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Trump delivers rambling speech about trophy wives, golf and Al Capone in political West Point address

<p>The crime allegedly happened in New York’s upscale SoHo neighborhood</p>

CRIME

Crypto investor charged with torturing Italian businessman in luxury Manhattan apartment for weeks to get Bitcoin access

<p>People watch as ships sail by on the Hudson River during Fleet Week in New York City, U.S., May 21</p>

NEWS

One dead and two injured after Hudson River boat explosion — one week after Brooklyn bridge ship crash

<p>France Cannes 2025 It Was Just an Accident Red Carpet</p>

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi wins Cannes Palme d’Or

<p>Attorneys say their clients are being arrested inside and outside immigration courts by ICE agents in a ‘flagrant betrayal’ of due process</p>

politics

Masked ICE agents are arresting immigrants inside courthouses across US

Judge tells Trump administration to return wrongly deported Guatemalan

<p>Anti-abortion groups are promoting a report that claims dangerous complications from widely used abortion drug mifepristone. Public health scientists are extremely skeptical</p>

POLITICS

Millions of women use abortion drugs safely. Experts warn anti-abortion groups are pushing ‘bogus’ science to get them banned

<p>Oliver Widger, 29-year-old Oregon man who sailed from Oregon to Hawai, arrives at the Waikiki Yacht Club, on May 24</p>

He quit his job to set sail with his cat. They just made it to Hawaii

<p>The Independent spoke to 10 people about being 'sober-ish'</p>

Soberish: 10 people on why they (mostly) stopped drinking booze

<p>Jennifer Farber Dulos (right) has been missing for six years. A local journalist decided to write a book (left) about her life before she vanished.</p>

CRIME

Jennifer Dulos dreamed of the perfect life – and then everything fell apart: A new look into her life before she vanished

<p>Footage released by Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office shows the inmates escape from The Orleans Parish jail </p>

Crime

New arrest over escaped Louisiana prisoners as five fugitives still on the run

Everything we know about inmates still at large after New Orleans jail escape

<p>Michail Chkhikvishvili has been extradited to the United States from Moldova</p>

CRIME

‘Cult leader’ behind alleged neo-Nazi terror plot extradited to US

<p>FDA recalls imported Republic of Korea oysters due to potential norovirus contamination</p>

FDA recalls certain oysters due to potential norovirus contamination

<p>Texas officials allegedly found 12 migrants in hollowed-out hay bales</p>

crime

Texas police uncover smuggling operation in hollowed-out bales of hay

<p>It was announced this week that Joe Biden has been diagnosed with advanced, incurable prostate cancer</p>

Jill Biden has questions to answer – her husband was never fit to run for a second term

Dems may require 2028 contenders to release full health information

<p>Sen. John Fetterman talks to reporters outside the chamber during a vote at the Capitol in Washington, in March</p>

POLITICS

Fetterman says he’s taking part in more Senate duties after questions over his health were ‘weaponized’

‘The people want to fight’: Pennsylvania Democrats lay out future

<p>Chrissy Teigen revealed she had a hairline lowering procedure</p>

Chrissy Teigen reveals cosmetic procedure she underwent after hospital video sparks concern

<p>Lilo & Stitch is out in theaters now</p>

Lilo & Stitch to set Memorial Day box office record despite middling critical reviews

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Freddie Mercury had secret child, new biography claims

<p>Roberto Martinez took his 14-year-old son on a graffiti spree in downtown LA on February 10 and later came across Kevin Rivera, according to the LAPD. The teenager is alleged to have shot and killed Rivera</p>

crime

Father handed gun to teen son in LA gang shooting, cops say

<p>Harmony Montgomery, a five-year-old girl who police believe was killed by her father in 2019. The state has agreed to pay her mother, Crystal Sorey, $2.25m</p>

Crime

Mother of murdered five-year-old Harmony Montgomery awarded $2.25m in wrongful death lawsuit against state

