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• WhatsApp changes: Signal messaging platform stops working as downloads surge

  15-01-2021 23:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Signal has been downloaded millions of times since WhatsApp unveiled new privacy terms last week.
  
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• Republican Sen Bernie Moreno drops ‘F-bomb’ on TV as he questions Anthony Fauci over pandemic response

  29-07-2026 16:43 via independent.co.uk
  
  Anthony Fauci has invoked the Fifth Amendment throughout the Senate hearing
  
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• Man who won $167 million in the lottery is arrested for the fourth time since his big win

  29-07-2026 16:42 via independent.co.uk
  
  The troubled Powerball winner initially made headlines after revealing plans to share his record-breaking jackpot with his mother
  
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• Lebanese lawyers file complaint against banker who met with Israel's Netanyahu

  29-07-2026 16:29 via independent.co.uk
  
  Lebanese lawyers have filed a complaint against local banker Antoun Sehnaoui for meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week in Washington
  
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• Elon Musk sues Minnesota to stop law that bans companies for allowing ‘nudification’ online

  29-07-2026 16:20 via independent.co.uk
  
  Elon Musk’s AI company is asking the court to declare a new Minnesota law unconstitutional and bar the state from enacting it
  
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• Democrats urge SEC to investigate Trump’s ‘outrageous’ plan to sell early access to Truth Social posts

  29-07-2026 16:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump, who owns about 41% of Trump Media through a trust his children oversee, stands to profit from the paid access model
  
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• How the wars in Iran and Ukraine are colliding on the world’s largest lake

  29-07-2026 16:12 via independent.co.uk
  
  Kyiv’s attack on an Iranian vessel is a move to bolster US support at a crucial juncture, experts tell Maryam Zakir-Hussain
  
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• From hydrogen peroxide to ice cubes: Four plant health myths on social media

  29-07-2026 16:09 via independent.co.uk
  
  The internet is full of advice on just about everything, including plant care
  
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• Anthony Fauci’s lawyer booted from Congress after heated lecture from Rand Paul as doc refuses to answer questions

  29-07-2026 15:40 via independent.co.uk
  
  The infectious disease expert invokes Fifth Amendment and refuses to testify under GOP grilling on COVID origins
  
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• Infectious disease expert shares how to safely eat lettuce amid Cyclospora outbreak

  29-07-2026 15:29 via independent.co.uk
  
  An ongoing 2026 outbreak of cyclosporiasis has sickened more than 11,500 people across the United States with explosive diarrhea
  
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• Microsoft under investigation by UK watchdog over misleading customers on subscriptions

  29-07-2026 15:26 via independent.co.uk
  
  Competition and Markets Authority said it has reached no conclusions about whether Microsoft broke the law.
  
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• Ex-Gavin Newsom aide breaks decades-long silence about California gov cuckolding his own campaign manager — with her

  29-07-2026 15:24 via independent.co.uk
  
  Newsom’s 2005 affair with Ruby Rippey, when he was mayor of San Francisco, rocked California political circles at the time — and are reemerging as a character issue as the now-governor eyes a presidential bid
  
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• Iran-US war latest: Trump delivers unhinged swear-filled threat to deliver ‘beating’ to Tehran after attack on US bases

  29-07-2026 15:18 via independent.co.uk
  
  Iran targeted US bases in Jordan and claims to have struck three tankers in Strait of Hormuz
  
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• Anthony Fauci pleads the Fifth and refuses to answer questions from ‘unhinged’ senator on COVID

  29-07-2026 15:04 via independent.co.uk
  
  The infectious disease expert is grilled once again on the origins of the pandemic and gain of function research
  
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• MTG holds secret Vegas wedding to marry conservative journalist Brian Glenn: report

  29-07-2026 14:23 via independent.co.uk
  
  Marjorie Taylor Greene and Brian Glenn were seen in a white gown and tux after tying the knot in Las Vegas
  
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• Ted Cruz warns against billionaire presidents: ‘They steal and rob from those they govern’

  29-07-2026 14:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  Texas senator fails to see the wood for the trees as he attacks robber baron political leaders out to enrich themselves
  
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• Kansas town is getting an underground nuclear reactor. It’s split the townspeople

  29-07-2026 14:09 via independent.co.uk
  
  The so-called Gravity Reactor is being proposed by a California-based start-up company Surefrom a father-daughter duo, Liz Muller and Richard Muller
  
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• Trump uses Truth Social to rip Fauci’s athletic skills via a six-year-old video

  29-07-2026 14:07 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump called the former public health official a ‘terrible’ athlete and a ‘phony’
  
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• Trump uses Truth Social to rip Fauci’s athletic skills using six-year-old video

  29-07-2026 14:07 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump called the former public health official a ‘terrible’ athlete and a ‘phony’
  
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• Young Africans fear impact of Trump’s aid cuts, survey says

  29-07-2026 13:58 via independent.co.uk
  
  Almost half of respondents believe the president’s closure of the US Agency for International Development will negatively affect their country
  
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• FIFA's Infantino sets deadline for $20M offer to members in Kushner-backed World Cup investor plan

  29-07-2026 12:59 via independent.co.uk
  
  FIFA President Gianni Infantino has set a Sept. 19 deadline for the 211 member federations to accept a $20 million offer to each in his controversial plan to sell stakes in a subsidiary running the World Cup
  
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• Wildberries: Why Ukraine is blowing up Russia’s ‘Amazon’ with massive strikes

  29-07-2026 12:52 via independent.co.uk
  
  Kyiv has targeted warehouses and logistics centres in a bid to bring the impact of the war home to ordinary Russians
  
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• New evidence offers prosecutors’ clearest explanation yet for Charlie Kirk’s killing

  29-07-2026 12:39 via independent.co.uk
  
  Prosecutors say the man accused of fatally shooting conservative activist Charlie Kirk targeted him because of his political and religious beliefs, arguing new evidence shows the killing was motivated by opposition to Kirk's views on issues including same-sex marriage and transgender rights.
  
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• I joined the fight against France’s wildfires. What I witnessed was extraordinary

  29-07-2026 12:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  As France battles its biggest crisis since World War 2, James C. Reynolds describes his time with the relentless volunteer firefighters in Gironde who are using everything from watering cans to water bowsers to dampen the flames
  
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• Lindsay Clancy trial resumes as ex-husband recounts day she is accused of strangling their three children

  29-07-2026 12:21 via independent.co.uk
  
  The former husband of a Massachusetts woman will return to the stand in her murder trial to testify about the day she killed their three children
  
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• In charts: Why the Europe wildfires are so severe and hard to put out

  29-07-2026 12:21 via independent.co.uk
  
  The region is no stranger to fire, but these are unusual
  
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• Trump meets Netanyahu and Zelensky at White House as wars in Ukraine and Iran drag on

  29-07-2026 12:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  Both leaders met with Trump to discuss defence policies amidst escalating global tensions
  
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• The Tupac murder mystery just took its biggest turn in years

  29-07-2026 12:07 via independent.co.uk
  
  Duane Davis could face life in prison without parole if convicted
  
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• France wildfires latest: A third of a million evacuated across Europe as temperatures to hit 44C

  29-07-2026 12:05 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Gironde fire has burned an area four times the size of Paris
  
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• Fauci’s COVID diary to take center stage in latest showdown with Rand Paul

  29-07-2026 11:58 via independent.co.uk
  
  Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. scientist who helped lead the nation's COVID-19 pandemic response, is facing off with a Republican senator probing the origins of the coronavirus
  
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