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• Mother and three children arrested by ICE in 'border czar's' New York town released from detention

  07-04-2025 23:59 via nbcnews.com
  
  The family was detained when immigration authorities were conducting an unrelated search warrant near their home on March 27.
  
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• Netanyahu discusses Gaza and tariffs with Trump at White House meeting

  07-04-2025 23:20 via theguardian.com
  
  President says the pair had a ‘great discussion’ while prime minister says Israel will eliminate trade deficit with USThe Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, met with Donald Trump on Monday for the second time since the US president’s return to office, marking the first effort by a foreign leader to negotiate a deal after Trump announced sweeping tariffs last week.Speaking alongside Trump in the Oval Office, Netanyahu said Israel would eliminate the trade deficit with t
  
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• Trump says US ‘having direct talks’ with Iran over nuclear deal

  07-04-2025 23:16 via theguardian.com
  
  President, sitting in Oval Office with Benjamin Netanyahu, warns Tehran of ‘great danger’ if talks are not successfulDonald Trump has announced that the US is to hold direct talks with Iran in a bid to prevent the country from obtaining an atomic bomb, while also warning Tehran of dire consequences if they fail.Sitting beside Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, in the Oval Office, Trump indicated that discussions would start this coming weekend, though he also implied
  
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• Many native New Zealand species face threat of extinction, report finds

  07-04-2025 22:31 via theguardian.com
  
  A three-yearly environmental update issues stark warning over biodiversity – and reports air pollution has improved in some areasA major new report on New Zealand’s environment has revealed a worrying outlook for its unique species and highlighted declining water health, while also noting some improvements in air quality.The ministry of the environment’s three-yearly update, Our Environment 2025, collates statistics, data and research across five domains – air, atmosphere
  
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• Trump says US will deal 'directly' with Iran in high-level meeting on Saturday

  07-04-2025 22:28 via foxnews.com
  
  President Donald Trump on Monday said the U.S. will engage "directly" with Iran in a high-level meeting set to occur this coming Saturday. "We have a very big meeting on Saturday, and we're dealing with them directly," Trump told reporters from the Oval Office while sitting next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The announced meeting is the first known time the U.S. will directly engage with Iran since the previous Trump administration, when it withdrew from the Joint Compr
  
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• Pres. Trump ‘doubling down’ on negotiating for better tariff deals

  07-04-2025 22:22 via nbcnews.com
  NBC News Correspondents Gabe Gutierrez and Brian Cheung, CNBC Correspondent Bob Pisani and KPMG Chief Economist Diane Swonk join Meet the Press NOW to discuss the volatile markets as President Trump threatens additional tariffs on China.
  
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• Woman becomes first UK womb transplant recipient to give birth

  07-04-2025 22:19 via theguardian.com
  
  Grace Davidson gives birth to baby Amy Isabel after receiving her sister’s womb in 2023Surgeons are hailing an “astonishing” medical breakthrough as a woman became the first in the UK to give birth after a womb transplant.Grace Davidson, 36, who was a teenager when diagnosed with a rare condition that meant she did not have a uterus, said she and her husband, Angus, 37, had been given “the greatest gift we could ever have asked for”. Continue reading...
  
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• Americanswers! Which news stories are being overshadowed by Trump's tariffs?

  07-04-2025 21:15 via bbc.co.uk
  Measles, mass protests and mega-jails
  
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• Couple who ran Swedish eco-retreat fled leaving behind barrels of human waste

  07-04-2025 20:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Flemming Hansen and Mette Helbæk, now in Guatemala, had racked up large tax debt at Stedsans forest retreatA Danish chef couple who attracted international acclaim with a “forest resort” in Sweden have been tracked down to Guatemala after apparently going on the run from tax authorities, leaving behind 158 barrels of human waste.Flemming Hansen and Mette Helbæk founded their purportedly eco-friendly retreat, Stedsans, in Halland, southern Sweden, after claiming to have &l
  
