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Inside Labour plot to oust Keir Starmer as PM is given 12 months to turn things around

SPECIAL REPORT: This week’s dramatic winter fuel U-turn has not been enough to stop behind-the-scenes talks over how to change leader within the Labour Party, asThe Independent’s political David Maddox found out

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Chris Packham accuses government bill of being a ‘licence to destroy nature’

The Nature Restoration Fund came under the microscope during a talk at the 2025 Hay Festival of Literature and Arts

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Europe at risk of becoming ‘technological supplicant’ to US and China, says McMafia writer Misha Glenny

Discussion took place during The Independent’s daily News Review event at the 2025 Hay Festival

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Millions of women use abortion drugs safely. Experts warn anti-abortion groups are pushing ‘bogus’ science to get them banned

ANALYSIS: Analysis: Health officials are reviewing a dubious report that claims dangerous complications from mifepristone. Public health researchers and scientists tell Julia Musto and Alex Woodward they’re extremely skeptical

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Kemi Badenoch facing ‘inevitable’ leadership challenge as Tories battle dire poll ratings

It comes after The Independent revealed that Tory MPs are plotting to remove Mrs Badenoch

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Why fierce rivals India, Pakistan and China are racing to woo the Taliban

The Taliban were shunned globally after it captured Kabul and cut restricted rights of Afghan girls and women. Less than four years later, the biggest regional powers are in a race to win their attention, experts tell Arpan Rai

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McDonald’s closes spin-off restaurants after less-than two-year test run

Five locations in the U.S. will shutter

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With 160mph trains launching on the East Coast - is America finally on track for a high-speed rail network?

Amtrak's 160mph Acela trains, due to debut in the next few weeks, will serve the Northeast Corridor, from Washington DC to Boston via New York

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James Corden and Ruth Jones explain why Gavin and Stacey is never coming back

Duo discussed the series during an appearance at the 2025 Hay Festival

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Kari Lake brought back a skeleton crew to Voice of America. They’re ‘angry most of the time’

‘To me, it feels like emotional terror to ensure obedience,’ VOA White House bureau chief Patsy Widakuswara, who is on administrative leave, told The Independent

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Lilo & Stitch producer delivers verdict on potential live-action sequels

EXCLUSIVE: Jonathan Eirich teases potential spin-offs if audiences ‘tell us’ they love Disney’s latest live-action remake

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‘I’m willing to do it again’: The students who could lose their diplomas due to pro-Palestinian activism on campus

IN FOCUS: Students protesting Israel and supporting Palestinians in Gaza around graduation time have been the subject of investigations, suspended diplomas and bans from campus, Josh Marcus reports

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A Black father killed a cop after seeing his son shot dead in a police chase. People have donated tens of thousands of dollars to his cause

Rodney Hinton Jr’s case has been compared to the killing of a healthcare CEO by Luigi Mangione, but his family has rejected claims he was acting out of revenge, Richard Hall writes.

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Country club golf pro sues family friend after face ‘permanently disfigured’ by ‘careless’ swing

Exclusive: Traveling instructor Mohammad Mohseni Goudarzi suffered “multiple facial bone fractures” – and then things got worse, according to court filings obtained by The Independent

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The Independent’s Rebecca Thomas named health journalist of the year in the Press Awards 2025

‘Thank you to the brave patients and sources who came forward and for the Indy editors who helped me share their stories’

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‘My daughter went into hospital with flu symptoms – and ended up a quadruple amputee’

Lily McGarry’s mother opens up about ‘terrifying’ moment hospital called to say her daughter was in a coma as family fundraise for treatment and also call on people to get meningitis vaccine

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Nineteen months of carnage: How Gaza was reduced to rubble and starvation as the world watched

GAZA IN CRISIS: Gaza is on the brink of famine after a three-month blockade on supplies, the UN warns. Chief international correspondent Bel Trew looks at how the Palestinians got to this point

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Skunk Anansie’s Skin: ‘We got slated when we were booked to headline Glastonbury’

Pioneering rock artist was the subject of a racist, homophobic and misogynistic backlash when her band were booked to top the Pyramid Stage, but says they used it as fuel for their fire when they performed in 1999

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McDonald’s makes major change to restaurant opening hours nationwide

The changes will only be affecting restaurants within the United States

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The View has been told to tone done its anti-Trump rhetoric, report claims

One source familiar with the matter stressed to The Independent that the network ‘constantly has conversations with talent based on viewer feedback, and this instance was no different’

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I tried Simba’s hybrid luxe mattress and it completely transformed my sleep

I put one of the company's most luxurious (and priciest) hybrid mattresses to the test – here's why I'll never look back

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Reneé Rapp appears to shade Sex Lives of College Girls after leaving to focus on music

Singer, who released her new song ‘Leave Me Alone,’ left the HBO series after season two

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Trump’s ‘One, big, beautiful bill’ would ban care for transgender people on Medicaid and Obamacare

‘It's one more example of health care that they're trying to rip away,’ Rep. Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender member of Congress, tells The Independent

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Activists accuse major bank of suppressing protest over controversial African oil pipeline

The 11 activists, who are still detained in prison, are the latest arrests of protesters against the East African Crude Oil Pipeline

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What does the sentencing review mean for prisons as chemical castration considered for sex offenders

Former Tory justice secretary David Gauke has called for overhaul of justice system in major sentencing review

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