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• Amazon is ‘aggressively’ going after Fedex and UPS, insiders say

  20-07-2026 16:53 via independent.co.uk
  
  Amazon shook up the shipping world with its launch back in May with both UPS and FedEx stocks dropped by approximately 10 percent that day
  
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• Bill O’Reilly tells friend Donald Trump to ‘take the next month off’ and go golfing

  22-07-2026 20:07 via independent.co.uk
  
  O’Reilly said he had noticed Trump was ‘hunching over a little bit’ and recommended he take time off to relax
  
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• Social Security Admin accused of sending emails with ‘misleading information’ to retirees

  22-07-2026 19:55 via independent.co.uk
  
  Senate Democrats say Commissioner Frank Bisignano broke the promise he made during his March 2025 confirmation hearing to keep the agency strictly nonpartisan
  
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• Judge sets trial date for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s drug trafficking charges

  22-07-2026 19:44 via independent.co.uk
  
  Maduro, a socialist leader of Venezuela from 2013 until his capture, declared himself a ‘prisoner of war’
  
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• Trump must hand over detailed financial info as judge rules against him in his $10B suit against the BBC

  22-07-2026 19:37 via independent.co.uk
  
  Discovery process could leave Trump’s businesses open to new levels of public scrutiny
  
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• California official threatens criminal investigation into alleged cheating on driver’s tests

  22-07-2026 19:33 via independent.co.uk
  
  The 11,000 drivers flagged in the DMV’s investigation will have to retake their driver’s tests
  
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• Trump claims without proof that the soldiers killed in Iran said that Tehran can’t have a nuclear weapon

  22-07-2026 19:30 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘They said, and all of them said very strongly: We can’t let Iran have a nuclear weapon,’ Trump said
  
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• Trump team is pulling funds from sex ed groups that don’t teach abstinence and the value of marriage

  22-07-2026 19:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  RFK Jr’s agency is changing the rules for teen pregnancy prevention programs in an ideologically driven effort to gut sex ed, reproductive health groups say
  
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• Iran-US war latest: Tehran threatens heavy response if Trump bombs bridges and power plants

  22-07-2026 19:20 via independent.co.uk
  
  Donald Trump said the US military would strike civilian infrastructure every time Iran targets shipping in the Strait of Hormuz
  
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• Deputy almost hit by ‘drunk’ driver while at hit-and-run scene

  22-07-2026 19:12 via independent.co.uk
  
  A Placer County Sheriff’s deputy narrowly escaped being hit by an alleged drunk driver during a hit-and-run crash investigation on Friday night (17 July).
  
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• The verdict is in: Canadians hate America thanks to Trump

  22-07-2026 19:05 via independent.co.uk
  
  Four out of five Canadians say they have no confidence in the U.S. under President Donald Trump’s leadership, with existing tensions expected to be exacerbated by latest tariffs
  
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• Miliband set for Rubio meeting amid Trump fury at his appointment as Foreign Secretary

  22-07-2026 19:05 via independent.co.uk
  
  Miliband also called for calm in the conflict between Iran and the US, as Trump threatened to ‘bomb and destroy’ bridges and power station
  
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• Trump attends dignified transfer of four US soldiers killed in Middle East

  22-07-2026 19:03 via independent.co.uk
  
  This was the third such transfer Trump has attended since he launched the war in Iran in February
  
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• Signs for Charlie Kirk Memorial highway to be moved after Vietnam veterans objections to sharing the road

  22-07-2026 18:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Tennessee road had long been known as Vietnam Veterans Boulevard, and the new designation caught veterans off guard, a county official said
  
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• Trump attends transfer of fallen U.S. service members, in photos

  22-07-2026 18:43 via independent.co.uk
  
  President Donald Trump attends the dignified transfer of four U.S. service members killed in the Middle East at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. The troops were killed in attacks in Jordan and Iraq linked to Iranian drones and missiles.
  
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• Zelensky’s new military chief wins widespread approval after surprise sacking

  22-07-2026 18:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  Major General Mykhailo Drapatyi’s appointment as head of the military has met wide approval in Ukraine, with many disliking the rigid Soviet-style of General Oleksandr Syrskyi, writes Askold Krushelnycky in Kyiv
  
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• Sparks fly from cargo plane as it ‘tail skids’ while landing at airport

  22-07-2026 18:28 via independent.co.uk
  
  Sparks flew from a cargo plane attempting to land in Kentucky on Sunday (19 July), video taken by an eyewitness shows.
  
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• France recorded 5,700 more deaths than usual during its historic June heatwave

  22-07-2026 18:10 via independent.co.uk
  
  France experienced at least 5,700 more deaths than usual during a historic heatwave last month, according to the public health agency
  
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• McDonald’s sued after customer burns mouth on ‘extremely hot and overheated’ fries

  22-07-2026 17:57 via independent.co.uk
  
  Exclusive: New York City woman Catherine Luongo blames the March 5 incident on employees who ‘fail[ed] to provide [her] with a safe order of fries’
  
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• Majority of Americans agree on one word to describe Trump: Dangerous

  22-07-2026 17:57 via independent.co.uk
  
  Americans called Trump ‘dangerous,’ ‘corrupt’ and ‘out-of-touch’ in a new poll
  
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• Exclusive: McDonald’s sued after customer burns mouth on ‘extremely hot and overheated’ fries

  22-07-2026 17:57 via independent.co.uk
  
  Exclusive: New York City woman Catherine Luongo blames the March 5 incident on employees who ‘fail[ed] to provide [her] with a safe order of fries’
  
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• Exclusive: McDonald’s sued after customer burns her mouth on ‘extremely hot’ french fries

  22-07-2026 17:57 via independent.co.uk
  
  New York City woman Catherine Luongo blames the March 5 incident on employees who ‘fail[ed] to provide [her] with a safe order of fries’
  
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• Cops play missing autistic boy’s favorite Disney music in desperate bid to find him

  22-07-2026 17:43 via independent.co.uk
  
  Locals have been urged to not approach the missing boy and to instead contact the authorities if they spot the 11-year-old
  
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• Nolan Wells’ autopsy results raise new questions about teen’s death on July 4 boat trip in Mississippi

  22-07-2026 17:37 via independent.co.uk
  
  The autopsy is part of an independent investigation into the circumstances of the teenager's disappearance, which followed a July 4 boat trip with friends
  
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• Two children killed in New Jersey boat crash on trip with grandparents

  22-07-2026 17:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  Boy and girl aged seven and nine thrown into water after collision with channel marker off Berkeley Township
  
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• Inside 1789 Capital - the investment firm run by Don Jr cashing in on his father’s policies

  22-07-2026 17:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  Critics said the rate at which 1789 Capital benefited from its proximity to the White House is ‘unprecedented’
  
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• Santa Monica is using AI-enhanced cameras to catch cars and trucks who park in bike lanes

  22-07-2026 17:23 via independent.co.uk
  
  Violators are charged a $93 fine
  
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• Trump told Americans to visit Lebanon. The rest of his government has warned not to travel there

  22-07-2026 17:21 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump unexpectedly announced he would allow US carriers to fly directly to Lebanon, ending a more than 40-year ban
  
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• Beaches closed ahead of Tropical Storm Bertha landfall as the Gulf Coast braces for heavy rain and damaging wind

  22-07-2026 17:17 via independent.co.uk
  
  The biggest threat is from tropical storm force winds, which extend about 100 miles from the center of the storm
  
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• Remains of 22 more infants found at site of former mother and baby home in Ireland

  22-07-2026 17:12 via independent.co.uk
  
  The remains of 99 infants in total have been now found at the site in Co Galway
  
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