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Armed MAGA fan with fake pass stopped at Trump rally, while ex-president says military could ‘handle’ his opponents

<p>Three men attempt to extinguish a fire after an Israeli airstrike on tents sheltering displaced people</p>

Israeli soldiers killed in Hezbollah attack in deadliest strike since Lebanon invasion

<p>SpaceX Starship launch</p>

SpaceX launches Starship rocket and catches booster with ‘chopsticks’

Watch: SpaceX makes successful landing

<p>Donald Trump has repeatedly attacked demographics which he views as insufficiently supportive of his third bid for the presidency, and singled out Jewish voters in particular</p>

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Trump ‘made shocking slur about Harris' in rant to billionaire donors

<p>Actor Dennis Quaid speaks at a campaign rally for Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump on October 12, 2024 in Coachella, California. </p>

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Back to the Future star slams ex Dennis Quaid over Trump support: ‘Stop the Stupid'

<p>Film Review - The Apprentice</p>

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Trump throws tantrum over ‘classless’ Apprentice biopic in middle-of-the-night rant

<p>Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) is put on the spot, without Melania, in Saturday Night Live’s Family Feud cold open spoof</p>

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SNL mocks Melania Trump’s absence from campaign trail in Family Feud cold open spoof

<p>Republican vice president nominee Senator JD Vance speaks during a campaign event in Greensboro, North Carolina, on October 10. The VP candidate once again waded in on women’s decisions about having children </p>

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JD Vance: It’s ‘deranged’ to not have children due to climate change

<p>Mike Johnson defends Trump’s refusal to release medical records</p>

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Speaker Mike Johnson claims Trump’s medical records are ‘irrelevant’ after Harris releases hers

<p>Donald Trump told rallygoers in California he would withold federal aid for fire fighting if Governor Gavin Newsom didn’t listen to him </p>

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Trump threatens to withhold firefighting funds from California

<p>Kamala Harris and Donald Trump enter the last few weeks of the election deadlocked nationally but with individual swing states trending in Trump’s favor, according to a series of new polls</p>

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Polls show Trump-Harris deadlocked nationally while key states tilt Republican

<p>Harris now has a 2.4-point lead over Trump in the latest average of national polls</p>

Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump? Latest poll updates

<p>Best offence: The tiny stars of the ribald 2004 comedy ‘Team America: World Police’ </p>

Team America at 20: How an X-rated puppet satire shocked the world (and outraged Sean Penn)

<p>Visitors try out the massively multiplayer online role-playing game ‘World Of Warcraft’ at the Blizzard Entertainment stand at the Gamescom 2016 gaming trade fair in Cologne, Germany</p>

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Swinger parties to legal dramas: The dream job turned nightmare of video game company Blizzard

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<p>Lois Riess pleaded guilty to killing her husband and another woman in 2020. Now, she’s telling her story in an upcoming HBO documentary</p>

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‘Killer grandma’ speaks out for first time after shooting her husband and going on run

<p>Donald Trump greets supporters after speaking at a Get Out The Vote rally at Winthrop University on February 23, 2024 in Rock Hill, South Carolina</p>

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Inside the secretive church that’s become Trump’s biggest female fan group

<p>Bill Maher speaks about Chappell Roan’s support for Palestine</p>

Bill Maher says Chappell Roan would be thrown ‘off a roof’ in Gaza

<p>A five-year-old boy (pictured) with autism was found dead in a pond in Maryland on Monday </p>

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Child, 5, found dead in pond after going missing in Maryland

<p>The many mugshots of Joseph Malinowski, aka viral sensation ‘Lieutenant Dan’</p>

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Lt. Dan became an overnight in Milton. Then his criminal past came to light

Lt Dan’s child fears impact of dad going viral after Hurricane Milton

<p>Neptune Memorial Reef is the final resting place of about 1,500 people off the coast of Miami Beach - and is one of the more unusual cemeteries in the US </p>

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Sleeping with the fishes: The story behind Florida’s underwater cemetery that houses 1,500 people

<p>Irish UN peacekeeping soldiers take part in a ceremony at their camp in the southern Lebanese village of Blat, 27 October 2007</p>

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Irish peacekeepers stood their ground in the face of an Israeli invasion of Lebanon. It’s not the first time

<p>Tupac Investigation Las Vegas</p>

Tupac’s brother recalls Diddy phone call after rapper’s murder

<p>Jake Tapper’s daughter tried her best to educate her father on ‘Kamala is brat’ craze </p>

Jake Tapper’s daughter educated her father on ‘Kamala is brat’ craze

<p>Mind the gap: Reese Witherspoon and Pico Alexander in ‘Home Again’, Laura Dern and Liam Hemsworth in ‘Lonely Planet’, and Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron in ‘A Family Affair’ </p>

Why is the entire cast of Big Little Lies making age-gap romcoms?

