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• Garrett jumped at chance to be Giants' offensive coordinator

  11-08-2020 22:43
  
  Jason Garrett wasn't interested in sitting around for a year after the Dallas Cowboys didn't renew his contract as their head coach after 10 years in charge.Speaking to reporters on Tuesday for the first time since he was hired in January, Garrett refused to discuss his final days in Dallas.
  
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• False Prophet sect leader who featured in Netflix documentary jailed for extra 24 years

  26-08-2026 08:07 via independent.co.uk
  
  Bateman, a self-proclaimed prophet, previously claimed to have more than 20 ‘spiritual wives’
  
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• Mamdani says he is powerless to stop New York rally by ‘incredibly troubling’ Hindu group

  26-08-2026 07:59 via independent.co.uk
  
  Mohan Bhagwat, chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), is scheduled to speak at a Manhattan event
  
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• Ukraine-Russia war latest: Kyiv agrees not to strike Moscow during CIA chief’s mysterious visit

  26-08-2026 07:56 via independent.co.uk
  
  Ratcliffe’s purpose and meetings in Russia are not immediately clear but it marks the first known trip from a US spy chief since November 2021
  
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• The next tropical storm developing in the Atlantic will be called Dolly

  26-08-2026 07:50 via independent.co.uk
  
  Storm systems are named by the World Meteorological Organization
  
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• Iran-US war latest: Tehran insists Strait of Hormuz is still closed despite ‘understanding’ with Oman

  26-08-2026 07:20 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump threatens to launch new strikes on nuclear site as well as Iranian military ships in the key waterway
  
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• Dolly Parton built a better world, with rhinestones and songs

  26-08-2026 06:09 via independent.co.uk
  
  Dolly Parton was a beloved icon whose influence spans music, film and philanthropy
  
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• ICE agent charged with shooting in Minnesota could be released from Texas jail

  26-08-2026 06:05 via independent.co.uk
  
  An ICE agent charged in Minnesota with firing his gun through a house door, striking a man in his leg, and then lying to justify the shooting, could walk out of a South Texas jail if a federal judge does not intervene
  
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• Darline Graham wins South Carolina GOP runoff to replace her late brother

  26-08-2026 03:35 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Trump-backed political newcomer defeated Ralph Norman in Tuesday’s special Republican primary runoff
  
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• San Diego Padres minor league coach released after ICE detention

  26-08-2026 02:24 via independent.co.uk
  
  Oswaldo Pirela, who works as a catching coordinator, returned home to his relatives on Monday
  
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• Polymarket has favorites for Time’s Person of the Year. They are all Trump foes

  26-08-2026 01:46 via independent.co.uk
  
  The president has won the honor twice before, but the third nod might not come anytime soon
  
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• Iran-US war latest: Tehran and Oman edge towards Strait of Hormuz agreement as Trump threatens new strikes on nuclear site

  26-08-2026 00:55 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘We are watching every square inch of the Strait,’ Trump says as he claims all mines in the waterway have been destroyed
  
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• Michigan AG reveals state’s final accountability step for Flint water crisis

  25-08-2026 23:50 via independent.co.uk
  
  The 101-page report details the crisis and the failed effort to hold officials criminally accountable
  
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• Explosive diarrhea outbreak has millions of US households ditching pre-bagged salad

  25-08-2026 23:47 via independent.co.uk
  
  Iceberg lettuce is the only product that federal investigators have tied to outbreaks so far
  
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• Florida aims to drop some school vaccine requirements – including several backed by Trump

  25-08-2026 23:23 via independent.co.uk
  
  Last year, Florida’s surgeon general said he hoped to end vaccine mandates in the state – equating them to a form of ‘slavery’
  
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• FEMA crew skipped 11 homes with Trump signs after Hurricane Milton in 2024, watchdog finds

  25-08-2026 23:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  Headline-making incident ‘eroded public trust’ and violated ethics rules, DHS Inspector General says
  
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• Buc-ee’s CEO says ‘conservative’ states will get stores — and there are three requirements any location must meet

  25-08-2026 23:12 via independent.co.uk
  
  Texas-based Buc-ee’s now operates in at least a dozen states, which are primarily Republican-leaning or conservative
  
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• Father of USS Lincoln sailor released from ICE custody after arrest while son was deployed to Iran war

  25-08-2026 23:11 via independent.co.uk
  
  His arrest as his son was entering his ninth month on the USS Abraham Lincoln sparked intense backlash
  
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• Socialists are changing the Democratic establishment. It won’t stop Hakeem Jeffries from being the next speaker

  25-08-2026 22:45 via independent.co.uk
  
  Jeffries is not likely to face a Matt Gaetz-style coup, Eric Garcia writes. For one reason: math
  
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• ‘Robots Right Lane Only’ road sign leaves community baffled

  25-08-2026 22:44 via independent.co.uk
  
  The unusual sign is actually the product of a speculative fiction project imagining a future in which robots have taken on the bulk of labor and are demanding equal rights
  
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• Friends and family mourn ‘unimaginable loss’ after eight killed inside Montana home by gunman

  25-08-2026 22:43 via independent.co.uk
  
  Authorities have shared few details about the victims, except that there were ‘multiple, including children’
  
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• Surfer paralyzed after he dove into a wall of sand to save kid caught in California riptide

  25-08-2026 22:37 via independent.co.uk
  
  Josh Collette, 42, remains in good spirits following the life-altering accident, saying, ‘My heart is full of love’
  
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• Trump has pulled nearly 300 national parks’ emergency responders to work on his DC pet projects: report

  25-08-2026 22:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  Workers reassigned to D.C. previously worked for parks across the country, including in Alaska and California. Their duties have since included cleaning up the East Potomac golf course
  
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• Dolly Parton tributes include Dionne Warwick, Kacey Musgraves, Seth MacFarlane and Jamie Lee Curtis

  25-08-2026 21:54 via independent.co.uk
  
  Stars are paying tribute to Dolly Parton, who died Tuesday in Nashville, Tennessee, at 80
  
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• Canada announces 'dollar-for-dollar' retaliatory tariffs on US as high as 50%

  25-08-2026 21:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The latest escalation in an ongoing trade war between the US and Canada will see new levies on goods from steel to furniture, fresh tuna and makeup.
  
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• Trump’s midterm convention deemed a ‘s*** show’ with high ticket prices, low attendance and NFL competition

  25-08-2026 21:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘It’s yet another opportunity to shake down corporate America,’ one GOP strategist said
  
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• CIA chief travels to Moscow for unannounced talks, US media reports

  25-08-2026 21:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Flight tracking data confirms an American military aircraft travelled to Russia from the US via Latvia on Tuesday.
  
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• Mass arrests in global crackdown on West African cyber-crime networks

  25-08-2026 21:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The operation included the arrest of 39 people in South Africa for romance and investment scams.
  
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• Wisconsin district attorney declines to charge Elon Musk over $1M election giveaways

  25-08-2026 21:09 via independent.co.uk
  
  Musk was deeply involved in the effort to flip majority control of the highest court in battleground Wisconsin last year
  
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• Trump’s agriculture secretary refuses to say where foreign beef to lower prices is coming from

  25-08-2026 21:00 via independent.co.uk
  
  Ranchers and Republicans alike have pushed back on the beef plan
  
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