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Behind the doors of Kermit Gosnell’s ‘house of horrors’ clinic were countless vulnerable women with nowhere else to turn. But when his crimes were finally exposed, their stories became lost in the anti-abortion movement. Rachel Sharp reports

Exclusive: Ex-PM now ‘painfully on the rack’, says Michael Heseltine – as former aide gives him 5 out of 10 for morality

‘We were in the toilet because she was on her period, but she didn’t care. She just gave us lunchtime detention,’ pupil says

In an exclusive interview with the Independent, Mizzy said: ‘I’m a Black male doing these things and that’s why there’s such an uproar on the internet’

Key figures spoke to The Independent about McGregor’s 2014 knockout of Dustin Poirier – a pivotal night on the Irishman’s journey to superstardom

Exclusive: The Independent spoke to the unbeaten Briton and his promoter, Boxxer’s Ben Shalom, as the pair prepare for the next step in Azim’s journey

The Welsh-born painter Gwen John is generally remembered as a “fragile”, isolated figure, said Mark Hudson in The Independent. Neglected for some time after her death, John (1876-1939) was rediscovered in the 1980s, when she was reassessed as a reclusive talent overshadowed by two “bombastic male egos”: her brother, the…

Woman was on a flight from Denver, Colorado to Charlotte, North Carolina

Let’s be clear, said Sean O’Grady in The Independent. We will be witnessing, in the coming months and years, “the slow death” of the British car industry – another success story sacrificed on the altar of Brexit. 

Exclusive: Home secretary was the director of a charity providing training to Rwandan government lawyers for five years

Ahead of his appearance at music and philosophy festival How the Light Gets In, singer and author Billy Bragg talks to Roisin O’Connor about the state of the nation