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US Editor (London) @the-independent.com
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BREAKING | Ex-Trump adviser turned critic John Bolton indicted in classified documents case: report
Grand jury indicts ex-Trump adviser turned critic John Bolton: report
www.independent.co.uk
October 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
BREAKING | Ex-Trump adviser turned critic John Bolton indicted in classified documents case: report
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BREAKING | Grand jury considers criminal charges against Letitia James after Trump demanded case against New York attorney general
Grand jury considers criminal charges against Letitia James after Trump’s demands
www.independent.co.uk
October 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
BREAKING | Grand jury considers criminal charges against Letitia James after Trump demanded case against New York attorney general
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Who are the right-wing politicians and influencers joining JD Vance on his Cotswolds holiday?
Who are the right-wing influencers joining JD Vance on his Cotswolds holiday?
JD Vance’s trip to the UK has seen him dine with a number of right wing figures, from Reform leader Nigel Farage to Cambridge academic James Orr
www.independent.co.uk
August 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Who are the right-wing politicians and influencers joining JD Vance on his Cotswolds holiday?
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Trump says Epstein ‘stole’ underage victim Virginia Giuffre from his Mar-a-Lago spa leading to feud
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Trump says Epstein ‘stole’ victim Virginia Giuffre from Mar-a-Lago
President tells reporters he cut off contact with Epstein because he was poaching employees from his club
www.independent.co.uk
July 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Trump says Epstein ‘stole’ underage victim Virginia Giuffre from his Mar-a-Lago spa leading to feud
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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WATCH | Fox News hosts suggests children can fill farm labor shortages caused by Trump deportations
More here: www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/fox-...
More here: www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/fox-...
July 28, 2025 at 8:49 PM
WATCH | Fox News hosts suggests children can fill farm labor shortages caused by Trump deportations
More here: www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/fox-...
More here: www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/fox-...
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Trump posts meme of himself and JD Vance chasing Obama in OJ’s white Bronco
Trump posts meme of himself and JD Vance chasing Obama in OJ’s white Bronco
The image is a recreation of a famous shot of the former NFL star’s evasion of police in 1994
www.independent.co.uk
July 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Trump posts meme of himself and JD Vance chasing Obama in OJ’s white Bronco
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Hot off the @propublica.org presses: We're publishing bios of all 238 of the Venezuelan men who Trump sent to CECOT in an interactive database: projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...
The Men Trump Deported to a Salvadoran Prison
On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been t...
projects.propublica.org
July 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Hot off the @propublica.org presses: We're publishing bios of all 238 of the Venezuelan men who Trump sent to CECOT in an interactive database: projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...
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Trying to imagine how Fox News would have covered it if in May 2024 Kamala Harris took a secret day trip to visit the head of CNN. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
JD Vance flew to Montana for secret meeting with Rupert Murdoch and Fox News execs
A source familiar with the trip told The Independent that the vice president spoke to both Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, as well as a group of executives from the right-wing network
www.independent.co.uk
July 20, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Trying to imagine how Fox News would have covered it if in May 2024 Kamala Harris took a secret day trip to visit the head of CNN. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Yeah but Bob Vylan though
Israeli airstrikes and shootings killed 94 Palestinians in Gaza late Wednesday and Thursday, including 45 who were attempting to get much-needed humanitarian aid, hospitals and the Gaza Health Ministry say, according to AP.
Strikes kill 94 Palestinians in Gaza, including 45 people waiting for aid, authorities say
The toll from strikes emerged as more Palestinians were killed in near-daily shootings while trying to obtain aid.
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July 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Yeah but Bob Vylan though
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BREAKING | Anna Wintour stepping down as Vogue editor-in-chief after 37 years
Anna Wintour stepping down as Vogue editor-in-chief after 37 years
Wintour served the position for almost 40 years
www.the-independent.com
June 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
BREAKING | Anna Wintour stepping down as Vogue editor-in-chief after 37 years
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After he set about becoming a writer in the 1960s, his father — a hidebound judge who called him a “sissy” — sent family members to remove him from a Dublin pub and then had him committed to a psychiatric hospital. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/b...
Paul Durcan, Irish Poet of Tortured and Tender Souls, Is Dead at 80
www.nytimes.com
June 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
After he set about becoming a writer in the 1960s, his father — a hidebound judge who called him a “sissy” — sent family members to remove him from a Dublin pub and then had him committed to a psychiatric hospital. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/b...
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James Bond star Joe Don Baker dies aged 89.
Texan actor was also known for playing Sheriff Buford Pusser in ‘Walking Tall’.
Texan actor was also known for playing Sheriff Buford Pusser in ‘Walking Tall’.
Joe Don Baker, James Bond and Mitchell star, dies aged 89
Texan actor was also known for playing Sheriff Buford Pusser in ‘Walking Tall’
www.the-independent.com
May 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
James Bond star Joe Don Baker dies aged 89.
Texan actor was also known for playing Sheriff Buford Pusser in ‘Walking Tall’.
Texan actor was also known for playing Sheriff Buford Pusser in ‘Walking Tall’.
