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• Man accused of setting woman ablaze on NYC subway claims he was too drunk to remember incident

  07-01-2025 21:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  The 33-year-old said he didn’t remember the incident after drinking alcohol earlier in the day
  
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• Gleeful young adults spotted grinning for selfies while deadly California wildfires rage behind them

  08-01-2025 20:38 via independent.co.uk
  
  The group, who have not been identified, were pictured in an evacuation zone in Pasadena as the Eaton fire ripped through people’s homes
  
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• Los Angeles wildfires spread out of control, forcing 70,000 to evacuate

  08-01-2025 20:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘We are prioritising life over everything else’
  
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• MTG vows to introduce bill on Gulf of Mexico ‘ASAP’ as House Republicans start using new name

  08-01-2025 20:32 via independent.co.uk
  
  Marjorie Taylor Greene says new legislation ‘is important to begin funding the changing of maps for all agencies within the federal government’
  
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• Ohio woman killed and partially eaten by neighbor’s pigs, police say

  08-01-2025 20:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  The woman’s cause of death was ‘bleeding out due to extensive superficial injuries by livestock animals’
  
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• MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski quickly issues legal note after guest calls Trump a ‘rapist’

  08-01-2025 20:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  The immediate clarification comes weeks after ABC News settlened a defamation case with Trump over George Stephanopulos saying the president-elect was found ‘liable of rape. ‘
  
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• Another U.S. serviceman accused of sexual assault in Japan

  08-01-2025 20:28 via independent.co.uk
  
  It marks the fourth sexual assault case against U.S. military personnel stationed in Okinawa within the past year
  
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• Yet another U.S. serviceman accused of sexual assault in Japan

  08-01-2025 20:23 via independent.co.uk
  
  It marks the fourth sexual assault case against U.S. military personnel stationed in Okinawa within the past year
  
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• Diddy is not happy about all the attention Luigi Mangione is receiving behind bars, report claims

  08-01-2025 20:20 via independent.co.uk
  
  A source close to Diddy allegedly told the New York Post that Mangione was going to end up on the rapper’s ‘s*** list’
  
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• Distraught Made in Chelsea star says she discovered fate of Palisades home on Google

  08-01-2025 20:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  Former Made in Chelsea star Stephanie Pratt broke down in tears during a live interview as she revealed that she discovered the fate of her Palisades home with a Google search as fire devastated the area on Wednesday, 8 January.
  
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• Five football fields a minute: How a perfect storm of extreme weather set off Los Angeles wildfires

  08-01-2025 20:12 via independent.co.uk
  
  Rising temperatures have created the ideal conditions for “extreme, high severity wildfires that spread rapidly,” according to the California Air Resources Board
  
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• ‘There’s nothing they can do’: Fire hydrants across Pacific Palisades are coming up dry as blaze rages

  08-01-2025 20:10 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘We pushed the system to the extreme,’ one official said
  
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• Palisades fire live updates: Wildfires have burned 15,000 acres killing two and destroying 1,000 buildings

  08-01-2025 19:53 via independent.co.uk
  
  Signifcant injuries are reported as the Palisades, Eaton and Hurst fires rage over thousands of acres in southern California, leaving schools closed and nearly 400,00 without power
  
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• Merrick Garland plans to release Jack Smith’s January 6 report. How Trump is trying to stop him

  08-01-2025 19:24 via independent.co.uk
  
  The special counsel handed in his final report days before Trump returns to the White House
  
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• Don Jr. was told the ‘whole town’ would show up for his Greenland arrival. It appears they did not

  08-01-2025 19:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump Jr.’s visit occurred weeks after Trump re-ignited the calls for the U.S. to acquire Greenland
  
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• Palisades fire: Malibu restaurants and local landmarks destroyed in catastrophic blaze

  08-01-2025 18:54 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Palisades fire, the largest among the four wildfires burning around Los Angeles, has destroyed more than 1,000 structures
  
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• JetBlue passenger arguing with girlfriend rips open emergency door and tries to jump out

  08-01-2025 18:54 via independent.co.uk
  
  The man managed to deploy the plane’s emergency slide beforebeing subdued by passengers on flight at Boston Logan International
  
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• Trump ‘seriously’ considered choosing Fox host Maria Bartiromo as his veep, new book claims

  08-01-2025 18:51 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump was ‘dead serious’ about tapping the MAGA host as his running mate, according to a new book
  
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• Sarah McBride slams Republicans for attempted trans sports ban: ‘Defies understanding’

  08-01-2025 18:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  The first openly transgender lawmaker exclusively tells The Independent that Republicans’ prioritization of the legislation leaves her “mystified that this is a priority” for the GOP.
  
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• Elk on a shelf: Climbers rescue creature tangled in rope on ice route

  08-01-2025 18:14 via independent.co.uk
  
  Elk sometimes get their unwieldy antlers entangled in man-made hazards
  
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• JetBlue stowaways’ bodies were badly decomposed raising possibility they were there for multiple flights: report

  08-01-2025 18:11 via independent.co.uk
  
  According to FAA data, approximately 80 percent of people who try to stowaway in external compartments on aircraft — such as wheel bays — die
  
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• Trump to declare national economic emergency in order to push through tariffs, report says

  08-01-2025 18:07 via independent.co.uk
  
  President-elect has threatened nations including Canada, Mexico and China with steep duties on their products even before taking office
  
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• What is closed on January 9? What to know about national day of mourning for Jimmy Carter

  08-01-2025 18:05 via independent.co.uk
  
  As the national day of mourning isn’t a federal holiday, many businesses, financial centers, and services will be open
  
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• One of Louisiana’s youngest mayors bonded out after drug, prostitute solicitation arrest

  08-01-2025 18:03 via independent.co.uk
  
  Tyrin Truong, 25 pledged to ‘clean up’ his city when elected as mayor in 2022– now he’s one of several people allegedly at the center of a prolific drug trafficking ring in Louisiana
  
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• Mom eviscerates son-in-law who asked her for his PlayStation just after killing her daughter

  08-01-2025 17:29 via independent.co.uk
  
  Michael Edgington was convicted of manslaughter in the death of his 25-year-old wife, Sydney Palmer, at their Kansas home on July 3, 2024
  
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• Bodies of two hostages captured in October 7 attacks recovered by Israeli forces

  08-01-2025 17:21 via independent.co.uk
  
  Yosef Al Zaydani and his son Hamzah were recovered in an operation in Gaza
  
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• Palisades fire live updates: Two dead and ‘high number’ injured in wind-fueled blazes spreading across Los Angeles

  08-01-2025 17:20 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Multiple burn victims’ are among the first reported injuries as the Palisades, Eaton and Hurst fires rage southern California, leaving schools closed and more than 300,000 without power
  
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• Navy seaman sold fellow sailor fentanyl-laced Percocet that led to his death — then tried to cover it up, feds say

  08-01-2025 17:05 via independent.co.uk
  
  Seaman Bailey Szramowski, 27, knew the pills were laced, but sold them to at least two shipmates anyway, according to federal investigators
  
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• Ukraine-Russia war latest: More than a dozen killed in daytime Russian glide bomb attack in Zaporizhzhia

  08-01-2025 17:03 via independent.co.uk
  
  Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky describes the latest Russian glide bomb attack as ‘cruel’
  
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• Matt Gaetz believes he can win Florida governorship despite allegations against him

  08-01-2025 17:02 via independent.co.uk
  
  Former MAGA congressman, Donald Trump’s first choice for US attorney general, now considering run to succeed term-limited Ron DeSantis in 2026
  
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