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How to get involved in the fight against book bans

Across the nation, a movement to ban more books from schools and libraries has ignited a fight against censorship. Now, organisations are encouraging others to take action. Ariana Baio reports

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These authors’ books are some of the most challenged in the US. They’re speaking out

Maia Kobabe, Ibram X Kendi, and Susan Kuklin speak to Clémence Michallon

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NHS doctors denied seats on British evacuation planes left stranded in Sudan

Junior doctors made perilous journey in race to reach evacuation airfield before ceasefire ends

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Was Dominic Raab really stitched up?

Dominic Raab resigned as deputy prime minister and justice secretary last week after an independent inquiry concluded that his treatment of civil servants had, in some cases, amounted to bullying.

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Will Trump testify in the E Jean Carroll civil rape trial? He faces ‘huge’ legal risk either way, experts say

Donald Trump faces court for the first time accused of sexual assault in Manhattan on Tuesday. He staring down huge legal hurdles whether he decides to show up or not, experts tell Bevan Hurley

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Betting firms await major industry shakeup which will set stake limits for online gambling

But industry source tells The Independent reforms will ‘not be a silver bullet’ and could take ‘years’ to come in

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Britons among thousands queuing for days without food and water amid chaos at Egypt-Sudan border

An NHS doctor with her children describes scenes of chaos as thousands of desperate people wait to cross border in the heat with little food or water

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Trump kept quiet on the Bud Light boycott. It turns out he owns Anheuser-Busch stock

EXCLUSIVE: Ex-president didn’t join GOP rivals in calling for boycott of company in which he owns stock

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‘They were trying to erase us’: Inside a Texas town’s chilling effort to ban LGBTQ books

This Texas town tried to impose one of the most severe book bans in the country. LGBT+ students fought back. Richard Hall reports from Granbury, Texas.

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Farewell NHS Covid app – but is the pandemic actually over?

App that saved lives and sparked ‘pingdemic’ on the way out, but Covid still poses a threat for many

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Wounded British doctor’s agonising choice – risk deadly infection or leave mother in Sudan’s war zone

Retired NHS doctor shot in Khartoum cannot get to hospital and his daughter fears he could get sepsis – but he won’t leave his elderly mother because Britain will not evacuate her

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Will Trump testify in the E Jean Carroll civil rape trial? He faces ‘huge’ legal risk either way, experts say

Donald Trump faces court for the first time accused of sexual assault in Manhattan on Tuesday. He staring down huge legal hurdles whether he decides to show up or not, experts tell Bevan Hurley

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Thousands of Afghan refugees to be evicted from Home Office hotels with no offer of housing

Thousands of Afghan refugees are living in hotels after fleeing the Taliban in August 2021

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Father reveals reason why he shared hospital photo of son who died in ‘TikTok Benadryl challenge’

Jacob Stevens, 13, died six days after attempting the deadly challenge

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Massachusetts mother and baby daughter escape Sudan after terrifying week sheltering from war

It will be several days before Trillian Clifford and baby Alma reach American soil, her family tell The Independent

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Households should ‘accept’ being poorer, Bank of England’s top economist says

Huw Pill said workers asking for higher pay and shopkeepers putting up prices is ‘self-defeating’ as it fuels inflation

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New series about the Anne Frank story is under attack by antisemitic trolls, creators say

A Small Light, streaming from 2 May on Disney+, focuses on the heroic efforts of Miep and Jan Gies during the Second World War

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Dodging bullets and paying thousands: How these British families escaped wartorn Sudan

Families watched as fighter jets roared overhead and bombs landed just a few kilometres from them as they were forced to hide, Bel Trew and Tara Cobham report

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Terrified pregnant British woman stranded in war-torn Sudan ‘could give birth at any moment’

The family, who have almost no supplies and no way of escape, say they have heard nothing from the British authorities despite its large-scale evacuation of citizens

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Anne Frank’s story transformed the world’s view of the Holocaust. This woman kept her family and her diary alive

The diary of Anne Frank — written as she hid with her family and others in the annex of an Amsterdam building while Hitler’s Nazis hunted for Jews in the Second World War — is one of the most widely read books in the world. A new series shines a…

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America’s book bans have already come for prisons

From colouring books to abolition newspapers and Reader’s Digest magazines, thousands of titles are banned in prisons and jails across the country, often with opaque reasons and with little oversight, Alex Woodward reports

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Will Trump testify in the E Jean Carroll civil rape trial? He faces ‘huge’ legal risk either way, experts say

Donald Trump faces court for the first time accused of sexual assault in Manhattan on Tuesday. He staring down huge legal hurdles whether he decides to show up or not, experts tell Bevan Hurley

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Tory revenge attack ad slams Starmer’s record on child sex offenders

A Conservative campaign email claims that Sir Keir, while director of public prosecutions, ‘saw convictions for sex offences plummet’

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Surviving Idaho roommate fights against testifying in Kohberger court proceedings

Former criminology PhD student Bryan Kohberger is charged in the murders of four University of Idaho students

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White House says US ‘facilitating’ US citizens’ departure from Sudan amid outbreak of violence

The US evacuated its embassy in Khartoum over the weekend

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