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• UK house prices slide after rush to beat stamp duty changes

  07-04-2025 11:09 via theguardian.com
  
  Average price fell by 0.5% in March to £296,699, the steepest decline since March last year, Halifax saysBusiness live – latest updatesUK house prices have suffered their steepest decline in a year as the market cools after a buyer rush to beat changes to stamp duty changes in England and Northern Ireland.The average price of a property fell by 0.5% last month to £296,699, the steepest decline in value since March last year, according to Halifax. Continue reading...
  
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• Trump accused of ‘market manipulation’ after abrupt U-turn on reciprocal tariffs: Live updates

  10-04-2025 06:54 via independent.co.uk
  
  President’s 90-day pause and ‘substantially lowered Reciprocal Tariff during this period, of 10 percent’ sends markets soaring in U.S. and Asia
  
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• Trump accidentally phoned former official HR McMaster – then abused him when he realized who was on the line, report says

  10-04-2025 05:44 via independent.co.uk
  
  Needless to say, the call was brief ...
  
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• ‘Don’t flatter yourself’: Accused killer Lori Vallow aggressively cross-examines woman who dated husband the night before he was murdered

  10-04-2025 05:29 via independent.co.uk
  
  Prosecutors say Lori Vallow Daybell conspired to carry out the killing of her fourth husband Charles Vallowin 2019 so that she could move forward with marrying Chad Daybell
  
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• Ukraine-Russia war latest: Zelensky releases new video of Chinese soldiers and says Beijing turning blind eye

  10-04-2025 04:51 via independent.co.uk
  
  Zelensky says 155 Chinese citizens fighting for Russian military against his country
  
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• Trump admin accused of ‘market manipulation’ after abrupt U-turn on reciprocal tariffs: Live updates

  10-04-2025 03:10 via independent.co.uk
  
  President says he’s issuing a 90-day pause and ‘a substantially lowered Reciprocal Tariff during this period, of 10 percent’
  
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• Pam Bondi declared a Virginia man a top MS-13 gangster. Now the Justice Department wants to drop his case

  10-04-2025 03:06 via independent.co.uk
  
  Attorney for Henrry Josue Villatoro Santos argues deportation to El Salvador would be a ‘life sentence without any due process’ in light of recent Trump actions
  
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• House Republicans scuttle MAGA budget vote after Mike Johnson fails to win over holdouts

  10-04-2025 02:14 via independent.co.uk
  
  House speaker comes up short ahead of vote to extend Trump tax cuts on the back of spending reductions
  
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• Newsmax defamed Dominion Voting Systems, Delaware judge rules

  10-04-2025 01:00 via independent.co.uk
  
  Newsmax settled similar defamation case with Smartmatic last year
  
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• Las Vegas veterinarian missing after being accused of abusing horse

  10-04-2025 00:55 via independent.co.uk
  
  A Las Vegas veterinarian has gone missing after he was accused of animal abuse.
  
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• Trump’s tariff chaos is already hammering these small businesses’

  10-04-2025 00:46 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump’s pause on tariffs won’t help many of these businesses who rely on imports from China
  
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• Kash Patel replaced as interim head of the ATF by the Secretary of the Army

  10-04-2025 00:33 via independent.co.uk
  
  Patel was replaced following a report that he has been a ‘largely absent leader’ at Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco and Explosives. Trump hasn’t yet nominated anyone to permanently lead the agency
  
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• More than 150 Chinese mercenaries recruited by Putin fighting against Ukraine, says Zelensky

  10-04-2025 00:23 via independent.co.uk
  
  President accuses Kremlin of recruiting people on social media with Beijing’s knowledge
  
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• Gabbard sets up DOGE-style team to weed out ‘weaponization’ in national intelligence

  10-04-2025 00:09 via independent.co.uk
  
  More than 100 intelligence workers have resigned in response to National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard’s ascension to the head of the nation’s spy agencies
  
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• ‘Dissent isn’t unlawful’ says former White House official Miles Taylor, now targeted by Trump

  10-04-2025 00:05 via independent.co.uk
  
  President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order targeting a former official in his first administration by stripping him of security clearances and ordering the Department of Justice to investigate his conduct, an unprecedented step that erodes decades of separation between the president and the exercise of criminal investigatory power by the federal government.
  
