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• Trump’s made up DOGE agency is recruiting ‘super high-IQ’ people to work 80-hour weeks finding ways to cut spending

  14-11-2024 23:02 via independent.co.uk
  
  Billionaire Musk has also promised working at DOGE will be ‘tedious’ and employees will ‘make lots of enemies’
  
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• Trump makes crack about Musk’s ‘constant’ presence at Mar-a-Lago: ‘I can’t get him out of here’

  15-11-2024 05:13 via independent.co.uk
  
  Has Elon Musk already worn out his welcome? The President-elect was full of praise for the tech billionaire but still landed a few jabs in a victory lap speech at Mar-a-Lago
  
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• RFK Jr’s many controversies: From dumping a bear in Central Park to a worm eating his brain

  15-11-2024 05:06 via independent.co.uk
  
  Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s legacy is ridden with anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, brain worms and bizarre bear-cub deaths, Gustaf Kilander and Katie Hawkinson report
  
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• Trump jokes about Musk’s ‘constant’ presence at Mar-a-Lago: ‘I can’t get him out of here’

  15-11-2024 04:21 via independent.co.uk
  
  Has Elon Musk already worn out his welcome? The President-elect was full of praise for the tech billionaire but still landed a few jabs in a victory lap speech at Mar-a-Lago
  
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• Who is Doug Burgum? All you need to know about Trump’s pick to run the Interior Department

  15-11-2024 03:41 via independent.co.uk
  
  Burgum has been an outspoken supporter of the president-elect and was on the shortlist for VP
  
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• Sylvester Stallone calls Trump ‘the second George Washington’ in Mar-a-Lago warm-up speech

  15-11-2024 03:05 via independent.co.uk
  
  Rocky star Stallone was full of praise for the President-elect at Mar-a-Lago event to celebrate Trump’s win
  
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• ACLU warns Senate against passing ‘misguided’ campus antisemitism bill that would limit criticism of Israel

  15-11-2024 02:59 via independent.co.uk
  
  Bill would require Department of Education to incorporate controversial definition of antisemitism
  
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• Trump delivers Mar-a-Lago speech with Elon Musk and new HHS RFK Jr in attendance: Live updates

  15-11-2024 02:36 via independent.co.uk
  
  Anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F Kennedy Jr nominated to lead US Health Department as attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz faces possible release of report into sexual misconduct allegations
  
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• Ben & Jerry’s sues Unilever claiming it was ‘silenced’ over views on Palestine

  15-11-2024 01:49 via independent.co.uk
  
  Lawsuit claims consumer goods giant tried to silence statements on ceasefire and block donations to activist groups
  
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• Alex Murdaugh’s friend and fraud accomplice wins appeal to toss his federal conviction

  15-11-2024 01:42 via independent.co.uk
  
  Russell Laffitte will face a new trial on the same charges after his release from a Florida pentitentiary
  
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• ‘First Buddy’ Elon Musk met with Iran’s U.N ambassador to ‘discuss ways to defuse tensions’ between countries

  15-11-2024 01:21 via independent.co.uk
  
  The meeting between the tech billionaire and Amir Saeid Iravani reportedly lasted more than an hour and was held at a secret location in New York on Monday
  
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• Trump warned his second term would mean ‘retribution’. His alarming cabinet picks show he means it

  15-11-2024 01:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  Analysis: Trump campaigned on retribution. He’s filling the government with people who will deliver it, Alex Woodward reports
  
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• Trump has threatened recess appointments for his cabinet picks. It might take an unprecedented move to make it happen

  15-11-2024 00:49 via independent.co.uk
  
  Analysis: Eric Garcia details how Trump has previously hinted at using a never-used constitutional power.Would it be enough to get Matt Gaetz or Pete Hegseth through?
  
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• Florida businessman charged with murder of missing wife who disappeared in Spain eight months ago

  15-11-2024 00:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  Ana Knezevich was last seen in her Madrid, Spain apartment building in February - her body has never been found
  
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• Moment MP leads haka to disrupt New Zealand parliament

  15-11-2024 00:18 via bbc.com
  
  Māori MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke led the haka and ripped up a copy of a contentious bill being voted on.
  
