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• LA wildfires mapped: Palisades and Eaton blazes now cover more than 27,000 acres

  08-01-2025 23:57 via independent.co.uk
  
  Fierce windstorm expands the California fire from 300 acres to more than 27,000 in just over 24 hours
  
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• ESPN’s Stephen A Smith claims Americans can ‘relate’ to Trump ‘talking smack’ about Canada

  08-01-2025 23:49 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump has also been calling for the US to acquire Greenland since his first term
  
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• Moment friends abandon house as Palisades fire closes in

  08-01-2025 23:38 via bbc.com
  
  The blaze has been declared the most destructive in the city's history with more than 1,000 structures destroyed.
  
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• ‘It would be like Hawaii’: Republicans open to Trump’s Canada and Greenland proposal

  08-01-2025 23:35 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘There’s some good arguments,’ one Republican senator tells The Independent ahead of Trump’s return to Capitol Hill
  
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• How much did it cost U.S. to acquire its territories? What to know as Trump escalates calls to take Greenland

  08-01-2025 23:35 via independent.co.uk
  
  The U.S. has purchased multiple territories and states since it’s formation
  
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• Mexican president hits back at ‘misinformed’ Trump: ‘Why don’t we call it Mexican America?’

  08-01-2025 23:25 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘I think that yesterday, President Trump was misinformed, with all due respect to President Trump,’ Claudia Sheinbaum stated after his Gulf of America suggestion
  
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• Germany - who once invaded most of Europe - seems to warn Trump about his Greenland plans

  08-01-2025 23:22 via independent.co.uk
  
  German chancellor reiterated the importance of respecting a country’s borders to maintain peace
  
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• A politician was shot dead in Bangkok. Did another country do it?

  08-01-2025 23:18 via bbc.com
  
  Lim Kimya's killing had all the hallmarks of a cold-blooded, professional assassination.
  
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• Spencer Pratt documents house burning down in LA wildfires

  08-01-2025 23:10 via independent.co.uk
  
  Spencer Pratt said he watched his house burn down on security cameras as the Palisades Fire devastated California.
  
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• Elon Musk uses wildfires to attack California’s DEI practices — as MAGA faithful spread wild conspiracies

  08-01-2025 23:02 via independent.co.uk
  
  Musk joined President-elect Donald Trump in lashing out at state officials and pointing fingers over the devastating fires
  
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• Ohio woman killed and partially eaten by neighbor’s pig, police say

  08-01-2025 23:00 via independent.co.uk
  
  The woman’s cause of death was ‘bleeding out due to extensive superficial injuries by livestock animals’
  
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• The cosmetics billionaire behind Trump’s obsession with buying Greenland

  08-01-2025 22:53 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump’s interest in aquiring Greenland has a long and storied history
  
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• Palisades fire live updates: Two dead as wind-fueled wildfire deemed most destructive in LA history

  08-01-2025 22:51 via independent.co.uk
  
  Signifcant injuries are reported as the Palisades, Eaton, Hurst and other fires rage over more than 27,000 acres in southern California, leaving schools closed and nearly 400,00 without power
  
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• Biden used LA fire briefing to tell the ‘good news’ of becoming a great-grandfather. It didn’t sit well with MAGAworld

  08-01-2025 22:23 via independent.co.uk
  
  Biden is the first sitting president to become a great-grandparent
  
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• Satellite footage captures Pacific Palisades wildfires raging across LA hillside

  08-01-2025 22:21 via independent.co.uk
  
  Incredible satellite footage captures the Pacific Palisades wildfires rage across Los Angeles.
  
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• Joe Biden announces granddaughter Naomi has given birth to her first child

  08-01-2025 22:01 via independent.co.uk
  
  Naomi Biden announced her pregnancy on Election Day last year
  
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• Day two of LA fires: Inferno skies and charred homes

  08-01-2025 21:55 via bbc.com
  
  One resident watching as her home burned said her neighbourhood was like driving through a "war zone".
  
