Livetrump on trial

Michael Cohen grilled by Trump defense for past lies under oath during tense cross-examination

<p>Defendant Karen Read sits at the defense table during her trial, Thursday, May 9, 2024, at Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham Mass. Read, 44, is accused of running into her Boston police officer boyfriend with her SUV in the middle of a nor'easter and leaving him for dead after a night of heavy drinking. (David McGlynn/New York Post via AP, Pool)</p>

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Karen Read on trial for cop boyfriend's murder

Karen Read loses it as trial over alleged murder drags on

<p>The notorious ‘Little Black Book’ of contacts belonging to Jeffrey Epstein, containing information of his associates, has gone up for sale </p>

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Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious ‘Little Black Book’ of contacts goes up for auction

<p>US Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks at a press conference at the Justice Department </p>

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Biden blocks release of interview audio in classified docs probe

<p>Rudy Giuliani launches new bizarre coffee venture amid bankruptcy proceedings </p>

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America runs on Rudy: Bankrupt mayor launches bizarre coffee venture as he’s crippled by $148m debt

<p>Image from last month of the floating pier for Gaza being constructed</p>

Middle East

US completes Gaza pier as delivery of critical aid to begin ‘in days’

<p>Walmart memo noteed ‘reduction of several hundred’ roles </p>

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Walmart’s Q1 profits triple as it announces ‘several hundred’ job cuts

<p>Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn and Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump in ‘The Apprentice’</p>

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Donald Trump film depicting rise to power sold for UK audience

Trump on trial

Melania Trump’s influence over her husband is being revealed at trial

Former first lady has beene more instrumental to her husband’s political operations than has previously been understood – at least, if Michael Cohen is to be believed

<p>Prominent allies of Donald Trump appeared in a Manhattan criminal courthouse to support the former president during his hush money trial on 14 May. </p>

Trump on Trial

Will attacks from Trump’s ‘surrogates’ land him in jail?

Legal analysts say Trump is violating a court order against ‘making or directing’ attacks, but prosecutors and the judge likely do not want to spend time on another sideshow as the trial comes to a close

<p>Donald Trump, Melania Trump and Barron Trump exit the funeral of Ivana Trump in July 2022 </p>

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Trump reveals new details about Barron’s college plans

<p>Stephen Colbert pretending to be Donald Trump if his microphone gets cut off in the upcoming debates</p>

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Colbert roasts Trump over election debate: ‘let’s get ready to ramble’

<p>Donald Trump in New York during his hush money trial. Recent polling found that more than half of Americans believe he falsified records to cover up payments to Stormy Daniels </p>

TRUMP ON TRIAL

Most Americans now believe Trump did falsify hush money records

News

Campus unrest: Police clash with Gaza protestors at UC Irvine

<p>Chad Daybell sits during an August 2020 court hearing in St. Anthony, Idaho</p>

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Chad Daybell trial: Testimony turns graphic as jury hears Lori Vallow’s name for penis

<p>Dennis Rader, also known as the BTK killer, may be linked to a 1976 cold case disappearance of Cynthia Dawn Kinney </p>

Crime

BTK killer tied to cold case murder after cryptic puzzle decoded

<p>The Supreme Court has allowed for the use of a new congressional map in Louisiana </p>

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Supreme Court allows Louisiana to use map with extra Black district

<p>Hotel-casinos on the Las Vegas Strip </p>

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Sin City loses an icon: Casino that spurred 90s boom in LV is closing

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Pitch-invading raccoon caught in bin after interrupting football game

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Elon Musk fired nearly all of Tesla’s Supercharger team after top exec fight

<p>Senator Bob Menendez and wife, Nadine Menendez, pictured in March 2024. His defense lawyer suggested at the opening of his trial that she was to blame for an alleged bribery scheme </p>

Politics

Bob ‘Gold Bars’ Menendez throws wife under bus in opening statements at trial

crime

Three bodies were found in an abandoned car on a highway in 2013. Now, a school teacher has been arrested

<p>Keante Harris, an assistant principal for the Jefferson County school district in Georgia, has been arrested in connection to a 2013 cold case</p>

<p>Security guards react at the scene of a shooting incident of Slovak PM Robert Fico</p>

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Slovakia PM shooting: Robert Fico ‘escaped death by a hair’

Liveslovakia shooting

Slovakia PM shooting: Robert Fico ‘escaped death by a hair’

Liveroyals

King Charles unveils official portrait as Harry and Meghan issue defiant statement

China

Putin and Xi Jinping laud world stabilising influence at Beijing talks

<p>Ron DeSantis signed a law making climate change a lesser priority in Florida </p>

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DeSantis culls climate change references from state law

<p>On Wednesday, Mayor Eric Adams tried to walk back remarks in which he referred to migrants as ‘excellent swimmers’ </p>

