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• Four bodies found during search for missing plane that left the Bahamas

  08-09-2026 21:46 via independent.co.uk
  
  The plane, which was carrying two grandparents and their grandchildren, went missing after its departure from Great Harbour Cay in the Bahamas
  
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• Singaporean crypto kingpin pleads guilty to orchestrating $240 million bitcoin heist

  10-09-2026 17:59 via independent.co.uk
  
  The charges against Lam and 17 others are an extreme example of an increasingly common form of cybercrime
  
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• Melania skipped her husband’s midterm convention to give speech bragging about White House redesign

  10-09-2026 17:58 via independent.co.uk
  
  President Donald Trump has tore up two White House lawns and demolished one wing of the building since his return to office
  
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• Summer was the hottest ever in the US – here are the areas that saw the most drastic increases

  10-09-2026 17:50 via independent.co.uk
  
  Records were smashed from coast to coast – but some places felt the heat more than others
  
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• Satellite images reveal surge in building activity at Iranian nuclear site after Trump’s bomb threat

  10-09-2026 17:38 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump said the US would have to hit Iran ‘very hard’ if they found they’d been working on Pickaxe Mountain
  
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• Fresh off the golf course together, Bret Baier swoons over Trump’s midterm convention speech

  10-09-2026 17:37 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Let’s remind everybody, this guy is 80 years old,’ the Fox News host said. ‘He just gives this barn-buster speech’
  
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• Trump dangled his $5k ‘dividend’ to voters. Here’s how other countries have been buying elections for decades

  10-09-2026 17:30 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump’s pledge to buy American voters has shocked many but such practices have been taking place in elections across the globe for decades, Bryony Gooch reports
  
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• Trump’s $5,000 midterm election ‘bribe’ spurs NFL Thursday Night Football ad buy from top Democrat

  10-09-2026 17:23 via independent.co.uk
  
  Jeffries’ ad targets viewers with less than two months to go before the midterm elections
  
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• Experts predict El Nino’s impact on US weather as new forecast is issued

  10-09-2026 17:11 via independent.co.uk
  
  Concerns surrounding El Niño have heightened global food market supply fears, pushing up staple prices including vegetable oils and sugar
  
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• ICE sued by voting rights groups to block agents at the polls: ‘Only meant to scare people and suppress votes’

  10-09-2026 17:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Trump administration is illegally raising the specter of federal agents at polling locations to suppress turnout, lawsuit claims
  
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• Trump claims his love-fest convention beat NFL opening night in ratings - despite networks not covering the event

  10-09-2026 16:51 via independent.co.uk
  
  The president clashed with ABC News correspondent Mary Bruce prior to the Dallas event after she questioned reports that several high-profile Republicans were intentionally steering clear of the gathering
  
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• Unsealed Swiss files to reveal shocking new twist in the search for Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, historians say

  10-09-2026 16:47 via independent.co.uk
  
  Swiss federal intelligence has released a 200-page dossier on Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, known as the "Angel of Death" for his horrific experiments at Auschwitz
  
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• The ex-Stasi agent, the ‘pornstar’ and the perfume salesman: the AfD candidates set to take power in Germany

  10-09-2026 16:46 via independent.co.uk
  
  The AfD swept to power in Saxony-Anhalt, causing a political earthquake in Germany and Europe. Alex Croft looks at the problematic pasts of many of its candidates
  
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• Trump keeps promising Americans cash. They have yet to see a penny

  10-09-2026 16:41 via independent.co.uk
  
  This week, Trump vowed to send $5,000 to every adult American citizen if Republicans retain their majorities in the midterm elections
  
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• Accounting guru blew $13M of investors’ cash on a dream Caribbean wedding and Super Bowl tickets, feds say

  10-09-2026 16:16 via independent.co.uk
  
  Shiloh Luckey, a resident of Inglewood, was apprehended on Sunday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
  
