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Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.The…

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Julian Alvarez scores twice as Atletico came from behind to inflict a first defeat of the season on city rivals Real.Published On 27 Sep 202527 Sep 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareJulian Alvarez scored twice as Atletico Madrid came from behind to thrash city rivals Real Madrid 5-2 in a pulsating derby that handed the La Liga leaders their first loss after a perfect start to the season.The thrilling encounter at a raucous Metropolitano stadium saw Atletico fight back from 2-1 down to claim a memorable victory that lifted them to fourth place with 12 points.Recommended Stories list of…

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Selfie with iJustine and Tim Cook at 2025 Apple Event. Jason Hiner/ZDNETWe always knew people took a lot of selfies, but when Apple unveiled its 2025 fall devices, it revealed that iPhone users had taken over 500 billion selfies in the past year. Since there are about 1.5 billion iPhone users in the world, that’s an average of about 330 selfies a year per person. In this selfie taken on the iPhone 17, you can see the level of detail in the face, hat, and the texture on the wall. You can also see the dynamic range in the clouds…

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Trust-fund-Trump wants women to “tough it out” Donald Trump is a man with no medical training. However, that’s never stopped the very stable genius from inflicting his unhinged health views on the rest of us, has it? Back in 2020, for example, Trump memorably mused that injecting disinfectant could help fight the coronavirus – which forced the maker of Dettol and Lysol to put out an urgent statement explaining that this was a very bad idea. Now the president, who once vowed to be a protector of women “whether they like it or not”, has turned his attention to prenatal…

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A group of prominent Nepali filmmakers has filed a formal complaint with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences challenging the selection of “Anjila” as Nepal‘s Oscar submission, alleging procedural violations and conflicts of interest in the selection process. But the film’s director is firing back, claiming rivals offered up to $100,000 to unseat his movie. The controversy centers on “Anjila,” a biographical drama about Anjila Tumbapo Subba, captain and goalkeeper of Nepal’s national women’s soccer team, with Subba playing herself in the lead role. The film follows her journey from being confined within her home to becoming team…

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Data centers are responsible for running many of the services that underpin the systems we interact with every day. Transportation, logistics, energy, finance, national security, health systems, and other lifeline services all rely on up-to-the-second data stored in and accessed through data centers. Everyday activities such as debit and credit card payments, sending emails, booking tickets, receiving text messages, using social media, search engines, and AI chatbots, streaming TV, making video calls, and storing digital photos all rely on data centers.These buildings now connect such an incredible range of activities and utilities across government, business, and society that any downtime can have…

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A Labour MP has called for the government to start building prefabricated homes in England to address the “terrible things” happening to a generation of homeless children.Dame Siobhain McDonagh, who helped found an all-party parliamentary group aimed at supporting record numbers of families in temporary accommodation after being “completely overwhelmed” by the amount of cases in her constituency, said the situation was “devastating”.The number of homeless people has risen steadily over the past few years as Britain faces a shortage of about 4.3m houses. The most recent government statistics show there were 131,140 households in temporary accommodation in England, including…

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House of Guinness Season 1© 2024 Netflix, Inc.Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight’s new series, House of Guinness, follows one of Europe’s most influential dynasties: the Guinness family. As you watch the show, read on to discover who’s in the House of Guinness Season 1 cast and which characters are based on real-life aristocrats from that era.Set in 19th-century Dublin and New York, the story begins following the death of Sir Benjamin Guinness, the matriarch of the Guinness family and the driving force behind the successful brewery. Now that he’s gone, “the far-reaching impact of his will on the fate of…

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We’re about a quarter of the way through the 21st century. Summers across the global north are now defined by flash floods, droughts, heat waves, uncontainable wildfires, and intensifying named storms, exactly as predicted by Exxon scientists back in the 1970s. The United States secretary of health and human services advocates against using the most effective tool we have to fight the infectious diseases that have ravaged humanity for millennia. People are eagerly lapping up the misinformation spewed and disseminated by AI chatbots, which are only just getting started. It is against this backdrop that a climate scientist and a…

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