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Dr Alice Jill Edwards says cases raised by The Independent highlight need for ‘urgent’ action to end ‘terrible indictment’ on UK justice system

EXCLUSIVE: A language barrier between artist and client led to disaster for a New York City man, who can’t get the offending ink lasered off due to the moles covering his back

A recent swing state survey that showed Harris in lead used trustworthy methodology, polling experts told The Independent

Exclusive: Health secretary warned he must act on regulator Nursing and Midwifery Council

Exclusive: ‘Colleagues say I should burn my baggage rather than bringing it into my home’ says passenger

Exclusive: Library staff, MPs and charities have warned banning books is worrying regression on LGBT+ rights and can be harmful to young people

EXCLUSIVE: The University of California Los Angeles spent a fortune on police and security in response to a campus Palestine solidarity encampment, Josh Marcus reports

Body positivity influencers made plus-size people everywhere feel represented. That is, until popular weight loss drugs declared thin is in. Meredith Clark asks content creators and activists if we should be mad when our favorite plus-size influencers lose weight, or if fatphobia is really to blame

Before he was Kamala Harris’s running mate, the Minnesota governor was a geography teacher, coach and faculty adviser for a gay-straight alliance at Mankato West High School. His former students tell Alex Woodward about their unlikely ally, and why dozens are now campaigning for him