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• State Trooper accused of shooting fellow cop as love triangle turns deadly

  10-09-2026 15:40 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trooper Nekime Oxendine is accused of shooting Sheriff’s Office Captain Adam Bean outside the home of a woman they had both reportedly had romantic relationships with
  
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• Trump begs — and even bribes — Republicans for votes at his desperate, made-up ‘convention’

  10-09-2026 15:22 via independent.co.uk
  
  He invented the unprecedented event, worried aloud about empty seats twice, asked the country to pretend he was on the ballot, and finally offered every adult citizen $5,000 if his party wins both chambers, writes Andrew Feinberg
  
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• Exclusive: Texas deputy and wife beaten by Waffle House employees in parking space dispute, suit says

  10-09-2026 14:52 via independent.co.uk
  
  Exclusive: The merciless stomping resulted in a shattered eye socket, a broken collarbone, and a lawsuit now pending in state court
  
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• Iran-US war latest: Tehran mocks Trump over capture of US submarine drone ‘picked up like a plastic bottle’

  10-09-2026 14:46 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump says US could strike Pickaxe Mountain after construction activity seen at deeply buried complex
  
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• Empty seats and technical glitch mar ‘Trump-a-palooza’ and the president’s wild speech

  10-09-2026 14:28 via independent.co.uk
  
  President Donald Trump tries to claim arena ‘packed’ for Republican midterms convention – but urges crowd not to go to the bathroom in case media report otherwise
  
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• The shot seen around the world: How an amateur photographer captured the ultimate sacrifice of FDNY heroes on 9/11

  10-09-2026 14:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  The lone fire truck racing across the Brooklyn Bridge toward the burning towers has become a defining image of the courage of so many first responders on September 11. The man who took the picture tells Bruce Golding what remains seared in his memory
  
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• Putin sends bones of medieval warrior to Ukraine frontline in desperate bid to boost morale

  10-09-2026 13:35 via independent.co.uk
  
  Donskoy, whose name was given to a Soviet tank column funded by the church in World War Two, was declared a saint in 1988
  
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• Jimmy Kimmel says interview with rising Democratic star won’t air on ABC amid FCC threats

  10-09-2026 13:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  Kimmel’s interview with James Talarico will be shown on YouTube, the late night host announced
  
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• Jimmy Kimmel reveals interview with rising Democratic star won’t air on ABC amid FCC threats

  10-09-2026 13:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  Kimmel’s interview with James Talarico will be shown on YouTube, the late night host announced
  
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• Ted Cruz ridiculed for defending Trump 9/11 claims

  10-09-2026 13:21 via independent.co.uk
  
  Texas senator called a ‘bootlicker’ for leaping to President Donald Trump’s defense over contested anecdote
  
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• Buffalo Bills to honor Canada with national anthem at new stadium amid Trump border feud

  10-09-2026 13:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  Amid the increasingly heated U.S.-Canadian trade war, the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League have weighed ​in
  
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• American Eagle shares plunge a year after controversial Sydney Sweeney campaign

  10-09-2026 12:47 via independent.co.uk
  
  American Eagle Outfitters' shares slumped over 11% in premarket trading on Thursday
  
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• How will Trump’s $5,000 ‘dividend’ work – and is it legal?

  10-09-2026 12:35 via independent.co.uk
  
  President Donald Trump promises to reward voters if they back Republican candidates at November’s midterms but provides few specifics, inviting questions and controversy
  
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• Pregnant Amazon workers forced to stand and denied hospital breaks, lawsuit claims

  10-09-2026 12:28 via independent.co.uk
  
  A group of former Amazon warehouse employees is suing the company for systemically discriminating against pregnant workers
  
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• Grandfather escapes trial after 16 ‘feral’ children rescued from Ohio house of horrors

  10-09-2026 12:12 via independent.co.uk
  
  An Ohio man has been found incompetent to stand trial after his 16 grandchildren were found living in filthy conditions
  
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