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What the papers say – January 10

Here are the biggest stories leading Friday’s front pages.

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Civil rights groups warn Laken Riley bill could open the door to Trump’s mass deportations

Opponents call the bill a ‘slippery slope’ for Trump’s agenda and a ‘backdoor to mass detention’

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Democrats signal openness to Republicans’ Laken Riley Act with key vote

Bill may pass, led by Republicans, without amendments after Democratic resistance vanishes

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California is in a home-insurance crisis. The Pacific Palisades fire will only make it worse

‘We need to make it incredibly expensive to build in these kinds of environments,’ one expert told The Independent. ‘If the insurance industry refuses to sell policies, maybe people won’t risk it’

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Jimmy Carter held the highest office in the land. But his faith made him a public servant

Analysis: Carter navigated the barbed wire of the politics of religion, Eric Garcia reports. In doing so, he ran his race and he kept his faith

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Drunk firefighter causes chaos in first class — forcing pilot to make emergency landing, police say

Exclusive: Robert Solesky admitted to ‘aggressively’ grabbing a flight attendant by the lapels, but insisted that “it was a kind gesture to say, ‘Thanks, man,’” according to court filings reported first by The Independent

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Hospital wards face ‘pandemic-level’ strain with soaring flu cases triggering winter crisis

Around 20 hospital trusts across England have declared critical incidents with staff facing ‘mammoth demand’ due to the cold weather and flu

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Family of missing father in ‘living nightmare’ as body found in Spain

John George’s family joined volunteers in the search for the 37-year-old before a body was discovered in Rojales on 7 January

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Best maternity jeans, tried and tested by a pregnant fashion writer

Whether you’re looking for mom jeans or skinny styles, I’ve done the searching for you

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‘It would be like Hawaii’: Republicans open to Trump’s Canada and Greenland proposal

‘There’s some good arguments,’ one Republican senator tells The Independent ahead of Trump’s return to Capitol Hill

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Five football fields a minute: How a perfect storm of extreme weather set off Los Angeles wildfires

Rising temperatures have created the ideal conditions for “extreme, high severity wildfires that spread rapidly,” according to the California Air Resources Board

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Jerry Springer Show refused to fly guests home if they walked off set, according to new Netflix doc

The new Netflix documentary ‘Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action’ explores the making of the controversial talk show

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Sarah McBride slams Republicans for attempted trans sports ban: ‘Defies understanding’

The first openly transgender lawmaker exclusively tells The Independent that Republicans’ prioritization of the legislation leaves her “mystified that this is a priority” for the GOP.

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Starmer urged to scrap funding for Musk’s firms after billionaire receives £190m from UK taxpayers

Exclusive: Firms owned by Elon Musk have raked in more than £190m of taxpayer cash since 2016, sparking calls for Keir Starmer to prevent any further public funds going to the billionaire’s sprawling business empire

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Badenoch refuses to restore whip to Warsi despite clearing her of wrongdoing over Sunak ‘coconut’ tweet

Exclusive: Tory leader refuses to reinstate UK’s first Muslim cabinet member less than 24 hours after backing Robert Jenrick for railing against ‘alien cultures with medieval attitudes’

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Labour lays down challenge to Musk pledging to go after tech firms allowing online abuse on their sites

Sitting down with The Independent, victims minister Alex Davies-Jones outlined the government’s plans to crackdown on explicit deepfake images

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Indian farmer, 68, refuses hospital care as hunger strike hits 44 days

Jagjit Singh Dallewal says he is ready to die if government does not heed demands of farmers

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Why is this winter flu season so bad?

Changing strains of influenza mean predicting the winter flu season is difficult, experts say

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Hooters waitress flirts shamelessly with cop who pulled her over for DUI with ‘BAC 4 times the legal limit’

Sophia Ross, 22, was pulled over by the Sarasota Police Department in November and has been charged with a DUI

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Starmer warned NHS overhaul will not work without fixing staff shortage

Labour has unveiled a plan to overhaul the NHS - but experts say staff retention needs to be a major focus to tackle crippling waiting lists

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Pilots praised after Etihad plane’s tyres deflated following aborted take-off at high-speed

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau said the cause of the aborted take-off was ‘a high exhaust gas temperature indication from the aircraft’s right engine’

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David Fincher reveals secrets from Se7en, from casting near-misses to the (false) rumour about that head

EXCLUSIVE: Speaking to ‘The Independent’, the filmmaker also revealed the hilariously blunt response he received from Gene Hackman after he offered the veteran actor a part in the film

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Democrats grin and bear it as they set example for Republicans on peaceful transfer of power

‘I can feel proud that we’re acting as constitutional patriots,’ Representative Jamie Raskin tells Eric Garcia on the four-year anniversary of the Capitol riot

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Chemist cleared of charges for ‘secret’ China ties sues university for helping Trump DOJ ruin his life

Exclusive: Feng “Franklin” Tao’s “life, career, reputation, and finances are in shambles” thanks to unfounded claims the University of Kansas brought to the FBI, according to a federal lawsuit obtained by The Independent

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Dell ‘just tore down 40 years of sub-brands’ with its new line of devices

We went hands-on with the first few Dell laptops

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