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Long-time favorite four-letter-word ‘f***’ has crept more steadily in recent decades into media, society, slang and even politics. As many Americans (and global citizens) exclaimed it around the US presidential race and results, a new edition of lexicographer Jesse Sheidlower’s The F-Word has been published. He shares some ‘f****ing’ factoids…

‘I think that I’m still trying to grapple with the fact that our country dislikes women so much,’ one accuser told Kelly Rissman after the resounding election results

Melissa Montoya disappeared after a night out in Dulce, New Mexico on March 9, 2001. For 23 years, there was no movement in the case but Darlene Gomez, an advocate for MMIW cases, never gave up the search for her friend. She tells Andrea Cavallier how a new tip could…

‘The basic information of most adults in the United States, and in many other parts of the world, is already widely available,’ one identifty theft expert told Justin Rohrlich

The Reform UK leader said he has ‘got a great relationship’ with the president-elect

Fingers are pointing at President Joe Biden after Donald Trump’s sweeping victory — but strategists argue other factors are to blame for Kamala Harris’s loss. Kelly Rissman reports

The Paramount series ‘Yellowstone’ is about to air its final episodes – after series infighting and a prolonged hiatus. The franchise tentacles have crept into American culture in a deeply entrenched, enduring manner; just look more carefully around you, writes Sheila Flynn

House librarian Tizane Navea-Rogers digs through The Independent’s photography archive and revisits the final days of the Berlin Wall

CAR REVIEW: Given it’s likely to be the Norfolk-based brand’s last all-petrol sports car, Sean O’Grady climbs into the cockpit and is pleased to find this luxurious machine firmly takes its place in the great tradition

The FBI is now investigating these texts, which have been sent to Black people across the country in the wake of Donald Trump’s election victory

The protestors are members of Official Street Preachers, an organization that ‘covers global and local events from a Christian perspective’