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BREAKING | Out-of-control Russian spacecraft Kosmos-482 probably just fell to Earth, experts say
We were probably just hit by an out-of-control spacecraft, experts say
An out-of-control Russian spacecraft has probably plummeted to Earth, experts say.
www.independent.co.uk
May 10, 2025 at 8:57 AM
BREAKING | Out-of-control Russian spacecraft Kosmos-482 probably just fell to Earth, experts say
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Thanks for the shout out @lastweektonight.com
April 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Thanks for the shout out @lastweektonight.com
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wrote something new recently btw!! for @the-independent.com, on dating apps, dating events, non-rejection vs. The Real Thing, and getting psyched out on the tube. check it out if u fancy. mwah x
I went to London’s newest dating event and realised why we’re all so rubbish at it
Tired of the safe, sanitised and endlessly frustrating cycle of dating apps, Maja Anushka went to newly founded Haystack Dating’s latest event to find out what’s behind the resurgence in IRL ‘meet-cut...
www.independent.co.uk
April 18, 2025 at 7:25 AM
wrote something new recently btw!! for @the-independent.com, on dating apps, dating events, non-rejection vs. The Real Thing, and getting psyched out on the tube. check it out if u fancy. mwah x
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Exclusive: David A. Lebryk, the highest-ranking career official at the Treasury Department, is departing after a clash with allies of billionaire Elon Musk over access to sensitive payment systems, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.
Senior U.S. official to exit after rift with Musk allies over payment system
A top Treasury career staffer is expected to depart. Surrogates of Musk’s DOGE effort had sought access to sensitive payment systems.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 31, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Exclusive: David A. Lebryk, the highest-ranking career official at the Treasury Department, is departing after a clash with allies of billionaire Elon Musk over access to sensitive payment systems, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.
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via @brianstelter.bsky.social’s Reliable Sources
January 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
via @brianstelter.bsky.social’s Reliable Sources
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Newsmax host Greg Kelly aired the image of an innocent man in his coverage of a 2023 mass shooting in Texas. New internal emails show what went wrong.
Newsmax Emails Show How It Got A Neo-Nazi Shooting Wrong: ‘I Told Them Not To Run It’
Newsmax host Greg Kelly aired the image of an innocent man in his coverage of a 2023 mass shooting in Texas. New internal emails show what went wrong.
www.huffpost.com
January 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Newsmax host Greg Kelly aired the image of an innocent man in his coverage of a 2023 mass shooting in Texas. New internal emails show what went wrong.
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Kamala Harris didn't announce her Medicare home care plan on The View by accident. We can make fun of The View all we want, but women overwhelmingly carry the load for people with disabilities AND elderly people (and there's a big Venn diagram with both).
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
January 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Kamala Harris didn't announce her Medicare home care plan on The View by accident. We can make fun of The View all we want, but women overwhelmingly carry the load for people with disabilities AND elderly people (and there's a big Venn diagram with both).
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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President Donald Trump arrived in Las Vegas, a city known for its unique shows, and delivered a speech-turned-comedy show of his own.
Trump began his speech like he began most of his campaign rallies: boasting about his own success before disparaging the Biden administration.
Trump began his speech like he began most of his campaign rallies: boasting about his own success before disparaging the Biden administration.
President basks in laughter turning rally from policy talk to improv comedy show
The newly-sworn in president was feeding off of the Las Vegas crowd’s energy, cracking jokes like he was holding his own improv show, as the backdrop of uncertainty following his stack of controversia...
www.independent.co.uk
January 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
President Donald Trump arrived in Las Vegas, a city known for its unique shows, and delivered a speech-turned-comedy show of his own.
Trump began his speech like he began most of his campaign rallies: boasting about his own success before disparaging the Biden administration.
Trump began his speech like he began most of his campaign rallies: boasting about his own success before disparaging the Biden administration.
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The US president insisted he was serious in his determination to take over Greenland in a fiery telephone call with Denmark’s prime minister www.ft.com/content/ace0...
January 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The US president insisted he was serious in his determination to take over Greenland in a fiery telephone call with Denmark’s prime minister www.ft.com/content/ace0...
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Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found
January 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found
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“Present day statesmen are making the biggest blunder of the age if they believe that there can be any peace without equity and justice to all mankind.” - Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey has been posthumously pardoned! Thank you President Biden! apnews.com/article/bide...
Biden posthumously pardons Black nationalist Marcus Garvey
President Joe Biden has posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other Black civil rights leaders and was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s.
apnews.com
January 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“Present day statesmen are making the biggest blunder of the age if they believe that there can be any peace without equity and justice to all mankind.” - Marcus Garvey
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an interesting subplot here is mark zuckerberg working so hard to get on trump’s good side yet trump is helping his company’s biggest rival
Breaking news: President-elect Donald Trump confirmed Sunday that he will issue an executive order once he takes office Monday to delay the federal ban against TikTok and give the company more time to distance itself from its Chinese ownership.
Trump promises to delay TikTok ban in U.S. with Monday executive order
Trump says the order will delay enforcement of the TikTok ban so “we can make a deal to protect our national security” with partial U.S. ownership of the platform.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
an interesting subplot here is mark zuckerberg working so hard to get on trump’s good side yet trump is helping his company’s biggest rival
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Biden warned in his farewell address to the nation last week that an oligarchy is taking shape in America. In Washington, the oligarchs are already here, buying big houses, Elisabeth Bumiller reports. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/u...
A Trump Oligarchy Is Moving to Washington, and Buying Up Prime Addresses
Billionaires and multimillionaires are flocking to a city where power has been more important than money, but is now deeply intertwined with it.
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Biden warned in his farewell address to the nation last week that an oligarchy is taking shape in America. In Washington, the oligarchs are already here, buying big houses, Elisabeth Bumiller reports. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/u...