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Alissa Turney has been missing for more than two decades but her sister Sarah hasn’t given up her mission to get answers. Even if that means sitting down with the one and only suspect in the case – their father. Andrea Cavallier reports

Ministry of Defence sources said discussions are ongoing about whether to send troops to the country to support it amid Russia’s ongoing invasion

Exclusive: Labour under pressure to take a stand against human rights abuses

Floridians attempting to leave the area have been caught up in heavy congestion leaving via a small number of routes

One says this election features ‘the most staggering issue I’ve seen in my entire 50-year career in American politics’. Another thinks North Carolina will decide everything. Andrew Feinberg speaks to strategists about what they actually believe will happen in the next month — the good, the bad and the ugly

‘I’m furious... it’s not our job to fix that maternity unit’, says father

The families of Britons imprisoned abroad accuse the Foreign Office of caring more about ‘not upsetting’ relations with key trade partners than calling for the release of their loved ones.

Hospitals are calling on the Biden administration to take urgent action, including declaring a national emergency

Ousted Spotsylvania County Public Schools Superintendent Mark Taylor is taking his former bosses to court over his extracurricular religious activities