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• Gaudreau brothers to be honored by family, friends and their grieving hockey teammates at funeral

  09-09-2024 11:10 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Columbus Blue Jackets and NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman are among the mourners expected to attend the funeral for John and Matthew Gaudreau in suburban Philadelphia
  
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• Trump has issued a freeze on grants and loans. Here’s what it means for your bottom line

  28-01-2025 14:26 via independent.co.uk
  
   ‘Financial assistance for foreign aid, nongovernmental organizations, DEI, woke gender ideology, and the Green New Deal’ will be paused, according to a memo
  
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• Columnist challenges Elon Musk defender to mimic infamous salute live on TV as he says it wasn’t a ‘Sieg Heil’

  28-01-2025 14:01 via independent.co.uk
  
  Former GOP stretegist Scott Jennings says Musk critics are suffering from ‘Elon Derangement Syndrome’
  
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• Dead bodies on the streets and hospitals overwhelmed as rebels battle government in DR Congo city of Goma

  28-01-2025 13:41 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Rwanda-backed M23 rebels are looking to occupy the major Congolese city of Goma, after previously doing so in 2012
  
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• Republican Dan Crenshaw clashes with CNN host over transgender ban on military service

  28-01-2025 13:30 via independent.co.uk
  
  Congressman Dan Crenshaw got into a heated debate discussing Donald Trump’s executive order banning transgender people from serving in the military.
  
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• Serbian prime minister Milos Vucevic resigns as student-led corruption protests sweep country

  28-01-2025 13:29 via independent.co.uk
  
  Milos Vucevic’s Serbian government has come under increasing pressure following the deadly collapse of a concrete roof in Novi Sad
  
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• North Korea troops partially withdraw from frontline in Russia’s Kursk after weeks of heavy losses

  28-01-2025 13:26 via independent.co.uk
  
  A Ukrainian special forces commander says North Korean troops have moved back from the fighting for roughly a fortnight
  
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• Trump says Melania will be taking on a ‘more public facing role’ in new administration

  28-01-2025 13:01 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Well, I think she was always very much involved, but you didn’t see her — more behind the scenes’, the President told reporters during a press gaggle
  
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• Why is Donald Trump threatening to ‘take back’ the Panama Canal?

  28-01-2025 13:00 via independent.co.uk
  
  The US president has falsely claimed that China is operating the Panama Canal
  
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• Palestinians return to their destroyed homes in north Gaza: ‘The war has taken everything precious to us’

  28-01-2025 13:00 via independent.co.uk
  
  Scrambling over sand banks and over craters, hundreds of thousands of Palestinian families describe the long trek back home to Nedal Hamdouna inside Gaza and Bel Trew
  
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• Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump aid freeze threatens troop support as North Korea partially withdraws forces

  28-01-2025 12:36 via independent.co.uk
  
  US aid freeze is a ‘very severe blow’, Ukrainian soldier’s wife says
  
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• Bill jailing social media users for three years over disinformation passed by Pakistan senate

  28-01-2025 12:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  Critics say Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act designed to suppress freedom of speech
  
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• Chained migrants led onto deportation flight as Trump orders take hold

  28-01-2025 12:30 via independent.co.uk
  
  Chained and handcuffed migrants were led onto a deportation flight just days after Donald Trump was inaugurated as president, newly-released footage from the US Department of Defense purportedly shows.
  
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• Google Maps to change name of Gulf of Mexico to ‘Gulf of America’ after Trump order

  28-01-2025 11:24 via independent.co.uk
  
  Change, which will only be visible to US users, comes after president signs executive order renaming body of water
  
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• Cables deep under the Baltic Sea keep getting damaged - here is what Nato is doing to protect them

  28-01-2025 10:29 via independent.co.uk
  
  Nato is deploying eyes in the sky and on the Baltic Sea to protect cables and pipelines
  
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• Pardoned January 6 rioter receives hero’s welcome at church where he tells congregation: ‘Let my people go’

  28-01-2025 10:22 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Certainly, nine months ago when he was going into prison, we all wept with this family as they wept. But today, we rejoice with them as they rejoice’, said a California pastor
  
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• Trump signs order to ban ‘transgender ideology’ from military as president mulls third term: Live

  28-01-2025 10:14 via independent.co.uk
  
  President tells House Republicans his plans to get the ‘transgender ideology the hell out of our military,’ and says he’s raised ‘a lot’ of money for the next election cycle
  
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• India’s Modi set to be one of first world leaders to visit Trump

  28-01-2025 08:25 via independent.co.uk
  
  US president says Indian prime minister expected to visit in February
  
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• Just in time for Valentine’s Day, trade dispute with Colombia threatens flower imports

  28-01-2025 08:20 via independent.co.uk
  
  President Donald Trump’s threat to tax imports from Colombia comes at a most inauspicious time
  
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• Trump bans transgender service members from military, floats unprecedented punishment for ‘repeat offenders’: Live

  28-01-2025 08:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  Justice Department officials who prosecuted Trump removed because they cannot be ‘trusted’ to‘faithfully’ implement president’s agenda.
  
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• Trump warns new Chinese DeepSeek AI is a ‘wake up call’ for US tech companies

  28-01-2025 08:14 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Chinese start-up DeepSeek’s latest large language model has been described as a ‘Sputnik moment’ for the American tech industry
  
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• Ukraine-Russia war latest: Charities in shock over Trump aid freeze as North Korea partially withdraws forces

  28-01-2025 07:11 via independent.co.uk
  
  US aid freeze is a ‘very severe blow’, Ukrainian soldier’s wife says
  
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• Ruthless Trump executive order bans transgender service members from military as not ‘honorable’

  28-01-2025 07:03 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump also signed orders eliminating diversity programs in military and reinstating service members who didn’t comply with vaccine mandates
  
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• Donald Trump warns China’s new DeepSeek AI is a ‘wake up call’ for Silicon Valley

  28-01-2025 06:57 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Chinese start-up DeepSeek’s latest large language model has been described as a ‘Sputnik moment’ for the American tech industry
  
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• Trump executive order bans transgender service members from military

  28-01-2025 06:25 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump also signed orders eliminating diversity programs in military and reinstating service members who didn’t comply with vaccine mandates
  
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• ‘Fear and anxiety’ as Navajo Nation members targeted in ICE operations

  28-01-2025 06:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  Native American report ICE wasn’t recognizing their documentation
  
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• Trump floats unprecedented punishment for ‘violent people’ as he axes DOJ officials: Live

  28-01-2025 05:46 via independent.co.uk
  
  Several federal prosecutors who worked with former special counsel Jack Smith on criminal investigations related to Trump were fired on Monday
  
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• Trump’s ordered water ‘solution’ to fight California‘s fires comes up dry, officials charge

  28-01-2025 05:35 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump claims California water comes from the Pacific Northwest. In reality most of the state’s water comes from the melting snowpack in the Sierra Nevada mountains in eastern California
  
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• Trump floats unprecedented punishment for ‘repeat offenders’ as he axes DOJ officials: Live

  28-01-2025 04:32 via independent.co.uk
  
  Justice Department officials who prosecuted Trump removed because they cannot be ‘trusted’ to‘faithfully’ implement president’s agenda.
  
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• Conservative Wall Street Journal warns RFK Jr is ‘dangerous’ to public health

  28-01-2025 03:44 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘While presenting himself as a truth-teller and slayer of government corruption, he’s as slippery as Anthony Fauci’, the paper’s right-leaning editorial board warned
  
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