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Silencing of a film-maker documenting the widespread 2022 demonstrations against Covid controls is part of rising suppression of press freedom

During day five of testimony, Donald Trump was hit with a $9,000 gag order fine and was granted his request to attend Barron’s graduation

Columbia students took over Hamilton Hall in the early hours of Tuesday morning and repeated their demands for the university to divest from companies linked to Israel

Keith Davidson, former lawyer for Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, testifies about details of hush money agreement

Rishi, Keir and Dave come in close behind. It must be exhausting being so uniquely blessed

Customers across the Middle East and in Muslim-majority markets like Indonesia have been boycotting McDonald’s

The former president is ordered to delete Truth Social posts attacking witnesses – or face jailtime

‘If Congress were a theatre, they’d have thrown out Lauren Boebert a long time ago,’ the president joked on stage at the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday

The Labour leader has vowed to reverse the ‘Shoplifter’s Charter,’ boost police presence, and introduce new legislation to protect retail workers as shoplifting cases hit record levels across Britain.”

Former president running for White House while battling myriad indictments and legal cases

Oregon patient lost consciousness after white matter became inflamed and risked irreversible loss of brain function and possibly death

Children were forced to sit in their urine and eat crumbs off the floor

A large takeaway flat white will already set you back £5.19 in London and other cities aren’t far behind. If cafe owners aren’t getting rich off our caffeine habit, who is?

Moves come despite hospitality group reporting record profits and increasing returns to shareholders

Four-year-old child and pregnant woman among those in a serious condition after strike on seafront park in Black Sea port city

Some of the staff seen hitting pupils at a London school still work there despite CCTV showing the scale of the abuse

The contaminated blood and Post Office scandals have resulted in politicians and Whitehall both dodging accountability, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The long read: Stuart Potts is an unlikely do-gooder – a former crack addict who has hit rock bottom more than once. But since 2020 he has offered hundreds of homeless people a bed in his small flat – and for many of them, it has been life-changi ...

Ukrainian troops have fallen back from three villages as fierce fighting continues