<p>Hannah Gutierrez Reed served 18 months in prison for involuntary manslaughter </p>

crime

Armorer jailed over on-set Rust shooting is released from prison

Trump Reshapes The World

Politics

Inside Trump’s big-spender meme coin dinner: Presidential seal and food that looked ‘worse than Spirit Airlines’

Trump may have skirted the law with presidential seal at crypto dinner

<p>Federal judges and the Supreme Court have ordered the Trump administration to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who fled El Salvador as a teen out of fears he would be recruited by MS-13</p>

politics

Wrongfully deported Maryland dad fled MS-13, teacher and classmate say

Marco Rubio clashes with Dem senator: ‘I regret voting for you’

<p>Pete Hegseth has been heavily criticized by military reporters after announcing media restrictions at the Pentagon. He has yet to hold a press briefing since taking office</p>

politics

Pete Hegseth slammed for ‘direct attack’ against military reporters

<p>Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pushing back his September deadline to find the root cause of autism. While researchers will be able to ascertain “some” information by the original deadline, Kennedy said it will take more time to obtain the “most solid” information</p>

politics

RFK Jr is already backing off his deadline to find the cause of autism by September

<p>Kari Lake, the White House senior adviser overseeing Voice of America, has installed a bare-bones staff at the network in recent weeks. They say “no one’s really in charge.”</p>

politics

Kari Lake brought back a skeleton crew to Voice of America. They’re ‘angry most of the time’

Politics

Judge blasts Trump's 'blatantly' unconstitutional push to block Harvard from enrolling international students

Harvard sues Trump administration over international student ban

<p>The Trump administration has launched a probe into Media Matters that essentially parrots Elon Musk’s lawsuit against the liberal watchdog.</p>

Politics

Elon Musk’s vendetta against Media Matters morphs into Trump administration investigation

Bulletin

<p>X, formerly known as Twitter, was down on Saturday</p>

Why are thousands of users struggling to get onto X?

<p>Kate has been praised by her brother for supporting him over the years</p>

What James Middleton has to say about his supportive sister Kate

<p>Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden in 2014</p>

What you need to know about Billy Joel’s rare brain condition

Pictures of the Week Global Photo Gallery

The truth about Kim Kardashian’s law school ‘graduation’

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<p>An explosion of a drone is seen during a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv</p>

LiveUKRAINE

Kyiv accuses Moscow of executing more than 150 prisoners of war

Trump’s peace talks ‘giving Putin more power’, Yulia Navalnaya says

<p>Kokeshi is one of the many sex dolls at Cybrothel</p>

Cyber brothels, AI girlfriends, and VR intimacy: How worried should we be about the sex tech industry?

College graduates this year are not finding jobs. Some blame AI

<p>The former prime minister’s long-time adviser spoke at Hay Festival </p>

IRAQ WAR

Alastair Campbell insists he and Tony Blair didn’t lie over Iraq: ‘It turned out to be untrue’

<p>‘Dear AA girlies, thank you for the love, hospitality and handwritten note — you know me well,’ Meghan’s note read</p>

Flight attendant shows off handwritten note from Meghan Markle after duchess flies commercial

<p>Tony Revolori and Saoirse Ronan in ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’</p>

Wes Anderson ranked, from The Phoenician Scheme to Rushmore

As the man behind ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ and ‘Asteroid City’ unveils his latest film, ‘The Phoenician Scheme’, Clarisse Loughrey ranks the output so far from one of modern cinema’s most aesthetically rich and emotionally astute filmmakers

<p>Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta in ‘Grease’</p>

20 movie romances that were actually completely toxic

<p>A record 45.1 million Americans are expected to travel over Memorial Day weekend. But, much of the U.S. will be soaked by thunderstorms</p>

TRAVEL

Thinking about traveling over Memorial Day weekend? Millions of Americans will have to prepare for rain

<p>Something’s scaring travelers</p>

News

Travelers avoiding Japan because of dire comic book prediction

<p>The Freedom of the Press Foundation says it intends to sue Paramount if the production company settles with Donald Trump over his 60 Minutes lawsuit</p>

politics

Freedom of the Press Foundation to sue Paramount if it settles with Trump over 60 Minutes lawsuit

