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US ranks in top 5 countries with most executions

Executions were up 33 per cent in the US in 2023

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Man arrested on suspicion of murder over woman’s death on Bournemouth beach

Man from Croydon arrested on suspicion of murder of Amie Gray, from Poole, after double stabbing on Durley Chine Beach

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Tanks reach heart of Gaza’s Rafah as Israeli bombardment mounts

It comes as Israel faces international outcry over strikes on city – with more than one million people having fled in the last three weeks

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UK vows action over hundreds of Ukrainians with disabilities vanished into Russia

Deputy foreign secretary calls on those in the hundreds of cases revealed by an 18-month investigation by The Independent to be returned and pledges further support for the disabled community in Ukraine

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Now it’s personal: Poll shows voters like and trust Keir Starmer more than Rishi Sunak

Exclusive: With the general election turning into a ‘presidential’ contest between Sunak and Starmer, polling suggests the Labour leader will win easily with voters

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The top five US states people never want to move away from — and the ones they always leave

States like Texas, North Carolina, Georgia, Utah and California do better than anyone else at keeping residents, but being a “sticky state” isn’t everything

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Childcare sector in ‘crisis’ with ‘pitiful’ number of childminders signing up to government grant scheme

Exclusive: ‘This latest childminder numbers debacle is yet more evidence that the Tories offered a pledge without a delivery plan,’ says shadow education secretary

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Viagra gets better funding than women’s health, says Laura Bates

Speaking at Hay Festival, the Everyday Sexism founder said that postnatal care in Britain is ‘absolutely dire’

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Daffy duck, coconuts and raccoons: When do memes, emojis and gifs become hate crimes?

‘I’m going to be brought down by a Daffy Duck GIF? I felt anger,’ one person told The Independent. Nadine White looks at how people can fall foul of social media memes

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Sondra Locke, Clint Eastwood and the tragic disappearance of a Hollywood trailblazer

The actor and filmmaker, who would have turned 80 next week, had fallen into relative obscurity by the time of her death in 2018, defined by her toxic breakup from one of Hollywood’s most famous men. But her fascinating life and career, writes Adam White, is worth revisiting

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The exalted goddess and doomsday prophet: inside the cult-like dynamics of Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell

Chad Daybell was a self-proclaimed prophet and the patriarch of his family. Yet he’s trying to convince a jury that he let the women in his life make all the decisions. Andrea Cavallier reports

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How Mighty Hoopla turned into London’s biggest pop party

Festival now attracts around 60,000 revellers over two days in June

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California man wins $1m after 17-hour police interrogation falsely accusing him of killing father, who was alive

Footage from inside Fontana Police Department showed Thomas Perez Jr crying, pulling out his hair and ripping off his shirt, and lying next to his dog – who officers threatened to have put down

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Mom catches sex offender filming her teenage daughter in a Target. But cops won’t do anything about it

Police said they could not take action because the man was not doing ‘anything illegal’

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Trump campaign sends cease and desist letter to block release of biopic The Apprentice

Letter warns the film’s producer not to pursue a distribution deal

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What will jurors consider when deciding Trump’s fate? Legal experts weigh in

Legal experts tell Gustaf Kilander what the 12 jurors will be looking at as they decide whether to make history and convict a former US president on criminal charges

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Tory MP demands Brexit damage to school group tourism is eased

Exclusive: ‘It is vital the government ensures that barriers to growth are removed’ – Sally-Ann Hart, MP for Hastings and Rye

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Children in Gaza being ‘unequivocally failed’ by UK government, aid group says

Save the Children official calls on Britain to do more to protect children in the besieged enclave

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Family loses battle to keep LGBTQ+ rainbow canopy on iconic Bristol skyline

A compromise for the rainbow design on one of Bristol’s most iconic views has been dismissed by local council officers – and now it will be removed

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Chaka Khan responds to allegations Diddy ‘yelled and screamed’ at her

Singer told The Independent she had faced ‘personal lessons’ as she spoke about ‘abuse and violence’

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Kevin Spacey’s hopes for lead in Frank Sinatra biopic dashed after ‘singer’s daughter shuts down project’

Exclusive: Spacey’s representatives say actor was never attached to project, despite director Paul Schrader expressing his wish that he play the role

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Emily In Paris role auctioned off at Cannes despite Netflix denying show has been renewed

The winning bidder paid €250,000 for a walk-on part in the show’s as-yet-unconfirmed fifth season

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Bipartisan border security bill fails again after Republicans shoot down measure on key election issue

The bill, negotiated by a bipartisan group of senators earlier this year, was meant to clamp down on the number of migrants allowed to claim asylum at the US-Mexico border

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Trump finally offers explanation for why he backed out of testifying in hush money trial

Former president previously said he’d ‘absolutely’ take the stand in his first criminal trial

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Hay Festival 2024: our guide to this year’s highlights

Judi Dench talking Shakespeare, conversations with bestsellers Marian Keyes and David Nicholls, and a deep dive into the day’s news with Independent journalists and leading thinkers – this year’s Hay Festival programme is fit to burst with unmissable events. Jessie Thompson picks the highlights

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