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• MPs expelled by Israel receive show of support from Commons colleagues

  07-04-2025 19:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Ministers and more than 70 MPs attended photo call with Yuan Yang and Abtisam Mohamed whose travel ban was called unacceptableCabinet ministers and more than 70 parliamentarians staged a show of solidarity with two MPs who were detained and barred from entry to Israel in what was the first time British MPs had been banned from the country.The health secretary, Wes Streeting, and the chief secretary to the Treasury, Darren Jones, joined the photocall in Westminster Hall on Monday with the MPs, al
  
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• UK politics: Starmer sticks by manifesto pledge not to raise taxes amid tariff turmoil – as it happened

  07-04-2025 19:07 via theguardian.com
  
  Prime minister says ‘no one is pretending tariffs are good news’ during speech on car industryIn his Times article Keir Starmer describes the Trump tariffs as “the beginning of a new era”. He has been saying this at least since last Thursday, when he spoke about the tariffs at a Q&A with journalists at Labour’s local elections campaign launch. The speech this afternoon is being described as the PM’s most considered response so far to the global economic tu
  
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• Gaza paramedics shot in upper body ‘with intent to kill’, Red Crescent says

  07-04-2025 19:01 via theguardian.com
  
  PRCS calls for international investigation after postmortem results add to evidence contradicting Israel’s accountAutopsies conducted on 15 Palestinian paramedics and civil emergency responders who were killed by Israeli forces in Gaza show they were shot in the upper body with “intent to kill”, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent, which is demanding an international investigation into the attack.The killings took place in the southern Gaza Strip on 23 March, days into a
  
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• ‘Incompatible with the symbolism’: Yorgos Lanthimos denied permission to shoot new film at the Acropolis

  07-04-2025 18:36 via theguardian.com
  
  The country’s best-known director was refused by Greece’s culture ministry when he applied to shoot scenes for sci-fi comedy Bugonia at iconic Athens siteGreece’s leading contemporary director has had a request to shoot footage for his new film at the Acropolis in Athens denied by his country’s culture ministry.Yorgos Lanthimos had filed a request to film scenes for sci-fi comedy Bugonia at the fifth-century BC site in April. But in a statement on Thursday, the culture mi
  
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• Caribbean is friend of US, not an enemy, tariff-hit regional leaders tell Trump

  07-04-2025 18:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Barbados PM and Caricom chair calls on Washington to engage in talks to ‘keep prices down for all of our people’The Caribbean is a friend, not an enemy, leaders in the region have told Donald Trump after the US president’s imposition of worldwide import tariffs.The prime minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, invited Trump to talk with leaders in the region and “work together to keep prices down for all of our people”, adding: “I say simply to President Trump: our
  
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• Brazil judge claimed English ancestry and used false name: Edward Albert Lancelot Dodd Canterbury Caterham Wickfield

  07-04-2025 17:05 via theguardian.com
  Elaborate deception was only recently discovered when judge visited government office to renew his ID cardPolice in the Brazilian state of São Paulo have uncovered that a judge spent 23 years working under a false identity – and a distinctly British one.Born José Eduardo Franco dos Reis – a name fairly typical in a country once colonised by Portugal – he entered law school and served for over two decades as a judge using the false name Edward Albert Lancelot Dodd
  
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• Middle East crisis live: Israeli troops shot Gaza paramedics ‘with intent to kill’, says Red Crescent – as it happened

  07-04-2025 16:22 via theguardian.com
  15 medics and rescuers killed last month in Gaza were shot in upper body ‘with intent to kill’, says president of Palestinian Red Crescent SocietyRussia, China and Iran will hold consultations at expert level on the Iranian nuclear programme in Moscow on Tuesday, Russian’s foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova has been cited as saying.Donald Trump has threatened to bomb Iran unless it comes to an agreement with Washington over its nuclear programme, and the Kremlin said
  
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• Dow Jones ticker: Markets plunge in response to Trump tariffs

  07-04-2025 15:27 via nbcnews.com
  Watch a live ticker of the Dow Jones Industrial Average as U.S. stocks plunge in response to President Donald Trump's aggressive global tariffs.
  
