Former Trump ally Marjorie Taylor Greene has joined Tucker Carlson in ditching the Republican party after their high profile splits with the president. Carlson told listeners of the Can’t Be Censored podcast he would...
It is a decade since the Brexit vote and the ramifications are still being felt. The EU referendum took place on 23 June 2016 when the UK voted to leave the political bloc, ending the country’s membership of the...
An NHS paramedic has avoided a professional ban after it emerged that he sent pictures of a patient’s decomposing body to colleagues via social media. North West Ambulance Service worker Joshua Sharp has instead...
Nigel Farage has insisted he could spend the £5 million gift from a crypto billionaire “on cars if [he] wanted to”, as he told journalists questioning him that what he did with the money is “none of your business”. The...
The parent company of Royal Mail, has reported an increase in revenues and earnings for its UK postal division, despite facing significant rises in staff costs due to the government’s job tax hike. International...
Grocery price inflation slowed again this month, easing concerns about the impact of the Middle East conflict filtering through to supermarket shelves. Supermarket prices were 3% higher than a year ago in June, down...
U. S. auto safety regulators have launched a formal investigation into Tesla after a vehicle using automated driving technology crashed at high speed into a Texas home, killing a 76-year-old woman inside, authorities...
The number of confirmed cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( DRC ) has reached more than 1,000, with limited access to water complicating prevention efforts. More than 800,000 internally displaced...
Federal authorities have arrested two additional suspects in Missouri and Washington state in connection with what prosecutors say was a planned attack targeting a UFC event held at the White House earlier this month,...
I t is nearly four months since the US and Israel launched war on Iran - a decision which had a dramatic and devastating impact stretching almost every corner of the world. From skyrocketing oil prices, rising costs of...
A New York City coffee shop is facing a Department of Justice investigation after banning a congressman over his views on Israel. Poetica Coffee posted a photo of NY-10 Representative Dan Goldman at the Brooklyn outlet,...
British pawnbroker Ramsdens has agreed to a £206 million takeover by its US rival, FirstCash. The deal will see Ramsdens delisted from London's Alternative Investment Market (AIM), nearly a decade after its shares were...
A Coast Guard helicopter crashed in Alaska on Monday, injuring all four crew members aboard. The MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter went down at Harbor Mountain in Sitka, though no deaths were reported. The community is located...
Oil prices have continued their descent towards levels last observed before the Iran war, following the US decision to waive sanctions on Iranian oil amidst progress in peace negotiations. Brent crude saw a nearly 2 per...
Firefighters gave sharply conflicting testimony Monday in the federal arson trial of a man accused of igniting a brush fire that prosecutors say later grew into the devastating Palisades Fire in Los Angeles, with one...
The UK will have rejoined – or be on the path to rejoining – the European Union by 2036, former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg said on the tenth anniversary of the referendum. Mr Clegg said he believes the UK will...
A £1.8 million inheritance battle between two women, both of whom married the same man in Las Vegas, could prove fruitless after a court heard the entire fortune may have been drained from his estate. The late James...
Independent TV Showing now News 00:35 Watch: Peter Murrell led away in handcuffs as he’s jailed for embezzling more than £400,000 from SNP Peter Murrell was led away from court in handcuffs after he was sentenced to...
W ith the prospect of Andy Burnham becoming prime minister now looking inevitable, all eyes are on what his top team could look like. The former Greater Manchester mayor, who was sworn in as an MP on Monday, will face...
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 producing our latest...
As unprecedented global aid cuts hurt some of the most vulnerable people across the world, The Independent has partnered with the UK’s first and only dedicated LGBTQ+ cinema, The Arzner, to screen our powerful new...
Shabana Mahmood ’s move to make refugee status temporary will be challenged in the courts, The Independent can reveal. Under sweeping changes to the asylum and immigration rules in March, home secretary Shabana Mahmood...
02:46 Peter Murrell was silent and impassive as police grilled him on his “outrageous” spending on pens and other items that he bought with more than £400,000 embezzled from the Scottish National Party. The former SNP...
Half of Gen Z Britons believe Brexit has been a failure and the majority would vote to rejoin the EU if given the opportunity, new polling has revealed. Data shows that only a small minority of 18 to 28-year-olds – who...
Oil prices have fallen back further towards levels seen before the Iran war started as the US waived sanctions on Iranian oil amid progress in talks to agree a final lasting peace deal. Brent crude dropped nearly 2% to...
Ramsdens has agreed to be bought by rival US pawnbroking business FirstCash for £206 million. The deal means that the firm will be taken off the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) and into new US ownership, nearly a...
American allies of President Donald Trump recently converged on Jerusalem, seeking to reassure an Israeli public increasingly anxious about the state of its decades-old alliance with Washington. The visit comes amid...
A dramatic new chapter is unfolding in the long-running case of Richard Glossip, the former Oklahoma death row inmate whose decades-long fight for freedom has drawn the attention and support of Kim Kardashian and other...
At least 20 people have died in France since the weekend as a major heatwave brings record temperatures to Europe, authorities have said. Much of France was set to experience temperatures of around 40C on Tuesday, after...
Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, as well as war crimes in the occupied West Bank, an independent...
President Donald Trump has repeated his invitation to Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to request military intervention in Chicago after a wave of violent crime incidents hit the Windy City over the weekend. “At least 39...
Andy Burnham, Britain’s newest lawmaker and likely its next prime minister, was meeting Labour colleagues on Tuesday in preparation for a leadership contest in which he may be the only contender. Burnham is the strong...
Britain is bracing for a record-breaking heatwave this week, with temperatures set to surpass the historic June 1976 peak by several degrees Celsius. The Met Office has issued a rare "red warning", anticipating highs of...
Almost two-thirds of people believe that immigration has got worse since Brexit, a new poll conducted on the ten-year anniversary of Britain’s vote to leave the EU has shown. The promise to regain control of Britain’s...
05:33 Ten years ago today, on 23 June 2016, the UK narrowly voted to leave the European Union in a referendum that sent shockwaves across Britain and the rest of Europe. Brexit itself was far from immediate, taking...
Keir Starmer resignation as prime minister leaves a vacancy in the leadership of Labour and the nation – with Andy Burnham widely considered a frontrunner to step into the role. A landslide win of the Makerfield...