<p>Turnberry, Donald Trump’s golf resort in South Ayrshire, Scotland, was vandalized by pro-Palestinian activists</p>

TRUMP'S FIRST 100 DAYS

Trump’s Scottish golf resort vandalized with red paint and course dug up over his plan ‘to ethnically cleanse Gaza’

Latest: Trump administration withdraws $400 million in contracts and grants to Columbia University

<p>Ben Wallace delivered a powerful message on Saturday over Nato</p>

UKRAINE

‘Not the end of the world if US quits NATO,’ says British former defense secretary

<p>Police attend the scene of a shooting at a pub in Toronto, Canada, on Saturday</p>

LiveTORONTO SHOOTING LATEST

12 injured and 'blood all over the floor' of pub as three suspects still on the run

<p>France Rape Trial Australia</p>

EXCLUSIVE

Gisele Pelicot tells sex abuse survivors: ‘You will never be alone’

NEWS

JFK, RFK and MLK: The conspiracies behind each assassination that continue to enthrall amateur sleuths

As the deadline for the release of the files looms, Rhian Lubin revisits some of the outlandish and more compelling theories out there about the killings of JFK, RFK and MLK

<p>Conspiracy theories surrounding the killings of JFK, RFK and MLK continue to fascinate Americans</p>

<p>Investigators provided an update into the death of Gene Hackman and his wife and revealed both died from natural causes</p>

Gene Hackman's Death

Gene Hackman had advanced Alzheimer’s and possibly didn’t know his wife died a week earlier from hantavirus, medical examiner says

<p>Brad Sigmon, 67, is the first person to be executed by firing squad in the U.S. in 15 years</p>

Crime

South Carolina death row inmate executed by firing squad, first in U.S. in 15 years

<p>Americans will lose an hour of sleep on Sunday, March 9, 2025</p>

NEWS

Daylight saving time 2025: When do the clocks go forward in the US tonight?

Newark Police Officer Joseph Azcona, 26, was killed on Friday night during a weapons investigation

Crime

One police officer killed and another seriously wounded in shoot-out with 14-year-old

<p>Women and a girl walk along a street in Kandahar, Afghanistan</p>

The easy answer to those who ask why we need International Women’s Day

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David Schwimmer calls out Hollywood ‘heroes’ for staying silent on antisemitism

<p>Ivanka Trump has attended several events related to her father in recent months despite saying she ‘hates’ politics</p>

TRUMP'S FIRST 100 DAYS

Ivanka Trump, who vowed to stay away from politics, is making a lot of appearances at Dad’s events

<p>Brian Tyree Henry: ‘I think that being able to do this show was some of the best healing I've ever had’</p>

INTERVIEW

Dope Thief’s Brian Tyree Henry: ‘That pain and that trauma had been my identity for so long’

<p>The World Meteorological Organization says that above-average temperatures are forecast across nearly all of the world’s land areas in the upcoming months. A weak La Niña event that emerged in December is likely to be short-lived</p>

Above-average temperatures expected around the world this spring and early summer as La Niña fades

<p>Idaho Maximum Security Institution in Ada County, where executions are performed. The state is currently working to renovate its execution chamber to accommodate firing squad deaths </p>

Crime

Idaho can’t find contractor to build its execution firing range

<p> Paris Jackson hits back at ‘flack’ she got for her sheer dress at Fashion Week: ‘Not that big of a deal’</p>

Paris Jackson defends wearing sheer dress at Fashion Week: ‘We’re all animals’

<p>DOGE staffers Bryton Shang (left) and Tyler Hassen flew to California to turn on a major water pump system themselves in the wake of the Los Angeles wildfires, according to a new report</p>

politics

Musk’s DOGE ‘whiz kids’ flew to California amid LA fires to try to release water themselves

<p>Meghan, Duchess of Sussex in an episode of Netflix’s ‘With Love, Meghan’</p>

Royal Family

Meghan Markle’s Netflix series is getting a second season

<p>D'Wayne Wiggins of Tony! Toni! Tone! performing in Nashville, Tennessee in 2014</p>

Tony! Toni! Toné! singer and guitarist D’Wayne Wiggins dies aged 64

<p>Christopher Thieme is accused of cyberstalking a woman while serving a 17-year sentence</p>

News

He’s in prison for trying to order a hit on his online crush. Cops say he’s still targeting women from behind bars

