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Vince McMahon and WWE accused of allowing ‘rampant’ sexual abuse of young boys in lawsuit

Lawsuit claims ringside announcer Melvin Phillips Jr used his position at WWE to ‘groom and abuse’ young boys

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Mother of jailed Egyptian-British activist hopes she doesn’t die in hunger strike to secure his release

INTERVIEW: Laila Soueif tells Tom Watling that UK foreign secretary David Lammy has failed to help her son despite spending years in opposition calling for his release

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It broke me to hand my baby over for adoption as a single teen mom. I’d still never get an abortion

THE A-WORD: Evie Lastra West was ‘abortion-minded 100 per cent to the core’ when she found herself pregnant at 19 with her second child. But a visit to a crisis pregnancy center in Tennessee changed everything. Kelly Rissman reports

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‘Devil, we’ve had enough’: Inside the Christian nationalist movement to outlaw abortion

Evangelical activists spent decades using the levers of power and the courts to enforce an anti-abortion agenda. Pro-democracy Christian groups and pastors are pushing back, Alex Woodward reports

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‘Low-budget horror movies’ of babies being ripped apart and promises of ‘baby bucks’: How fake pregnancy clinics pressure women not to abort

THE A-WORD: Religious themes and ads for ‘abortion pill reversal’ are staples at fake abortion clinics, which now significantly outnumber real clinics. Kelly Rissman reports

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Republican lawmakers have steered over half a billion in taxpayer dollars to anti-abortion clinics. Where does it go next?

THE A-WORD: Exclusive: States are spending millions of dollars in public money to fund fake clinics and religious counseling. Alicja Hagopian and Alex Woodward report, with exclusive research from Reproductive Health and Freedom Watch

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Nikita Kanda: ‘I was just a child when my abuser locked me in a room’

Exclusive: The BBC Asian Network Breakfast presenter recalls the harrowing violence she encountered as she supports The Independent’s Brick by Brick campaign to build a safe refuge for survivors of domestic abuse

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Nikita Kanda: As a British Asian woman, I have seen domestic abuse covered up in my community all my life

Exclusive: The BBC Asian Network Breakfast presenter wants to change the stigma associated with domestic abuse in her community as she supports The Independent’s Brick by Brick campaign to build a safe refuge for survivors

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MPs pile pressure on Keir Starmer with new group demanding closer ties with EU

Exclusive: MPs from across the political spectrum will meet six times a year to forge closer ties with the EU

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A 14 Y.O. Died By Suicide After Developing A ‘Harmful Dependency’ On An AI Chatbot

Sewell Setzer III had been talking to a character chatbot based on Daenerys Targaryen from Game Of Thrones. His mother is now suing Character Technologies, the company that owns the Character.AI service.

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Vulnerable patients escaping from secure hospitals because they’re so short-staffed, regulator reveals

National review, prompted by an Independent investigation, suggests lack of staff is major contribution to failings

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The truth about whether ‘Nikki Haley Republicans’ can hand Kamala Harris a win

While the vice president touts the support of Republicans like Liz Cheney and John McCain’s son, alumni of Haley’s campaign aren’t impressed, writes Eric Garcia

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Justice Department tells Elon Musk’s PAC that his $1 million sweepstakes could be illegal

Legal experts have argued that a scheme from the billionaire’s Trump-supporting PAC is legally dubious at best

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Order of nuns living in monastery hit back after GOP canvasser falsely accuses them of voter fraud

Erie County, Pennsylvania is a swing county within a swing state, making it a key community to watch this Election Day

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Kemi Badenoch criticises Starmer’s ‘student politics’ as Trump row explodes

Exclusive: In the first part of an interview with The Independent, Kemi Badenoch also described people who mocked Trump for doing an election stunt in McDonald’s as being ‘the problem’

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Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s phoney war with Starmer over US election interference

Critics said the twin assault on Labour by Trump and Musk – two experts at grabbing attention – had the hallmarks of a ‘phoney war’

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Mapped: Where is abortion on the ballot? Voters will have a say in these 10 states

These voters will have a chance to protect abortion at the state level this November

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I wasn’t able to get an abortion. Now I’m raising my rapist’s baby: One woman’s devastating story highlighting the reality of reproductive care in America

THE A-WORD: ‘I love my child. But if I could go back in time and get an abortion, I would 100 per cent of the time,’ says Melinda. Kelly Rissman reports on a story that exposes the hurdles women faced before the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision in June 2022

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America’s ‘war on women’: The Independent’s film and investigative series examines reproductive rights post-Roe

THE A-WORD: ‘The A-Word’, a new documentary by The Independent, investigates the state of reproductive rights two years after the Supreme Court revoked a constitutional right to abortion, sending shockwaves through American healthcare

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Police on trial for shooting suspects to be given anonymity after Chris Kaba marksman forced into hiding

Yvette Cooper said it is vital that officers ‘are not put in further danger’ during criminal proceedings if they fire their gun in the line of duty

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Trump says Obama, 63, is ‘exhausted’ and ‘looks old’ – as 78-year-old pulls out of another campaign event

Trump has dropped out of a number of campaign events in recent days, amid reports that the oldest presidential candidate in US history is ‘exhausted’

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620,000 people are fighting one case in the UK courts. And this is why

The Mariana dam collapse has been dubbed Brazil’s worst ever mining disaster

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Composer Ayanna Witter-Johnson: ‘Growing up, I never once saw a Black conductor’

Exclusive: Renowned composer calls for better support of Black classical musicians and conductors in order for them ‘to become part of the fabric of our rich and diverse musical landscape’

Evening Standard

What the papers say – October 23

A wide range of stories feature across Wednesday’s front pages.

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These silky, satin sleepwear sets are bound to make bedtime even more appealing

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