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Trump's 2016 victory speech four years on
President-elect Joe Biden gave a widely praised victory speech in the US presidential race on Saturday night, while Donald Trump continued t...
How mail-in voting became the key US election battleground
The US election is just days away, but already millions of Americans have cast their vote. Mail-in voting has been a controversial topic dur...
The surgeon who 'hoarded body parts'
This week The Independent's award winning health correspondent Shaun Lintern published multiple stories revealing claims that world famous s...
Is there life on Venus?
As possible signs of life have been discovered on Venus, we are closer than ever in answering the age old question: are we alone in the univ...
What's the deal with the Brexit deal?
Is it a great deal or an awful deal? We've heard both from the prime minister on the EU Withdrawal Agreement. The grand finale for Brexit is...
Understanding Tenet
Christopher Nolan's latest movie 'Tenet' has been released in UK cinemas this week and will land in US cinemas this weekend. Those who are y...
What we learnt from the DNC and RNC
After two weeks of speeches, protests and fireworks both the Democratic and Republican conventions are over. Donald Trump and Joe Biden have...
Why does Gavin Williamson still have a job?
Front pages have been filled with stories of the chaotic fallout of the government's handling of exam results for the past week. Gavin Willi...
What we learnt about Meghan and Harry from the bombshell new book
On Tuesday, Finding Freedom , a biography about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, was published. Written by royal journalists Omid Scobie and...
UK plunges into deepest recession on record
The UK plunged into its deepest recession on record in the first half of the year as the coronavirus lockdown saw the economy contract by mo...
On the ground in Beirut
At 6pm local time on Tuesday 4th August a massive double-explosion rocked the Lebanese capital of Beirut. Videos posted to social media show...
Madam Vice President
With fewer than than 100 days to go to the US election, who will join Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket as vice presidential candidate? Bid...
How a Trump supporter grew to love Biden
This week, Ben Kelly is joined by US reporter Chris Riotta to discuss the story of Marie Garofalo, a once indignant Trump supporter who has...
Worst hospital in Britain?
This week, Deputy Editor David Marley is joined by Health Correspondent Shaun Lintern to discuss a hospital trust at the centre of Britain’s...
Travel after Brexit
This week’s news has been dominated by the latest coronavirus stories. But alongside that, another old news favourite has crept back into vi...
Arrested, jailed and assaulted: Being a journalist in Trump’s America
On July 1 The Independent's Chief US Correspondent Andrew Buncombe was arrested while covering a police operation to clear Black Lives Matte...
Becoming internet famous in lockdown
On the show today TikTok star and impressionist Meggie Foster joins The Independent's Social Media Editor Ben Kelly to discuss her rise to i...
Do we drink more?
On the show today Deputy Editor David Marley is joined by addiction expert Ian Hamilton to discuss our relationship with alcohol during coro...
The history of pandemics
On the show today Deputy Editor David Marley is joined by author and pandemics expert Mark Honigsbaum to discuss how this virus, and others...
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