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The leader says his party is focusing on the NHS and protecting pensions to woo Conservatives in rural heartlands

Sources say the PM wants to scrap the project’s section o Manchester before the party’s annual gathering in the city next weekend

Political cartoonist Ben Sargent responds to the acquittal of Ken Paxton on all 16 counts of impeachment against the Attorney General.

The annual competition to discover outstanding new critical writing on the arts is now opened for submissions

As I leave the post, I look back on how cinema has changed since 2013 and, below, pick a favourite movie from each year of my tenure – as well as a turkey

Ken Paxton's unique relationship with the law, in the latest political cartoon from Texas Observer's Ben Sargent.

As the number of flood victims continues to climb in Libya, survivors from devastated towns in the northeast are still waiting to be rescued. Access to phone and internet networks has been cut off by the immense damage caused by the storm. Our Observer, a resident of Derna, the town…

TDCJ will allocate $85 million to provide air conditioning to more units. In the meantime, is heat killing people in Texas prisons?

Database errors mean customers have been getting huge demands from firms that don’t even supply them