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Project 2025 was always Trump’s game. How did the ultra-conservatives who crafted it let everything spiral out of control so badly? John Bowden reports

Jared Harris discusses his new film Reawakening and working with co-stars Juliet Stevenson and The Crown’s Erin Doherty with The Independent’s Jacob Stolworthy.

Six former Homestead Heritage members who were born into the conservative religious community in Waco, Texas, spoke with Michelle Del Rey about their experiences leaving the church as adults. The former members described it as a “cult” that limited their education, medical access and freedom

Exclusive: Victims of abuse say they live with the fear of being recognised due to cases like the disgraced BBC presenter’s

Justin Avery was in jail after being accused of assaulting women near a college campus in April

Kristan Hawkins, the president of Students for Life of America, tell Eric Garcia that Trump’s recent claims to support IVF set off alarm bells for them

Comfortable in khakis and an open collar, Walz couldn’t be more different from JD Vance, the awkward man in a boxy suit and an overly long tie. Instead of talking about ‘threats to democracy’, Harris’s running-mate made a football analogy about January 6th — and it went down a storm.…

Nottingham families call for individual staff to be held criminially accountable for failing

A government spokesperson said Sue Gray had ‘no involvement in any decision on her pay’

Bird, special to Māori people, was last seen in 1907

‘The right to access abortion services is a fundamental right for women in this country, and no one should feel unsafe when they seek to access this,’ Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips says