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• World Cup: Messi leads Argentina to 3-2 comeback win over Egypt

  08-07-2026 09:49 via article.wn.com
  ATLANTA — It was another World Cup epic from an Argentina team that simply doesn’t know...
  
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• Teen receives life sentence after pleading guilty to murdering 10-year-old cousin

  26-08-2026 22:54 via independent.co.uk
  
  A teenager has been sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty on Wednesday to the 2022 murder of his 10-year-old cousin in Wisconsin.
  
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• FBI probe into cyberattacks on US water systems expands after tech supplier is targeted

  26-08-2026 22:53 via independent.co.uk
  
  The breach occurred amid a spate of hacks directed at PLCs in Minnesota and at least six other states
  
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• Trump has still not picked a Karoline Leavitt replacement days before she leaves

  26-08-2026 22:50 via independent.co.uk
  
  Some possible contenders include conservative commentator Scott Jennings and Katie Miller, the wife of White House official Stephen Miller
  
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• Dodgers fans suing team want jury to hear about 2011 Giants fan attack

  26-08-2026 22:41 via independent.co.uk
  
  Luis Ortiz and Joanna Maria Iniguez allege in a lawsuit that security guards removed them from the stadium after they objected to how two other fans who ran onto the field were treated
  
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• Mom of 7 shot dead while holding her infant, family says

  26-08-2026 22:25 via independent.co.uk
  
  Six of Shawanda Alston’s seven children were home at the time of the shooting
  
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• Man convicted of fatal ‘targeted ambush’ of Microsoft manager as he drove home with daughter in backseat

  26-08-2026 22:24 via independent.co.uk
  
  Jared Bridegan was shot in 2022 after he got out of his SUV to remove a tire from a road in Jacksonville Beach
  
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• Trump team wants to expand the definition of ‘small business’ to include billion-dollar companies

  26-08-2026 22:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Small Business Administration is proposing a rule that would massively increase the cap at which companies are considered ‘small’ – with some allowed to make over $1 billion
  
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• Judge lifts block on Trump’s mail voting restrictions ahead of midterms

  26-08-2026 22:16 via independent.co.uk
  
  This latest legal battle follows a Supreme Court procedural ruling favoring Trump just two days earlier
  
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• Passenger on Scotland to Chicago flight recounts how weather turned flight into 20-hour ordeal: ‘Bathrooms filled up’

  26-08-2026 21:53 via independent.co.uk
  
  The flight from Edinburgh is typically about 8 hours long — but turned into a much longer travel nightmare for some
  
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• Maine GOP governor candidate says he wants Trump’s border czar to send ICE to polls

  26-08-2026 21:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  Bobby Charles said he would make the appeal three or four weeks before Election Day
  
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• Todd Blanche rips Philadelphia DA who suggested blowing up Trump’s White House ballroom

  26-08-2026 21:46 via independent.co.uk
  
  Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said the ballroom would be demolished in an ‘official ceremony’ in future years
  
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• Family at center of Ohio ‘house of horrors’ where 16 kids were rescued was previously investigated by child services

  26-08-2026 21:21 via independent.co.uk
  
  Ohio officials said the children ‘looked like almost feral animals’ and some ‘couldn’t even speak’
  
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• Thai woman jailed in Myanmar for immigration offense may face US diplomat murder trial

  26-08-2026 20:49 via independent.co.uk
  
  It's not clear whether she has been formally charged with murder, or even whether a murder investigation is still ongoing, a lawyer said
  
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• Trump administration designates Palestine Action a terrorist group

  26-08-2026 20:09 via independent.co.uk
  
  The US government has confirmed it has ‘taken action’ against the UK-based group
  
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• America’s housing crisis fuels the rise of tiny house villages

  26-08-2026 20:09 via independent.co.uk
  
  Recent population estimates show that Charlotte, North Carolina, is the fastest-growing large city in the United States
  
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• Trump goes on mid-day posting spree to brag about himself, share photos and demand the baseball HOF add Roger Clemens

  26-08-2026 20:07 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump’s schedule had no events between his intelligence briefing and ‘signing time’ set for 2:00 pm
  
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• Charges dropped against 31-year-old man accused of stalking Sabrina Carpenter

  26-08-2026 20:03 via independent.co.uk
  
  Carpenter was granted a restraining order against William Applegate in June
  
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• America’s summer Covid surge is producing new symptoms. Here’s what to look out for

  26-08-2026 19:56 via independent.co.uk
  
  Coronavirus levels are now growing or likely growing in all but two states
  
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• Battleground Republicans want the ‘Darline’ treatment and to see Trump pour resources into getting them elected

  26-08-2026 19:45 via independent.co.uk
  
  Swing state Republicans are in dire straits and are eyeing Trump’s investment in South Carolina, but it comes with a cost: Association with an unpopular president, writes John Bowden
  
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• Farmer ordered to destroy his orchard after giving away thousands of pounds of free fruit

  26-08-2026 19:37 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Boy, they’re not gonna take the trees out easily,’ the farmer has said
  
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• Iran has caused ‘billions’ in damage to American intelligence assets, report says

  26-08-2026 19:36 via independent.co.uk
  
  CIA outposts in Saudi Arabia and Iraq have reportedly been struck by Iranian drones
  
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• GOP sends out fundraising text from JD Vance admitting affordability crisis: ‘Groceries cost what they cost’

  26-08-2026 18:59 via independent.co.uk
  
  Republican National Committee message appealing for donations ahead of the midterms appears to acknowledge an issue keenly felt by voters but which the Trump administration has routinely downplayed
  
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• Trump weighs new tariffs against Canada as trade war grows between two neighbors: report

  26-08-2026 18:44 via independent.co.uk
  
  An unnamed White House official suggested the administration was going to respond to Canadian levies with their own set of actions
  
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• On a roll: Canada trade war could hike toilet paper costs for Americans

  26-08-2026 18:42 via independent.co.uk
  
  Canada’s retaliatory tariffs are set to take effect September 8
  
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• QAnon conspiracy theories continue to haunt US politics 10 years later

  26-08-2026 18:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  Amid the U.S. war with Iran, some government officials have turned to QAnon for inspiration
  
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• Oregon town is so broke that it shut down all of its parks to save a buck

  26-08-2026 18:29 via independent.co.uk
  
  The city of Independence said it will enforce the closures and is not liable for anyone who enters the parks
  
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• Fed, NASA and DOJ among victims of Chinese state-sponsored hacker group, FBI says

  26-08-2026 18:23 via independent.co.uk
  
  An affidavit named the U.S. Department of Energy, HHS, NIH, and four unnamed companies in the United States and South Korea as victims compromised by the hackers
  
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• Top military general was ousted days after being told to drop investigation into Kid Rock flyby: report

  26-08-2026 18:14 via independent.co.uk
  
  Pete Hegseth reportedly forced Army Chief of Staff Randy George into retirement and then promoted the secretary’s top aide to the role
  
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• Marine’s release from Russian prison reignites calls to free other Americans with health problems

  26-08-2026 17:41 via independent.co.uk
  
  The State Department has said it is aware of concerns about medical care and continues to raise the issue with the Russians
  
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