Livetrump on trial

Michael Cohen returns to face heated cross-examination from Trump attorneys as prosecution prepares to rest case

<p>Karen Read reacts to her defense team during her trial over her alleged killing of her police officer boyfriend</p>

crime

Karen Read loses it as trial

Footage shows Boston cop and girlfriend in bar hours before murder

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

News

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

politics

Supreme Court allows Louisiana to use map with extra Black district

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

News

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>A courtroom sketch depicts Michael Cohen testifying in front of Donald Trump durinh his hush money trial on 14 May</p>

trump on trial

Michael Cohen says he used to be ‘knee deep in cult’ of Trump during fiery cross-examination

Trump appears to fall asleep with his mouth open during Cohen’s cross exam

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

trump on trial

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>

trump on trial

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

<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

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

US Crime News

Chad Daybell trial: Jury hears Lori Vallow’s name for his penis

news

Pitch-invading raccoon caught in bin after interrupting football game

News

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

China

Putin and Xi Jinping laud world stabilising influence at Beijing talks

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

Politics

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

<p>Former President Jimmy Carter departs after attending the funeral service for his wife, former first lady Rosalynn Carter, at Maranatha Baptist Church, in Plains, Georgia on 29 November 2023</p>

Politics

Former president Jimmy Carter, 99, is ‘coming to the end', grandson says

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>

LiveEurope

Man charged with attempted murder as Slovakia PM Fico’s condition ‘serious’

LiveEurope

Man charged with attempted murder as Slovakia PM Fico’s condition ‘serious’

Liveroyals

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

<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>

crime

Truck driver charged with bus crash has history of traffic charges

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

news

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

Politics

Most Americans think AI will influence the 2024 election outcome

Politics

Most Americans think AI will influence the 2024 election outcome

<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>

Politics

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

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

news

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>

Exclusive

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>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>

crime

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

Politics

Jan 6 rioter loses Republican primary for congressional seat

<p>Bryan Kohberger, right, is escorted into a courtroom for a hearing in Latah County District Court in September 2023 </p>

crime

Bryan Kohberger court hearing canceled as defense demands evidence

<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

<p> Defendant Nicholas Karol-Chik listens to District Court Judge Christopher C. Zenisek during an arraignment in Jefferson County District Court, 3 May 2023</p>

Crime

Teenager pleads guilty over death of motorist killed by rock

<p>Chrishalea Farley describes her bizarre order in a TikTok video</p>

News

Instacart driver goes viral after getting order from death row inmate

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>

news

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>

News

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