Youngsters aged nine, four and just three months old perish in overheated vehicles in Texas over the course of four days amid sweltering heat
Restaurants could be forced to report customer calorie counts to help combat obesity
Hospitality bosses claimed they were ‘totally blindsided’ by the plans and said they would lead to increased costs
Passengers left ‘critically injured’ after skydiving plane carrying 15 crashes near New Jersey airport
Passengers on board the downed Cessna 208B near Cross Keys Airport in Williamstown were doused in jet fuel and triaged by trauma surgeons
Farage claims ‘well-known’ figures want to join Reform UK cabinet
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said it was ‘nonsense’ that ministers ‘must all be politicians in the House of Commons’.
Democrats who haven’t endorsed Zohran Mamdani offer muted defense as Trump targets him
Jerry Nadler, one of the few who has endorsed Mamdani, tells The Independent ‘the president is out of his mind’
Congressional intern shot dead in Washington DC after he was hit by ‘stray bullet’
Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, 21, was two months into his internship with Kansas Representative Ron Estes when he was caught in a spray of bullets on Capitol Hill
Seven missing after huge fireworks warehouse explosion in California
The blast in Yolo, outside of Sacramento, comes just days before fireworks celebrations on July 4
Police force investigating more than 1,000 grooming gang suspects
Watchdog says Greater Manchester Police has made ‘significant improvements’ following years of failure.
Yellow weather warning for rain issued by Met Office into cooler weekend
A yellow weather warning for rain has been issued for parts of Scotland
Police accused of ‘assault on right to protest’ after less than 3% of nuisance arrests result in charges
Greenpeace UK’s director accused police of ‘routinely dragging protesters off the streets for a crime they almost always fail to charge them with’