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• Lammy declares ‘Trump is right’ on defence spending as he warns post Cold War peace is over

  09-01-2025 14:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  The foreign secretary has used his first major speech of 2025 to go after the Putin’s aggression in tearing up the world order and back Trump’s demands for significant increases in defence spending
  
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• Watch: Biden addresses nation as wildfires tear across Los Angeles

  10-01-2025 00:00 via independent.co.uk
  
  Watch as Joe Biden addressed the nation as wildfires continue to rip through the Los Angeles County area on Thursday, 9 January.
  
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• Slender Man stabber who attacked 12-year-old classmate in 2014 is granted release from psychiatric hospital

  09-01-2025 23:57 via independent.co.uk
  
  Morgan Geyser has been at the Winnebago Mental Health Institute for nearly seven years after being convicted in the 2014 stabbing attack of Payton Leutner
  
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• Paris Hilton evacuates four tiny dogs from Los Angeles home destroyed by wildfires

  09-01-2025 23:57 via independent.co.uk
  
  Paris Hilton packed up her four tiny dogs to evacuate their Los Angeles home as wildfires devastated the region this week.
  
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• Civil rights groups warn Laken Riley bill could open the door to Trump’s mass deportations

  09-01-2025 23:51 via independent.co.uk
  
  Opponents call the bill a ‘slippery slope’ for Trump’s agenda and a ‘backdoor to mass detention’
  
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• Democrats signal openness to Republicans’ Laken Riley Act with key vote

  09-01-2025 23:36 via independent.co.uk
  
  Bill may pass, led by Republicans, without amendments after Democratic resistance vanishes
  
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• Musk, after months of blustering, admits DOGE wont find $2 trillion worth of cuts in federal budget

  09-01-2025 23:35 via independent.co.uk
  
  Musk has been claiming he could make $2 trillion in cuts since October
  
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• Actor returns to pile of ashes where his Los Angeles home of 13 years once stood

  09-01-2025 23:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  Actor Cameron Mathison documented the moment he returned to his Los Angeles home to find the property reduced to ashes and rubble in the wildfires that have swept the area this week.
  
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• Germany’s former finance minister slapped with ‘soap’ cake on campaign trail

  09-01-2025 23:24 via independent.co.uk
  
  Germany's former finance minister Christian Lindner was slapped with a cake that he said was made out of soap during a campaign trail speech in Greifswald on Thursday, 9 January.
  
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• Ex-substitute teacher, 60, accused of showing sexually explicit pics to elementary students

  09-01-2025 23:22 via independent.co.uk
  
  Detectives said the former sub allegedly tried to delete the explicit images from her phone when they found her
  
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• California is in a home-insurance crisis. The Pacific Palisades fire will only make it worse

  09-01-2025 23:22 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘We need to make it incredibly expensive to build in these kinds of environments,’ one expert told The Independent. ‘If the insurance industry refuses to sell policies, maybe people won’t risk it’
  
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• Jimmy Carter held the highest office in the land. But his faith made him a public servant

  09-01-2025 23:05 via independent.co.uk
  
  Analysis: Carter navigated the barbed wire of the politics of religion, Eric Garcia reports. In doing so, he ran his race and he kept his faith
  
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• Watch live: Biden addresses nation as wildfires tear across Los Angeles

  09-01-2025 22:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  Watch live as Joe Biden addresses the nation as wildfires continue to rip through the Los Angeles County area on Thursday, 9 January.
  
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• Los Angeles wildfires could worsen with wind gusts as 20 looters arrested

  09-01-2025 22:40 via independent.co.uk
  
  Donald Trump blames Democratic governor over California water shortages that have hampered firefighters, as celebrities including Jamie Lee Curtis and Prince Harry offer help to residents who have lost homes
  
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• Judge throws out Biden’s ‘arbitrary’ protections for LGBT+ students

  09-01-2025 22:33 via independent.co.uk
  
  Federal judge blocks Title IX changes intended to protect trans and nonbinary students from discrimination
  
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• California wildfires live updates: LA fires cause extensive damage as some communities look ‘like a bomb was dropped’

  09-01-2025 22:28 via independent.co.uk
  
  Death toll continues to climb as more than 7,500 firefighting personnel are deployed across California, with two of the most ferocious fires at zero percent containment
  
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• Families of 9/11 victims have waited more than two decades for closure. It could be hours away.

  09-01-2025 22:11 via independent.co.uk
  
  The highly-contested plea deal has taken its toll of the families of victims
  
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• Cat stuck in middle of busy Florida interstate highway rescued by police officers

  09-01-2025 21:53 via independent.co.uk
  
  Police officers rescued a cat in distress in the middle of a busy interstate highway in Jacksonville, Florida, in early January.
  
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• Italy’s PM Giorgia Meloni caught-off guard by bizarre question about ants

  09-01-2025 21:41 via independent.co.uk
  
  Meloni was question on Trump, Musk and stepping on ants
  
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• Swiss national accused of spying takes own life in prison, Iran judge says

  09-01-2025 20:51 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Swiss Foreign Affairs Department confirmed the death
  
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• Here is why California can’t use ocean water to help fight the wildfires

  09-01-2025 20:47 via independent.co.uk
  
  Salt water can wreck a fire, but it can also wreck equipment and vegetation as well
  
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• Trump’s conversation with Obama draws speculation at Jimmy Carter’s funeral: Live updates

  09-01-2025 20:37 via independent.co.uk
  
  Incoming commander-in-chief lashes out at long-standing Democratic foe over natural disaster engulfing Hollywood as his expansionist ambitions met with mockery
  
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• Wildfires continue to destroy Los Angeles. Its now up to hundreds of prison inmates to help slow the spread

  09-01-2025 20:22 via independent.co.uk
  
  Inmate firefighters make around $27 for a 24-hour shift
  
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• Drone footage shows desolate landscape of wildfire devastation in Los Angeles

  09-01-2025 20:10 via independent.co.uk
  
  Drone footage has revealed the extent of the horrific devastation Los Angeles has suffered this week due to wildfires burning in California.
  
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• Israel rallies global support to win release of a woman believed kidnapped in Iraq

  09-01-2025 20:04 via independent.co.uk
  
  A senior Israeli official says the government is working with allies in a renewed push to win the freedom of an Israeli-Russian researcher who is believed to have been kidnapped in Iraq nearly two years ago
  
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• Why was LA Mayor Karen Bass in Ghana as devastating wildfires broke out?

  09-01-2025 19:56 via independent.co.uk
  
  Los Angeles mayor set off for African nation on Saturday despite reports of possible fire weather the day prior
  
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• New norovirus strain is stoking the stomach flu surge

  09-01-2025 19:45 via independent.co.uk
  
  This winter’s dominant norovirus strain is a newer variant called the G11.17 [P17]
  
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• Handshakes, chit chats and steely looks: All the awkward interactions between presidents at Jimmy Carter’s funeral

  09-01-2025 19:36 via independent.co.uk
  
  Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, not known for being best buddies, engaged in some friendly chit-chat and shared a few laughs
  
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• Woman who lost hand fighting off a shark is raising money for a new prosthetic - after insurance refused to pay

  09-01-2025 19:25 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Without this hand, Elisabeth faces a future marked by limited skills, stunted mobility, and a diminished quality of life’
  
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• Jimmy Carter funeral live updates: 39th president’s remains head to Georgia for burial next to wife Rosalynn

  09-01-2025 19:20 via independent.co.uk
  
  President Biden honored Carter’s ‘character’ during his eulogy as Trump, Obama and other former presidents attended the service at the Washington National Cathedral
  
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