<p>Ohio Governor Mike DeWine told reporters this week that the federal government will have to accelerate bird flu research to respond to the current spread of the virus. The state has seen more than 15 million of its commercial poultry birds killed since December</p>

News

Ohio governor tells the Trump administration to hurry up bird flu response

<p>Tucker Carlson tells NewsNation anchor Chris Cuomo that he's "definitely more sympathetic to Putin than Zelensky."</p>

Tucker: I’m ‘definitely more sympathetic to Putin than Zelensky’

<p>NASA’s science programs budget could be slashed in half, according to sources </p>

Trump's First 100 Days

‘Extinction level’ cuts coming to NASA, report says

Trump Reshapes The World

<p>Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Elon Musk got into a heated argument at Thursday's cabinet meeting, according to a new report</p>

Trump's first 100 days

Marco Rubio has meltdown with Elon Musk in heated Cabinet meeting: Report

<p>Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent</p>

politics

Treasury secretary calls economy slowdown just ‘detox’ as government spending switches to private sector

<p>Trump asked aides about moving the original Declaration of Independence to the Oval Office</p>

Trump's First 100 Days

Trump asked ‘alarmed’ aides for the original Declaration of Independence to be moved to the Oval Office

<p>Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett ruled against the Trump administration in a ruling this week, making her persona non grata among some of Trump’s MAGA allies</p>

Trump's first 100 Days

MAGA targets Justice Amy Coney Barrett after she rules against Trump

<p>Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder have found that 7 percent of adults in the U.S. have been at the scene of a mass shooting. And, more than 2 percent been injured during one</p>

Crime

One in 15 U.S. adults have been on the scene of a mass shooting, report finds

Researchers say the findings lend credence to the idea of a ‘mass shooting generation’ with experiences that are separate from older generations

<p>Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo warns that the American economy could be heading into a recession, but that Joe Biden would be to blame.</p>

Trump's First 100 days

Maria Bartiromo says a ‘recession’ is coming — but ‘it would be Biden’s recession’

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Trump Shooting

What Trump said when he saw his raised-fist assassination photo for the first time

<p>Elon Musk, pictured at CPAC last month, celebrated the firing of a state agency worker who refused to comply with his company’s pronouns policy </p>

Trump's First 100 days

Elon Musk celebrates after Texas man loses job over refusal to remove gender preferences from email

<p>President Donald Trump could enact a new travel ban as soon as next week</p>

Trump's First 100 Days

Trump wants to revive a travel ban. Here are the countries that could be on it

<p>‘I have multiple tumors in my brain that weren’t able to be removed via surgery. I also have 2 tumors in my lung,’ Mellencamp revealed</p>

Real Housewives’ Teddi Mellencamp shares alarming update after undergoing brain surgery

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Lady Gaga: Every song ranked, from Born This Way to Abracadabra

<p>Luigi Mangione has written a letter from jail to a mom who is struggling to pay for her daughter’s healthcare</p>

Crime

Luigi Mangione pens jailhouse letter after mom’s story of daughter’s healthcare ‘made him tear up’

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Sex Pistols recall Vietnam vets with cattle prods hired to keep them in line on tour

<p>Representational: Indian policewomen patrol a street </p>

Israeli tourist among two women gang-raped in India, police say

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Buffy Sainte-Marie suffers more fallout after returning Order of Canada

<p>Anna Kendrick subtly reveals how she feels about working with Blake Lively again</p>

Anna Kendrick has coy response to question about working with Blake Lively again

<p>Forearm bone fragments belonging to an ancient child that appeared to have features from both humans and Neanderthals</p>

Breakthrough after skeleton of ancient Neanderthal-and-human child found

<p>‘80 per cent of people displaced by the climate crisis are women. And when women are displaced from their homes, they are at greater risk of unemployment, child marriage, human trafficking, and gender-based violence’</p>

It’s men who caused the climate crisis – but it’s women who will suffer the most

<p>A protester is silhouetted against a trans pride flag during a transgender rights protest outside of Seattle Children's Hospital last month</p>

Crime

Transgender women moved to male prisons despite rulings against Trump order

<p>Millions of Americans are expected to travel for spring break this year. Health officials are telling people to remain cautious amid the transmission of the measles virus</p>

News

Doctors worry about spring break as measles cases spread: Not ‘dealing with business-as-usual’

<p>Elon Musk attends a Cabinet meeting with President Donald Trump in Washington on Wednesday</p>