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• Israeli strike on hospital camp used by Gaza journalists kills 10 people

  07-04-2025 15:09 via theguardian.com
  Dozens seriously injured as fire engulfs tents used by Palestinian journalists in hospital complex in Khan YounisMiddle East crisis – live updatesAn Israeli airstrike on a tent camp within a hospital complex in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis has killed 10 people, including a journalist, while seriously injuring dozens more after their encampment caught fire.Images and video from the courtyard of Nasser hospital in Khan Younis showed people desperately attempting to extinguish the fi
  
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• Israel denies entry to two British lawmakers accused of planning to 'spread anti-Israel hatred'

  07-04-2025 15:06 via foxnews.com
  
  Israel has denied entry to two British lawmakers who were accused of planning to "spread anti-Israel hatred."The two Labour Members of Parliament, Yuan Yang and Abtisam Mohamed, were briefly detained over the weekend and denied entry to Israel because they allegedly had plans to "document the activities of security forces and spread anti-Israel hatred," Israel's immigration agency told Sky News.Israeli officials told the outlet that Yang and Mohamed were with two assistants on the trip, who said
  
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• Defence secretary meets family of Kenyan woman allegedly killed by British soldiers

  07-04-2025 14:18 via theguardian.com
  Relatives of Agnes Wanjiru say 13-year fight for justice has taken ‘heavy toll’ after meeting with John HealeyThe family of a Kenyan woman who was allegedly killed by British soldiers have said their 13-year fight for justice has taken a “heavy toll”, and that they have been offered “too many empty promises” after a meeting with the defence secretary.Agnes Wanjiru was 21 when she disappeared in March 2012. She was last seen in the company of British soldiers i
  
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• 'Doomsday mom' Lori Vallow represents herself in trial over killing of 4th husband

  07-04-2025 14:10 via nbcnews.com
  
  Lori Vallow Daybell, the "doomsday mom" who received multiple life sentences for the murders of her two children and romantic rival, gave her opening statement Monday in a separate trial over the death of her fourth husband.
  
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• Trump, Netanyahu to meet at White House as Israel seeks tariff relief, discussions on Iran, Gaza hostages

  07-04-2025 11:30 via foxnews.com
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, with Washington’s recently imposed global tariffs set to be part of their talks.Before the much-anticipated meeting with Netanyahu, Trump took to Truth Social and called for patience on tariffs : "The United States has a chance to do something that should have been done DECADES AGO. Don’t be Weak! Don’t be Stupid! Don’t be a PANICAN (A new party based on Weak and Stupi
  
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• Israel military razed Gaza perimeter land to create ‘kill zone’, soldiers say

  07-04-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Combatants’ testimonies describe how areas were destroyed to create ‘a death zone of enormous proportions’ Israel’s military razed huge swathes of land inside the perimeter of Gaza and ordered troops to turn the area into a “kill zone” where anybody who entered was a target, according to testimony by soldiers who carried out the plan.Israeli combatants said they were ordered to destroy homes, factories and farmland roughly 1km (0.6 miles) inside the perimeter
  
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• Falling Australian dollar spells bad news for travellers and shoppers

  07-04-2025 07:49 via theguardian.com
  The value of one Australian dollar dropped to a low of 59.64 US cents, its lowest point since April 2020‘Bloodbath’ market opening sees ASX shed $160bnGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastElection 2025 live updates: Australia’s federal election campaignConsumers and travellers will face higher prices after the Australian dollar fell to Covid-era lows, as markets reel from Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariff plan.Fears of a global
  
