Over 100 students at NYU and Columbia have been arrested this past week over pro-Palestinian protest encampments
Day seven of the former president’s historic election interference trial is underway in New York City
Michael Cohen assured David Pecker that Donald Trump would ‘take care’ of a $150,000 payment to kill a story from Karen McDougal, the former publisher testified
The former Hollywood producer will not walk free due to a 16-year prison sentence in California
Watch live as MeToo Founder Tarana Burke reacts to Harvey Weinstein ’s conviction being overturned.
Oral arguments in the case related to the federal election interference indictment against Donald Trump are set to take place this morning
Former president famously claimed there were ‘very fine people’ on both sides of white nationalist rally in 2017
More than 2,500 people have been killed or injured in the last few months, UN data says
“There has been this discourse that Columbia is this hotbed of antisemitism, but it’s just a bunch of nerds sitting on the ground praying, chanting and doing homework,” said one student who...
There was ‘no impact’ on the vice-president’s departure from the military air base
Mint Butterfield is the child of two prominent tech entrepreneurs: Stewart Butterfield, co-founder and CEO of cloud-based communication software Slack and Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr
Former deputy Andrew Buen has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, misconduct and reckless endangerment in the June 2022 killing of motorist Christian Glass, 22, who was shot dead in his vehi...
A U.S. citizen arrested on drug charges in Moscow amid soaring Russia-U.S. tensions has appeared in court and had his case adjourned until mid-May
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/russia-ap-moscow-washington-english-b2534786.html
The fatal crash raises questions over whether Tesla’s recent recall of two million vehicles went far enough to emphasize the need for drivers to pay attention to the road while using Autopilot
Watch live at the US Supreme Court on Thursday, 25 April, as it hears arguments by Donald Trump that he is immune from criminal prosecution for trying to overturn his 2020 election loss.
Israel has mobilised two more brigades for missions in Gaza ahead of a long-threatened offensive in the southern city of Rafah, where more than a million Palestinians have fled
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-rafah-gaza-hamas-b2534662.html
A Moscow court has imposed a 50,000-ruble ($560) fine on a TV presenter and actress who gained notoriety for hosting an “almost naked” party, saying her social media posts calling for peace d...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ap-tv-presenter-tallinn-estonia-moscow-b2534727.html
‘We assess there are strong indications of unlawful manipulation of DJT stock,’ the company’s CEO said
The missiles were supplied to Ukraine under a secret deal agreed in March ahead of the £76bn US security package
‘We’re going to make a play for New York,’ Mr Trump told the crowd on Thursday morning – before heading to Manhattan criminal court for day seven of his hush money trial
Video shared across social media on Wednesday (24 April) appeared to show police bringing two protesters to the ground amid scuffles during a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Texas...
https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/palestine-protests-campus-university-texas-b2534742.html
Marine wildlife experts rushed to the state of Western Australia on Thursday (25 April) to rescue four pods of pilot whales stranded in a remote estuary.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/australia-whales-stranded-perth-video-b2534740.html
Photos from the party circulated widely on social media
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/anastasia-ivleeva-naked-party-russia-b2534738.html
‘There is a deal on the table that would bring a ceasefire immediately to Gaza... and Hamas has rejected that,’ said a White House official, referring to a pending negotiation currently ongoi...
Manhattan prosecutors ask for defendant to be fined $10,000 over 10 social media posts that, they argue, breached the terms of the restriction imposed to stop politician discrediting or intimidat...
More than half of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million have sought refuge in Rafah
As surrogacy industry booms following celebrities openly using ‘gestational carriers’, Ohio woman says she is motivated by helping heartbroken couples – and would have baby number 12 ‘in ...
The southern cities of Nice and Beziers have introduced controversial measures to ban all under 13s from being out on the streets unaccompanied after 11pm
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-curfew-nice-violence-youth-b2534596.html
Top US diplomat is set for fraught discussions with foreign minister Wang Yi and possibly president Xi Jinping
https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/china/antony-blinken-china-visit-russia-tiktok-ban-b2534603.html
‘They killed King Kong,’ Jesse Watters’ colleagues point out
The Campaign Legal Center watchdog is asking the Federal Election Commission to investigate the payments immediately
Former president is asking the Supreme Court to award him broad immunity from all criminal prosecution
Watch live on Thursday (25 April) as Donald Trump ’s hush money trial enters its seventh day.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/donald-trump-hush-money-trial-today-livestream-b2534654.html
Former president and special counsel have invoked different Supreme Court cases involving Richard Nixon to push opposing arguments as to whether Donald Trump has presidential immunity from prosec...