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• Ethics Committee report on Gaetz casts a huge shadow as Republican senators face the music

  14-11-2024 23:59 via independent.co.uk
  
  Analysis: GOP senators are having to come to terms with getting exactly what they bargained for
  
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• Woman ‘told House Ethics Committee Matt Gaetz had sex with her when she was 17 years-old’

  14-11-2024 23:58 via independent.co.uk
  
  Gaetz - who resigned from the House of Representatives on Wednesday after Donald Trump announced him as his pick for Attorney General - strongly denies the allegations against him
  
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• Vivek Ramaswamy wants to start DOGE cuts by eliminating funding for unauthorized programs - including veteran healthcare

  14-11-2024 23:36 via independent.co.uk
  
  In 2024, the Veterans’ Health Care Eligibility Reform Act of 1996 accounted for nearly $120 million in government funds despite its appropriations being authorized through 1998
  
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• Watch: Driver drops device into US ballot box seconds before explosion

  14-11-2024 23:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  CCTV captures the moment an unknown suspect drops an explosive device into a Portland ballot box seconds before it explodes.
  
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• Georgia lawmaker proposes new gun safety policies after school shooting

  14-11-2024 23:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  A Georgia lawmaker says he wants the state to make it a crime for people to give children access to guns
  
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• CCTV shows driver dropping device into US ballot box seconds before explosion

  14-11-2024 23:26 via independent.co.uk
  
  CCTV captures the moment an unknown suspect drops an explosive device into a Portland ballot box seconds before it explodes.
  
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• Kentucky governor says investigators will determine what caused deadly Louisville factory explosion

  14-11-2024 23:24 via independent.co.uk
  
  Kentucky’s governor says investigators will find out what caused a deadly explosion that ripped apart a Louisville factory
  
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• Judge weighs the merits of a lawsuit alleging 'Real Housewives' creators abused a cast member

  14-11-2024 23:22 via independent.co.uk
  
  The lawyer for a former cast member of the “Real Housewives of New York” has told a judge that the First Amendment cannot shield the show's creators from a lawsuit alleging the show's participants were subjected to a “rotted workplace culture.”
  
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• RFK Jr picked to lead health agencies. Doctors warned it could trigger disease outbreaks

  14-11-2024 22:49 via independent.co.uk
  
  Public health advocates are warning against an incoming powder keg of misinformation and conspiracy theories
  
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• Trump’s made up DOGE agency is recruiting ‘super high-IQ’ people to work 80-hour weeks cutting spending

  14-11-2024 22:40 via independent.co.uk
  
  Billionaire Musk has also promised working at DOGE will be ‘tedious’ and employees will ‘make lots of enemies’
  
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• Trump cabinet latest updates: Controversial anti-vaccine RFK Jr tapped to lead Health Department

  14-11-2024 22:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  Anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F Kennedy Jr nominated to lead US Health Department as attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz faces possible release of report into sexual misconduct allegations
  
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• Former NFL player charged in Jan 6 Capitol riot

  14-11-2024 22:31 via bbc.com
  
  Antwoine Williams, who played for the Detroit Lions, was charged with two felonies and other crimes.
  
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• Eva Longoria says her family no longer lives in 'dystopian' US

  14-11-2024 22:25 via bbc.com
  
  The Desperate Housewives star acknowledged most Americans were not as "privileged" to "get to escape".
  
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• Trump picks RFK Jr to lead Health and Human Services as they vow to make America healthy

  14-11-2024 22:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  Kennedy ran as independent candidate while attacking Covid-era lockdown rules, and has referred to vaccines as unproven and dangerous
  
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• Putin's army in disarray after disastrous attempt to storm Kursk river ends in wipe out

  14-11-2024 22:14 via express.co.uk
  
  Fierce fighting has raged in the region over the past week, claiming the lives of hundreds of Russian soldiers.
  
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