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• Federal prosecutors have ‘all’ Trump White House documents obtained by Jan 6 committee: report

  18-08-2022 02:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Independent has confirmed the existence of a subpoena which demanded that the National Archives and Records Administration provide federal prosecutors with ‘all materials, in whatever form’ that have been turned over to the House January 6 select committee
  
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• Ivana Trump walked out on ex-husband’s inauguration because she was horrified by poor seat, report says

  18-08-2022 02:09 via independent.co.uk
  
  Former president’s ex-wife died last month at 73 after a fall at New York City home
  
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• Republican senator tells constituents he supports $35 insulin cap, days after voting against it

  18-08-2022 02:04 via independent.co.uk
  
  Chuck Grassley voted against Inflation Reduction Act, which caps Medicare patients’ out-of-pocket costs, as well as an amendment to lower insulin costs for other patients
  
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• Brad Pitt foundation reaches settlement over Louisiana homes

  18-08-2022 00:49 via independent.co.uk
  
  Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation and homeowners of the houses built by the program, in an area of New Orleans hit hard by Hurricane Katrina have reached a more than $20 million settlement
  
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• Bolton accuses Biden administration of staying quiet on assassination plot to please Iran

  18-08-2022 00:29 via independent.co.uk
  
  Former White House official says DoJ notified him long before making public comment about the arrest
  
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• Ruling clears Biden's 2021 pause on new oil, gas leases

  18-08-2022 00:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  A judge's order that forced the Biden administration to resume sales of oil and gas leases on federal land and waters has been lifted by a federal appeals court
  
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• FBI rescues more than 200 sex trafficking victims, including 84 children

  18-08-2022 00:23 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘As we did in this operation, the FBI and our partners will continue to find and arrest traffickers, identify and help victims, and raise awareness of the exploitation [of] our most vulnerable populations’
  
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• Ex-Indiana top lawyer brushes off groping case in House bid

  18-08-2022 00:05 via independent.co.uk
  
  Former Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill is dismissing as “old news” the question of whether allegations that he drunkenly groped four women during a 2018 party could hurt his chances of replacing Republican U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski following her death in a highway crash
  
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• Kabul explosion: At least 10 killed after huge blast hits mosque

  17-08-2022 23:56 via independent.co.uk
  
  At least 10 reported dead after blast during evening prayers
  
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• Louisiana’s three abortion clinics will close and relocate out of state as anti-abortion law goes into effect

  17-08-2022 23:55 via independent.co.uk
  
  Clinic closures in Louisiana and Mississippi will leave the states without any abortion clinic for the first time in nearly 50 years
  
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• Texas school district pulls every library book complained about this year – including the bible

  17-08-2022 23:45 via independent.co.uk
  
  A total of 41 challenged titles removed and now must be re-approved by Keller Independent School District
  
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• Judge reinstates North Carolina’s 20-week abortion ban

  17-08-2022 23:09 via independent.co.uk
  
  A federal judge has ruled that abortions are no longer legal after 20 weeks of pregnancy in North Carolina
  
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• CDC admits it failed to respond effectively to Covid crisis

  17-08-2022 23:06 via independent.co.uk
  
  The agency aims to make its public messaging clearer and its responses faster
  
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• Little League World Series player out of coma after falling out of bed at camp but faces ‘long’ recovery

  17-08-2022 23:04 via independent.co.uk
  
  Easton Oliverson, 12, is making ‘tremendous progress’ but has long recovery ahead, say family
  
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• My daughter went for a routine chiropractor appointment. Now she’s paralysed

  17-08-2022 22:59 via independent.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: A 28-year-old Georgia woman went to a chiropractor in June to relieve neck tightness after studying for her chemistry finals. Her life changed 20 minutes later, her mother tells Sheila Flynn
  
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• Who is Harriet Hageman, the woman who beat Liz Cheney

  17-08-2022 22:55 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Republican candidate has lost previous races in Wyoming, but Trump’s endorsement means she beat Liz Cheney
  
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• Woman and ex-boyfriend vanished one day after Kiely Rodni just 35 miles away – after they all went to same car show

  17-08-2022 22:50 via independent.co.uk
  
  Janette Pantoja’s sister has questioned why the search for Kiely Rodni has received much more attention and law enforcement manpower than her sister’s
  
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• John Bolton claims Trump tried to ‘sneak’ classified documents out of White House

  17-08-2022 22:45 via independent.co.uk
  
  Former national security adviser says Trump White House simply didn’t behave like ‘normal’ administrations
  
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• Who should be king of the Zulus?

