The Independent
US politics
- Doctors say Trump’s medical report ‘lacks crucial information about his cardiac health’
- Trump administration restricts leading US scientists’ involvement in global Ebola response – report
- JD Vance hits back at report he’s ‘isolated’ in White House and may drop 2028 bid
- Trump hits back at ‘losers who know nothing’ after Republicans turn on Iran peace deal
- Trump to drop $10B IRS tax lawsuit in return for a billion-dollar compensation fund: report
- Republican gives stark message to Americans reeling over rising gas prices: ‘That’s life’
- Trump’s history of clashes with Popes as president’s feud with Leo escalates
- The Daily Show’s Desi Lydic comes to Kristi Noem husband’s defense over cross-dressing photos
MidEast
- Trump demands multiple countries sign diplomatic deal with Israel as part of any Iran peace plan
- Trump says ‘Project Freedom’ will guide ‘innocent bystander’ ships through Strait of Hormuz
- US blockade of Iranian ports begins as Trump warns any ship that comes close will be eliminated
- UAE ‘preparing to join US fight’ to reopen Strait of Hormuz
- JP Morgan-Chase CEO Jamie Dimon unexpectedly comes out in favor of Iran war despite recession fears: ‘It was overdue’
- Two UN peacekeepers killed after explosion in southern Lebanon
- Israeli troops ski into Lebanon as Netanyahu expands invasion
- The ‘zombie’ ships appearing in the Strait of Hormuz after they were scrapped for parts
- Trump proposes extraordinary ‘joint leadership’ of Iran alongside ayatollah
- World facing worse energy shock than 1970s oil crisis and Ukraine war combined, says IEA chief
- French sailor gave away location of nuclear-powered warship in Middle East by logging run on Strava
- UN chief says there are ‘reasonable grounds’ to believe war crimes have been committed by both sides in Iran
- Khamenei believed son Mojtaba was not bright enough to take power, says US intelligence
US news
- Body of missing Los Alamos lab worker tied to bizarre conspiracy theory found a year after she vanished
- At least 19 injured in stampede at annual bike festival in South Carolina
- The surprising health benefits of watermelon
- Man charged with corpse abuse after body of missing 23-year-old woman found by her family in Alabama
- Teens are drinking less than their parents’ generation – but it may not be a good thing
- Huge wildfire engulfs nearly 1,000 acres in Arizona and is still spreading: ‘It’s like a war zone’
- Maine dad dies saving his kids from a rip current while on vacation in Florida
- Mother accused of making 3 year-old son endure unnecessary surgery and use feeding tube he didn’t need
- Hiker fighting for life after getting stung by bees over 100 times
- American woman missing in Bahamas after falling overboard on boat trip with husband
Finance & tech
- Waymo has suspended all its robotaxi rides on freeways in the US over safety concerns
- Everyone is losing on ‘sucker-bet’ laden prediction markets except a few seasoned pros
- New ‘Jesus-centric’ Christian phone network will block pornography and LGBT content
- Shots fired at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home days after Molotov cocktail attack
The New Arab
- Student activists in UK left disappointed by ‘mixed bag’ free speech guidelines for universities
- Pro-Palestine student protesters undeterred by LSE ‘violent’ eviction of their encampment
The Londoners
- London’s decaying Russian art market: Western sanctions paint a troubling picture for Oligarchs (video)
- With a glance either side of Charles’s head, the Archbishop had crowned the King
- New ‘Troubles’ exhibition to open at the Imperial War Museum
- Charles the painter captures coronation crowds for Charles the King!
- Texan royalist can’t take a non-colonial crown
- Munira Wilson reselected by Lib Dems for Twickenham
- Exiled Hong Kong activists urge tougher stance against Chinese ‘aggression’
- The Chancellors: From ‘back-street pub’ to world-famous pizza and celeb clientele
- Sadiq Khan announces £3m package to support victims of crime
Forkast.News
- U.S. midterms: gridlock… and progress on crypto industry regulation?
- NFT platform, art collective launch collaboration in aid of Ukraine
- Class action lawsuit targets SBF, celebrity FTX endorsers Tom Brady, Naomi Osaka and others
- FTX bankruptcy and fallout: Monday updates and commentary
- Canada to examine risks from crypto, stablecoins, CBDCs in budget
- Crypto leaders differ over Do Kwon blame in May’s market crash
- Regulators are your friend, IMF official tells crypto industry
- JP Morgan, Standard Chartered execs disagree over Bitcoin’s significance
- As US midterms approach, poll says voters want policy interests to align with crypto, technology
- HNWI, family offices to drive crypto adoption across Asia: KPMG, Aspen Digital report
Student journalism
- 75th Anniversary: The Third Man, 1949 (Apr 2024, The Beaver)
- Politics predicts: what will 2022 look like? (Feb 2022, Palatinate)
- Military movements and strained alliances in Eastern Europe drawn parallels with 1914 (Dec 2021, History in Politics Journal)
- Lebanon descends further into chaos: Militants clash in streets of Beirut following protests against port explosion inquiry (Oct 2021, Palatinate)
- Human Rights Watch delivers report on “apparent” Israeli war crimes in the May conflict (Aug 2021, Palatinate)
- Netanyahu Makes His Last Stand Against Lapid-Bennett Coalition (May 2021, Palatinate)
- Is war between China and Taiwan inevitable? (Dec 2020, Palatinate)
- Will the Abraham Accords herald peace in the Middle East? (Oct 2020, The Bubble)
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