UK - The Independent

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1. Free pension ‘health checks’ could aid UK savers’ retirement plans

   More than two-fifths of full-time workers with pensions had never changed their own contribution levels

2. Columbia University appoints new president after campus protest turmoil

3. Calls for free pension health checks to avert ‘retirement under-savings crisis’

   Health checks should be integrated into pensions dashboards to help turn awareness of low savings levels into action, a report is urging.

4. Mexico investigates soccer field attack that killed at least 11 people

   Authorities in Mexico are investigating an attack that killed 11 people and injured 12 others during a post-match gathering in central Mexico

5. ‘Labour now is just the Tories in red’: Manchester voters’ fury over decision to block Burnham from by-election

   Following a tumultuous weekend for Andy Burnham, The Independent asks voters in Manchester whether they believe their mayor should have been allowed to make a return to Westminster

6. The signs that Trump and Noem’s ICE swarm in Minnesota is falling apart after the Alex Pretti killing

   Even Republicans are getting increasingly queasy about the shooting of the ICU nurse and there are broader consequences for the party, Eric Garcia writes

7. Nigerian military says officers will be tried after a probe found they carried out a coup plot

   The Nigerian military says several of its officers will face trial for allegedly plotting to overthrow the West African nation’s government

8. Jimmy Carr brutally rips into Brooklyn Beckham amid family feud

9. MAGA provocateurs want whistles used by Minnesota protesters to be ‘considered a violent weapon’

   ‘High IQ people don’t respond well to shrill noises,’ Mike Cernovich tweeted before taking aim at the ‘hearing loss causing machines that terrorists use against ICE.’

10. Gary Lineker says Arsenal should sign Atletico Madrid star after Man Utd defeat