  17-08-2022 22:30 via independent.co.uk
  
  Misuzulu Sinqobile Zulu carries himself like a king but his claim to the throne is hotly contested, not least by members of his own family, writes John Eligon
  
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• Trump Organization executive willing to testify against ex-president’s companies, report says

  17-08-2022 22:14 via independent.co.uk
  
  Allen Weisselberg is expected to plead guilty to violating New York tax laws on Thursday
  
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• Weapon discovered in violent murder of teen stabbed 114 times

  17-08-2022 22:13 via independent.co.uk
  
  Forensic investigators matched a blade fragment pulled from Tristyn Bailey’s body with a knife found in a nearby pond
  
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• Elected official removed from office by Ron DeSantis over anti-abortion law sues to get his job back

  17-08-2022 22:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  County prosecutor Andrew Warren accuses Florida governor of ‘throwing out the results of a free and fair election’ by unjustly removing him from office
  
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• Trump news – live: Poll says majority of Americans back Mar-a-Lago raid as Pence rebukes GOP for FBI attacks

  17-08-2022 21:57 via independent.co.uk
  
  Former lawyer also speculated Jared Kushner may have tipped off FBI about stashed papers
  
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• Kabul explosion: Many feared dead after huge blast hits mosque

  17-08-2022 21:55 via independent.co.uk
  
  A huge explosion has struck a mosque in the Afghan capital Kabul during evening prayers, with many people feared dead or injured, according to police.
  
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• Liz Cheney – live: Cheney launches Great Task PAC as Trump attacks continue after Wyoming loss

  17-08-2022 21:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  Primary voters hit the polls on Tuesday in Wyoming and Alaska
  
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• Majority of Americans support FBI’s raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home

  17-08-2022 21:41 via independent.co.uk
  
  Republicans have claimed the search was politically motivated
  
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• Austin Tice: Who is the American journalist believed to be held captive in Syria?

  17-08-2022 21:24 via independent.co.uk
  
  “Every day without Austin brings renewed pain. Every time our family gets together, there’s a void where Austin should be,” parents say
  
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• Jared Kushner’s memoir dubbed ‘soulless’ in brutal first review

  17-08-2022 21:21 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Kushner looks like a mannequin, and he writes like one,’ says New York Times book critic Dwight Garner
  
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• Two dead after eating Louisiana oysters

  17-08-2022 21:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  A restaurant visitor in Southern Florida and a man from Pensacola in the northwestern part of state have both died after suffering a bacterial infection after they ate raw oysters from Louisiana.
  
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• Trump supporters' threats to judge spur democracy concerns

  17-08-2022 21:05 via independent.co.uk
  
  Threats against the judge who approved the search warrant for former President Donald Trump's Florida resort are the latest sign of a judiciary branch in the political crosshairs
  
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• John Bolton laments Liz Cheney’s defeat: ‘A real loss for the Republican Party’

  17-08-2022 20:50 via independent.co.uk
  
  Wyoming congresswoman says she’ll launch anti-Trump organisation after defeat
  
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• Boston Children’s Hospital targeted by harassment campaign over false claims about trans healthcare

  17-08-2022 20:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  Viral misinformation fuels ‘large volume of hostile internet activity, phone calls and harassing emails including threats of violence’
  
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• Texas ‘de-extinction’ start-up says it wants to bring Tasmanian tiger back from the dead

