BREAKING | US President Trump says Ayatollah Khamenei has been killed

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Grand jury indicts ex-Trump adviser turned critic John Bolton: report

BREAKING | Ex-Trump adviser turned critic John Bolton indicted in classified documents case: report

Grand jury considers criminal charges against Letitia James after Trump’s demands

BREAKING | Grand jury considers criminal charges against Letitia James after Trump demanded case against New York attorney general

Who are the right-wing influencers joining JD Vance on his Cotswolds holiday? JD Vance’s trip to the UK has seen him dine with a number of right wing figures, from Reform leader Nigel Farage to Cambridge academic James Orr

Who are the right-wing politicians and influencers joining JD Vance on his Cotswolds holiday?

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Trump says Epstein ‘stole’ victim Virginia Giuffre from Mar-a-Lago President tells reporters he cut off contact with Epstein because he was poaching employees from his club

Trump says Epstein ‘stole’ underage victim Virginia Giuffre from his Mar-a-Lago spa leading to feud
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WATCH | Fox News hosts suggests children can fill farm labor shortages caused by Trump deportations

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Trump posts meme of himself and JD Vance chasing Obama in OJ’s white Bronco The image is a recreation of a famous shot of the former NFL star’s evasion of police in 1994

Trump posts meme of himself and JD Vance chasing Obama in OJ’s white Bronco

The Men Trump Deported to a Salvadoran Prison On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been t...

Hot off the @propublica.org presses: We're publishing bios of all 238 of the Venezuelan men who Trump sent to CECOT in an interactive database: projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...

JD Vance flew to Montana for secret meeting with Rupert Murdoch and Fox News execs A source familiar with the trip told The Independent that the vice president spoke to both Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, as well as a group of executives from the right-wing network

Trying to imagine how Fox News would have covered it if in May 2024 Kamala Harris took a secret day trip to visit the head of CNN. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Yeah but Bob Vylan though

Anna Wintour stepping down as Vogue editor-in-chief after 37 years Wintour served the position for almost 40 years

BREAKING | Anna Wintour stepping down as Vogue editor-in-chief after 37 years

Paul Durcan, Irish Poet of Tortured and Tender Souls, Is Dead at 80

After he set about becoming a writer in the 1960s, his father — a hidebound judge who called him a “sissy” — sent family members to remove him from a Dublin pub and then had him committed to a psychiatric hospital. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/b...

Joe Don Baker, James Bond and Mitchell star, dies aged 89 Texan actor was also known for playing Sheriff Buford Pusser in ‘Walking Tall’

James Bond star Joe Don Baker dies aged 89.

Texan actor was also known for playing Sheriff Buford Pusser in ‘Walking Tall’.

We were probably just hit by an out-of-control spacecraft, experts say An out-of-control Russian spacecraft has probably plummeted to Earth, experts say.

BREAKING | Out-of-control Russian spacecraft Kosmos-482 probably just fell to Earth, experts say

Love it!!

An image of John Oliver, a white man with glasses and a suit, speaking on a news broadcaster set. The chyron next to him has text that says "RFK Jr calls autism an ‘epidemic’ and a tragedy. As an autistic journalist, I have some comments." with subtext that says "I’ve vocally said that more research needs to go into how autistic people die needlessly from epilepsy episodes. The life expectancy for autistic people is far lower than that of their neurotypical peers."

Thanks for the shout out @lastweektonight.com

I went to London’s newest dating event and realised why we’re all so rubbish at it Tired of the safe, sanitised and endlessly frustrating cycle of dating apps, Maja Anushka went to newly founded Haystack Dating’s latest event to find out what’s behind the resurgence in IRL ‘meet-cut...

wrote something new recently btw!! for @the-independent.com, on dating apps, dating events, non-rejection vs. The Real Thing, and getting psyched out on the tube. check it out if u fancy. mwah x

Senior U.S. official to exit after rift with Musk allies over payment system A top Treasury career staffer is expected to depart. Surrogates of Musk’s DOGE effort had sought access to sensitive payment systems.

Exclusive: David A. Lebryk, the highest-ranking career official at the Treasury Department, is departing after a clash with allies of billionaire Elon Musk over access to sensitive payment systems, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.

via @brianstelter.bsky.social’s Reliable Sources

Newsmax Emails Show How It Got A Neo-Nazi Shooting Wrong: ‘I Told Them Not To Run It’ Newsmax host Greg Kelly aired the image of an innocent man in his coverage of a 2023 mass shooting in Texas. New internal emails show what went wrong.

Newsmax host Greg Kelly aired the image of an innocent man in his coverage of a 2023 mass shooting in Texas. New internal emails show what went wrong.

Kamala Harris didn't announce her Medicare home care plan on The View by accident. We can make fun of The View all we want, but women overwhelmingly carry the load for people with disabilities AND elderly people (and there's a big Venn diagram with both).
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President basks in laughter turning rally from policy talk to improv comedy show The newly-sworn in president was feeding off of the Las Vegas crowd’s energy, cracking jokes like he was holding his own improv show, as the backdrop of uncertainty following his stack of controversia...

President Donald Trump arrived in Las Vegas, a city known for its unique shows, and delivered a speech-turned-comedy show of his own.

Trump began his speech like he began most of his campaign rallies: boasting about his own success before disparaging the Biden administration.

The US president insisted he was serious in his determination to take over Greenland in a fiery telephone call with Denmark’s prime minister www.ft.com/content/ace0...

Photo of a small crab from NOAA’s social media. It’s covered in spikes

Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found

“Present day statesmen are making the biggest blunder of the age if they believe that there can be any peace without equity and justice to all mankind.” - Marcus Garvey

an interesting subplot here is mark zuckerberg working so hard to get on trump’s good side yet trump is helping his company’s biggest rival

A Trump Oligarchy Is Moving to Washington, and Buying Up Prime Addresses Billionaires and multimillionaires are flocking to a city where power has been more important than money, but is now deeply intertwined with it.

Biden warned in his farewell address to the nation last week that an oligarchy is taking shape in America. In Washington, the oligarchs are already here, buying big houses, Elisabeth Bumiller reports. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/u...

So proud of the work @the-independent.com team put into this over the past week.

David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Elephant Man director, dies aged 78 The brilliant auteur whose unsettling, beautiful dreamscapes skewered the hypocrisy of the American dream has passed away at 78

The brilliant auteur whose unsettling, beautiful dreamscapes skewered the hypocrisy of the American dream has passed away at 78