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• Man and two teenagers arrested in death of good samaritan found dead near smoldering vehicle

  01-01-2025 01:46 via independent.co.uk
  
  Pima County Sheriff’s Office named Jack Upchurch, 40, Elmer Smith, 19 and 16-year-old Wendy Scott as suspects in the case on Tuesday
  
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• The last high-profile trip to India by the Biden administration will focus on technology

  04-01-2025 00:24 via independent.co.uk
  National security adviser Jake Sullivan will travel to India for a visit focusing on cooperation on strategic technology, including in defense, space and artificial intelligence
  
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• Homeland Security agents charged after allegedly selling drugs confiscated as evidence

  03-01-2025 23:57 via independent.co.uk
  
  The FBI began investigating the special agents after one of their criminal informants claimed the duo had forced him into potentially illegal activity
  
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• Mike Johnson may be the speaker, but Democrats will still have power

  03-01-2025 23:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  Yes, Republicans have a trifecta. Yes, Trump is president. But hardliners’ inability to take yes for an answer means Democrats can act as the ‘governing majority,’ in a coalition with Mike Johnson
  
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• Police reveal chilling notes left by Cybertruck bomber: ‘Time to wake up!’

  03-01-2025 23:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  Police shared chilling excerpts of notes Matthew Livelsberger had left on his phone, where he said ‘what better way to get my point across than a stunt with fireworks and explosives?’
  
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• Cybertruck bomber left chilling notes saying U.S. is ‘headed toward collapse’ and explosion was a ‘wake up call’

  03-01-2025 23:18 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘We are being led by weak and feckless leadership who only serve to enrich themselves,’ an excerpt from one of his notes read
  
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• Mike Johnson promises to ‘roll back administrative state’ in first speech after being re-elected Speaker

  03-01-2025 23:12 via independent.co.uk
  
  Johnson has already committed to investigate the now-disbanded House Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot
  
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• Musk and Ramaswamy want to force federal workers back to the office. Economists aren’t convinced.

  03-01-2025 22:43 via independent.co.uk
  
  More than half of federal workers work in person full-time
  
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• Trump ordered to appear for sentencing in hush money case days before he takes office: Live

  03-01-2025 22:26 via independent.co.uk
  
  Justice Juan Merchan rejected president-elect’s push to dismiss verdict on grounds of presidential immunity, finding no legal impediment to proceeding
  
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• 12-year-old boy dies after crashing into tree while skiing in New Hampshire

  03-01-2025 22:21 via independent.co.uk
  
  The boy was found unconscious on Skimobile Road in North Conway, police said
  
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• New Orleans latest: FBI concerned about copycat attacks after 14 killed on Bourbon Street

  03-01-2025 22:11 via independent.co.uk
  
  FBI believes ‘ISIS-inspired’ New Orleans attacker acted alone and has ‘no definitive link’ to the Las Vegas Cybertruck blast driver Matthew Livelsberger
  
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• Judge orders Trump to be sentenced on Jan. 10 in hush-money case

  03-01-2025 22:06 via independent.co.uk
  
  Judge Juan Merchan said he is not inclined to sentence Trump to any term of incarceration just ten days before he is set to be sworn in as president for a second term,
  
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• Ohio Gov. DeWine signs bill into law that will see public charged for police videos

  03-01-2025 21:59 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘This changing technology has affected law enforcement by oftentimes creating unfunded burdens,’ governor says
  
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• Inauguration Day is nearly here. These are the promises Trump made for ‘Day One’ in office

  03-01-2025 21:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump promised to take action on 59 different issues ‘on day one,’ according to analysis of pledges made on the campaign trail
  
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• Store closures hit highest point since the pandemic

  03-01-2025 21:12 via independent.co.uk
  
  More than 7,300 stores closed in 2024
  
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• House speaker vote live updates: Mike Johnson retains gavel after Trump convinces two reps to change votes

  03-01-2025 21:02 via independent.co.uk
  
  President-elect Donald Trump’s ally initially struggled to retain gavel as Congress reconvened on Friday
  