  17-08-2022 20:16 via independent.co.uk
  
  Colossal Biosciences is also behind $15m plan to revive the wooly mammoth
  
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• Pence calls for Republicans to stop attacking the FBI over Trump raid

  17-08-2022 20:06 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Calls to defund the FBI are just as wrong as calls to defund the police’
  
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• Florida woman arrested for calling police more than 12,000 times this year and harassing officers

  17-08-2022 20:00 via independent.co.uk
  
  The woman reportedly made 512 calls to a police precinct in a 24-hour period
  
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• Couple arrested for allegedly having sex on a ferris wheel after child spots ‘bare butt’

  17-08-2022 19:43 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘They were going back and forth’, witness reportedly told police
  
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• Ex-Indiana lawmaker sentenced in casino money scheme

  17-08-2022 19:26 via independent.co.uk
  
  A former Indiana state senator has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for his role in a scheme that illegally funneled about $40,000 from a casino company to his unsuccessful 2016 congressional campaign
  
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• Cheney's defeat end of an era for GOP; Trump's party now

  17-08-2022 19:25 via independent.co.uk
  
  Liz Cheney’s resounding election defeat marks an end of an era for the Republican Party
  
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• Two killed and five hurt when plane carrying French tourists crashes into Lake Powell in Utah

  17-08-2022 19:22 via independent.co.uk
  
  Witnesses in boats helped to pull survivors from the sinking Cessna 207
  
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• Student killed in shootout with female robbers living off the grid with armed 5-year-old in Alabama forest

  17-08-2022 19:18 via independent.co.uk
  
  When police closed in on the encampment in the forest, a five-year-old boy ran out of the woods with a loaded shotgun
  
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• Top Democrat demands answers on probe into embattled DHS inspector general

  17-08-2022 18:58 via independent.co.uk
  
  House government operations subcommittee chair Gerry Connolly wants answers on whether DHS inspector general Joseph Cuffari is under investigation for ethics violations
  
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• Tourist dies in freak accident on Milwaukee draw bridge

  17-08-2022 18:51 via independent.co.uk
  
  Richard Dujardin, 77, died after the Kilbourn Avenue Bridge in downtown Milwaukee was raised on Monday afternoon
  
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• Salman Rushdie attack suspect says he only read two pages of Satanic Verses

  17-08-2022 18:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  Hadi Matar made the admission in video interview from behind bars at the Chautauqua County Jail
  
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• Dan Rapoport: Who is the Putin critic found dead in Washington DC?

  17-08-2022 18:46 via independent.co.uk
  
  The 52-year-old businessman is suspected of leaping from an apartment building in Georgetown, DC, on Sunday
  
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• Pastor goes viral for calling congregation ‘broke, busted, and disgusted’ for failing to buy him a new watch

  17-08-2022 18:45 via independent.co.uk
  
  The pastor apologised for the ‘anger, hate and resentment’ in the clip
  
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• What are spotted lanternflies and why should New Yorkers squash them?

  17-08-2022 18:40 via independent.co.uk
  
  Red menace placing New York’s orchards, vineyards and tourism sector in peril, warns Chuck Schumer, appealing for federal funding to help stamp out pest
  
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• Trump news – live: Mike Pence admonishes GOP for FBI attacks as Giuliani testifies in Georgia election probe

  17-08-2022 18:32 via independent.co.uk
  
  Former lawyer also speculated Jared Kushner may have tipped off FBI about stashed papers
  
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• Foul play suspected as pack of wolves escapes zoo

  17-08-2022 17:53 via independent.co.uk
  
  Officials say ‘no danger’ to public
  
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• Attack on Rushdie shows divisions among Lebanese Shiites

  17-08-2022 17:53 via independent.co.uk
  
  The stabbing of author Salman Rushdie has laid bare divisions in Lebanon’s Shiite Muslim community
  
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• Woman charged with murder of inmate via deadly kiss

  17-08-2022 17:51 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘This incident points to the real dangers of introducing contraband into prisons and the consequences that follow,’ authorities say
  
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