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• Versatile Wilkinson shearing locks, protecting Drew Lock

  21-08-2020 22:24
  
  Protecting Drew Lock is Elijah Wilkinson ’s job.The Denver Broncos tackle opened a barbershop in Denver last year while still laying the foundation of a budding NFL career.Wilkinson said he didn’t want to just be known as a football player but “as someone who started something, somebody who gives back to this community.”
  
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• Ukraine destroys missile system protecting Putin’s $1bn Black Sea palace

  12-08-2026 15:39 via independent.co.uk
  
  An anti-missile launch pad was left ‘ablaze and sputtering for three hours’, according to Ukraine’s military
  
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• Iran knew key details of Trump’s hotel in Turkey sparking the president’s great plane switch: report

  12-08-2026 15:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump took close aides with him but appeared to leave top Cabinet officials in the older Air Force One
  
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• Lost family rescued after living on bark and flowers for three days

  12-08-2026 15:18 via independent.co.uk
  
  Two women and a child were rescued from the woods days after going missing when their tubing trip took a turn for the worse.
  
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• Trump finally admits the ‘law is very strong’ against his hinted third term as president

  12-08-2026 15:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  President Donald Trump has long said that he would run for president for a third term
  
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• Wisconsin beats back socialist surge with defeat of Hong for governor — who lacked support from Bernie and AOC

  12-08-2026 15:03 via independent.co.uk
  
  Francesca Hong’s defeat shows that she may have been too far left even for progressives, as a razor-thin margin in Midwest state pushes David Crowley to victory, writes John Bowden
  
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• At least 44 dead after overloaded ferry capsizes on Zimbabwe’s Lake Kariba

  12-08-2026 14:43 via independent.co.uk
  
  The ferry is believed to have capsized while carrying at least 114 adults and five crew members
  
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• Trump’s White House construction costs could soar above $900 million: report

  12-08-2026 14:22 via independent.co.uk
  
  ’Builder-in-chief’ Trump’s plans for the executive mansion and its grounds could prove much more expensive than previously thought, according to Washington Post analysis
  
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• Internet explodes over Trump letting journalists and staff serve as Air Force one decoys for him

  12-08-2026 14:16 via independent.co.uk
  
  One journalist accused the president of ‘hiding from the consequences of his own decision while endangering others’
  
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• Desperate US sailors trying to jump overboard on extended Middle East deployment, families say

  12-08-2026 14:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  Concerns have been raised about conditions on board the USS Abraham Lincoln, with claims of food shortages and sailors’ mental health struggles
  
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• Disney World guest fractured fibula on Little Mermaid ride and was confined to first floor of home for over a year: suit

  12-08-2026 14:14 via independent.co.uk
  
  Exclusive: Deborah Montgomery, 61, claims she will ‘continue to remain impaired into the foreseeable future’ after a family vacation to the iconic theme park
  
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• Putin threatens to ‘retaliate’ in kind if EU seizes shadow fleet vessels

  12-08-2026 14:03 via independent.co.uk
  
  European states are considering stricter measures to target vessels believed to be avoiding sanctions against Russia
  
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• AOC, Buttigieg, Newsom all appear to be running for president. But should they be?

  12-08-2026 14:03 via independent.co.uk
  
  Kamala Harris is the frontrunner, Josh Shapiro is in the hunt, and AOC has a tough choice ahead. Eric Garcia weighs in on the invisible presidential primary
  
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• Hitmen, personal toilets and secret plane swaps: The foreign plots to kill Donald Trump

  12-08-2026 14:01 via independent.co.uk
  
  The US president has faced several plots on his life both at home and abroad, Maira Butt reports
  
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• Wisconsin beats back socialist surge with defeat of Hong for governor — who lacked support from Bernie and AOC

  12-08-2026 13:58 via independent.co.uk
  
  Francesca Hong’s defeat shows that she may have been too far left even for progressives, as a razor-thin margin in Midwest state pushes David Crowley to victory, writes John Bowden
  
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• Trump’s cloak-and-dagger decoy flight exploits were the right thing to do, ex-Secret Service agents say

  12-08-2026 13:47 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘You've got to be creative. You've got to be nimble. You've got to make things happen,’ says former Secret Service agent Bobby McDonald
  
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• Robert Gilman: How the former US Marine was freed from Russian prison

  12-08-2026 12:42 via independent.co.uk
  
  A former US Marine imprisoned for four-and-a-half years in Russia has been freed after Russian president Vladimir Putin issued a humanitarian pardon for the American.
  
