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Body positivity influencers made plus-size people everywhere feel represented. That is, until popular weight loss drugs declared thin is in. Meredith Clark asks content creators and activists if we should be mad when our favorite plus-size influencers lose weight, or if fatphobia is really to blame

Before he was Kamala Harris’s running mate, the Minnesota governor was a geography teacher, coach and faculty adviser for a gay-straight alliance at Mankato West High School. His former students tell Alex Woodward about their unlikely ally, and why dozens are now campaigning for him

Polling shows young voters care about the cost of housing

One in six election workers said they had been threatened over their job after 2020

Exclusive: Mykhailo Podolyak tells The Independent that the cross-border assault into the Kursk region shows that Putin has ‘very little control’ over the border

The Man Who Pays His Way: Jubilation at airlines as train travellers wonder: what fresh hell is this?

In Tel Aviv, Bel Trew speaks to loved ones of those still held in Gaza about the need for a deal that will bring their relatives home – and end the bloodshed

‘The day-old croissants are sturdier than fresh ones, making them the perfect bake’

EXCLUSIVE: Their loved ones, who witnessed the harrowing tragedy as it unfolded, insist the senseless deaths could have — and should have — been avoided