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• Trump administration accused of ‘market manipulation’ with tariff reversal: ‘WTF! Who’s in charge?’

  09-04-2025 23:51 via independent.co.uk
  
  Democratic lawmakers want answers after critics blast the president’s alleged insider trading and ‘pump and dump’ scheme
  
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• Trump touted his coal production order. Environmentalists say it will harm Americans’ health and wallets

  09-04-2025 23:43 via independent.co.uk
  
  Former EPA head Gina McCarthy says there’s no such thing as ‘clean’ coal
  
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• Billionaire Trump backer Bill Ackman mercilessly teased after hailing president’s ‘Art of the Deal’ tariffs climbdown

  09-04-2025 23:36 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Pigeons have better pattern recognition than you do, Bill’
  
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• FACT FOCUS: Trump misrepresents facts about coal as he signs executive orders to boost its use

  09-04-2025 23:18 via independent.co.uk
  
  As President Donald Trump announced moves to ease restrictions on the U.S. coal industry Tuesday, he extolled what he views as its values
  
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• Fox Business reporter says it’s the ‘White House who capitulated’ on tariffs: ‘Let’s be clear’

  09-04-2025 23:11 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘I want to tell you right now that Donald Trump outsmarted the world,’ Charles Gasparino said. ‘But that's not really what happened here’
  
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• Far-right influencer Laura Loomer is pitching her new opposition research firm to White House officials in contract bid: report

  09-04-2025 22:58 via independent.co.uk
  
  Loomer is pushing her new company after severalNational Security Council staffers were fired last week when she met with Donald Trump at the White House
  
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• Trump’s tariff pause won’t help these small businesses that are already hurting

  09-04-2025 22:53 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘The end result is real small businesses, mom and pop shops, we're the ones that get put under’
  
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• House votes to overturn Biden-era rule limiting bank overdraft fees to $5, sends to Trump to sign

  09-04-2025 22:51 via independent.co.uk
  
  The House has voted to overturn a rule that would have limited bank overdraft fees to $5, following the Senate in moving to dismantle the Biden-era regulation that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau had estimated would save consumers billions of dollars
  
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• These billionaires were firmly behind Trump and Republicans. That was until tariffs were announced

  09-04-2025 22:47 via independent.co.uk
  
  In his Wednesday post on Truth Social, Trump said the decision to “substantially lower” his levies was due to over 75 countries reaching out to his administration to broker trade deals
  
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• Trump’s chaotic U-turn sees 90-day pause on tariffs – except for China

  09-04-2025 22:41 via independent.co.uk
  
  President gives breathing space to ‘more than 75’ countries who have sought a trade deal – but raises the stakes yet further against Beijing
  
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• Suspect arrested after 43-year-old missing woman was found beaten to death at Key Largo resort

  09-04-2025 22:30 via independent.co.uk
  
  Dylan Lamb told deputies that he hired Tillman to sleep with him and said he struck her after she took his money and refused to have sex with him
  
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• Mike Johnson calls budget vote despite Republican anger over Medicaid cuts and deficit

  09-04-2025 22:29 via independent.co.uk
  
  Johnson advances plan to extend Trump tax cuts on the back of spending cuts while Republicans on both ends of the spectrum threaten rebellion
  
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• Six people knew a teen was kidnapped and tortured by couple who played mini golf and ate Popeyes after allegedly killing her: warrant

  09-04-2025 22:24 via independent.co.uk
  
  Steven Gress and Michelle Brandes are accused of killing 16-year-old Miranda Corsette
  
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• Facebook whistleblower testifies that company undermined national security by working with China

  09-04-2025 22:23 via independent.co.uk
  
  Meta executives ‘lied about what they were doing with the‬ ‭Chinese Communist Party to employees, shareholders, Congress and the‬‭ American public,’ Sarah Wynn-Williams told a Congressional subcommittee
  
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• 911 dispatcher accused of ordering McDonald’s when dealing with home invasion call: ‘Mhmm…McGriddle’

  09-04-2025 22:21 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Your ordering breakfast should be different from answering a call,’ the county commission chair said
  
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