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Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers are getting their turn to question a woman who alleges the one-time Hollywood heavyweight held her down on a bed and forced oral sex on her nearly two decades ago

Exclusive: Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch under growing pressure over her stance towards Nigel Farage’s party

The Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggesting that others across the South should be eliminated

The mother of an inmate who died of dehydration and malnutrition at one of Wisconsin's maximum security prisons last year has filed a federal lawsuit alleging guards failed to give him water or his medication

In the first 100 days of Trump’s second term, the president has presided over a chaotic and turbulent economy

CEO Ashley Buchanan took on the role in mid-January

Daniel Graham refused to comment in police interview when asked about the footage showing the chunk of a tree and a chainsaw in the boot of a vehicle, a jury at Newcastle Crown Court heard

Deputy chief of staff’s comments comes as Christmas put at risk amid freezing supply chains due to China tariffs

Detainees stand together in formation to spell out distress signal in protest at their incarceration and potential transportation to El Salvador

Uncertainty continues to hang over the latest round of financial results and forecasts for companies both big and small as they try to navigate a global trade system severely shaken by a stark shift in U.S. policy

Luxury London department store says it has been fighting ‘attempts to gain unauthorised access to some of our systems’

Many of the big movies this summer might come from familiar places – whether they’re franchises, sequels or hybrid adaptations of beloved animated classics

Lawmakers tell The Independent they’re determined to protect ‘vulnerable citizens’ – but for Mike Johnson, the cuts have to come from somewhere

‘Tariffing these products is completely at odds with that stated goal of increasing birth rate and supporting families,’ Babylist founder says

California's population has increased for the second year in a row

The index managed to claw back losses from earlier in the day to gain 1.95 points, or 0.02%, to close at 8,496.8.

The South African armed forces say they have begun withdrawing their peacekeeping troops from rebel-controlled eastern Congo

A business partner and former agent for Pro Football Hall of Famer John Elway has died after suffering an injury at a Southern California golf resort

The Food and Drug Administration is again trying to rehire some staffers who were recently fired amid mass layoffs at the agency

A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from deporting any Venezuelans from South Texas under an 18th-century wartime law

An internal email urged 70,000 workers at the company’s supermarket, funeral service and insurance company to be vigilant and verify all meeting attendees

Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Hikmat Al-Hijri has harshly criticized Syria’s government for what he called an “unjustified genocidal attack” during deadly sectarian fighting in Druze-majority areas south of Damascus this week

A man who fell from the 21-foot-high Clemente Wall in right field at PNC Park during a game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs remains in critical condition

Other students at the Fort Lauderdale school have been exposed to the potentially deadly bacterial infection

Texas District Judge Fernando Rodriguez delivers sharp rebuke of government’s legal arguments behind mass removals