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• Iran-US war latest: Oil stockpiles ‘rapidly depleting’ despite Trump claiming ‘total control’ of Strait of Hormuz

  12-08-2026 12:42 via independent.co.uk
  
  Global energy watchdog the International Energy Agency said oil supply is expected to fall by 4.3 mb/c (million barrels per day) this year
  
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• Trump defends secret flight swap after using Air Force One as decoy: ‘The plane I flew on was at greater risk’

  12-08-2026 12:35 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump is facing backlash after leaving staff and reporters on Air Force One unaware of the threat from Iran
  
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• Alarm after Trump admin hires 2,000 gamers to fill air traffic controller jobs: ‘If they f*** up, people die’

  12-08-2026 12:18 via independent.co.uk
  
  Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy cheers hiring spree but others more skeptical: ‘They can’t just restart a new game’
  
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• Why Australian police took 20 hours to confirm ‘body’ in suitcase was actually a sex doll

  12-08-2026 12:17 via independent.co.uk
  
  Police and experts maintained that investigators followed proper procedures in handling case
  
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• New Zealand PM survives second challenge to leadership just weeks before general election

  12-08-2026 11:33 via independent.co.uk
  
  After a long meeting with his MPs, Christopher Luxon says the party is ‘united’ and ‘determined to win this election’
  
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• Huge swarm of jellyfish shut down nuclear reactors at power plant after clogging pumps

  12-08-2026 11:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  Gravelines power station left with only one of its six nuclear reactors operating at full capacity after jellyfish clogged pumps
  
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• Hunger Games or American Gladiators? Trump’s Patriot Games inspires wave of memes

  12-08-2026 11:24 via independent.co.uk
  
  One post showed an AI-generated Trump wearing an American-flag unitard and swinging from metal bars
  
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• Ukraine-Russia war latest: Kyiv bombs Russian naval base on Black Sea despite agreeing to JD Vance’s request

  12-08-2026 10:58 via independent.co.uk
  
  Ukraine had agreed to stop targeting oil tankers using Novorossiysk port amid US concerns over the impact on oil markets
  
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• F-16 intercepts plane over Trump’s Patriot Games in latest airspace violation

  12-08-2026 10:40 via independent.co.uk
  
  Incident follows breaches of temporary flight restriction over President Donald Trump’s New Jersey golf course Sunday, where he was also in attendance at the time
  
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• Trump says Secret Service wanted him to switch planes after threat: ‘I do what they tell me’

  12-08-2026 10:03 via independent.co.uk
  
  Donald Trump has confirmed that he switched planes after the Secret Service detected a possible threat when leaving a Nato summit in Turkey.
  
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• Trump says Secret Service wanted him to switch planes after ‘threat’: ‘I do what they tell me’

  12-08-2026 09:16 via independent.co.uk
  
  Donald Trump has confirmed that he switched planes after the Secret Service detected a possible threat when leaving a Nato summit in Turkey.
  
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• ‘I was at greater risk’: Trump defends secret Air Force One plane swap after hiding in catering cart

  12-08-2026 08:51 via independent.co.uk
  
  Stopping in The UK, Trump sneaked back aboard the presidential plane undetected
  
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• Bondi Beach shooting hero Ahmed al Ahmed cleared of assault charges

  12-08-2026 07:40 via independent.co.uk
  
  Ahmed al-Ahmed was charged with domestic violence common assault, stalking, and intimidation following an alleged incident involving his father in March
  
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