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Former president in court along with seven others accused of failed power grab after losing 2022 election

VP JD Vance's 2025 interview sparked 'Trump death' fake news frenzy on X, highlighting political misinformation's rise eroding US democracy.

Editorial: The US president’s move against Lisa Cook shows his despotic bent, but the Fed was never democracy’s guardian. It’s time to rethink who really controls money

Editorial: Elected politicians should expect to be scrutinised. This attack on journalists is an attack on democracy too

The fears are familiar: Artificial intelligence is going to eat our jobs, make our students weak and lazy and possibly destroy democracy for good measure.

The Chief Election Commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, probably expected that his August 18 press conference would settle the controversy surrounding the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in Bihar and Rahul Gandhi’s “vote chori” charge. He was wrong. This is a story that has refused to die, notwithstanding Trump’s tariffs, or…

The editor of the Nottingham Post said the move was a ‘worrying sign of potentially things to come if Reform wins the next election’

Nottinghamshire council’s administration says it will no longer deal with local paper, in unprecedented move

The final arguments have concluded in the national security trial of Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper founder Jimmy Lai