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• Tesla reports record income; confirms Nevada truck expansion

  26-01-2023 05:51 via independent.co.uk
  
  Tesla says it intends to invest $3.6 billion to expand manufacturing capabilities in Nevada and is confident growing software-related profits will keep margins higher than any other automaker
  
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• Elon Musk slammed for amplifying fake story about hundreds of ‘Nato trainers’ dying in Ukraine

  06-02-2023 20:51 via independent.co.uk
  
  “A tragic loss of life,” Elon Musk posted in response to pro-Putin Twitter account which pushed false casualty figures from Ukraine
  
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• Greg Abbott announces plan to ban TikTok on Texas government devices to stop ‘security risks’

  06-02-2023 20:50 via independent.co.uk
  
  Plan also singles out WeChat and Kaspersky
  
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• George Santos’ latest resume lie? He produced Spider-Man on Broadway

  06-02-2023 20:46 via independent.co.uk
  
  Instance would be second confirmed case of Santos’s campaign apparently deceiving donors
  
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• ‘Fidgety’ Alex Murdaugh visited mom on night of murders – then offered money to caretaker who could refute alibi

  06-02-2023 20:28 via independent.co.uk
  
  Muschelle “Shelly” Smith testified that Mr Murdaugh also showed up at his parents’ home days later with a blue tarp
  
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• Don Jr mocked for retweeting post joking that China should receive a Trump blimp

  06-02-2023 20:21 via independent.co.uk
  
  While social media users mocked the balloon drama, the Chinese were not laughing over the destruction of their aircraft
  
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• Hurricane deaths at nursing home: accident or manslaughter?

  06-02-2023 20:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  The trial of a Florida nursing home administrator accused of causing the overheating deaths of nine patients after a 2017 hurricane is underway
  
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• Marjorie Taylor Greene spent almost four times as much as she raised in last fundraising period

  06-02-2023 20:06 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Georgia Republican’s fundraising deficit comes despite her Twitter being reinstated
  
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• Haiti appoints council amid push to hold general elections

  06-02-2023 20:05 via independent.co.uk
  
  Haiti’s prime minister has formally appointed a transition council charged with ensuring that long-awaited general elections are held in a country with no democratically elected institutions
  
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• White House says Chinese spy balloon was watching ‘sensitive military sites’ and program has been targeting US for years

  06-02-2023 19:35 via independent.co.uk
  
  National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby says the US gained valuable intelligence by monitoring the Chinese airship as it transited US airspace
  
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• UN chief says world ‘sleepwalking into wider war’ in Ukraine

  06-02-2023 19:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  Russian forces have been advancing for the first time in six months in relentless battles in eastern Ukraine
  
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• Explosion ‘imminent’ after train carrying chemicals derails near Ohio town

  06-02-2023 19:23 via independent.co.uk
  
  A smoldering fire has persisted in a tangle of dozens of freight cars, some carrying hazardous materials, that derailed in Ohio near the Pennsylvania state line
  
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• Caretaker breaks down in tears testifying about ‘fidgety’ Alex Murdaugh on night of murders

  06-02-2023 19:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  Muschelle “Shelly” Smith testified that Mr Murdaugh showed up days later with a blue tarp and took it upstairs in his parents’ home
  
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• Tristyn Bailey was stabbed 114 times in an unspeakable murder. A Snapchat selfie caught her killer classmate

  06-02-2023 19:06 via independent.co.uk
  
  Nearly two years on from brutal Mother’s Day murder, Aiden Fucci admitted to the first-degree murder of his former classmate. Bevan Hurley explains the horrifying case
  
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• Turkey and Syria earthquake: Two huge tremors kill 2,600 as death toll continues to climb – latest updates

  06-02-2023 19:01 via independent.co.uk
  
  Rescuers seek to map out search priorities, after second earthquake rocks Kahramanmaras region in wake of country highest-magnitude tremor since 1939
  
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• Alex Murdaugh’s alleged financial crimes can be given as evidence in murder trial, judge rules

  06-02-2023 18:11 via independent.co.uk
  
  Over the course of the last week, the judge has heard testimony without the jury present about the legal dynasty heir’s alleged financial crimes
  
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• Watch live: Relatives and lawyers of Fernando Baez give speech after rugby players sentenced

  06-02-2023 18:10 via independent.co.uk
  
  Watch live as relatives and lawyers for Fernando Baez Sosa give a speech after five rugby players accused of killing the 18-year-old were handed life sentences.
  
