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• Deep Water review – plane-crash survivors play existential roulette with bitey fish

  14-07-2026 11:02 via article.wn.com
  Renny Harlin’s disaster movie brings aquatic mayhem along with suspense and schadenfreude as aircraft passengers battle to survive hungry sharks...
  
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• Amazon picks up local streaming rights for six NHL teams

  02-09-2026 23:33 via independent.co.uk
  
  The streams will include the games plus pre- and post-game shows and other team programming
  
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• Accused Penn State drug ringleader who called himself ‘the Godfather’ granted bail

  02-09-2026 23:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  Agostino Abbatiello is accused of supplying the drug operation with cocaine that was then packaged at fraternity houses and distributed to students
  
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• Republican Senator calls on Trump to fire Hegseth for ‘inept management’

  02-09-2026 23:04 via independent.co.uk
  
  Thom Tillis slammed the Defense Secretary’s leadership – 18 months after casting a key vote to confirm his appointment
  
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• Dollywood will honor ‘dreamer-in-chief’ Dolly Parton with new park attractions after her death

  02-09-2026 23:03 via independent.co.uk
  
  Dolly Parton grew up in rural Sevier County and transformed the theme park into the county's largest employer and a major tourist destination
  
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• Shooting at elementary school in Virginia leaves one person injured

  02-09-2026 22:59 via independent.co.uk
  
  Governor Abigail Spanberger said she was aware of the shooting and is monitoring the situation
  
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• Accused Penn State drug ring leader who called himself ‘the Godfather’ granted bail

  02-09-2026 22:59 via independent.co.uk
  
  Agostino Abbatiello is accused of supplying the drug operation with cocaine that was then packaged at fraternity houses and distributed to students
  
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• Lindsay Clancy trial: What happens if there’s a hung jury as judge gives ‘dynamite’ instruction

  02-09-2026 22:38 via independent.co.uk
  
  Jurors in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial were once again sent home without a verdict on Wednesday
  
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• Trump’s $1 coin ridiculed for its ‘death of liberty’ date

  02-09-2026 22:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  Legal tender shows the president’s scowling face above the dates ‘1776-2026’
  
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• Trump has been shown polling on voters’ hatred of data centers. He’s backing them anyway

  02-09-2026 22:33 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Trump is married to data centers no matter what because it’s the only real job creator,’ a former Trump official said
  
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• Powerful earthquake hits Papua New Guinea

  02-09-2026 22:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  The magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck at 2004 GMT
  
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• George Clooney rips Hegseth over body-shaming post of Canadian cadet: ‘What’s wrong with you?’

  02-09-2026 22:23 via independent.co.uk
  
  Actor George Clooney said he was ‘ashamed’ of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s post mocking the appearance of a Canadian military youth program’s members
  
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• Police chief fired over racist texts after fatal shooting of a toddler in Mississippi

  02-09-2026 22:16 via independent.co.uk
  
  Fired Chief Harold Vanderford routinely used racist language in text messages, including writing that he hoped his neighbors heard him shouting slurs at home
  
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• Suspect arrested after smashing 81 car windshields in Virginia parking lot

  02-09-2026 21:56 via independent.co.uk
  
  Most people who park in the lot reportedly work at the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center
  
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• Iran-US war latest: Trump warns he’s ‘prepared’ to launch fresh attack ‘any time we want’

  02-09-2026 21:49 via independent.co.uk
  
  Fighting between the US and Iran has seen the biggest exchange of fire since July
  
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• Trump’s infamous plane swap gets the Neflix documentary treatment just weeks after it happened

  02-09-2026 21:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  ’Instadocs’ episode will examine Trump’s use of a decoy plane in July that drew criticism from reporters and ex-administration staff
  
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• Trump administration allegedly weighs developer’s plan to build private road in Yosemite National Park

  02-09-2026 21:25 via independent.co.uk
  
  The land would be used to build a roadway connecting the park to rental cabins and a lodge for tourists
  
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• Trump administration backs OpenAI in New York Times' copyright case over training of chatbots

  02-09-2026 21:12 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Trump administration is backing OpenAI over the New York Times in a closely watched case over how it builds its AI technology using millions of news articles
  
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• Trump reveals he slapped Canada with a major tariff because a friend couldn’t buy the Gulfstream jet he wanted

  02-09-2026 21:06 via independent.co.uk
  
  The off-the-cuff anecdote to reporters in the Oval Office Wednesday comes as Trump has launched the US into a bitter new trade war with its northern neighbor
  
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• What happens if there’s a hung jury in Lindsay Clancy case as jurors send second note to judge

  02-09-2026 20:43 via independent.co.uk
  
  Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, doesn't deny strangling her children, but she says postpartum psychosis led to her actions
  
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• Georgia student’s degree withheld over health insurance charge

  02-09-2026 20:38 via independent.co.uk
  
  Dylan Merrell, who played football for Long Island University, says he opted out of the school’s insurance, but the school says otherwise
  
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• Trump ‘happy’ to see Harry and Meghan leave the US as he declares himself ‘not a fan’

  02-09-2026 20:37 via independent.co.uk
  
  Harry and Meghan returned to the UK last week after six years in the US
  
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• Football player, 13, collapses and dies after suffering cardiac arrest at training session

  02-09-2026 20:25 via independent.co.uk
  
  Caden Sorrell loved the Pittsburgh Steelers and was remembered as ‘brilliant, sweet, smart, kind’
  
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• Texas hit with 30 inches of rain in 24 hours during extreme flash-floods as rescues of trapped residents underway

  02-09-2026 19:59 via independent.co.uk
  
  Rainfall was falling at a rate of five inches an hour Wednesday in areas northeast of Houston
  
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• Dallas Cowboys legend Emmitt Smith accused of cheating Native American solar investor out of $2.5m

  02-09-2026 19:57 via independent.co.uk
  
  Emmitt Smith has been accused of running an operation similar to a Ponzi scheme in the lawsuit filed against him and his business partners
  
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• No one wants to go to Trump’s ‘waste of time’ midterm convention: report

  02-09-2026 19:02 via independent.co.uk
  
  At least 45 Republican members are skipping the party’s first-ever midterm convention due to prior obligations, to spend time in their districts or to flat-out protest the event
  
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• Burnham warned cash ‘not vibes’ needed to stop Putin as Russian threats intensify

  02-09-2026 19:02 via independent.co.uk
  
  Burnham was grilled over his defence policy at Prime Minister’s Questions as Putin ratcheted up threats against the UK
  
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• MAGA pundit appears to blame Haitian immigrant for endangering Americans — by taking his own life

  02-09-2026 18:40 via independent.co.uk
  
  The family of Pierre Damas Bel says the 20-year-old college student took his own life after losing his temporary protected status and was forced to wear an ankle monitor
  
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• Texas facing 30 inches of rain in 24 hours as rescues underway

  02-09-2026 18:35 via independent.co.uk
  
  Residents have been pulled from cars and a mobile home with forecasters warning rain will continue through the evening
  
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• Shooting reported at Virginia elementary school

  02-09-2026 18:28 via independent.co.uk
  
  Governor Abigail Spanberger said she was aware of the shooting and is monitoring the situation
  
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