Chris Hopkins

Jonathan Horn scooped best sports feature prize for a series on AFL, while Chris Hopkins won for pictures of a cancer sufferer caring for her son

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has pledged to start paying out tens of billions in aid to victims of Hurricane Helene later this month

The Independent looks at how seriously Sir Keir Starmer should take the threat of Elon Musk, and how much time he should spend hitting back at the billionaire’s outbursts

Hurricane Helene's aftermath: Southern farmers face B in damages, with cotton and poultry industries hit hard.

Farmers in Georgia are still reeling more than two months after Hurricane Helene blew away cotton, destroyed ripened squash and cucumbers and uprooted pecan trees and timber

Northerners are nearly twice as likely as southerners to say mashed potatoes are an important part of a Christmas meal in the UK

Tom Tugendhat has emerged as an early Tory leadership favourite with the public

Result indicates sizeable Westminster majority, while Sunak has failed to recover ground since taking over from Liz Truss

Exclusive: Rishi Sunak has been warned by Britain’s top pollsters that his party faces failure in three upcoming by-elections

A fringe right-wing political party founded by Eurosceptic populist Nigel Farage is once again posing a headache for Britain's ruling Conservatives before this year's UK general election.