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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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Why Kamala Harris’s new strategy focuses on rural Georgia

‘She’s doing the things that Democrats should have been doing for the last 15 years’

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Internet reacts as Ben Affleck pictured smiling with fast food amid Jennifer Lopez divorce

Ben Affleck is back in his natural element after he was pictured smiling with a fast food delivery bag

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A 10-year-old girl died during the viral ‘blackout challenge.’ Now TikTok could be held liable

“Big Tech just lost its ‘get-out-of-jail-free’ card,” attorney Jeffrey Goodman said

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New York lawmaker attacks the wrong Cuomo as he pushes to rename bridge

The New York Republican is being accused of mixing up Andrew and Mario Cuomo as he sells “No Cuomo”-emblazoned merch

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'I'm on morphine patches every day': Woman still waiting for vaginal mesh removal four years later

‘I used to walk everywhere, but now I just potter around the house. I no longer walk to the shops,’ June Dunne tells Maya Oppenheim

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Why is Russia launching massive airstrikes across Ukraine?

For some experts, Vladimir Putin’s air attacks are an attempt to reclaim the narrative after Kyiv’s Kursk incursion

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Trump campaign staff accused of verbally abusing and pushing Arlington National Cemetery official

Arlington National Cemetery confirmed ‘there was an incident, and a report was filed’

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Black Trump supporter claims he was called a ‘slave’ by right-wing organization he was canvassing for

EXCLUSIVE: Carl Baxter, a MAGA fan who heads up a county Republican club in Florida, is suing the Koch Brothers’ Americans for Prosperity over alleged discrimination

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A neck-and-neck Senate race in Maryland is causing big problems for Democrats

Polls show the race is clearly winnable by either candidate, and both Democratic and Republican candidates are now making a play for Democratic voters

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