News

Elon Musk's assets plummet $122bn as Tesla stocks sag

Independent Women 2025 – The Influence List

Marking International Women’s Day for a third year running, The Independent has compiled a list of the 50 most influential women across the worlds of politics, sports, the arts, media, business, fashion and activism

Gisèle Pelicot named The Independent’s most influential woman of 2025

<p>Trailblazers, changemakers and inspirations are just a few of the words that describe the 50 exceptional women celebrated in The Independent’s 2025 Influence List, marking International Women’s Day for a third year running</p>

<p>FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried leaves Manhattan federal court on 15 June, 2023, in New York</p>

crime

Crypto grifter Sam Bankman-Fried lands in solitary confinement as he angles for Trump pardon: Report

<p>The number of McDonald’s restaurants all over the world is around 41,800</p>

News

McDonald’s dethroned as world’s largest fast food chain by company with no restaurants in the US

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Harry Potter TV series has ‘found’ its Snape and McGonagall

<p>Pierce Brosnan will take on the role of former union activist Ron Richie in Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club (Suzan Moore/PA)</p>

Pierce Brosnan ‘interested’ in returning as James Bond following Amazon takeover

<p>Searchers return to the spot in 1999, where they believed the Martin family may have disappeared and compared the scene with a photo of it from 1959.</p>

Crime

A family disappeared while out for a drive in 1958. Their car might have just been pulled from an Oregon riverbed

STARBUCKS-DESPIDOS

ExclusiveNews

Fired Starbucks manager claims he faced ‘egregious’ discrimination for being heterosexual

<p>This image released by the NTSB in February shows the site of initial impact of the Learjet 55 that crashed January 31 in Philadelphia</p>

Air Disasters

NTSB releases preliminary report on Philadelphia plane crash

<p>William Yovic, the husband of a Florida state representative, has been accused of not paying more than $100,000 in sales taxes </p>

Crime

Husband of Florida Republican lawmaker accused of massive tax fraud

<p>Kimberley Mills, 37, and Andre Walker, 36, both appeared in court on charges of child abuse</p>

Crime

Mother and boyfriend arrested as 10-year-old suffers heart attack following ‘unspeakable’ campaign of abuse, police say

<p>One in five butterflies in the U.S. disappeared between the year 2000 and 2020, researchers announced on Thursday. The alarming findings were based on data from more than 76,000 surveys</p>

Over the last 25 years, 20 percent of America’s butterflies have vanished. Will they soon be gone?

<p>Candles outside the Gemelli clinic where the Pope is being treated</p>

World

Audio message shows Pope’s frailty as hospital stay hits three-week mark

<p>US government issues travel advisory to popular vacation destination</p>

News

US government issues travel advisory to popular vacation destination

<p>Virtually all cases in measles outbreak have been among those who are unvaccinated or of undeterminate vaccine status</p>

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Unvaxxed New Mexico resident dies after testing positive for measles

Sabien DeMonia started out as an Instagram model, before moving onto OnlyFans, and then opening conversations with EVA AI

ExclusiveNews

She was an OnlyFans creator. Then she got an AI clone

They thought they were chatting with models. The truth was much darker

<p>Neil Young and Crazy Horse performs at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in 2024 </p>

Neil Young risks trying our patience on ‘Oceanside Countryside’

<p>Attorneys for Hunter Biden have filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against a former aide to Donald Trump. In the filing, the reveal Hunter’s current financial position</p>

POlitics

Hunter Biden reveals his dire financial situation after selling one piece of art this year and lackluster book buys

Woody Allen Chef Lawsuit

60s icon reflects on ‘humiliating’ Woody Allen experience

<p>Chris Hemsworth and Isla Fisher</p>

Isla Fisher and Chris Hemsworth among celebrities caught up in cyclone Alfred

<p>Walton Goggins in The White Lotus</p>

White Lotus actor reveals he was bitten for real during snake scene: ‘Am I dying a slow death?’