<p>Pino Palladino: ‘To see the effect music has on people, that’s why It’s why I’m still making music at this ripe old age’ </p>

He’s worked with everyone from The Who to Harry Styles – meet the world’s most in-demand bassist

You can now dress up as a ‘sexy Ozempic shot’ this Halloween

<p>Kristen Bell in ‘Nobody Wants This'</p>

Nobody Wants This fans point out ‘concerning’ detail in Netflix season two announcement

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Building Brand Melania: How the former first lady’s book sets the stage for her businesswoman revamp

<p>Melania Trump released her memoir on October 8, weeks before the presidential election her business tycoon husband hopes to win </p>

Christopher Columbus was secretly Jewish, new DNA study reveals

<p>Winners at the 2024 annual Pennsylvania Giant Pumpkin Growers Association weigh-off</p>

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Inside the world of competitive giant pumpkin growing

<p>TikTok star Taylor Rousseau Grigg’s cause of death revealed by her family</p>

TikTok star Taylor Rousseau Grigg’s cause of death revealed

<p>The infant did not survive the bite after being taken to the hospital, police said </p>

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1-month-old baby dies after being bitten by family dog: ‘They just didn’t pay attention’

<p>Conor McGregor at a Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship event</p>

McGregor ‘confirms’ comeback opponent and date – but with major catch

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Charles and Camilla ‘snubbed’ by Australian leaders ahead of tour

<p>Torilena Fields, 32, was arrested and charged with obstructing governmental operations, tampering with physical evidence and abuse of a corpse </p>

Crime

Woman who was ‘casting spells’ arrested, cooked human body parts found

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People can’t stop comparing Elon Musk’s new Tesla’ Optimus Robot to Will Smith sci-fi cult classic

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<p>Mental health experts have expressed concern over Trump’s cognitive state </p>

Mental health experts sound the alarm on Trump’s ‘cognitive decline’

Exclusive: After President Biden’s cognitive decline was heavily scrutinized, mental health experts tell The Independent they have similar concerns about Trump

<p>Vice President Kamala Harris struggled to answer a question about Donald Trump’s virtues </p>

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Harris was asked to name three of Trump’s ‘virtues’. She couldn’t

<p>Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump, speaks during a rally at Dodge County Airport. More questions are emerging about his age as his speeches get longer and more rambling </p>

Trump’s speeches raises questions about his age and fitness to serve

<p>Musk recently made an appearance at a campaign rally for Trump</p>

Elon Musk is now Donald Trump’s arch-propagandist – here’s why that’s a problem

<p>Former president Donald Trump removed signage that fell on top of his teleprompter at a rally and then falsely accused Vice President Kamala Harris of using a teleprompter </p>

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Trump, after mocking Harris over teleprompter use, stops rally to remove sign that fell on his

<p>Stevie Wonder and Kamala Harris</p>

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Stevie Wonder endorses Kamala Harris for US president: ‘I know and believe she will win’

<p>Retired US Army General Mark Milley told journalist Bob Woodward that Donald Trump is a “total fascist” </p>

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Trump’s top general calls ex-president ‘fascist to the core’ and ‘most dangerous person to this country,’ new book says

<p>This image released by Briarcliff Entertainment shows Jeremy Strong, left, and Sebastian Stan in a scene from the film ‘The Apprentice’ </p>

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Ghostwriter says ‘The Apprentice’ bio-pic gets ‘most things’ right

<p>Musk shaking Trump’s hand at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. </p>

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California rejects further SpaceX rocket launches after Musk’s ‘aggressive’ presidential race involvement

<p>Donald Trump’s campaign has requested that he be given a military plane to use for the campaign’s final weeks, instead of his typical Trump Force One </p>

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Trump wants to travel in a military plane because he’s afraid Iran is going to kill him

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Trump unwittingly reveals Tiffany is pregnant as he goes off-script in speech

<p>Angela Alsobrooks and Larry Hogan faced off on Thursday in a debate in the Maryland US Senate race.</p>

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Maryland’s Senate race was friendly — until it really, really wasn’t

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<p>An earlier version of the Okhotnik combat drone (above) flies alongside an Su-57 jet</p>

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What is the mysterious advanced Russian weapon downed by Moscow’s own forces in embarrassment for Putin?

