National Weather Service offices understaffed

  04-04-2025 21:49 via theguardian.com
  Dangerous weather comes after Trump administration job cuts left nearly half of offices with 20% vacancy ratesDonald Trump on Friday approved an emergency declaration for Kentucky as the central US braces for what experts in the region have warned could be a “generational” flooding event, as severe spring storms that have killed at least seven continue to wreak havoc.Millions are affected across a swath of the US stretching from Texas to Ohio, and the powerful storm system that has r
  
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• Social Security Administration planning to lay off thousands more staff in DOGE cuts despite long wait times and web crashes

  04-04-2025 21:46 via independent.co.uk
  
  Cuts could be made across variety of departments, including communications, personnel, legislative affairs, and retirement and disability policy.
  
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• Viral video shows dance coach hugging team after win - except the Black team member

  04-04-2025 21:28 via independent.co.uk
  
  Six-year-old Shaniah was devastated, her mother said
  
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• Judge orders return of Maryland father deported to El Salvador and slams Trump’s ‘unconstitutional’ removal

  04-04-2025 21:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  Government attorneys argued in court filings that the case of Kilman Abrego Garcia was no longer in their hands despite admitting he was removed due to an ‘administrative error’
  
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• Trump tariffs rollout sees $5 trillion wiped from stock market in two days: Live updates

  04-04-2025 21:16 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump’s trade war escalates as China strikes back with 34 percent tariffs on all U.S. goods, sending stocks sliding further after worst day since 2020
  
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• Five nurses who work on same floor of Massachusetts maternity unit all diagnosed with brain tumors

  04-04-2025 21:16 via independent.co.uk
  
  Six other staff members at Mass General Brigham’s Newton-Wellesley Hospital also had health issues
  
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• Federal judge rules return of Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador prison

  04-04-2025 21:07 via theguardian.com
  
  White House has said US courts can’t order return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose wife has been protesting outside courtA federal judge on Friday afternoon ordered the US to return a Maryland man mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison.The wife of the man, who was flown to a notorious Salvadoran prison had earlier joined dozens of supporters at a rally before a court hearing on Friday, where his lawyers had asked the judge to order the Trump administration to return him to the US. Cont
  
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• Chevron ordered to pay more than $740 million to restore Louisiana coast in landmark trial

  04-04-2025 21:03 via independent.co.uk
  
  A Southeast Louisiana jury ruled oil company Chevron must pay more than $740 million dollars to restore damage it caused to coastal wetlands following a landmark trial more than a decade in the making
  
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• Democrats decry reported dismissal of NSA director Tim Haugh

  04-04-2025 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Lawmakers say dismissing head of US Cyber Command puts country at risk at a time of ‘unprecedented cyber threats’Top congressional Democrats are protesting against the firing of Gen Tim Haugh as director of the National Security Agency (NSA), with one lawmaker saying the decision “makes all of us less safe”.Haugh and his civilian deputy at the NSA, Wendy Noble, have been dismissed from their roles, the Washington Post reported late on Thursday, with CNN reporting likewise
  
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• Trump extends deadline for TikTok sale to non-Chinese buyer to avoid ban

  04-04-2025 20:47 via theguardian.com
  Deadline set by US president was supposed to be Saturday, with Trump now considering decreasing tariffs to get dealDonald Trump said he will sign an executive order to extend the TikTok ban deadline. This is the second time the president will have delayed the ban or sale of the social media app, and will punt the deadline to 75 days from now.The TikTok deal “requires more work to ensure all necessary approvals are signed”, Trump announced on his Truth Social platform on Friday. Conti
  
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• Richard Branson pleads for Donald Trump to realise ‘mistake’ of his tariff chaos

  04-04-2025 20:47 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Courage and self-awareness are cornerstones of true leadership – that includes acknowledging errors and making corrections,’ Virgin boss tells US president
  
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• Dow Jones has lost 2,000 points on Friday as stock bloodbath continues in wake of Trump’s tariffs

  04-04-2025 20:47 via independent.co.uk
  
  Friday’s stock market comes after a historically bad day as investors react to Trump’s tariff plan
  
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• Tornado damage is taking longer to confirm in some areas as the National Weather Service deals with staff shortages

  04-04-2025 20:40 via independent.co.uk
  
  Scientists have warned that the loss of employees could result in forecasting disruptions
  
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• North Carolina judges back Republican colleague in bid to toss votes and overturn election

  04-04-2025 20:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Appeals court sides with Jefferson Griffin, who lost supreme court election and wants thousands of ballots thrown outMore than 65,000 people in North Carolina who believed they were eligible to vote could have their ballots thrown out nearly five months after election day, flipping the results of a supreme court election, a state appeals court ruled on Friday.The 2-1 ruling from the North Carolina court of appeals came in response to Republicans’ months-long effort to overturn the results
  
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• Israel restarts ground operations in northern Gaza Strip in renewed campaign

  04-04-2025 20:26 via theguardian.com
  
  At least 25 killed in attack on Khan Younis in south as Israel says it is aiming to pressure Hamas into releasing hostagesIsrael has restarted ground operations in the northern Gaza Strip and killed at least 25 people in airstrikes on the southern city of Khan Younis in what it says is a renewed military campaign aimed at pressuring Hamas into releasing Israeli hostages.At least 25 people were killed in the attack on Khan Younis early on Friday, the local Nasser hospital told AFP, as the search
  
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• JD Vance applauded Trump’s tariff announcement from the Rose Garden - after spending years calling them a terrible idea

  04-04-2025 20:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  Vance has a history of backpedaling past criticisms of ‘fraud’ Trump and his ideas
  
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• Fox News debuts amazing new spin on Trump tariffs: It’s the ‘audit that we need’

  04-04-2025 20:11 via independent.co.uk
  
  Emily Compagno declared on Friday that she is ‘grateful for a commander-in-chief’ who is willing to engage in this global trade war.
  
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• Trump’s Yemen bombing campaign could cost $1bn by next week, with little to show for it

  04-04-2025 20:07 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump’s war in Yemen has come under greater scrutiny after his national security officials leaked details of the initial strikes in a group chat with a journalist
  
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• Prince Andrew wrote birthday letters to Xi Jinping, ex-adviser told court

  04-04-2025 19:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Released court statement says alleged Chinese spy helped draft private letters to Chinese presidentThe Duke of York sent letters directly to China’s president, the prince’s former senior adviser told a special immigration tribunal, with an alleged Chinese spy advising him on how to write them.Dominic Hampshire, who worked for Andrew from 2019-22, said Andrew had “always had a communication channel” with Xi Jinping that was “accepted” and may even have been enc
  
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• Two teenage stowaways found dead in JetBlue landing gear finally identified

  04-04-2025 19:53 via independent.co.uk
  
  Both the men were identified months after the incident
  
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• Trump grants TikTok another extension to avoid U.S. ban as deadline nears

  04-04-2025 19:44 via independent.co.uk
  
  Without a deal, TikTok would go dark in the United States on Saturday
  
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• Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs hit with new sex trafficking charges a month before trial

  04-04-2025 19:43 via independent.co.uk
  
  Federal prosecutors have added two counts of a new chargeto Combs’ indictment, expanding on allegations that the jailed hip-hop mogul engaged in sex trafficking
  
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