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New Hampshire teen sues school officials for vehicle search linked to gun ownership
https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/10/14/22/09/iStock-1948943851.jpg?width=1200&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2 A New Hampshire teenager has sued his former high school principal and other officials, alleging…
Billionaire Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker won $1.4M playing blackjack at a Vegas casino last year: ‘I was incredibly lucky’
https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/10/16/20/05/GettyImages-2231378299.jpg?width=1200&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2Illinois Governor JB Pritzker won $1.4 million playing blackjack at a Las Vegas casino last year,…
Colorado hospital paused surgeries for a week after inspectors found hundreds of instruments covered in ‘dried blood and tissue’
https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/10/16/20/01/5050-Templete.jpg?width=1200&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2 State inspectors have revealed that UCHealth’s University of Colorado Hospital’s week-long shutdown of nonemergency surgeries…
Karoline Leavitt calls Democratic base ‘Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals’
https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/10/06/17/00/Trump-pzt73w70.jpeg?width=1200&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2 Just weeks after the assassination of Charlie Kirk inspired a flood of Republicans to demand…
Two monkeypox cases in California under investigation
https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/11/01/08/iStock-2166741669.jpg?width=1200&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2Two mpox cases in California are under investigation as potentially the first instances of local transmission…
‘Can’t get more pro-life than this’: Trump brushes off IVF concerns of some conservatives as he rolls out drug price drop
https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/10/16/21/04/SEI270500307.jpg?width=1200&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2 President Donald Trump on Thursday waived away pro-life concerns within his coalition over the White…
Venezuela floated a plan for Maduro to slowly give up power, but was rejected by US, AP source says
https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/10/16/23/Venezuela_Maduro_87042.jpg?width=1200&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2 Venezuelan government officials have floated a plan in which President Nicolás Maduro would eventually leave…
Head of US command overseeing Trump ‘drug boat’ strikes steps down after expressing concern with the attacks: report
https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/10/16/21/15/Screenshot-2025-10-16-at-5-47-09-PM.jpg?width=1200&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2 Admiral Alvin Holsey, the head of the U.S. Southern Command overseeing strikes on what the…
Firefighters battle blaze at shop and flats with people evacuated nearby
https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/10/16/23/69f27a54405101adce6a291b3b34fc8aY29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzYwNzM4MTU0-2.74908053.jpg?width=1200&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2 Around 100 firefighters and 15 fire engines were called to a blaze at a shop…
Sam Fender crowned winner of Mercury Prize 2025
https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/10/16/22/6ce85fae2fcd00d33d6e78a4bace16b2Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzYwNzM1Mzkw-2.80361655.jpg?width=1200&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2 Singer-songwriter Sam Fender has won the 2025 Mercury Prize for his third album People Watching.…
