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CBS News has been under heavy scrutiny since conservative commentator Bari Weiss was installed as editor-in-chief, a move critics feared would mean the network softening its coverage of the Trump administration

Exclusive: Louis Misley Mandarin, the interim first minister of the Chagossian government in exile, spoke to The Independent ahead of the Lords voting on the deal with Mauritius and a high court verdict on a legal challenge on Monday

Lewis wrote about the pooch in the 2021 song ‘Puppy and a Truck’

Within hours of Donald Trump’s announcement that Venezuela’s president had been captured, social media was flooded with AI-generated media. Bryony Gooch reports

THE INDEPENDENT’S VIEW: Editorial: The discredited law of open-ended sentencing was abolished as ‘unjust’ 14 years ago, yet it continues to blight lives and overwhelm prisons. Ending IPP injustice for the 2,400 prisoners still denied a release date is not about being soft on crime – it is about upholding…

‘When it comes to money resolutions, one should refer to the Oscar Wilde quote ‘Everything in moderation, including moderation’, one expert said

IN FOCUS: Educators and state legislators across the nation are pushing to banish smartphones from the classroom as evidence mounts that compulsive tech use is harming young people, reports Io Dodds

Exclusive: Obama’s former assistant secretary of state Frank Rose was the last U.S. official to negotiate a defence deal with Denmark and the Greenland Home Rule administration. He spoke to The Independent about the international dispute that could break NATO

Lord Thomas compares scandal to Post Office and infected blood sagas – as he calls on PM to scrap ‘unjust’ indefinite jail terms highlighted by The Independent

Labour MP Karl Turner said he is ‘absolutely confident’ that if it comes to a vote plans to restrict jury trials to the most serious cases will be defeated by rebels

IN FOCUS: With temperatures as low as -15C in some parts of Ukraine, vulnerable residents tell Alex Croft that life under Russian assault is as difficult as ever