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• Town in Estonia forced to wrap windows to protect children from exploding drones

  24-07-2026 16:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  Ukraine blames Russian electronic jamming for sending its drones off course
  
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• Ukraine-Russia war latest: At least 10 killed as Putin launches ballistic missile attack on Kyiv’s drone exhibition

  25-07-2026 08:13 via independent.co.uk
  
  At least five people were killed in the city of Sloviansk, in addition to those in Kyiv
  
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• Iran-US war latest: American missiles strike targets across Iran as Trump vows ‘major military punishment’

  25-07-2026 07:20 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump threatens to widen targets to Iran's energy plants and bridges, send ground forces to seize oil hub
  
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• Trump’s biggest laugh at the WHCA dinner: Making fun of his own health secretary RFK Jr for eating roadkill

  25-07-2026 06:37 via independent.co.uk
  
  The president quipped that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ‘ran over the cow in his car’ so that beef tenderloin could be served at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner
  
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• Trump bombs in WHCD return and then unleashes on CNN’s Kaitlan Collins and media in jaw-dropping hour-long rant

  25-07-2026 05:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  Even Republicans looked stunned amid the stone-faced White House Correspondents’ Dinner ballroom of journalists before president revealed ‘Trump 2028’ punchline
  
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• Trump bombs in WHCD return and then unleashes on CNN’s Kaitlan Collins and media in jaw dropping hour-long rant

  25-07-2026 04:52 via independent.co.uk
  
  Even Republicans looked stunned amid the stone-faced White House Correspondents’ Dinner ballroom of journalists before president revealed ‘Trump 2028’ punchline
  
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• Nashville Zoo rejects deal that would have allowed data center near animal park

  25-07-2026 04:45 via independent.co.uk
  
  Residents feared air pollution, water contamination and noise in latest pushback against AI data center boom
  
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• Trump smiles and shrugs after Epstein reporters he sued for $10B win awards for exposing birthday card

  25-07-2026 03:33 via independent.co.uk
  
  The president’s appearance at the dinner came after months of warring with the press
  
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• Federal officials admit to withholding grants from states just because they didn’t vote for Trump

  25-07-2026 01:55 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Trump administration previously claimed the funding cuts were meant to stop wasteful spending and were not influenced by politics
  
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• Zelensky denies bizarre claim he took cocaine with Macron in interview with far-right MAGA influencer

  25-07-2026 01:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  The rumour was amplified by Tucker Carlson during an interview with Russian president Vladimir Putin
  
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• Health officials issue warning after bat with rabies lands on family’s table at a restaurant

  25-07-2026 00:50 via independent.co.uk
  
  The bat is the 22nd to test positive for rabies in San Diego County this year, marking an increase from 2025
  
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• RFK Jr’s team quietly updates CDC website to say science doesn’t know if vaccines cause autism

  25-07-2026 00:40 via independent.co.uk
  
  Changes appear to have been made to secure Senate confirmation vote for Trump’s pick to lead public health agency
  
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• Federal judge rules certain Biden-era abortion drug restrictions are unlawful

  24-07-2026 23:52 via independent.co.uk
  
  This ruling stems from a 2023 lawsuit filed by three abortion providers
  
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• Kash Patel and China’s top police chief vow closer law enforcement cooperation

  24-07-2026 23:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  On Thursday, China's Public Security Ministry said it had handed over to U.S. law enforcement authorities a U.S. fugitive wanted for serious violent crimes
  
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• California rejected nearly 150,000 mail-in ballots during primaries

  24-07-2026 23:16 via independent.co.uk
  
  The data did not include a breakdown of these uncounted ballots by party registration
  
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• Rental property that charges an additional $200 per month for working from home divides the internet

  24-07-2026 23:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  Some called the extra fee ‘insane’ and ‘absurd’ while others argued that renters working at home would use more utilities
  
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• ‘Nefarious’ Trump plan to interview Afghan immigrants sparks deportation fears

  24-07-2026 23:05 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Trump administration has already stopped travel, visa and refugee status approvals for people from Afghanistan, while removing protections for Afghans already living in the US
  
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• Autopsy doctor details teen girl’s fatal injuries at D4vd’s preliminary hearing

  24-07-2026 23:04 via independent.co.uk
  
  Prosecutors are seeking to prove D4vd stabbed a 14-year-old girl to death when she threatened to reveal their long sexual history and crater his career
  
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• Trump urges veterans to become truck drivers to replace 56,000 truckers who lost their licenses

  24-07-2026 22:53 via independent.co.uk
  
  Truck drivers currently make an average of $70,000 a year as the truck market has tightened up and rates have increased
  
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• At least three dead and hundreds rescued after catastrophic flooding pounded Texas

  24-07-2026 22:45 via independent.co.uk
  
  Officials warn some reservoirs may experience rising water levels into early August
  
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• More than 200,000 evacuated in France and Spain as wildfires tear through southern Europe

  24-07-2026 22:39 via independent.co.uk
  
  Some people even fled by boat when flames swept through the Cap Ferret peninsula on France's Atlantic coast.
  
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• Politicians want to ‘claw back’ billions from ICE. Party leaders say, not so fast

  24-07-2026 22:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  Even moderate Democrats want at least some guardrailsput in place if they win back the House in 2026, Eric Garcia writes
  
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• Trump says ‘I trust’ Putin and Xi — contradicting Hegseth about Iran war allies

  24-07-2026 22:24 via independent.co.uk
  
  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said this week that Russia and China are both ‘enabling’ Tehran’s war effort against the US
  
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• More than 130,000 evacuated in France and Spain as wildfires tear through southern Europe

  24-07-2026 22:16 via independent.co.uk
  
  Some people even fled by boat when flames swept through the Cap Ferret peninsula on France's Atlantic coast.
  
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• 11 indicted in smuggling deaths after seven found dead in shipping container in Texas rail yard

  24-07-2026 22:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  Two of the 11 remain at large, including a man and a woman, according to officials
  
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• ‘I trust them’: Trump says he takes Russia’s Putin and China’s Xi at their word over aiding Iran

  24-07-2026 22:03 via independent.co.uk
  
  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has previously said Moscow and Beijing are both ‘enabling’ Tehran’s war effort
  
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• Virginia study on groundwater, data centers calls for tighter water regulations

  24-07-2026 21:55 via independent.co.uk
  
  Virginia officials have released a scientific study on the state's groundwater supply and the possible impact of data centers after months of delays and mounting criticism
  
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• Argentine fugitive wanted for strangling his model girlfriend in Mexico in 2023 arrested in Oregon

  24-07-2026 21:55 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘For us, this is like Christmas,’ said sister of the victim Agostina Jalabert
  
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• ‘Sick of this s***’: Mike Johnson rages after GOP rebellion and then immediately regrets it

  24-07-2026 21:50 via independent.co.uk
  
  House Speaker has faced internal revolt while trying to steer his razor-thin majority in the direction of passing legislation aligned with Trump’s agenda
  
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• The surprising reason Pennsylvania roads are being coated in radioactive wastewater

  24-07-2026 21:38 via independent.co.uk
  
  People are not drinking the oil and gas brine directly, but the problem is that we don’t know where the radium ends up after the brine has been applied to the road
  
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