Updates: Kyiv hits fuel depot supplying Putin’s army in overnight strike

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One person died after tourists were trapped in a 1,000-foot-deep Colorado gold mine. What happened?

<p>Steven Rashaad Deloach was charged with the first-degree-murder of Dominic Daughtrey</p>

Crime

A father was gunned down at an apartment complex. A baseball cap led cops to a suspect

<p>The incident in question occurred on a United flight from JFK to LAX </p>

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Traveler claims United flight attendant refused to serve him because he’s gay

<p>Suzanne Clark Simpson, 51, has been missing from Olmos Park since Sunday, October 6 2024 </p>

Crime

Texas realtor disappeared after a party. Now her husband has been arrested

<p>Sarah Turney (right) questions her father Michael Turney (left) about what happened when her sister went missing in 2001 </p>

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A woman’s search for her sister led to the arrest of their father. She sat down with him to ask him what happened

<p>Robert Smith of The Cure</p>

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The Cure’s Robert Smith blasts artists who blame ticketing sites for high prices: ‘Stupid or lying’

<p>Police officers in Chicago responded to a call that a human head was found in a box on a Chicago street in October 2024 </p>

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Human head found in box left on Chicago street

<p>Pictured is a black bear – an animal that can legally be hunted for its meat in North America</p>

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Ten people including five kids served bear meat infected with parasites at barbecue

<p>Screengrab from a trailer of Sancta </p>

Opera of live sex and piercing leaves 18 theatregoers ill with severe nausea

<p>‘It’s going to be interesting to see what smells resonate with younger generations in 50 years time’ </p>

For people with dementia, smell could be the key to peace

‘Smell therapy’ is booming within care homes, with experts suggesting that artificial scents can reawaken memories in those with forms of neurodegenerative disease. Elizabeth McCafferty meets the people using aromas to spark joy

<p>A memorial is seen at Apalachee High School after the Wednesday school shooting, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024, in Winder, Georgia. Gun violence incidents on school campuses has officially surpassed all of 2023 as of September 30 — with three months to go </p>

Crime

School gun deaths reach 48 this year as grim total surpasses 2023 with months to go

<p>Artist’s image of the cellar found at an archaeological site in Denmark</p>

‘Advanced’ construction technology found at 5000-year-old Stone Age site in Denmark

<p>Amari and Javar Ruffin were separated at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in August after spending 10 months attached at the abdomen </p>

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Conjoined twins are successfully separated at Philadelphia hospital

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Ariana Grande hosts 'SNL' for the first time since the last female presidential nominee

<p>A military investigation into the death of two Navy SEALs found their drownings was preventable </p>

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Deaths of Navy SEALS who drowned while climbing on a boat carrying illicit weapons was preventable, military says

<p>Michelle Flippin, 52, died this week after she was randomly shot while waiting at a bus stop on her way to work </p>

Crime

Mom randomly shot dead by stranger while waiting at bus stop for ride to her new job

Lifestyle

<p>One of the most Googled questions about Pugh is how to pronounce her last name </p>

Florence Pugh explains how to pronounce her last name

<p>Travis Kelce’s ex speaks out about hate from Taylor Swift fans</p>

Travis Kelce’s ex speaks out about hate messages from Taylor Swift fans

<p>North West claims Kim Kardashian cooked ‘mac and cheese’ for her kids two years ago </p>

North West claims mom Kim Kardashian hasn’t cooked for her in 2 years

<p>Joanne and R Kelly</p>

R Kelly’s daughter claims she was sexually abused by singer when she was a child in new documentary

<p>Jessica Chastain says she received a $15 credit for her in-flight entertainment malfunction </p>

Jessica Chastain splits fans over ‘tone deaf’ complaint about $15 JetBlue flight refund

<p>TikTok star Taylor Rousseau Grigg’s cause of death revealed by her family</p>

TikTok star Taylor Rousseau Grigg’s cause of death revealed by her family

<p>Drake Hogestyn in LA in October 2015</p>

Days of Our Lives' Star Drake Hogestyn's Cause of Death Confirmed Less Than 2 Weeks After the Actor Died at 70

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How Mexico City’s humble taco went from market stall to Michelin star

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