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• LAPD officers shoot dead man who approached them with a tree trimmer

  09-09-2026 00:16 via independent.co.uk
  
  Zimran Canas was shot outside his Boyle Heights home after approaching an officer with the blade of the tree trimmer
  
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• Suspected drug dealers aged 89 and 73 arrested in house full of cocaine, marijuana and firearms

  12-09-2026 23:40 via independent.co.uk
  
  Both men are Cuban nationals and are being detained on immigration holds, according to jail records
  
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• Giuliani reveals what he said to Mamdani during viral handshake moment at 9/11 ceremony

  12-09-2026 23:18 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Both of us had ended up facing each other, so we knew we could create a distraction,’ Rudy Giuliani said
  
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• Man drowns trying to rescue dog that jumped from boat into California lake

  12-09-2026 22:38 via independent.co.uk
  
  The man suffered an unknown emergency when he hit the water and ultimately disappeared under the surface
  
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• Iran-US war latest: Houthis strike Saudi mosque causing injuries after vital oil pipeline shut

  12-09-2026 21:57 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Houthis captured a strategic island in the Bab el-Mandeb strait, threatening to bring further economic chaos
  
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• Bill Maher mocks Trump’s bizarre convention pledge of allegiance

  12-09-2026 21:55 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘This really happened this week in America, which used to be a real country,’ Bill Maher said on his show on Friday
  
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• Immigration judge says she was fired 48 hours after she questioned ICE’s treatment of asylum seeker

  12-09-2026 21:43 via independent.co.uk
  
  Lawsuit claims Chloe Dillon was fired for questioning ICE tactics and seeking to give a teenage asylum-seeker more time to pursue their case
  
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• “‘Does Trump cheat?’ I can’t cheat”: President on Secret Service stopping him from cheating at golf

  12-09-2026 21:12 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘It’s not that I wouldn’t cheat,’ Trump told business leaders gathered in Dublin on Saturday
  
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• Once popular restaurant chain O’Charley’s closes its last 50 locations

  12-09-2026 19:54 via independent.co.uk
  
  O’Charley’s operated 250 locations at the height of its business
  
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• Ted Cruz brutally booed on ESPN before Texas college football game: ‘You suck!’

  12-09-2026 19:28 via independent.co.uk
  
  Even some fans standing just behind Ted Cruz — who were visible on camera — joined in
  
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• President Donald Trump’s childhood home sells for $2 million

  12-09-2026 19:25 via independent.co.uk
  
  Donald Trump’s childhood home has sold for nearly $2 million after a renovation transformed the New York City residence from a mold-ridden cat den to modern abode
  
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• Waymo pulls over robotaxi after detecting riders were carrying assault rifle

  12-09-2026 18:51 via independent.co.uk
  
  Waymo does not allow riders to carry weapons in its vehicles
  
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• Police say more arrests coming in death of Mississippi woman found hanging from tree

  12-09-2026 18:47 via independent.co.uk
  
  Mississippi police say they were still investigating the death of Tasia Fortune, a Black woman found hanging from a tree last month, a day after a man was arrested in connection with the killing
  
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• Trump plans yet another facelift for Washington with giant statue of this president

  12-09-2026 18:29 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘He is easily America’s Greatest Hero,’ Trump wrote. ‘Without him, our Country and our Freedoms wouldn’t exist’
  
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• French police investigate possible sabotage after train derailment injures 44 people

  12-09-2026 18:10 via independent.co.uk
  
  The train, carrying 186 passengers, derailed on Friday evening in Normandy
  
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• Trump says he would cheat at golf if there weren’t so many Secret Service agents watching him play

  12-09-2026 16:39 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘It’s not that I wouldn’t cheat,’ Trump told business leaders gathered in Dublin on Saturday
  
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• Iran-US war latest: Trump claims Houthis asked US not to intervene in Yemen as drone hits Saudi Arabia oil pipeline

  12-09-2026 16:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Houthis captured a strategic island in the Bab el-Mandeb strait, threatening to bring further economic chaos
  
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• Club Med guest claims shark attack left her with ‘permanent nerve damage’ and ‘massive scarring’: lawsuit

  12-09-2026 15:18 via independent.co.uk
  
  Exclusive: Traveler Yvonne Martin survived, but, her attorney told The Independent, the incident has left her ‘permanently marred’
  
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• First openly trans congresswoman tells trans youth not to give up hope amid GOP onslaught

  12-09-2026 15:13 via independent.co.uk
  
  McBride’s words come as Republicans continue to attack Democrats when it comes to transgender athletes in women’s sports
  
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• Married true-crime buffs embarked on an obsessive mission to prove a double murderer’s innocence. It got complicated

  12-09-2026 14:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  Eileen and Keen Umbehr's obsession with the prosecution of Dana Chandler led them to spend more than 15 years trying to prove her innocence — an all-consuming odyssey that’s the subject of a new, three-part HBO docuseries
  
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• Trump’s $5,000 ‘bribe’ to Americans is no match for Republicans’ plummeting polling

  12-09-2026 14:28 via independent.co.uk
  
  Donald Trump’s last-ditch midterms pitch to voters comes as Republican candidates are falling behind in polling red-purple states, writes John Bowden
  
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• Trump Ireland visit latest: US president says he’d ‘love to see’ a united Ireland while in Dublin

  12-09-2026 13:36 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Now ‌the UK will ​have something ‌to say ⁠about it ... but ⁠I think it would be ‌a ​great thing’
  
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• Iceland considers ban that would leave just two countries that allow whaling

  12-09-2026 13:29 via independent.co.uk
  
  Fin whales, the primary target of Iceland's whaling industry, are classified as vulnerable
  
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• Police find cartel crypto farm hidden in Mexican mountains

  12-09-2026 13:20 via independent.co.uk
  
  It is the fourth crypto farm uncovered in the area since early last year
  
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• Succession battle rocks Uganda after death of ‘boy king’ Oyo Nyimba

  12-09-2026 11:53 via independent.co.uk
  
  Oyo was crowned in 1995, at the age of 3, after his father’s death
  
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• Plans for new airport in Damascus sparks outcry over disturbance of thousands of graves

  12-09-2026 11:35 via independent.co.uk
  
  A 2025 investigation identified two suspected grave sites linked to people who died in detention at Mezzeh
  
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• Trump meeting Irish leader Micheál Martin during visit

  12-09-2026 11:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Trump is holding meetings in Dublin before attending the Irish Open golf tournament in Doonbeg, County Clare.
  
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• 3 killed in Russian strikes on Ukraine as Putin warns Europe against sending troops

  12-09-2026 11:14 via independent.co.uk
  
  Russian strikes have killed three civilians and wounded dozens in Ukraine, according to local officials
  
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• Woman, 54, gives birth in Greece after using embryo frozen for 22 years

  12-09-2026 10:54 via independent.co.uk
  
  She was running up against the Greek government's 54-year age limit for women to complete in vitro fertilization procedures
  
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• Lebanon’s president makes a rare visit to southern city as fears of Israeli attacks grow

  12-09-2026 10:47 via independent.co.uk
  
  Lebanon’s president has made a rare visit to a southern city amid fears of more Israeli attacks
  
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