<p>Beef prices had soared to a record high in April, up almost 50 percent from five years ago.</p>

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Beef prices reach record high, up almost 50% in five years

<p>Tiffany Slaton claims she survived for three weeks in the California wilderness, despite losing all of her gear, before being found in a cabin. People online are starting to doubt her claims</p>

News

A missing woman was found against the odds in the California mountains. Now, people are doubting her story

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Sirens creator explains origins of Kiki’s strange catchphrase

<p>Elon Musk's X is suing a so-called click farm for allegedly obtaining fraudulent payouts from the social media platform based on bogus engagement.</p>

ExclusiveTech

X’s ‘Creator Revenue Sharing’ gets ‘pwned’ by Vietnam click farm

<p>Elon Musk looks on as President Donald Trump meets South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, May 21, 2025</p>

Politics

Musk and DOGE expand use of Grok AI in government - prompting conflict of interest concerns

<p>The Army is rolling out a new fitness test from June 1. In a significant shift, the new fitness standards will be the same for men and women, officials said</p>

News

Could you pass the army’s new physical fitness test?

<p>Feliz Enrique, 31, punched the girl in Queens the day before Mother's Day, authorities say. Video captured the shocking moment. </p>

News

Suspect randomly punched a 9-year-old girl in the face then bit off a cop’s finger who tried to intervene

Universal Orlando Resort's $6 billion Epic Universe park is finally open after six years of construction

Inside Epic Universe: Photos unveil Universal’s $6 billion Florida park as it finally opens to the public

<p>Rodney Hinton Jr, left, is accused of intentionally killing Deputy Larry Henderson, right, with his car just hours after watching body cam footage of his son being shot dead by police. </p>

News

A Black father killed a cop after seeing his son shot dead in a police chase. Now he's gone viral with more than $100G in donations to his cause

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news

'Love you forever': Tributes to music agent Dave Shapiro and drummer Daniel Williams after fatal San Diego plane crash

Devil Wears Prada drummer’s final Instagram post before plane crash

<p>Joe Rogan has revealed that the former Egyptian Minister of Antiquities was the worst guest he's ever had on his show</p>

News

After 16 years, Joe Rogan reveals the worst guest he’s ever had on his podcast

<p>‘I understand that I do have an addiction, and I am an addict,’ Keoghan said</p>

Lifestyle

Barry Keoghan makes honest confession about addiction as he talks about mom’s heroin struggles

Inside The Beltway

<p>Frank Bisignano, Donald Trump’s new head of the Social Security Administration, admitted that, prior to accepting the position, he had had to look it up online</p>

Politics

‘I’m one of the great Googlers on the East Coast’: New head of Social Security had to look up his job after it was offered

<p>Radio host Charlamagne tha God said that President Donald Trump is using the Justice Department to go after Letitia James in retaliation for the charges she brought against him in 2022. </p>

Politics

'Trump has a list’: Charlamagne tha God says Letitia James investigation is ‘retaliation’

<p>Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay, California</p>

Politics

Trump’s prison officials visited Alcatraz this week to assess reopening it, superintendent confirms

<p>Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira gave his first interview since he was arrested over two years ago and used it to plead with Donald Trump to give him a pardon.</p>

Politics

Pentagon leaker begs Trump for pardon in jailhouse interview, calls himself a ‘patriot’

<p>Lamar Odom was booed by protesters on his way into the $TRUMP meme coin gala. He was one of the 220 highest bidders of the coin, earning him a place at the president’s glitzy black-tie dinner in Virginia.</p>

Politics

NBA and Kardashians star Lamar Odom savaged as he joins mega-bucks Trump coin cryptocurrency dinner

<p>Melania Trump announced an AI-narrated audiobook of her 2024 memoir on Thursday. </p>

Politics

Melania Trump turns to AI to narrate audiobook in her own voice

<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune has said that House version of the bill is likely to be tweaked </p>

Politics

Why Republicans are angry about Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’