<p>Kim Kardashian and Damon Thomas divorced in 2004</p>

Kim Kardashian makes rare comment about 2004 divorce from Damon Thomas

<p>Die-hard Trump supporter and pillow hawker is getting raked over the coals in court</p>

News

Judge finds MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell in contempt in Smartmatic lawsuit

<p>The USX-1 Defiant has been deployed into Washington waters after its construction finished last month</p>

News

Mysterious unmanned warship spotted off of Washington state coast

<p>Adnan Syed will go free after a judge reduced his life sentence for the murder of Hae Min Lee in 1999 to time served</p>

Crime

‘Serial’ subject Adnan Syed to go free despite standing murder conviction, judge rules

<p>Charlie Cox in 'Daredevil: Born Again'</p>

Daredevil fans left making the same complaint about new show: ‘This makes me so mad’

Mercy Culture Pastor Landon Schott posted an Instagram video this week that celebrated the Texas church’s partner school reportedly having the state’s lowest vaccination rate for measles. His video has drawn support and criticism amid a measles outbreak in West Texas

News

Outrage after Texas pastor brags online about his school having the state’s lowest measles vaccination rate: ‘We celebrate it’

Inside The Beltway

<p>This image of the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan during World War II is marked for deletion by by Pentagon’s DEI eradication operation apparently because the name of the plane includes the word ‘gay,’ according to The Associated Press.</p>

Trump's First 100 Days

‘Gay’ Hiroshima bomber, female and Black soldiers being erased in shocking Pentagon DEI file purge

<p>Trump is facing pushback from Senate Republicans over his stop-and-start tariff policy </p>

Trump's First 100 Days

These Republican senators have broken from Trump on tariffs

<p>Elon Musk, pictured at a previous Cabinet meeting, was in attendance when Donald Trump told department heads they make the decisions over firings</p>

Trump's First 100 Days

Trump warns his Cabinet that Musk can’t actually fire workers

<p>President Donald Trump has attacked Republican legislative priorities.</p>

Trump's First 100 Days

Trump is bulldozing some Republicans’ priorities. They should be nervous

<p>A Canadian Senator has challenged Donald Trump Jr. to a round in the boxing ring over President Donald Trump’s latest “bogus” tariffs</p>

Trump's First 100 Days

Senator challenges Donald Trump Jr. to boxing match over 'bogus tariffs'

<p>Jimmy Kimmel and Donald Trump</p>

Trump's First 100 Days

Jimmy Kimmel roasts Trump for ‘dumb’ claim about transgender mice

<p>Deputy Department of Defense press secretary Kingsley Wilson has a ‘long history’ of bigoted social media posts, according to a report</p>

Trump's first 100 days

Pentagon press secretary has a ‘long history’ of bigoted social media posts and now faces calls to resign

Culture

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Movie director swears off directing Bond film because of Amazon deal

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Gogglebox viewers stunned as star backs Trump in Zelensky suit debate

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Matt Lucas apologises to Millie Bobby Brown after Little Britain joke

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LiveNews

Gene Hackman: Authorities reveal causes of deaths of actor and wife

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Anna Kendrick has ‘perfect’ response to question about Blake Lively

<p>Danny Dyer</p>

The candid reason Danny Dyer cast his 11-year-old son in his new film

<p>March highlights include books on the healing power of reading; underwater cables that carry the world’s information; and the fragility of memory</p>

What to read this March from a twisty thriller to Julian Barnes

Lifestyle

<p>As appetite-suppressing drugs change the way people eat, restaurants are left wondering: what happens when food is no longer the main event?</p>

The rise of the Ozempic menu and how it’s changing dining out

Jamie Redknapp felt ‘relief’ after career-ending football injury

Alexander Armstrong ‘out of touch’ for ‘extremely poor’ comment

<p>Cleo Davies was found unresponsive on January 8 </p>

Health & Families

Woman, 22, unable to walk or talk after leukaemia went undiagnosed

<p>A toast to trailblazers: Five exceptional wines crafted by leading women winemakers, each bottle a testament to talent, innovation, and the changing face of the industry</p>

Meet the women reshaping the wine world – one glass at a time

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Widening age limits on dating apps could be key to finding THE one

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Drew Barrymore surprises Meghan with photo of Diana in live interview

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Arsonist sets himself on fire while torching car in gated community

<p>Jasmine Crockett speaks on the first day of the Democratic National Convention </p>

Crockett trolls Trump with question about criminals

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Meghan reveals advice she follows to keep marriage to Harry alive

Travel

<p>The Channel Islands are an eight-island archipelago off the California coast</p>

The secret Californian islands that escape most tourists’ radars

<p>The main square of Siena in Tuscany, Italy </p>

The insider’s tour of the city at the heart of Renaissance painting

<p>Petra, one of the chosen seven wonders of the world, was built over 2,000 years ago</p>

How to visit each seven wonders of the world

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