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• Hurricane Ian – update: Downgraded cyclone lashes Carolinas as flooding to continue in central Florida

  01-10-2022 07:59 via independent.co.uk
  
  Flooding to continue in central Florida through next week even as storm gets downgraded
  
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• Ukraine-Russia war latest: Zelensky says ‘decisive’ Trump can help stop Putin as Kyiv hits Kursk command post

  03-01-2025 04:57 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump ‘capable of stopping Putin or, to put it more fairly, help us stop Putin’, says Zelensky
  
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• Johnson steels for crucial House speaker vote as Trump rages on about ‘laughing stock’ America: Live

  03-01-2025 02:50 via independent.co.uk
  
  President-elect rages on Truth Social after violence in New Orleans and Las Vegas, blaming opposition for indicting him rather than focusing on national security
  
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• Bernie Sanders accuses Musk of seeking cheaper, not brainier, immigrant labor with H-1B visas

  03-01-2025 02:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  The “cheaper the labor they hire, the more money the billionaires make,’ Sanders underscored
  
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• Two dead and 18 injured as plane crashes into warehouse outside Los Angeles

  03-01-2025 02:17 via independent.co.uk
  
  More than 100 people evacuated from building after crash
  
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• Murder rates drop for third year in a row as Trump complains nation is ‘breaking down’

  03-01-2025 02:17 via independent.co.uk
  
  Rates of violent crime also dropped, by nearly 3.3 percent in 2024 from 2023, data shows
  
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• One dead and 15 injured as plane crashes into warehouse outside Los Angeles

  03-01-2025 01:39 via independent.co.uk
  
  More than 100 people evacuated from building after crash
  
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• California woman fights off alleged kidnapper – who turns out to be her former housekeeper in disguise

  03-01-2025 01:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  Erin Quinn was attempting to pick up toys for a Christmas toy drive when she was allegedly attacked in her own car by a woman dressed in a blonde wig
  
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• Musk suggests he’s prepared to sue media over coverage of Cybertruck explosion

  03-01-2025 00:39 via independent.co.uk
  
  Tesla owner has previously expressed a deep disdain for mainstream media
  
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• Musk hints at media lawsuits over coverage of Cybertruck explosion

  03-01-2025 00:39 via independent.co.uk
  
  Tesla owner has previously expressed a deep disdain for mainstream media
  
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• Wayne Osmond, singer and guitarist for The Osmonds, is dead at 73

  02-01-2025 23:43 via independent.co.uk
  
  Wayne Osmond, a singer, guitarist and founding member of the million-selling family act The Osmonds, has died
  
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• Two children rescued and three people arrested after alleged Michigan kidnap horror that left two people dead

  02-01-2025 23:43 via independent.co.uk
  
  Police say the attack stemmed from a custody dispute
  
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• JD Vance calls Elon Musk’s piece praising far-right German party AfD ‘interesting’

  02-01-2025 23:23 via independent.co.uk
  
  Billionaire argues that ‘Only the AfD Can Save Germany’ in op-ed that prompted commentary editor’s resignation
  
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• Feds warned cities about potential ‘lone wolf’ ramming attacks during the holidays

  02-01-2025 23:16 via independent.co.uk
  
  Federal agencies warned law enforcement departments of potential vehicle ramming incidents ahead of the holidays
  
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• United Airlines passenger claims they lost seat to large service dog: ‘Absurd’

  02-01-2025 23:07 via independent.co.uk
  
  The passenger said they later found another seat on the plane
  
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• New Orleans attack live updates: FBI says terror suspect acted alone in rampage; Bourbon Street reopens

  02-01-2025 23:05 via independent.co.uk
  
  New Orleans attacker Shamsud-Din Jabbar claimed he joined ISIS prior to this summer and believed truck massacre would bring attention to ‘war between the believers and the disbelievers’
  
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• House debuts new rules including one that makes it harder to boot the speaker

  02-01-2025 22:57 via independent.co.uk
  
  A motion to vacate, the process for removing the speaker, will now require nine sponsors to be considered on the House floor
  
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• Despite ‘no definitive link,’ Trump border czar has ‘gut feeling’ New Orleans and Las Vegas attacks are connected

  02-01-2025 22:52 via independent.co.uk
  
  “Well, I think, the further the investigation goes, I think they’re going to find a connection between the two incidents,” Tom Homan told Fox News after law enforcement officials in both cases said there was no evidence linking the two.
  
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• MAGA trolls outraged by FBI agent’s nose piercing during New Orleans terror attack press conference

  02-01-2025 22:46 via independent.co.uk
  
  According to FBI guidelines, jewelry and piercings for agents “must be small, simple in design and not present a safety hazard”
  
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• Biden celebrates 235 judicial confirmations — a ‘vital check on the excesses of other branches’

  02-01-2025 22:33 via independent.co.uk
  
  Biden’s 235 judges named to the federal bench bests the number added by Donald Trump by one
  
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• Alina Habba slams Biden for saying Trump’s cases went too slow: ‘He had it so rough’

  02-01-2025 22:33 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump’s attorney said voters could see through the efforts of federal and state prosecutors
  
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• Workers torn after Bourbon Street reopens hours after blood stained the sidewalk: ‘My anxiety is at an all-time high’

  02-01-2025 22:20 via independent.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Service industry workers tell Alex Woodward that New Orleans is failing to protect the people fueling the city’s critical tourist economy
  
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• Body of missing duck hunter who died trying to save brother found in California lake after two-week search

  02-01-2025 22:17 via independent.co.uk
  
  Andruw Cornett went missing with his brother Wesley on December 14
  
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• The most expensive item a foreign leader gifted the Bidens? A $20,000 diamond for Jill

  02-01-2025 21:47 via independent.co.uk
  
  President Joe Biden and his family were given tens of thousands of dollars in gifts from foreign leaders in 2023
  
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• The New Orleans attacker was inspired by ISIS. How much of a threat does the group pose to the US?

  02-01-2025 21:46 via independent.co.uk
  
  Despite the New Orleans attack, experts don’t see an elevated threat from ISIS — instead, it’s a steady threat that never left, Richard Hall writes.
  
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• Feds unveil timeline of New Orleans terror suspect’s movements leading up to deadly attack

  02-01-2025 21:36 via independent.co.uk
  
  Jabbar, 42, traveled from his home in Houston, Texas, to New Orleans on New Year’s Eve in a rented pickup truck
  
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• Food stamps, environmental safeguards and denying Ozempic: The ways Republicans could pay for Trump’s tax cuts

  02-01-2025 21:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  Incoming administration is expected to cut federal spending to federal programs they don’t prioritize like environmental regulations
  
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• Will Mike Johnson make it? What to look out for ahead of Friday’s House speaker vote

  02-01-2025 20:54 via independent.co.uk
  
  Mike Johnson is in a better position now than Kevin McCarthy was two years ago, Eric Garcia writes. But he still has to navigate the Rubik’s Cube that is the House Republican conference. And Trump is watching
  
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• Army vet Matthew Livelsberger shot himself in the head before his rented Cybertruck exploded outside Trump hotel, cops say

  02-01-2025 20:20 via independent.co.uk
  
  Local media identified the 37-year-old Special Forces veteran as the driver of the Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year’s Day
  
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• Local SONAR group finds van in lake and then solves decade-old missing person case

  02-01-2025 20:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  Yekaterina ‘Katya’ Belaya was last seen at her home in Melbourne, Florida on September 28, 2014
  
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