The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

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A minister dodged saying Donald Trump should not invade Greenland today as Keir Starmer desperately sits on the fence over the president's Venezuela raid. Mike Tapp squirmed and said he would not give ...

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From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

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Leonardo DiCaprio found himself at the centre of a joke poking fun at his association with billionaire businessman Jeff Bezos at the Critics’ Choice Awards. The annual ceremony took place in Hollywood ...

Melanin Bee curves her spine like a stretching cat as she lets out a maniacal, forced laugh. The quick-fire pattern of manufactured giggles —“oh, hoo hoo hoo, eeh, ha ha ha”— soon ripples into genuine ...