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EXCLUSIVE: Rachel Levine is assistant secretary of state for health in the Biden administration and the most senior transgender official in American history. She talks to Io Dodds about her contentious confirmation hearing and her belief bigotry against trans people is in the minority and borne from misinformation.

More Democrats vote to raise the debt limit than Republicans as the bill heads to the Senate

The bill is set for a Wednesday vote in the House despite multiple Republicans criticising it

Backlogs of months and even years have emerged thanks to issues including poor funding, low pay, a flood of requests from attorneys and families and the Covid pandemic. Josh Marcus reports

Resident Aurea Monet had a lucky escape, moving out just eight weeks before the Davenport apartment block partially collapsed on Sunday

The columnist and broadcaster Piers Morgan hacked into Alastair Campbell’s bank accounts in order to destabilise the then Labour government, Tony Blair’s former spin doctor claimed last week at the High Court. 

Exclusive: Official says civil servants will not ‘sit back and take’ measures they believe are unlawful

‘Taking EVERY mode of transportation,’ one viewer responded on TikTok

Exclusive: Zainab Hamid, four, was repeatedly hospitalised with breathing problems after mould overran her family flat in Westminster