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• Florida man arrested for impersonating CIA operative — with a trove of weapons in his car, cops say

  03-01-2025 20:54 via independent.co.uk
  
  According to an arrest report, HVAC contractor Jorge Alberto Alfonso ‘identified himself as a federal agent, providing a CIA Counter Terrorism Unit ID, a CIA emblem coin in a badge wallet, and an MI-6 [sic] ID’
  
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• House Speaker vote live updates: Mike Johnson retains gavel after two reps change their votes

  03-01-2025 20:44 via independent.co.uk
  
  President-elect Donald Trump’s ally initially struggled to retain gavel as Congress reconvened on Friday
  
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• Trump-backed Mike Johnson remains House speaker after Republican holdouts flip votes at last minute

  03-01-2025 20:40 via independent.co.uk
  
  Johnson held onto the speaker’s gavel after Ralph Norman and Keith Self swapped their votes
  
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• California man apologizes for connection to Wisconsin school shooting without detailing his actions

  03-01-2025 20:32 via independent.co.uk
  
  A California man has apologized for his connection to a 15-year-old girl who fatally shot a teacher and a fellow student at a religious school in Wisconsin
  
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• Questions remain about soldier's motive in Cybertruck explosion outside Trump's Las Vegas hotel

  03-01-2025 20:26 via independent.co.uk
  
  Authorities say they know that a highly decorated Army soldier shot himself in the head inside a Tesla Cybertruck packed with fireworks that exploded outside Trump's Las Vegas hotel
  
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• LA Times owner talked with Rob Schneider about setting up a ‘MAGA version of The View’: report

  03-01-2025 20:24 via independent.co.uk
  
  Schneider suggested his media company would create a daytime talk show to ‘compete’ with ‘The View’
  
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• What to know about Apple's $95 million settlement of the snooping Siri case

  03-01-2025 19:45 via independent.co.uk
  
  Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the company of turning its virtual assistant Siri into a snoop that eavesdropped on the users of iPhones and other trendy devices in a betrayal to its long-standing commitment to personal privacy
  
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• Janel Grant to amend blockbuster lawsuit against Vince McMahon and WWE

  03-01-2025 19:41 via independent.co.uk
  
  The changes are expected to be made by January 15, almost exactly a year after they were filed in federal court in Connecticut on January 25 2024
  
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• Man in Ohio accidentally buys entire street - and has trouble giving it back

  03-01-2025 18:59 via independent.co.uk
  
  Jason Fauntleroy said the city only assessed his lot when it calculated his payout, rather than assessing the entire street
  
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• Brian Kilmeade delivers ‘bad news’ about Mike Johnson’s speaker vote — and is immediately embarrassed

  03-01-2025 18:58 via independent.co.uk
  
  “All right. Good point,” a chastened Brian Kilmeade said at the end. “He’s not there anymore, so I shouldn’t have brought that up. My bad.”
  
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• 167 women have accused a Beverly Hills OB-GYN of sexual misconduct. What we know about the claims

  03-01-2025 18:38 via independent.co.uk
  
  New lawsuit by 107 women against Dr. Barry J. Brock, 74, is in addition to another lawsuit filed by 60 former female patients last year
  
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• House speaker vote live updates: Mike Johnson makes spending commitments to holdout lawmakers as voting begins

  03-01-2025 18:36 via independent.co.uk
  
  President-elect Donald Trump’s ally battling to retain gavel as Congress reconvenes on Friday
  
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• House speaker vote live updates: Mike Johnson’s fate hangs in the balance as voting begins

  03-01-2025 18:30 via independent.co.uk
  
  President-elect Donald Trump’s ally battling to retain gavel as Congress reconvenes on Friday
  
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• Allstate CEO Tom Wilson faces MAGA backlash following bizarre Sugar Bowl ad in the wake of New Orleans attack

  03-01-2025 18:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  Allstate’s CEO brazenly declared that the US has an ‘addiction to divisiveness’ 24 hours after Shamsud-Din Jabbar murdered 14 people on Bourbon Street during the Sugar Bowl
  
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