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NYC mayor tries to walk back migrant ‘excellent swimmers’ comment

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NYC mayor tries to walk back migrant ‘excellent swimmers’ comment

Politics

Most Americans think AI will influence the 2024 election outcome

<p>Dashboard maps US bird flu cases </p>

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CDC launches new dashboard to track bird flu outbreak in your area

<p>Ashley Madison’s homepage pictured in 2013. The website, aimed at people seeking affairs, experienced a massive data breach in 2015</p>

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Affairs, data breach and suicides: The Ashley Madison scandal

The Ashley Madison data breach, which exposed the data of millions looking to cheat on their partners, may even be linked to some deaths by suicide, Katie Hawkinson reports.

<p>Former Miss USA 2023, Noelia Voigt, was subject to unwanted advances during a Christmas parade event this past December in Florida, sources told <em>The Independent </em></p>

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Ex-Miss USA quit after ‘facing Christmas parade driver made inappropriate advances’ staff did not step in

All the allegations against Miss Universe leadership

<p>Kendra Gail Licari catfished her own daughter in a harassment scheme in 2021 </p>

CRIME

A mother spent months bullying her daughter online, pretending to be a teenager. Now her story is a movie

<p>Mary Alice Pultz (pictured) vanished in 1968. Her remains were found on a Florida beach in 1985 were not identified - until now</p>

crime

A mother-of-two disappeared with her boyfriend 40 years ago. Finally, there are some answers

2024 election

Trump brutally tells RFK Jr he ‘needs more than his name’ to join him and Biden on debate stage

<p>Independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr speaks to the media at a Cesar Chavez Day event at Union Station on 30 March 2024 in Los Angeles, California </p>

<p>A bridge in Galveston Texas was hit by a barge on Wednesday, causing part of an attached railway to collapse </p>

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Barge slams into Galveston bridge causing collapse as oil spills into water below

<p>Bryan Howard, 41, has been charged with eight counts of manslaugter after eight people died in a horror crash. Pictured in multiple mug shots </p>

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Truck driver charged with bus crash has history of traffic charges

<p>Senator Tammy Duckworth is working to get a doctor she says saved her life out of Gaza after Israel closes the Rafah border crossing </p>

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Tammy Duckworth is trying to get doctor who saved her life out of Gaza

<p>The arrest warrant accuses Cleary of stalking an 18-year-old student at a party, sneaking into her dorm and sexually assaulting her while she texted friends for help</p>

Europe

American in ‘so I raped you’ Facebook message case arrested in France

<p>The NYPD have released images of the suspect in the Steve Buscemi attack in Manhattan</p>

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Suspect accused of sucker-punching Steve Buscemi in NYC attack identified

Politics

Jan 6 rioter loses Republican primary for congressional seat

<p>Aruna Miller and Wes Moore at a campaign event in 2022</p>

political investigation

‘Toxic’ and terrifying: How one state’s politics went way too far

Olympics

The ‘anti-sex’ beds to stop Paris Olympic athletes jumping into sack

EXCLUSIVE INVESTIGATIONpolitics

Joe Biden has done more than arm Israel. Leaked documents reveal his own officials see him as complicit in Gaza’s devastating famine

An investigation by The Independent uncovers the missteps, missed opportunities and political choices made by the Biden administration that allowed a famine to take hold in northern Gaza. With access to leaked documents, testimony from current and former officials and voices from Gaza, it paints a damning picture of an entirely preventable catastrophe. By Richard Hall, Bel Trew and Andrew Feinberg

<p>Palestinians line up to receive meals at Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip in March. The head of the United Nations World Food Programme says northern Gaza has entered “full-blown famine” after nearly seven months of war between Israel and Hamas</p>

INTERVIEW

A punk band superfan went to almost every show for 10 years. Now she’s paralyzed after the singer jumped on her

<p>The Archewell Foundation said after investigating that it found payments were made “promptly” and all paperwork was filed “without error or wrongdoing”</p>

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Harry and Meghan’s Archewell charity no longer listed as ‘delinquent’

Harry and Meghan issue defiant statement following Nigeria trip

<p>Tom Brady said his recent Netflix show impacted his kids </p>

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Tom Brady admits Netflix roast ‘affected’ his kids after divorce jokes

<p>Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and Chief Scientist of OpenAI, speaks at Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv on 5 June, 2023</p>

Tech

OpenAI co-founder resigns after launch of new ChatGPT

<p>Breanna Cecil and her husband in 2021</p>

abortion rights

Tennessee woman denied abortion after fetus’ ‘brain not attached’

State lawmakers ‘don’t see the mourning and the grieving that these moms’ experience after getting a heartbreaking diagnosis, Breanna Cecil tells Kelly Rissman