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The Independent
Numbers game: how Trump beat Harris to White House
On Wednesday afternoon, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris gave a speech conceding victory to Donald Trump, who has won the 2024 presidential election.
5 min |
November 08, 2024
The Independent
Biden promises to deliver a peaceful transfer of power
Four years after Donald Trump refused to acknowledge losing the 2020 presidential election, US president Joe Biden said he would honour Mr Trump’s victory over vice-president Kamala Harris by facilitating a “peaceful and orderly transition” to the incoming Republican administration.
3 min |
November 08, 2024
The Independent
Will 'Britophile' Trump sign a trade deal with the UK?
Though few voice it so crudely, one of the great worries on the minds of British policymakers is whether the soon-to-bereincarnated President Trump will slap tariffs on UK exports to the United States.
4 min |
November 08, 2024
The Independent
No winners if US sparks global trade war, PM told
Nobody would win a tit-for-tat trade war with the US when Donald Trump returns to power, Britain’s top international trade expert has warned.
3 min |
November 08, 2024
The Independent
EU leaders urge Trump to stand up to ‘bully' Putin
Starmer is warned that Britain can’t rely on US for defence
3 min |
November 08, 2024
The Independent
HOT AND BOTHERED
We’ve got through Halloween and bonfire night and it’s still too warm for a heavy coat. Helen Coffey asks the experts why the weather’s been so mild and if it will ever get cold again
4 min |
November 07, 2024
The Independent
I'm far happier now than I was being a 'smug married'
Stacey Duguid has embraced being a divorced single mum after leaving an unhappy relationship. She ponders her past obsession with getting hitched and questions a new survey that suggests marriage staves off low mood and depression
4 min |
November 07, 2024
The Independent
'People say we don't care what others think - we do'
South Africa are trying to change perceptions, charismatic director of rugby Rassie Erasmus tells Harry Latham-Coyle
3 min |
November 07, 2024
The Independent
OXFORD SCHOLAR
Des Buckingham is loving life in charge of his hometown club after a nomadic career. He speaks to Lawrence Ostlere
6 min |
November 07, 2024
The Independent
Unlucky Gunners can take hope from defeat to Inter
Arsenal have traded St James’ Park for San Siro but the scoreline has stayed the same.
4 min |
November 07, 2024
The Independent
Markets are re-energised but not everyone's a winner
The financial world has been electrified by Trump’s election victory. Once the new president is installed, though, writes Chris Blackhurst, the implications will become much clearer
3 min |
November 07, 2024
The Independent
McGregor accuser feared she would die, court hears
A woman broke down in tears yesterday as she accused MMA star Conor McGregor of raping her and told a court she was fearful she would never see her daughter again while he was choking her.
3 min |
November 07, 2024
The Independent
'It was so fast. The next day she was found dead inside'
The mangled car in which Jorge Tarazona’s three-year-old niece and sister-in-law died in last week’s flooding in Spain now hangs halfway off the ragged edge of a highway.
3 min |
November 07, 2024
The Independent
Kim expects leverage for lending Putin his troops
North Korea’s leader wants cash, missile technology and food for letting thousands of his soldiers fight against Ukraine
5 min |
November 07, 2024
The Independent
GP jailed over 'audacious' fake Covid jab murder plot
A GP who disguised himself as a nurse and poisoned his mother’s partner with a fake Covid jab in an audacious” plot to murder him has been jailed for 31 years.
3 min |
November 07, 2024
The Independent
'A spiteful attack': farmers warn of village life erosion
Farmers say Labour’s shock changes to inheritance tax rules will lead to the destruction” of village life and accused politicians of failing to understand the countryside, as dozens joined a first protest against the measure.
3 min |
November 07, 2024
The Independent
Twenty jailed for child rape and abuse in West Yorkshire
Twenty men have been jailed for raping and abusing four girls in Calderdale, West Yorkshire Police have said.
3 min |
November 07, 2024
The Independent
Terror attack hero warns of more IPP prisoner suicides
Marc Conway backs our campaign for all sentences to be reviewed after he is finally freed from draconian jail term
4 min |
November 07, 2024
The Independent
Will school fees and farmers be a roadblock for Reeves?
The mantra, repeated by the prime minister at PMQs, is that the first Labour Budget in 14 years is “fixing the foundations”.
3 min |
November 07, 2024
The Independent
Davey warns Trump victory is 'a dark day for mankind'
Donald Trump’s victory is a dark day for mankind, the Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has warned.
2 min |
November 07, 2024
The Independent
Starmer stands by Lammy over Trump ‘neo-Nazi' jibe
Sir Keir Starmer has defended his foreign secretary David Lammy, who in the past called Donald Trump a “neo-Nazi sympathising sociopath”.
2 min |
November 07, 2024
The Independent
Europe's extremists will be more emboldened than ever
It took quite some time for the mood to darken, even though the prospect of a victory for Donald Trump had already become clear.
4 min |
November 07, 2024
The Independent
A Trump presidency won't be the gift Putin hopes for
If the White House pushes for an end to the war in Ukraine, it will pose a problem for the Kremlin
4 min |
November 07, 2024
The Independent
Harris's victory party at her alma mater ends in tears
Kamala Harris’s dream of becoming the first woman to be elected US president quickly turned into a nightmare for the crowd that gathered at Howard University late on Tuesday evening.
3 min |
November 07, 2024
The Independent
I watched in fear as Trump took my state for the GOP
As election day in North Carolina came to its final moments, voters sat close to their television screens and phones alike waiting to see which way the swing states would turn this election cycle. I was one of them.
3 min |
November 07, 2024
The Independent
Democrats begin blame game over devastating loss
Democrats and political talking heads have initiated the circular firing squad as they search to blame anyone else for Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 election.
6 min |
November 07, 2024
The Independent
Harris concedes and vows 'peaceful transfer of power'
Kamala Harris conceded defeat in the 2024 presidential race against Donald Trump yesterday in a speech at her alma mater Howard University, formally ending her campaign.
3 min |
November 07, 2024
The Independent
Trump clinches presidency with remarkable comeback
Convicted felon promises new ‘golden age’ after sweep of key states – as experts fear advent of ‘illiberal democracy’ in US
3 min |
November 07, 2024
The Independent
'Explaining a film takes the fun away for the audience'
Acclaimed director Andrea Arnold speaks to Louis Chilton about working with Barry Keoghan, plucking great actors off the street, and why working in US TV felt like a holiday’
7 min |
November 06, 2024
The Independent
Why you can't buy tickets on the UK's newest airline
Simon Calder hears about the benefits of wet lease’ capacity and white-tail’ aircraft from the boss of Ascend Airways
3 min |