House speaker vote live updates: Mike Johnson seeks to win over Republican skeptics in his bid for re-election
Good morning and welcome to The Independent ’s live coverage as the 119th Congress convenes in Washington DC and the House of ...
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Scott becomes longest-serving Black senator
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) has become the longest-serving Black senator in U.S. history, as the 119th Congress begins Friday. Scott was appointed to the Senate in 2012 by then-Gov. Nikki Haley (R ...
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Britain's obesity crisis worsens as number of overweight people requiring hospital treatment shoots up
Experts said the numbers, published in the Telegraph, were a 'tragic' reflection of the failure of successive governments to tackle Britain's obesity epidemic. Katharine Jenner, director of the ...
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The Cost of Sovereignty? The Future of Britain’s Defense Industrial Base
Deferral is no longer viable. Many would be forgiven for suffering from whiplash tracking Britain’s approach to its defense industrial base. From 1997 to 2024, the state’s approach to the British ...
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Trump calls on Britain to dismantle North Sea wind turbines
US President-elect Donald Trump called on Friday for the United Kingdom to dismantle its wind turbines in the North Sea in response to a decision by a US oil company to leave the oil-rich region.
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New Postage Stamps Launched to Celebrate 100th Anniversary of Egyptian Foreign Ministr
where the ICT minister handed the top Egyptian diplomat four postage stamps featuring the ministry's premises over 100 years. It was held to demonstrate the great history of the Egyptian diplomacy, ...
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Speaker Johnson will oversee narrowest House majority in nearly 100 years
Speaker Mike Johnson faces a major challenge in the new Congress: the narrowest House majority in nearly 100 years ... majority since the outset of the Great Depression, almost a century ago.
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One of Britain's last living Second World War bomb disposal specialists dies aged 100 as Royal Navy pays tribute to 'brave' defusal expert
One of the last surviving Royal Navy bomb disposal specialists from the Second World War has died at the age of 100. Boyd Salmon, who signed up as a rating at the age of 17, was part of the Royal ...
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The Learning Network
Have you been paying attention to current events recently? See how many of these 10 questions you can get right. Compiled by Jeremy Engle The N.B.A. superstar Luka Doncic wants to make youth ...