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• Trump live: Apple stocks plummet in ‘Liberation Day’ aftershock as Republican senators defy president over tariffs

  03-04-2025 11:39 via independent.co.uk
  
  President Trump says he will impose blanket tariffs on all countries with ‘worst offenders’, including China and Europe, facing much higher rates
  
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• Trump tariffs live updates: Asian markets tumble as 104% China tariffs loom; president teases tax on pharma imports

  09-04-2025 03:22 via independent.co.uk
  
  Beijing says it will ‘fight to the end’ as president demands China drop its retaliatory countermeasures
  
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• Trump says tariff situation ‘is great’ for midterms as markets continue to tumble

  09-04-2025 02:26 via independent.co.uk
  
  As stock markets around the world continue to drop amid fears over his attempt to blow up the world’s trade system, Donald Trump says the massive import taxes he is imposing on Americans will bring about a massive victory for his Republican Party in next year’s midterm elections.
  
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• Trump promises to raise military budget to $1 trillion even as DOGE hacks other agencies to the bones

  09-04-2025 02:20 via independent.co.uk
  
  President says some of the funding to pay for the increase would come from savings under Elon Musk’s department
  
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• Republicans look for an exit ramp on tariffs

  09-04-2025 01:03 via independent.co.uk
  
  Some Republicans are proposing dueling legislation to rein in Donald Trump’s tariffs. But many still need to keep in mind the president’s appeal to their voters
  
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• Florida executes ‘fledgling serial killer’ Michael Tanzi for murder of woman he snatched on lunch break

  09-04-2025 00:51 via independent.co.uk
  
  The inmate’s death marks Florida’s third execution this year
  
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• Couple accused of suffocating teenager with billiard ball, dismembering body - and then going for Popeyes

  09-04-2025 00:43 via independent.co.uk
  
  Steven Gress and Michelle Brandes are accused of killing 16-year-old Miranda Corsette
  
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• Wildfire smoke and prescribed burns caused 20,000 early deaths and billions in damages in just one year

  09-04-2025 00:37 via independent.co.uk
  
  Elderly, Native Americans, and Black communities suffered the greatest harm from the smoke
  
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• World bracing for market turmoil after US hits China with 104% tariffs in midnight ultimatum

  09-04-2025 00:26 via independent.co.uk
  
  China vows to ‘fight to the end’ in trade war, accusing Trump of ‘blackmail’ and ‘economic bullying’
  
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• Mother pulled over for DUI told cops she was going to pick up her baby - who was in the backseat, police say

  09-04-2025 00:26 via independent.co.uk
  
  The 27-year-old mother is being held on a $23,000 bond
  
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• Senate Democrats looking to block Trump nominees over administration’s ‘lawlessness’

  09-04-2025 00:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  Move follows bipartisan support for some Trump Cabinet picks, including Marco Rubio
  
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• Father and police officer son killed when a tree fell on them while golfing

  08-04-2025 23:58 via independent.co.uk
  
  Matthew Terrell Collins Jr and his father, Matthew Terrell Collins Sr, were using the tree to shelter from a storm
  
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• Ukraine-Russia war latest: UK has no evidence of Beijing links to captured troops as Kyiv confronts China

  08-04-2025 23:57 via independent.co.uk
  
  North Korea has already sent troops to help Russian forces – now Zelensky is demanding an explanation from Beijing
  
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• Two men, including a cop, are killed when a tree fell on them while golfing

  08-04-2025 23:57 via independent.co.uk
  
  Matthew Terrell Collins Jr and his father, Matthew Terrell Collins Sr, were using the tree to shelter from a storm
  
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• Abraham Lincoln’s blood-stained leather gloves are headed for auction

  08-04-2025 23:36 via independent.co.uk
  
  Auctioneers in Chicago hope to get $4m for 140 items owned by Civil War president
  
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• New Jersey woman offered Tinder match $12k to kill her ex-boyfriend and his teenage daughter, cops say

