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• New Orleans attack latest: Driver dead after ramming car into crowd leaving 10 dead and 35 hurt in ‘carnage’

  01-01-2025 17:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said the perpetrator was ‘hellbent on creating the carnage and the damage that he did’
  
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• Jimmy Carter funeral updates: Former president’s procession begins in his native Georgia

  04-01-2025 16:58 via independent.co.uk
  
  President Jimmy Carter will be honored throughout Georgia to begin his six-day funeral schedule
  
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• A model and her architect friend were left to die after leaving an LA party. An aspiring Hollywood producer is set to stand trial

  04-01-2025 16:47 via independent.co.uk
  
  The trial of Hollywood producer David Pearce, charged in the deaths of two women, begins this week. The mother of Christy Giles, one of the victims, believes he should be held responsible for their deaths. Andrea Cavallier takes a look back on what happened that night
  
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• Jimmy Carter's 6-day state funeral begins with a motorcade through south Georgia

  04-01-2025 16:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  Jimmy Carter’s long public goodbye has begun Saturday in south Georgia where the 39th U.S. president’s life began more than 100 years ago
  
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• The Natalia Grace saga: Ukrainian adoptee accused of faking her age has a new family

  04-01-2025 16:09 via independent.co.uk
  
  The disabled Ukrainian orphan with dwarfism accused of masquerading as a child and trying to kill her adoptive parents spoke out for the first time last year. Now, she’s making new, harrowing claims about what happened next. Andrea Cavallier takes a look at the bizarre case
  
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• Jimmy Carter funeral updates: Timeline of events as former president honored by family in first services

  04-01-2025 15:18 via independent.co.uk
  
  President Jimmy Carter will be honored throughout Georgia to begin his multi-day funeral schedule
  
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• New Orleans attack latest: FBI looking into suspect’s travels to Egypt as British man among 14 killed

  04-01-2025 11:39 via independent.co.uk
  
  Authorities confirmed that a British national was among the 14 killed in the New Year’s Day attack
  
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• Biden to award Medal of Freedom to 19, including Hillary Clinton, Bono and Jose Andres

  04-01-2025 11:00 via independent.co.uk
  
  The nation’s highest civilian award honors individuals who ‘made exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security of the United States, world peace, or other significant societal, public or private endeavors’
  
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• Ukraine-Russia war latest: Three killed in cross-border attacks as 1,700 of Kyiv’s troops desert army

  04-01-2025 10:35 via independent.co.uk
  
  Around 1,700 soldiers of a high-profile unit have reportedly deserted the army before deployment
  
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• Kidman gives tearful dedication to late mother as stars gather for a heartfelt gala in Palm Springs

  04-01-2025 10:32 via independent.co.uk
  
  Nicole Kidman gave a long-awaited dedication to her late mother at the Palm Springs Film Festival's 36th annual International Film Awards
  
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• Pornhub ban now covers more than a third of US states

  04-01-2025 09:25 via independent.co.uk
  
  Florida, South Carolina and Tennessee are the latest to restrict access to adult websites
  
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• New Orleans attack latest: FBI looking into suspect’s travels to Egypt as more victims identified

  04-01-2025 07:24 via independent.co.uk
  
  Authorities confirmed that a British national was among the 14 killed in the New Year’s Day attack
  
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• Trump claims Dems are ‘giddy’ flags will be half-staff for his inauguration

  04-01-2025 06:38 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘They think it’s so great, and are so happy about it because, in actuality, they don’t love our Country, they only think about themselves,’ Trump complained
  
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• Ukraine-Russia war latest: Moscow launched 300 attack drones in first 3 days of 2025, Zelensky says

  04-01-2025 06:12 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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• New Orleans attack came as officials warned of an escalating threat of international terrorism

  04-01-2025 06:09 via independent.co.uk
  
  The truck attack in New Orleans by an Army veteran inspired by the Islamic State group unfolded amid months of warnings by officials about a resurgent terrorism threat
  
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• Jimmy Carter's state funeral starts Saturday. Here is what to know

  04-01-2025 06:02 via independent.co.uk
  
  Six days of funeral observances for former President Jimmy Carter are set to take place in Georgia, where he died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100
  
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• Ohio Governor DeWine signs law that could charge public for access to police videos

  04-01-2025 05:17 via independent.co.uk
  
  Legal experts warn that the charges could put these public records out of reach of many
  
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• Trump team lashes out after he’s ordered to appear for sentencing in hush-money case before inauguration: Live

  04-01-2025 04:44 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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• Trump team lashes out after Trump is ordered to appear for sentencing in hush money case: Live

  04-01-2025 04:05 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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• Trump ordered to appear for sentencing in hush money case less than two weeks before inauguration: Live

  04-01-2025 03:42 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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• Apple CEO Tim Cook plans to donate $1 million to Trump’s inauguration: report

  04-01-2025 03:29 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Donald Trump-JD Vance inaugural fund is expected to raise a record-setting $150 million
  
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• New Orleans attack latest: FBI looking into suspect’s travels to Egypt as more victims ID’d

  04-01-2025 03:26 via independent.co.uk
  
  Authorities confirmed that a British national was among the 14 killed in the New Year’s Day attack
  
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• Giuliani testifies he hid his grandfather’s watch from defamed election workers: ‘I felt it could get lost’

  04-01-2025 02:51 via independent.co.uk
  
  The former New York mayor insists he’s ‘not trying to hide’ but doesn’t know where his some of his assets are or if he ever had them during the long-running case to collect $148 million
  
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• Arrested parents dined out while 5 kids went hungry at home with no food, overflowing toilet: Affidavit

  04-01-2025 01:22 via independent.co.uk
  
  Florida parents who shared meals together and dined out at restaurants were arrested this week after police found their five children desperately hungry alone in their family home without food, electricity or a working toilet, according to an arrest affidavit.
  
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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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