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Nigel Farage ditches Reform UK’s ‘contract with the people’ just 2 months after election

After criticism that Reform UK’s election contract with the people was ‘Liz Truss on steroids’, new Reform UK chairman has admitted that the party is working on a new set of policies as well as drawing up rules enabling the party’s leader to be sacked

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Are mask ban laws about public safety or for lawmakers to quiet protesters? The controversies of face coverings outlined

A wave of Israel-Palestine protests across cities and college campuses has triggered a series of mask ban laws. Backers say they’re about public safety, but those on the ground argue they’re coded attempts to stifle one side of the debate. Isaac Lozano and Josh Marcus report

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‘Trump is just trying to stay relevant’: Inside the ex-president’s AI-generated images frenzy

The Republican party and its presidential nominee now have a tool that allows them to visualise the hypothetical realities that they are peddling to their supporters, who are receptive to such visual hyperbole – so-called ‘AI slop’, writes Mike Bedigan

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Sad Boy TikTok is grappling with male mental health: ‘Not sad, not happy, just empty’

Content aimed at sad men is getting millions of views on social media. Is this a new form of therapy? asks Richard Hall

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How the capture of a serial killer father led to a breakthrough in his own daughter’s separate murder case

Melissa Wolfenbarger, a 21-year-old married mother-of-two, had been missing for four years before her remains were finally identified. But decades passed and the identity of her killer remained a mystery – until now. Crime Scene Investigator Sheryl ‘Mac’ McCollum tells Andrea Cavallier how her podcast, with help from experts, the…

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Number of dog attacks rose after XL Bully ban as police chiefs admit it will be no ‘overnight fix’

Figures obtained by The Independent showed dog attacks rose by nine per cent in the first five months since the ban was brought in on XL bully dogs

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Murder suspect flees country and ‘taunts victim’s family’ after police error

Ilyas Habibi, 17, suffered a fatal knife wound outside Sutton train station last December

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‘Grenfell is a warning to the world’: The survivors still searching for justice

As the Grenfell inquiry prepares to publish its final report into the 2017 tower block fire that killed 72, Nadine White speaks to those still grappling with its tragic legacy

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Review reveals how arrest of Lucy Letby exposed nursing regulator loophole

Exclusive: Sources now say the barrister’s review has found the watchdog could have acted earlier after her arrest

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Stripped and held at gunpoint, the Gaza schoolboys ‘forced to be Israel’s human shields’

Palestinians as young as 12 describe how they were forced to inspect houses and roads to look for tunnels and militants, sometimes dressed in military fatigues, in a practice an Israeli NGO warns is ‘broadly used’ and ‘systemic’. Bel Trew reports from Jerusalem

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An Alaskan town has a dark history of missing persons. A podcast host is picking up where authorities left off

Joseph Balderas, 36, was last seen on June 24, 2016, in Nome, Alaska. Four years later, on August 31, 2020, Florence Okpealuk, 33, vanished from the same town. Podcast host Payne Lindsey traveled to the edge of the Arctic circle to find out more for a new season of Up…

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Parents face hike in nursery fees as providers struggle to bring in Tories’ free childcare

The next phase of the free childcare rollout takes place on Monday – but as parents reveal, Tory promises of saving £7,000 a year in nursery costs appear dubious

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Democrats are now hoping to siphon votes from Trump by pushing to get anti-abortion third-party candidate on ballot

Despite the Democrats’ apparent strategy to boost Randall Terry, he exclusively told The Independent that he hopes to ‘destroy’ the party: ‘I want Kamala to lose way more than I want Trump to win’

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Labour MP renting flats with black mould and ant infestations, tenants say

Resident living in one of Jas Athwal’s rental flats describes ants crawling on their children’s body and clothes

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Sexual misconduct sanctions against health and care workers double in four years

Exclusive: Healthcare regulators are failing to properly deal with sexual misconduct, standards authority claims

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Behind the scenes of Ethan James Green’s raw perception of sensual beauty for the 2025 Pirelli Calendar

BEHIND THE SCENES OF ETHAN JAMES GREEN’S RAW PERCEPTION OF SENSUAL BEAUTY FOR THE 2025 PIRELLI CALENDAR: Following last year’s success of the 50th docket by Prince Gyasi, which pushed narratives of timeless artistry, Kaleigh Werner joins photographer Ethan James Green on set of the 2025 Pirelli Calendar as he…

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Wheelchair user shares disappointment after being blocked from Paralympic viewing platform by spectators

‘A few years of polishing cannot make up for decades of failing to enforce disability access’, said Anna Landre

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Biohacker, 35, says he lives ‘like a vampire’ to look like a teenager forever

Exclusive: ‘I keep my outdoor activities to before or after sunset’

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Democrats pressing Arlington National Cemetery to release log report into Trump photo-op scandal

Ex-president’s visit to hallowed ground sparked fury amid claims campaign staff had pushed over a female official who was trying to maintain the cemetery’s rules of behavior

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Starmer facing questions over appointing rail minister who had whistleblower sacked

Shadow transport secretary Helen Whately has written to the Cabinet Office asking about the vetting of rail minister Lord Hendy after it emerged that he demanded an award winning engineer was sacked for talking to The Independent

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CCTV uncovers children’s hospital staff ‘dragging patients across floor’ in NHS-funded unit

Exclusive: A hospital run by of the UK’s largest mental health providers is warned over CCTV footage showing alleged abuse of patients

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‘Go to hell’: JD Vance turns Trump’s Arlington National Cemetery scandal into attack on Harris

Republican vice-presidential hopeful later said he was ‘frustrated’ when he made the comment

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Kirstie Allsopp says ‘risk averse parents’ behind crisis in teen mental health

Exclusive: The TV star believes mobile phones are more dangerous to young people than travel

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Beetlejuice 2 opens to nearly 4-minute standing ovation at Venice film festival

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice opens in theatres on 6 September

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Vance rips Harris for using a teleprompter — then calls Afghanistan’s Abbey Gate ‘Abbey Road’ minutes later

Monday marked the third anniversary of the Abbey Gate terrorist attack that killed 13 Americans and 170 Afghans

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