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• LA wildfires mapped: Palisades and Eaton blazes now cover more than 23,000 acres

  08-01-2025 21:50 via independent.co.uk
  
  Fierce windstorm expands the Californiafire from 300 acres to more than 5,000 in just hours
  
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• Sister of OpenAI boss Sam Altman accuses tech billionaire of childhood sexual abuse: CEO denies the claims

  08-01-2025 21:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  Altman and his family denied Ann Altman’s accusations, calling them ‘deeply hurtful and entirely untrue’
  
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• How much did it cost U.S. to acquire its territories? What to know as Trumps escalates calls to take Greenland

  08-01-2025 21:47 via independent.co.uk
  
  The U.S. has purchased multiple territories and states since it’s formation
  
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• Quaker group pulls NYT ad over paper’s refusal to let it call Israel’s Gaza bombing ‘genocide’

  08-01-2025 21:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Organization said paper’s refusal ‘outrageous attempt to sidestep the truth’, choosing ‘silence over accountability’The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker organization that advocates for peace, said on Monday the group cancelled a planned advertisement in the New York Times in response to the paper refusing to allow it to refer to Israel’s actions in Gaza as a genocide.“The refusal of The New York Times to run paid digital ads that call
  
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• Trump blasted for ‘obsession’ over Greenland by Democrats as he returns to Capitol Hill: Live

  08-01-2025 21:45 via independent.co.uk
  
  Congressional Democrats suggest president-elect focus on cost of living over fantasies about US territorial expansion as he returns to D.C. to meet with GOP senators
  
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• Palisades fire live: 2 dead and over 1,000 buildings destroyed as crews struggle with spreading wildfires

  08-01-2025 21:40 via independent.co.uk
  
  Signifcant injuries are reported as the Palisades, Eaton, Hurst and other fires rage over more than 23,000 acres in southern California, leaving schools closed and nearly 400,00 without power
  
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• Republican already calling Gulf of Mexico ‘Gulf of America’ after Trump speech

  08-01-2025 21:37 via independent.co.uk
  
  A Republican representative has already started calling the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America" after President-elect Donald Trump declared he wants to change the name of the ocean basin.
  
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• Palisades fire live updates: 2 dead and over 1,000 buildings destroyed as crews struggle with spreading wildfires

  08-01-2025 21:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  Signifcant injuries are reported as the Palisades, Eaton, Hurst and other fires rage over more than 23,000 acres in southern California, leaving schools closed and nearly 400,00 without power
  
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• Ros Atkins on... Trump's threats to Greenland

  08-01-2025 20:38 via bbc.com
  
  The BBC's analysis editor Ros Atkins takes a look at why President-elect Donald Trump is talking about annexing Greenland.
  
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• Gleeful young adults spotted grinning for selfies while deadly California wildfires rage behind them

  08-01-2025 20:38 via independent.co.uk
  
  The group, who have not been identified, were pictured in an evacuation zone in Pasadena as the Eaton fire ripped through people’s homes
  
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• Los Angeles wildfires spread out of control, forcing 70,000 to evacuate

  08-01-2025 20:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘We are prioritising life over everything else’
  
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• MTG vows to introduce bill on Gulf of Mexico ‘ASAP’ as House Republicans start using new name

  08-01-2025 20:32 via independent.co.uk
  
  Marjorie Taylor Greene says new legislation ‘is important to begin funding the changing of maps for all agencies within the federal government’
  
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• Ohio woman killed and partially eaten by neighbor’s pigs, police say

  08-01-2025 20:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  The woman’s cause of death was ‘bleeding out due to extensive superficial injuries by livestock animals’
  
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• MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski quickly issues legal note after guest calls Trump a ‘rapist’

  08-01-2025 20:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  The immediate clarification comes weeks after ABC News settlened a defamation case with Trump over George Stephanopulos saying the president-elect was found ‘liable of rape. ‘
  
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• Another U.S. serviceman accused of sexual assault in Japan

  08-01-2025 20:28 via independent.co.uk
  
  It marks the fourth sexual assault case against U.S. military personnel stationed in Okinawa within the past year
  
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• Yet another U.S. serviceman accused of sexual assault in Japan

  08-01-2025 20:23 via independent.co.uk
  
  It marks the fourth sexual assault case against U.S. military personnel stationed in Okinawa within the past year
  
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• Diddy is not happy about all the attention Luigi Mangione is receiving behind bars, report claims

  08-01-2025 20:20 via independent.co.uk
  
  A source close to Diddy allegedly told the New York Post that Mangione was going to end up on the rapper’s ‘s*** list’
  
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• Distraught Made in Chelsea star says she discovered fate of Palisades home on Google

  08-01-2025 20:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  Former Made in Chelsea star Stephanie Pratt broke down in tears during a live interview as she revealed that she discovered the fate of her Palisades home with a Google search as fire devastated the area on Wednesday, 8 January.
  