  08-04-2025 23:29 via independent.co.uk
  
  The woman allegedly paid a man she met on the dating app that she wanted her boyfriend and his daughter dead. The Tinder match told police
  
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• Judge orders White House to restore Associated Press access

  08-04-2025 23:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Associated Press was barred from certain access to Trumpbecause it refused to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the ‘Gulf of America’
  
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• Octavio Dotel, who once held record of pitching for 13 major league teams, dies in DR roof collapse

  08-04-2025 23:16 via independent.co.uk
  
  Former major league relief pitcher Octavio Dotel was among the dead after a roof collapsed at a nightclub in his native Dominican Republic where he was attending a merengue concert
  
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• Judge orders White House to restore Associated Press’s access

  08-04-2025 23:09 via independent.co.uk
  
  Associated Press was barred from certain access because it refused to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the ‘Gulf of America’
  
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• Mar-a-Lago to get $1.8 million in ‘security enhancements’ as DOGE takes a chainsaw to government spending

  08-04-2025 22:57 via independent.co.uk
  
  Exclusive: The taxpayer-funded upgrades come while spending on education and public health is gutted and entire federal agencies are eliminated by Donald Trump and “First Buddy” Elon Musk
  
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• Nearly 150 students at 48 colleges have had visas revoked as Trump’s deportation crackdown on colleges grows

  08-04-2025 22:46 via independent.co.uk
  
  The actual total of students who have had visas revoked could be much larger, according to the report
  
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• Feds to investigate potential fraud involving homeless funds in Southern California

  08-04-2025 22:44 via independent.co.uk
  
  The new U.S. attorney for Los Angeles and surrounding areas says he will investigate potential fraud and corruption involving funds intended to alleviate homelessness in Southern California
  
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• China hits back at JD Vance after he calls workers there ‘peasants’ amid tariff standoff

  08-04-2025 22:42 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘It is surprising and sad to hear the vice president say such ignorant and impolite words,’ says foreign ministry spokesperson
  
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• Scammer who sold $550K worth of forged Kardashian and Trump autographs faces decades in prison

  08-04-2025 22:35 via independent.co.uk
  
  Anthony J Tremayne, 58, sent items with what he claimed to be genuine signatures to customers nationwide, pleaded guilty to a charge of mail fraud on Tuesday
  
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• Scammer who collected $550K for forging Kardashian and Trump autographs faces decades in prison

  08-04-2025 22:29 via independent.co.uk
  
  Anthony J Tremayne, 58, sent items with what he claimed to be genuine signatures to customers nationwide, pleaded guilty to a charge of mail fraud on Tuesday
  
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• It could take weeks for flood waters to leave part of the Ohio Valley after ‘1,000-year’ rain, forecasters say

  08-04-2025 22:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  Additional evacuations could happen in western Kentucky this week
  
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• Polly want a flight? Bizarre story of 81-year-old woman who can’t fly home because of her parrot

  08-04-2025 22:16 via independent.co.uk
  
  Maria Fraterrigo’s parrot Plucky has been with her for more than 20 years
  
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• Trump’s words move markets. But his lack of clarity means traders don’t know which way to go.

  08-04-2025 22:14 via independent.co.uk
  
  ANALYSIS: Trump said he was not considering pausing tariffs, but failed to explain the contradictions in his policy, Richard Hall writes
  
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• Pregnant black woman ticketed for walking on the wrong side of the road in Texas just feet from her own home

  08-04-2025 21:54 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘They got crackheads, robbers, all this other stuff but they want to arrest a Black person — a pregnant Black woman — for looking for her dog,’ Akia Townes said as she was confronted
  
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• Fox Business mocks Peter Navarro’s ‘reciprocal trade-girl math’ and urges Trump to sideline him

  08-04-2025 21:53 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘The quicker that they get him off of TV and away from numbers, the better,” Dagen McDowell declared this week
  
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