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Father has been waiting 11 months for family reunion visas, as raging conflict killed his nephew

Ex-minister announced she would quit on 9 June – but will enjoy MP’s salary through entire summer recess if she fails to formally resign this week

SAG-AFTRA announcement means both actors and screenwriters are on strike simultaneously for the first time since 1960

UN considers one-third of shark species at risk

Shocked neighbors watched as police carted off a pickup and tarped evidence on flatbed trucks after suspect’s Friday arrest

Military chiefs and MPs call for end to 'disgrace' of refugees stranded in Pakistan and Afghanistan despite promise of sanctuary in Britain

‘Woke up this morning to learn that the Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect was my high school classmate Rex Heuermann,’ the actor, from Long Island, tweeted

Paul McCartney “was always the most surprising Beatle”, said Mark Hudson in The Independent. Despite his reputation as a “cheerful, garrulous mop top”, he was the closest thing the group had to a “Renaissance man”: while his bandmates “retreated to mansions in the stockbroker belt” at the height of their mid-1960s fame, McCartney immersed himself in London’s counterculture,…

An ongoing right-wing conspiracy theory accuses Ray Epps of being a federal agent who incited a riot. It ruined his life. A defamation lawsuit against the network that helped amplify those claims could reap significant damages, attorneys tell Alex Woodward