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Scandal-ridden congresswoman has Trump’s backing in her bid to win a district across the state from her current seat

The homeless man is expected to survive despite the gruesome alligator attack.

Ken Van Der Zwalm described the chaotic Friday scene and said the youngsters caught up in the shooting would be “marked for life”

Exclusive: Fans say they had phones and money snatched from them while they enjoyed live music at the Leicestershire festival, while singer Frank Carter had his necklace stolen mid-performance

Some of the best costume dramas on the big and small screen were adapted from an Austen classic, including the BBC’s 1995 TV series ‘Pride and Prejudice’, which catapulted Colin Firth to fame. Charlotte Cripps picks the biggest successes

The conservative playbook Project 2025 — which many believe lays out policy for a second Trump term — makes clear that Republicans intend to start using the rarely-invoked law again

A gun-themed restaurant helped Republican firebrand Rep. Lauren Boebert to fame. At the unrelated Shooters in the new district she hopes to win – where she’s running as a carpetbagger – there hasn’t been the same level of Boebert talk or tourism ... yet. Sheila Flynn reports from Byers in…

The Canadian star of ‘Klute’, ‘M*A*S*H*’, ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ and ‘The Hunger Games’ – who has died at the age of 88 – leaves behind a legacy of cinematic classics and progressive politics, writes Kevin E G Perry

The freshman Democrat from Texas tells Eric Garcia about how her ‘bleach blonde bad-built butch body’ remarks came about and why the Oversight Committee wasn’t her first choice

Sunak is on the ropes as one poll puts Reform ahead of the Tories and a second sees gap close again

Akhmed Yakoob has also spoken out in support of misogynistic influencer Andrew Tate