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A British explorer who guided Prince Harry to the North Pole is locked in a £1m court fight with a billionaire heiress over a cancelled expedition to the wreck of The Titanic on the ill-fated ...

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A national lost-and-found database run by the nonprofit Petco Love has helped reunite more than 100,000 families with missing ...

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Secretary of Health and Human Services, RFK Jr., is a vat of misinformation. I perused his book of lies about Anthony Fauci; RFK checks all the boxes for quackery. He recommends replacing ...

From 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 ...