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A series of famous faces are supporting The Independent’s partnership with Refuge to build a safe, secure home for women fleeing abuse

Individual donors have generously given more than £71,000 to The Independent’s campaign just days after it launched

After being held prisoner for a week in her flat, Esther finally escaped to her mother, who didn’t recognise her daughter when she opened the door

Build a house, rebuild women’s lives – donate to The Independent and Refuge’s Brick by Brick campaign to help domestic abuse survivors. Maya Oppenheim takes us through the lifesaving initiative

EXCLUSIVE: ‘I don’t know what he was thinking,’ Tina Cooper tells The Independent of her former employer Ryan Wesley Routh, who is accused of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump. She’d worked for Routh in 2002 when he’d been arrested after a three-hour long police standoff

Wendy Chamberlain questioned the priorities for Reform UK MPs Lee Anderson and Nigel Farage, both of whom host shows on GB News

A murder Airbnb. A playground. A park. After convicted killer and self-proclaimed cult leader Chad Daybell was sentenced to death for the murders of his wife and new lover Lori Vallow’s children, his Idaho house was quickly sold and theories swirled about what it would be used for. The new…

Exclusive: Leonid Volkov tells The Independent’s Tom Watling: ‘The vast majority of anti-Putin, anti-war, opposition-minded Russians are still inside the country, and they’re not changing their minds’

Exclusive: New research from Blood Cancer UK, shared with The Independent, says 45 per cent of blood cancer patients from ethnic minority communities said that they have had to visit their GP three or more times before referral for testing

GoodSkin Clinics was operating without a qualified physician to supervise, according to one former employee

The “gotcha” footage posted online by Vance may not be the slam dunk he apparently hoped it would be