Culture

<p>Helen Thomson is the show's secret weapon</p>

The Last Anniversary is hilarious and scrumptiously well-acted

<p>Chris Packham pictured in 2024</p>

Chris Packham calls government bill a ‘licence to destroy nature’

<p>Damien Hirst with his girlfriend Sophie Cannell</p>

Damien Hirst says he used to buy property ‘a bit like Monopoly’

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Sabotage suspected as Cannes Film Festival hit by major power outage

<p>Britney Spears reportedly lit a cigarette onboard a private jet </p>

Britney Spears triggers police response after ‘smoking on flight’

<p>Misha Glenny at Hay Festival 2025</p>

Europe at risk of becoming ‘technological supplicant’ to US and China

<p>Film Review - The Ballad of Wallis Island</p>

Creators behind British comedy react to ‘mad’ Richard Curtis praise

<p>Kylie’s 69-date Tension tour has already thrilled audiences in Australia, Asia and North America</p>

Kylie Minogue’s Tension tour proves she’s an all-time pop great

<p>Stan Yanevski, who starred as Viktor Krum in the Harry Potter franchise, underwent surgery to treat his 'inability to breathe'</p>

Harry Potter star rushed to hospital for emergency surgery

<p>Rosamund Pike in 'The Wheel of Time'</p>

The Wheel of Time fans devastated after Prime Video decision

IndyBest

<p>If you’re looking to dip your toe into wearables, don’t miss this Memorial Day saving</p>

The Oura ring has $100 off in the Memorial Day sales

<p>I’ve found the best of the early deals</p>

Best deals in Amazon’s Memorial Day sale 2025

<p>I swear by the setting spray to lock my make-up in place</p>

Charlotte Tilbury’s Memorial Day sale sees 20% off with this code

<p>I added the glycolic acid toner into my evening skincare routine three times a week after cleansing and before moisturising — here’s what happened </p>

The Ordinary’s $8 glycolic acid ‘transformed my skin’ in one month

Lifestyle

Boris Johnson’s wife Carrie announces birth of fourth baby

<p>Danica Patrick and Aaron Rodgers dated from January 2018 to July 2020</p>

Danica Patrick accuses NFL star of ‘emotionally abusive’ relationship

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Health & Families

How many children does Boris Johnson have?

<p>The Dubai chocolate is a bar of milk chocolate stuffed with a creamy concoction of pistachio cream and shredded pastry known as kataifi</p>

Trader Joe’s adds viral Dubai chocolate to shelves

<p>Nero has been missing since July 2024</p>

Couple spend over $20,000 in search for missing cat

<p>The warmer weather is the perfect opportunity to dust off the barbecue and grill a juicy steak</p>

Planning a BBQ this weekend? This is how to cook the perfect steak

<p>‘Dear AA girlies, thank you for the love, hospitality and handwritten note — you know me well,’ Meghan’s note read</p>

Flight attendant shows off handwritten note from Meghan Markle

<p>Their kids drinking too much on holiday is a common concern for parents </p>

Health & Families

This is the age you can let your teen go on holiday without you

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<p>Donald Trump’s savage swipe at NOTUS reporter during live broadcast goes viral.</p>

Trump’s savage swipe at reporter during live broadcast goes viral

Trump

Watch: Kids at White House Take Your Child to Work Day quiz Trump

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Inside the MAGA conspiracy about Biden’s health

<p>Capuchin monkeys abducting baby howlers</p>

Monkeys caught on camera ‘kidnapping’ another species’ babies

Travel

<p>Some American cities champion bike use no matter the weather</p>

Eight American cities that are surprisingly great for cycling

<p>The Skyrider 2.0 is shaped like a saddle</p>

Paying to stand: Are vertical seats the future of budget air travel?

<p>It can be the call of the baked goods alone that drives people to visit a destination, whether that's Paris for its pastries or to Austria for its sachertorte</p>

Top bakery destinations around the world and which treat to eat

<p>File. An Indigo aircraft</p>

Passengers scream as flight hits severe turbulence during Delhi storm

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