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1. Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool gets a blue coating as Trump tackles renovation project

   President Donald Trump is having the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool coated in a swimming pool surface hued in “American flag blue,” covering a decades-old granite surface that he said was “leaking like a sieve” and would take years to replace

2. Pete Hegseth ‘butted heads’ with Navy secretary over shipbuilding and push to ignore judge’s orders before firing: reports

   Phelan’s dismissal marks the second major leadership shake-up at the Pentagon during the Iran war

3. Trump says Israel-Lebanon ceasefire extended

4. Former Brexit boss says Britain should rejoin EU after failed ‘heady promises’

   Philip Rycroft said the British public was ‘falling out of love’ with Brexit

5. Starmer-Mandelson latest: McSweeney denies pressuring civil servants on US ambassador vetting

   Morgan McSweeney resigned in February over his role in the appointment

6. Former owner of ‘Home Alone’ house found dead in nearby nature preserve after child sex crime charges

   Investigators in Lake Forest, Illinois, say they do not suspect foul play

7. US special forces soldier arrested after Trump’s DOJ says he won $400,000 betting on Maduro raid

   Gannon Ken Van Dyke is accused of making more than a dozen Polymarket bets on the ousted Venezuelan leader’s capture

8. ‘Medics saved my daughter’s life after removing brain tumour. Here are the symptoms to look out for’

   Four-year-old Jessica Macrae underwent surgery last year after a tumour was discovered on the back of her brain

9. Black and ethnic minority employees facing ‘appalling’ levels of racism in the workplace

   The TUC said its study revealed a “shocking increase” in explicit racism at work over the past six years

10. Consumer confidence falls as rapid price rises give households the ‘jitters’

    GfK’s long-running consumer confidence index fell four points to minus 25 in April.