The public has been asked to look out for the fleeing inmates
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/nigeria-prison-rain-suleja-escape-b2534613.html
Legislation also includes funds for humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza
The health ministry did not say what the water had been contaminated with
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/dubai-illness-floods-sick-water-b2534604.html
Student set to be deported for issuing threats to Chinese-origin activist
Around a hundred manage to return to the sea
The hugely popular Chinese app TikTok may be forced out of the U.S., where a measure to outlaw the video-sharing app has won congressional approval and is on its way to President Biden for his si...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tiktok-ban-india-america-bytedance-b2534586.html
India’s ban could serve as precedent for the US, after President Joe Biden signed the so-called TikTok ban into law
People have been talking about banning TikTok for longer than they haven’t – but it could finally be on its way
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/tiktok-ban-signed-biden-explained-b2534579.html
A python found hiding under a house by a barking dog has been taken away by rescuers.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/thailand-python-house-snake-video-b2534577.html
A spokesperson for the venue says no-one was hurt in the incident
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/moulin-rouge-paris-olympics-b2534479.html
Rates fell across almost all racial and ethnic groups
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/birth-rate-america-falls-pandemic-b2534557.html
Paolo Liuzzo’s death being investigated by police as overdose-related
Propaganda video shows Hersh Goldberg-Polin criticising the Israeli government
Three people taken to hospital after assault denounced as ‘attack on Sweden’s democracy’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/sweden-masked-attackers-fascism-event-b2534448.html
The IDF has called for “urgent action” after Hamas released a video of an Israeli -American hostage missing part of an arm.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/israel-hamas-hostage-hersh-goldberg-video-injury-b2534463.html
With graduations looming, student protesters continue to doubled down on their discontent of the Israel-Hamas war on campuses across the country as universities, including ones in California and ...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/israel-ap-hamas-texas-california-b2534469.html
David Cameron laughed as he described Donald Trump in two words, following their recent meeting.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/david-cameron-laughs-donald-trump-meeting-b2534456.html
Staying abroad does not relieve citizens of duties to homeland, says foreign minister
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-conscription-age-passport-ban-b2534418.html
PM denies allegations against his wife but says they will cooperate with investigation and defend her innocence
Charges include conspiracy to prepare for a terrorist act, possessing violent extremist material and carrying a knife in public
The Senate passed the bill 79-18 after months of opposition from isolationist Republicans
Indictment comes as Supreme Court set to consider whether Trump immune from federal 2020 election conspiracy case
Susan Carter and her 10-year-old daughter Alex Carter had been missing since 2000. Their bodies were found mere hours after the man who confessed to killing them died in custody
A woman who sued Mississippi’s capital city over the death of her brother is rejecting a settlement after officials publicly disclosed how much the city would pay his survivors
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ap-jackson-mississippi-black-b2534369.html
Israeli prime minister argued such protests are the ‘canary in the coal mine’
Former speaker joined letter asking Biden to stop arms transfers after aid worker deaths but voted for recent military assistance package
‘All we knew was that there was a human in that car and we decided to get to action’, a bystander said
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/burning-car-minnesota-b2534346.html
Legal scholars and judges have slammed Trump’s ‘immunity’ defence as absurd and dangerous. No matter how they rule, justices already gave the Republican nominee a boost, Alex Woodward write...
Paul Grice is accused of kidnapping and murdering the two mothers along with four others
Protests relating to the Israel-Hamas war have been growing at campuses across the country
Gregory Fitzgerald Gibert, 53, has been charged with one count of second-degree murder in the killing of 37-year-old Andrea Dorias Dos Passos
Trump’s posts on Truth Social and polling elsewhere suggest young voters may well respond strongly to a TikTok sale or ban. Meanwhile, former Trump administration treasury secretary Steven Mnuc...
The former Syracuse University basketball star was arrested in March
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/diddy-brendan-paul-arraignment-b2534308.html
Investigators found bullets in the juvenile animal’s brain, heart and spinal cord
Mr Johnson called the protesters ‘antisemitic’ and ‘lawless agitators’
Ex-president’s former lawyer announces self-imposed ‘gag’ after discussing the death threats that he has received related to hush money trial
Stephan Sterns is already in jail facing 60 child sexual abuse allegations
California has more people on death row than any other state in the country — and a governor who opposes capital punishment. A new audacious legal challenge to the death penalty in the state su...
Republican legislators cross party lines to join Democrats in reversing the highly controversial bill after two failed attempts
It’s unclear exactly where the Supreme Court will land after hearing arguments about Idaho's abortion ban
The Chicago Bears unveiled a nearly $5 billion proposal for an enclosed stadium next door to their current home at Soldier Field as part of a major project that would transform the city’s lakef...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/chicago-bears-ap-bears-chicago-nfl-b2534261.html
The former president and former New York City mayor have been charged over a separate fake electors plot in Georgia
Idaho’s law bans abortion unless the mother’s life is threatened, meaning the procedure still isn’t allowed even if she faces permanent health effects or infertility. Coney Barrett, who hel...
The former president faces felony charges based on misdemeanour crimes. The DA’s office is beginning to show what elevates the hush money scheme to an election interference plot
The president has some encouraging numbers on the latest poll — and has managed a slew of political victories in the past week that looked like they might never come to fruition
Relatives of imprisoned Belarusian opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova say it's been 434 days since they heard from her
Student protests over Israel’s war with Hamas have popped up on an increasing number of U.S. college campuses following last week’s arrest of more than 100 demonstrators at Columbia Universit...
World ‘now more dangerous now than at any moment since the Cold War’ says prime minister
Biden-Harris campaign plans to use ‘every tool we have to reach young voters’
Officers descended on an area of Long Island’s Manorville as part of the ongoing investigation into the deaths of four women
Defense attorneys say Richard Allen was in ‘mental distress’ when he claimed to have killed Abby Williams and Libby German
Some public school teachers could gain new powers to bring concealed guns into Tennessee schools
Neighbours have also reported fires and domestic violence incidents at the home in Buffalo, New York, which has seen 160 complaints to police since 2007
Mr Payne Jr hospitalised earlier this month over ‘cardiac episode’
Jonathon Candy reportedly attended a basketball game just hours before the murder-suicide
GRAPHIC CONTENT At trial, jurors heard how Montgomery killed his daughter in 2019 by repeatedly punching her in the head after Harmony soiled herself
The French president took to the field as a midfielder, playing alongside icons such as Didier Drogba and Eden Hazard
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/emmanuel-macron-football-drogba-hazard-b2534153.html