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Dan Smith of British pop band Bastille chats with music editor Roisin O’Connor for The Independent’s new music podcast series Roisin O’Connor’s Good Vibrations.

THE A-WORD: At 15 weeks pregnant, Nicole Blackmon was told her unborn baby would not survive and her own life was in jeopardy. Tennessee state laws meant doctors could not intervene, so she was forced to carry and birth a son she knew would be stillborn. Bel Trew, Julia Saqui…

While many praised the photos, locals from the area burst her bubble by letting her know that the photos were not actually of the aurora borealis.

Lawsuit claims ringside announcer Melvin Phillips Jr used his position at WWE to ‘groom and abuse’ young boys

INTERVIEW: Laila Soueif tells Tom Watling that UK foreign secretary David Lammy has failed to help her son despite spending years in opposition calling for his release

THE A-WORD: Evie Lastra West was ‘abortion-minded 100 per cent to the core’ when she found herself pregnant at 19 with her second child. But a visit to a crisis pregnancy center in Tennessee changed everything. Kelly Rissman reports

Evangelical activists spent decades using the levers of power and the courts to enforce an anti-abortion agenda. Pro-democracy Christian groups and pastors are pushing back, Alex Woodward reports

THE A-WORD: Religious themes and ads for ‘abortion pill reversal’ are staples at fake abortion clinics, which now significantly outnumber real clinics. Kelly Rissman reports

THE A-WORD: Exclusive: States are spending millions of dollars in public money to fund fake clinics and religious counseling. Alicja Hagopian and Alex Woodward report, with exclusive research from Reproductive Health and Freedom Watch