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• Mark Robinson hospitalized with burns after incident at campaign event amid ‘Black Nazi’ scandal

  28-09-2024 17:47 via independent.co.uk
  
  Republican gubernatorial candidate is ‘in good spirits’ after the incident left him with second-degree burns
  
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• Flash bombs fired into garden of Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israel home

  16-11-2024 23:26 via independent.co.uk
  
  It comes as Israel attacks killed six people, including three children, in Eastern Lebanon according to the Lebanese health ministry
  
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• Elon Musk says he wants ‘super high IQ’ workers for DOGE — but they may not be paid

  16-11-2024 23:24 via independent.co.uk
  
  Musk said working for the DOGE would be ‘tedious’ and that compensation would be ‘zero’
  
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• Trump cabinet latest updates: President-elect picks oil fracking CEO as his choice for energy secretary

  16-11-2024 23:09 via independent.co.uk
  
  Donald Trump has named Chris Wright as his pick for energy secretary amid backlash to his other cabinet choices of Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth
  
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• ‘He’s like the sleeper’: Lara Trump details Barron’s influence over his father

  16-11-2024 22:49 via independent.co.uk
  
  Lara Trump talked about how the NYU student stayed in the shadows when it came to the 2024 presidential campaign
  
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• Olav Thon: Norwegian billionaire famed for bright red cap dead at 101

  16-11-2024 21:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  Olav Thon went from selling leather and fox hides to building one of Norway’s biggest real estate empires
  
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• Fake nurse oversaw dozens of patients at multiple hospitals, investigators say

  16-11-2024 20:53 via independent.co.uk
  
  Amanda Leeann Porter, 44,is facing identity theft, grand theft, and false impersonation charges
  
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• Prosecutors accuse Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs of trying to obstruct justice from jail

  16-11-2024 20:41 via independent.co.uk
  
  Judges ruled Diddy is a risk to flee
  
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• Boy Scouts sell off famed Norman Rockwell paintings and earn $3.7m to compensate sex abuse victims

  16-11-2024 20:14 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Boy Scouts filed for bankruptcy in 2020 and auctioning off the art is a bid to survive the barrage of sexual abuse claims
  
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• Mpox: America reports first case of new form of rare disease

  16-11-2024 19:41 via independent.co.uk
  
  The new variant, known as Clade 1b, appears to spread more easily
  
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• John Fetterman says Democrats need to quit ‘freaking out’ about Trump

  16-11-2024 18:39 via independent.co.uk
  
  Fetterman said Trump’s decision to pick former Congressman Matt Gaetz as his attorney general was ‘nothing but trolling’
  
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• Women who escaped war to refugee camps say they’re being forced to have sex to survive

  16-11-2024 18:14 via independent.co.uk
  
  Hundreds of thousands of people have streamed into Chad to escape Sudan’s deadly civil war
  
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• McDonald's is investing $100 million to bring customers back after E. coli outbreak

  16-11-2024 17:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  McDonald’s is investing $100 million to bring customers back to stores after an outbreak of E
  
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• Donald Trump’s six-word promise to voters after historic election victory

  16-11-2024 17:26 via independent.co.uk
  
  Donald Trump has made a six-word promise to voters after his historic election victory.
  
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• Florida teen bludgeoned parents to death with hammer and threw a party. He recalls chilling details years later

  16-11-2024 17:21 via independent.co.uk
  
  Tyler Hadley was 17 years old when he killed his parents just months after joking about it with his friends. Now for the first time, the convicted killer describes in an interview with Court TV how the idea took root in his mind. Andrea Cavallier reports
  
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• Trump cabinet latest: Hegseth and Gaetz’s nominations under fire over sexual misconduct allegations

  16-11-2024 17:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  Donald Trump’s cabinet picks of Matt Gaetz for attorney general and Pete Hegseth for defense secretary continue to face backlash
  
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• Russia is secretly developing a petrifying new weapon

  16-11-2024 17:12 via independent.co.uk
  
  The thermobaric warheads have a reputation due to the injuries inflicted, including collapsed lungs and crushed eyeballs
  
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• Police say baby boy found dead in alleyway was dropped from fourth floor window

  16-11-2024 16:46 via independent.co.uk
  
  A newborn boy was found dead and police say he was dropped from the fourth-floor window
  
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• Woman testified to House Ethics Committee she saw Matt Gaetz have sex with minor, her lawyer says

  16-11-2024 16:39 via independent.co.uk
  
  Two women gave closed-door testimony to the committee probing Trump’s controversial pick for attorney general
  
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• Trump’s family won’t be in the White House, but they’ll be just as influential on the outside

  16-11-2024 15:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  There may be fewer Trumps in the White House this time around, but ethical questions and party influence will continue to swirl around the famous family, writes Josh Marcus
  
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• RFK Jr could soon oversee Health in the US – here’s the areas he will have control over

  16-11-2024 15:35 via independent.co.uk
  
  Eric Garcia breaks down just how much power Kennedy would have should he lead the agency
  
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• Susan Smith drowned her children in a lake then made up a story about being carjacked by a Black man. 30 years later, she’s up for parole

  16-11-2024 15:32 via independent.co.uk
  
  Susan Smith has been behind bars for nearly 30 years after she rolled her car into a South Carolina lake, drowning her two young sons who were strapped in their car seats. Andrea Cavallier reports
  
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• Zelensky says war will ‘end sooner’ with Trump as president as he slams German chancellor’s call with Putin

  16-11-2024 14:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  As the conflict reaches its 1,000th day next week, Ukraine is facing increasingly difficult conditions on the frontlines
  
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• Mysterious deep-sea ‘doomsday fish’ found washed up on California beach

  16-11-2024 13:20 via independent.co.uk
  
  They are often referred to as ‘doomsday fish’ because of their mythical reputation as earthquake predictors
  
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• Zelensky hits out at German chancellor’s phone call with Putin in dire warning

  16-11-2024 11:49 via independent.co.uk
  
  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned a phone call between German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Russian President Vladimir Putin has opened a “Pandora's box”.
  
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• Donald Trump attorney general pick Matt Gaetz fat-shames reproductive rights activists in resurfaced video

  16-11-2024 11:20 via independent.co.uk
  
  Donald Trump’s attorney general pick is seen fat-shaming reproductive rights activists in a resurfaced clip.
  
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• Don’t take Trump bullying ‘on the chin’, Starmer warned after senior adviser issues EU Brexit trade threat

  16-11-2024 11:17 via independent.co.uk
  
  A top trade adviser for Donald Trump has demanded that the UK ditches the ‘socialist’ EU in favour of US ‘freedom’ and a trade deal or suffer the consequences with tariffs
  
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• Republicans question ‘moral authority’ of Matt Gaetz for Justice Dept pick after sexual misconduct allegations

  16-11-2024 10:57 via independent.co.uk
  
  Republican senators say Gaetz is not ‘a serious’ nominee who doesn’t have the ‘moral authority’ to lead the Department of Justice
  
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• Ukraine-Russia war latest: Zelensky accuses Scholz of opening ‘Pandora’s box’ after call with Putin

  16-11-2024 10:28 via independent.co.uk
  
  Zelensky said the call between Scholz and Putin is part of the latter’s strategy to avoid changing policy
  
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• The family of Israeli-American hostage pleads with Biden and Trump to bring hostages home

  16-11-2024 06:45 via independent.co.uk
  
  Some families of the 101 hostages still being held in Gaza are desperately hoping that a drastically different political landscape will be able to reignite the momentum to bring their loved ones home
  
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