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• Ten Britons accused of committing war crimes while fighting for Israel in Gaza

  07-04-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  Exclusive: Met to be handed dossier of evidence alleging crimes including killings of civilians and aid workersA war crimes complaint against 10 Britons who served with the Israeli military in Gaza is to be submitted to the Met police by one of the UK’s leading human rights lawyers.Michael Mansfield KC is one of a group of lawyers who will on Monday hand in a 240-page dossier to Scotland Yard’s war crimes unit alleging targeted killing of civilians and aid workers, including by snipe
  
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• Jay North, 'Dennis the Menace' star, dead at 73

  07-04-2025 01:22 via foxnews.com
  
  Jay North, known for his "Dennis the Menace" character on the beloved '60s sitcom, died Sunday, Fox News Digital confirmed. He was 73.North died at home in Lake Butler, Florida, after battling colon cancer for years, according to a social media post shared by his longtime friends, "Lassie" actor Jon Provost and wife Laurie Jacobson.The child actor found acclaim with his role as Dennis Mitchell, an at-times unruly youngster who was known for burdening his neighbor, George Wilson. "Jeanne Rus
  
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• RFK Jr makes Texas stop to visit family of 6-year-old measles victim, push MMR vaccine

  07-04-2025 01:18 via foxnews.com
  
  Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a stop in Texas on Sunday and visited the family of a 6-year-old girl who died of the measles virus in February.Kennedy confirmed the visit to Texas in a post on X in which he encouraged people to get the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine amid rising measles cases."I came to Gaines County, Texas, today to comfort the Hildebrand family after the loss of their 8-year-old daughter Daisy," Kennedy wrote in the post. "I got t
  
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• UConn coach Geno Auriemma's 3-word message to Paige Bueckers in emotional embrace after winning championship

  07-04-2025 00:09 via foxnews.com
  
  Paige Bueckers is finally a champion.After making each Final Four of her illustrious career but never reaching the mountaintop, her final game at UConn ended with a national title.The Huskies earned their 12th title on Sunday with an 82-59 victory over the reigning champion South Carolina Gamecocks.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMIt's UConn's first title since 2015, ending their longest drought since winning their first title in 1995.Bueckers was taken out of the game with 1:32
  
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• Comedian Jeff Ross 'spent the night in the ER' with allergic reaction to ice cream

  07-04-2025 00:07 via foxnews.com
  
  Jeff Ross suffered an unexpected allergic reaction while trying to enjoy some ice cream over the weekend.The comedian and self-described "Roastmaster General" shared photos of himself in a hospital bed with a swollen lip.In the caption, Ross explained he and his band had been at a restaurant in Mill Valley, California, celebrating a performance of his one-man show, "Take a Banana for the Ride," when something went wrong."Afterwards, me and the band celebrated with some Burata [sic] ice cream at
  
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• Kevin Bacon is ‘more careful’ after losing money in infamous Ponzi scheme

  07-04-2025 00:03 via foxnews.com
  
  Kevin Bacon made some rare comments about losing money in Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme in the 2000s.Speaking with Esquire, the actor said, "There's not that much to say, really. If it seems too good to be true, then it’s too good to be true."He added that he and his wife, actress Kyra Sedgwick, aren’t "jaded" from the experience."More careful, but not jaded," the "Footloose" star said.KEVIN BACON, KYRA SEDGWICK AVOIDED EXPOSING THEIR KIDS TO 'WEIRD' LIFESTYLE THAT COMES WITH FA
  
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• Cory Booker reveals the 'biggest mistake' Democrats made in 2024

  07-04-2025 00:00 via foxnews.com
  
  Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., revealed which "biggest mistake" he believes the Democratic Party made that led to their 2024 defeat against Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election. "You did say during your speech the Democrats made some terrible mistakes and have to take responsibility, some responsibility, for the state of the country right now. Elaborate on that. What were the mistakes? How can they be fixed?" ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos
  
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