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• Five football fields a minute: How a perfect storm of extreme weather set off Los Angeles wildfires

  08-01-2025 20:12 via independent.co.uk
  
  Rising temperatures have created the ideal conditions for “extreme, high severity wildfires that spread rapidly,” according to the California Air Resources Board
  
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• ‘There’s nothing they can do’: Fire hydrants across Pacific Palisades are coming up dry as blaze rages

  08-01-2025 20:10 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘We pushed the system to the extreme,’ one official said
  
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• BBC reporter surrounded by LA fire destruction

  08-01-2025 20:07 via bbc.com
  
  Emma Vardy assesses the damage along Pacific Coast Highway, as winds continue to worsen the fires in the area.
  
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• Palisades fire live updates: Wildfires have burned 15,000 acres killing two and destroying 1,000 buildings

  08-01-2025 19:53 via independent.co.uk
  
  Signifcant injuries are reported as the Palisades, Eaton and Hurst fires rage over thousands of acres in southern California, leaving schools closed and nearly 400,00 without power
  
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• Merrick Garland plans to release Jack Smith’s January 6 report. How Trump is trying to stop him

  08-01-2025 19:24 via independent.co.uk
  
  The special counsel handed in his final report days before Trump returns to the White House
  
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• Don Jr. was told the ‘whole town’ would show up for his Greenland arrival. It appears they did not

  08-01-2025 19:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump Jr.’s visit occurred weeks after Trump re-ignited the calls for the U.S. to acquire Greenland
  
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• Palisades fire: Malibu restaurants and local landmarks destroyed in catastrophic blaze

  08-01-2025 18:54 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Palisades fire, the largest among the four wildfires burning around Los Angeles, has destroyed more than 1,000 structures
  
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• JetBlue passenger arguing with girlfriend rips open emergency door and tries to jump out

  08-01-2025 18:54 via independent.co.uk
  
  The man managed to deploy the plane’s emergency slide beforebeing subdued by passengers on flight at Boston Logan International
  
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• Trump ‘seriously’ considered choosing Fox host Maria Bartiromo as his veep, new book claims

  08-01-2025 18:51 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump was ‘dead serious’ about tapping the MAGA host as his running mate, according to a new book
  
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• Sarah McBride slams Republicans for attempted trans sports ban: ‘Defies understanding’

  08-01-2025 18:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  The first openly transgender lawmaker exclusively tells The Independent that Republicans’ prioritization of the legislation leaves her “mystified that this is a priority” for the GOP.
  
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• Elk on a shelf: Climbers rescue creature tangled in rope on ice route

  08-01-2025 18:14 via independent.co.uk
  
  Elk sometimes get their unwieldy antlers entangled in man-made hazards
  
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• JetBlue stowaways’ bodies were badly decomposed raising possibility they were there for multiple flights: report

  08-01-2025 18:11 via independent.co.uk
  
  According to FAA data, approximately 80 percent of people who try to stowaway in external compartments on aircraft — such as wheel bays — die
  
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• Trump to declare national economic emergency in order to push through tariffs, report says

  08-01-2025 18:07 via independent.co.uk
  
  President-elect has threatened nations including Canada, Mexico and China with steep duties on their products even before taking office
  
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• What is closed on January 9? What to know about national day of mourning for Jimmy Carter

  08-01-2025 18:05 via independent.co.uk
  
  As the national day of mourning isn’t a federal holiday, many businesses, financial centers, and services will be open
  
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• One of Louisiana’s youngest mayors bonded out after drug, prostitute solicitation arrest

  08-01-2025 18:03 via independent.co.uk
  
  Tyrin Truong, 25 pledged to ‘clean up’ his city when elected as mayor in 2022– now he’s one of several people allegedly at the center of a prolific drug trafficking ring in Louisiana
  
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