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EXCLUSIVE: Rachel Levine is assistant secretary of state for health in the Biden administration and the most senior transgender official in American history. She talks to Io Dodds about her contentious confirmation hearing and her belief bigotry against trans people is in the minority and borne from misinformation.

More Democrats vote to raise the debt limit than Republicans as the bill heads to the Senate

Family of Tennessee woman say their three-week ordeal could have been avoided if she and boyfriend Tyler Stratton were taken into custody

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Speaking to The Independent, Mark Calaway opens up about life after WWE, and the stars he would have ‘loved’ to face

‘Cards are stacked’ against government if row goes to court, says former legal chief

Possible walk-outs over asylum policy ‘appalling’ and ‘unacceptable’, say senior Conservatives

The bill is set for a Wednesday vote in the House despite multiple Republicans criticising it

Backlogs of months and even years have emerged thanks to issues including poor funding, low pay, a flood of requests from attorneys and families and the Covid pandemic. Josh Marcus reports

Resident Aurea Monet had a lucky escape, moving out just eight weeks before the Davenport apartment block partially collapsed on Sunday

The columnist and broadcaster Piers Morgan hacked into Alastair Campbell’s bank accounts in order to destabilise the then Labour government, Tony Blair’s former spin doctor claimed last week at the High Court. 

Exclusive: Official says civil servants will not ‘sit back and take’ measures they believe are unlawful