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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 -
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
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Trump says Israel-Lebanon ceasefire extended
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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
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Starmer-Mandelson latest: McSweeney denies pressuring civil servants on US ambassador vetting
Morgan McSweeney resigned in February over his role in the appointment
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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
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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
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‘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
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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
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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.

