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White House's ring of steel as DC braces for violence

Security fencing has been put up outside the White House and businesses nearby were boarded up amid fears of political violence in the wake of the 2024 presidential election.

Pennsylvania residents bid farewell to ‘insane' election

Richard Hall reports from a small town in Bucks County where voters were bombarded with nonn-stop campaigning

Republicans win race to retake control of Senate

Republicans seized control of the US Senate earlier today after flipping Democratic-held seats, wresting away the majority for the first time in four years.

Trump hails 'magnificent' comeback win over Harris

Republicans take swing states North Carolina and Georgia

'Explaining a film takes the fun away for the audience'

Acclaimed director Andrea Arnold speaks to Louis Chilton about working with Barry Keoghan, plucking great actors off the street, and why working in US TV felt like a holiday’

Why you can't buy tickets.on the UK's newest airline

Simon Calder hears about the benefits of wet lease’ capacity and white-tail’ aircraft from the boss of Ascend Airways

Fly me to the moon? Not tonight, thanks, I'm busy

Singer Olivia Rodrigo says men who want to go to space are weird’. It makes sense, writes Helen Coffey, who has her own list of signals that a first date is also likely to be the last

Penned in: family farms are facing an existential threat

Coming from a generation of farmers, Richard Benson has seen the battles those in agriculture face as he fears the tractor tax’ will irrevocably damage the British countryside

Barbados kid leading next generation in all formats.

Jacob Bethell is starring for England in the West Indies with his flamboyant style and has a big future in the Test game

United have found a classy manager, in any language

Sporting CP’s Champions League match with Manchester City last night was full of intriguing sub-plots, as manager Ruben Amorim prepares to join Manchester United later this month and his sporting director and close friend, Hugo Viana, prepares to join City in the new year.

City thumped by Sporting in Amorim's home farewell

Ruben Amorim endeared himself to Manchester United fans before even arriving at Old Trafford by engineering a stunning 4-1 defeat of Manchester City with Sporting Lisbon.

Devastating second-half display sees Reds run riot

A vision of an alternative future turns into a brush with history.

North Korean troops will be 'cannon fodder' in Ukraine

The North Korean troops being used to bolster Russian forces in Ukraine face becoming cannon fodder” and their presence in the region will not alter the path of the war, said military experts.

McGregor 'took cocaine and raped woman' in hotel

Conor McGregor allegedly pinned down and raped a woman ina Dublin hotel while high on cocaine, the city’s High Court has been told.

World is watching Iran over detained protester, says UN

Female student’s whereabouts are unknown since weekend

Russia 'used UK parcel fire as test run for US attacks'

Polish spy chief believes the attacks in Birmingham, Leipzig and Vilnius were carried out under the direction of Moscow

Spain deploys 15,000 police and troops in flood clean-up

Vigilante groups have begun patrolling streets in an effort to prevent looting amid criticism of the government’s response

'It left me afraid for my life'

A domestic abuse survivor tells Maya Oppenheim how her new address ended up in her ex’s hands in a data breach

University to set up public archive of late Robert Fisk

Middle East Independent journalist interviewed Osama Bin Laden and reported from Baghdad during the US invasion

Can Badenoch's new team take the fight to Starmer?

Slightly overshadowed by political developments in the United States, the new Conservative shadow cabinet has been announced and has held its first meeting.

Farmers face mental health perfect storm, Labour told

Rachel Reeves has been accused of traumatising” farmers with her new inheritance tax raid on a sector already grappling with a mental health crisis.

Treasury may have broken law over £22bn ‘black hole'

OBR says Hunt failed to disclose 9.5bn gap before election

Mental health reforms aim to allow patients more say

New bill will mean those in crisis are not detained in cells

Harris's ancestral Indian village prays for her victory

An unassuming village about 8,000 miles from Washington is observing the US presidential election with interest due to its ties with Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

White House's ring of steel as DC braces for violence

Security fencing has been put up outside the White House and businesses nearby were boarded up amid fears of political violence in the wake of the 2024 presidential election.

Pennsylvania residents bid farewell to 'insane' election

Richard Hall reports from a small town in Bucks County where voters were bombarded with nonn-stop campaigning

'Coin flip' as Harris and Trump vie for presidency

Razor-thin margins separate two candidates, latest poll finds

University Tuition Fees Rise For First Time In Eight Years

University tuition fees will increase in England for the first time in eight years as part of a major overhaul of the higher education system, education secretary Bridget Phillipson has announced.

How Starmer Is Preparing For Either Trump Or Harris

Since becoming prime minister on 5 July, Sir Keir Starmer has only met with one of the two candidates hoping to be elected president and it was not with his natural Democrat ally Kamala Harris, but Republican rival Donald Trump.

'Melania is interesting. Very vulnerable, always has been'

There aren’t many celebrities that Jonathan Becker hasn’t photographed and there’s a story behind them all. He tells Zoé Beaty about the pick of his five decades behind the lens