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• FDA issues metal face mask warning after patient burned during MRI

  10-12-2020 15:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  Health care providers encouraged to provide safe coverings to patients where necessary
  
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• Newsom trolls Trump over his decade-long promise for a new healthcare plan

  28-07-2026 17:20 via independent.co.uk
  
  President Donald Trump has been promising to imminently usher in a new healthcare plan since 2015
  
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• Iran-US war latest: Israel’s Netanyahu visits White House for first meeting since Middle East bombing campaign began

  28-07-2026 17:18 via independent.co.uk
  
  President Donald Trump is expected to make a final decision on the ceasefire in Iran after his talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
  
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• ‘Critical failure’ allowed ODU gunman to attend school despite ISIS link

  28-07-2026 17:02 via independent.co.uk
  
  The university's president said the report also shed new light on the ’extraordinary heroism and bravery‘ shown by a teacher and cadets
  
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• 40% of Americans are buying or eating less fruit and veg during cyclospora outbreak

  28-07-2026 16:59 via independent.co.uk
  
  More than 16,000 cases of the parasitic illness that causes severe dehydration and explosive diarrhea have been reported
  
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• ‘Worst aquarium ever’: Museum tries new sales tactic and uses bad reviews for merch

  28-07-2026 16:58 via independent.co.uk
  
  How to turn a negative review into a hit merchandise line
  
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• Uganda declares itself Ebola free as deaths surge past 1,400 in DR Congo

  28-07-2026 16:58 via independent.co.uk
  
  Uganda has not recorded a new Ebola case since June, but confirmed infections in the DRC have risen to over 3,200 and at least 1,405 deaths, having only passed 1,000 in recent days
  
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• UN warns of huge increase in Asian scam centre human trafficking

  28-07-2026 16:53 via independent.co.uk
  
  People from more than 80 countries have been lured in through social media, with some being sexually abused
  
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• Trump’s rollback of DEI is transforming who runs America’s biggest companies, study finds

  28-07-2026 16:52 via independent.co.uk
  
  During Trump’s second term, appointments of women and racial minorities to S&P 500 boards have dropped to their lowest level in more than a decade
  
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• Ebola death toll nearly surpasses DR Congo’s worst outbreak numbers in just 10 weeks

  28-07-2026 16:52 via independent.co.uk
  
  In a contrasting development, neighbouring Uganda declared its Ebola outbreak officially over on Tuesday
  
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• Anthony Fauci grew increasingly annoyed by ‘obnoxious adolescent’ Trump as Covid pandemic spiraled, diary reveals

  28-07-2026 16:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  Over 1,000 pages of diary entries from Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, have been released
  
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• Mass shooter downed by cops seconds after opening fire and injuring nine in Tucson

  28-07-2026 16:46 via independent.co.uk
  
  A suspected mass shooter was taken down by cops after he opened fire and injured nine people in Tucson, Arizona, surveillance footage shows.
  
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• 5 reasons lettuce is often at the root of food-borne illness outbreaks

  28-07-2026 16:39 via independent.co.uk
  
  The average American consumes 25 pounds of lettuce every year
  
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• Lindsey Graham funeral updates: Vance focuses on himself in eulogy while senator’s casket lies in the Capitol

  28-07-2026 16:35 via independent.co.uk
  
  World leaders including Volodymyr Zelensky and Benjamin Netanyahu are expected to attend service remembering late Republican lawmaker who served South Carolina for more than two decades
  
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• HIV funding fell by $2bn last year fuelled by Trump’s aid cuts, new reports find

  28-07-2026 16:30 via independent.co.uk
  
  The fall from $8.3bn to $6.2bn between 2024 and 2025 marks the lowest global funding level since 2007
  
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• Bodies of five children found in France after police search new mother’s home

  28-07-2026 16:20 via independent.co.uk
  
  The bodies were found in the city of Orange in southern France
  
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• Your diarrhea could be more explosive than others - why Cyclospora parasite sickens some people worse

  28-07-2026 16:12 via independent.co.uk
  
  Ultimately, cyclosporiasis shows how important a healthy immune system is for fighting infection
  
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• Lindsey Graham funeral updates: Trump recalls that late ally ‘liked war’ as senator’s casket arrives at Capitol

  28-07-2026 16:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  World leaders including Volodymyr Zelensky and Benjamin Netanyahu are expected to attend service remembering late Republican lawmaker who served South Carolina for more than two decades
  
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• Ukraine-Russia war latest: Zelensky arrives for crucial Trump meeting at White House to shore up support

  28-07-2026 15:52 via independent.co.uk
  
  Zelensky is expected to use his Washington visit to press Trump for urgently needed air defence support
  
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• Trump pressured RFK Jr to slash childhood vaccines over autism fears: report

  28-07-2026 15:50 via independent.co.uk
  
  During a lunch in May, Trump reportedly accused Kennedy of having the ‘yips’
  
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• Cornell student who said he’s ‘not interested in working for a Jew’ claims he faced no disciplinary action

  28-07-2026 15:45 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘I didn’t say anything that could be classified as hateful,’ the student claimed, according to a conservative watchdog group
  
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• Bari Weiss’ CBS Evening News woes worsen as ABC’s David Muir surges past her anchor in ratings

  28-07-2026 15:42 via independent.co.uk
  
  CBS News continues to face a series of setbacks and a decline in viewership since Bari Weiss was named editor-in-chief last year
  
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• Lindsey Graham funeral updates: Trump says ‘Lindsey liked war’ as he recalls late ally ahead of National Cathedral service

  28-07-2026 15:36 via independent.co.uk
  
  World leaders including Volodymyr Zelensky and Benjamin Netanyahu are expected to attend service remembering late Republican lawmaker who served South Carolina for more than two decades
  
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• Smelly seaweed blankets Mexico’s idyllic coastline forcing beach closures amid ‘extremely serious’ drop in tourism

  28-07-2026 15:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  Workers are seen lining many beaches, knee-deep in seaweed shoveling heaps of sargassum off the shoreline
  
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• Lindsey Graham’s political career was defined by one consistent strategy

  28-07-2026 15:28 via independent.co.uk
  
  For more than three decades, Graham repeatedly positioned himself where Republican politics in the South were headed rather than where they had been
  
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• Iran-US war latest: Trump backtracks on threat to attack power plants days after saying they would be ‘decimated’

  28-07-2026 15:10 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘I’m not looking to do that’ said Trump, six days after threatening to destroy a bridge or power plant each time Tehran struck a ship in Hormuz
  
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• John Thune leads Republican revolt over Trump demanding Senate cancel summer break for him

  28-07-2026 14:58 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘We could stay here ‘til Christmas’, a frustrated Thune tells Trump of chamber’s inability to pass his voter ID law
  
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• Broke and broken Democrats are on course to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory this fall

  28-07-2026 14:52 via independent.co.uk
  
  Just when they seemed poised to take back the House, Democrats are in the red on cash and facing an internal ideological fight, all with less than 100 days until November’s midterm elections, Eric Garcia writes
  
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• Trump, 80, has been musing about his own mortality in the wake of Lindsey Graham’s death: report

  28-07-2026 14:42 via independent.co.uk
  
  President Trump has expressed disbelief at Lindsey Graham’s death, often speaking about the late senator’s energy levels
  
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• CNN’s Kaitlan Collins breaks silence on Trump’s WHCD insults and tells Jon Stewart what really bothered president

  28-07-2026 14:28 via independent.co.uk
  
  Kaitlan Collins took the high road when she was quizzed about the White House Correspondents’ Dinner by host Jon Stewart
  
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