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• Alex Murdaugh trial - live: Disgraced lawyer’s alleged financial crimes allowed as evidence in murder case

  06-02-2023 18:07 via independent.co.uk
  
  Third week of testimony underway at Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, South Carolina where Alex Murdaugh stands trial for murders of wife Maggie and son Paul
  
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• Why is Meghan Markle’s half-sister suing her for defamation?

  06-02-2023 18:03 via independent.co.uk
  
  Samantha Markle requests Prince Harry give video deposition but Duchess of Sussex’s lawyers seeking to have case dismissed
  
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• Three American tourists stabbed after being told to stop filming in popular Puerto Rico neighbourhood

  06-02-2023 17:58 via independent.co.uk
  
  Police say three US tourists were stabbed in Puerto Rico after someone told them to stop filming in a renowned seaside community known as La Perla that is popular with visitors
  
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• George Santos’ office vandalised with graffiti – amid sexual harassment accusations and Spider-Man lies

  06-02-2023 17:53 via independent.co.uk
  
  Poll shows as many as eight in 10 New Yorkers want Santos out
  
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• Earthquake brings fresh hell for Syrians after more than a decade of civil war

  06-02-2023 17:46 via independent.co.uk
  
  Temperatures are plummeting and communities face acute fuel shortages with humanitarian assistance dwindling, writes Kim Sengupta. This is thanks – at least in part – to the war having faded in the minds of the Western public
  
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• Western New York struck by strongest earthquake in over 20 years

  06-02-2023 17:43 via independent.co.uk
  
  The US Geological Survey preliminarily reported a 3.8 earthquake centered east of Buffalo in the suburb of West Seneca at about 6.15am
  
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• Neo-Nazi and girlfriend arrested for allegedly plotting attack on Maryland power grid

  06-02-2023 17:41 via independent.co.uk
  
  A Neo-Nazi leader and his girlfriend have been arrested and charged with plotting an attack on the Maryland power grid.
  
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• Watch live: Eight Argentina rugby players hear sentence in trial for Fernando Baez’s murder

  06-02-2023 17:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  Watch live as a court hands out a verdict for eight men accused of murdering a teenager in Argentina three years ago.
  
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• Watch: Eight Argentina rugby players hear sentence in trial for Fernando Baez’s murder

  06-02-2023 17:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  Watch live as a court hands out a verdict for eight men accused of murdering a teenager in Argentina three years ago.
  
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• Five-year-old boy critically injured in puma attack while hiking with his mother in California

  06-02-2023 17:12 via independent.co.uk
  
  Jack Trexler’s mother helped save him from the mountain lion
  
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• Turkey and Syria earthquake: Two huge tremors kill 2,300 as death toll continues to climb – latest updates

  06-02-2023 17:03 via independent.co.uk
  
  Rescuers seek to map out search priorities, after second earthquake rocks Kahramanmaras region in wake of country highest-magnitude tremor since 1939
  
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• George Santos – news: Latest lie about Spider-Man emerges as prospective aide accuses him of sexual harassment

  06-02-2023 17:02 via independent.co.uk
  
  Follow for updates on the latest lies and scandals swirling round the Republican congressman
  
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• Kaylee Goncalves’ family fight gag order in Idaho murders case

  06-02-2023 17:00 via independent.co.uk
  
  On 18 January, the gag order was broadly expanded to also ban any attorneys representing survivors, witnesses or the victims’ family members from talking or writing about the case
  
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