Health regulators and experts stress there is no evidence linking Tylenol (paracetamol) use during pregnancy to autism, rejecting claims by US president Donald Trump. “Our medicines regulator has con...

News of Joe Biden’s prostate cancer diagnosis on Sunday (18 May) quickly became a political tool. Conspiracy theories emerged almost instantly — claims that he’s had cancer longer than disclosed, rumo...

Exclusive: In a statement to The Independent, the Holy See revealed the deliberate strategy behind the unprecedented number of press briefings from the Pope's doctors during his hospitalization.

An aviation expert told The Independent there is “no evidence” to support President Donald Trump’s claim that diversity, equity, and inclusion policies contributed to the American Airlines plane crash in Washington, DC. “Brilliant people have to be in those positions,” the president said, before suggesting diversity hiring “could have been” linked to the crash during a press conference on January 30. In response, Captain Shem Malmquist, a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society told The Independent, “I don’t know of any evidence that anybody involved with this accident met any criteria that wouldn’t have been holding them to the highest standards.”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was today confronted over his previous false claim that Covid-19 was a ““genetically engineered bioweapon that targets Black and white people but spared Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people.” The 71-year-old was grilled on the false comment he made during the pandemic, as he was grilled by Senators at his confirmation hearing on Thursday (29 January). “I didn’t say it was deliberately targeted; I just quoted an NIH-funded and NIH published study,” he said. The conspiracy theory that Covid is a genetically engineered bioweapon has been hugely debunked by the scientific community since it surfaced in early 2020. Kennedy Jr. has a long history of promoting vaccine sceptic rhetoric and scepticism towards science.

As the worst wildfires in LA’s history continue to ravage the city, Donald Trump Jr. and Elon Musk suggested that the fires have been worsened by the LA Fire Department’s aid to Ukraine during Russia’...

As wildfires rage across the US, devastating homes and communities, one question is being asked more urgently than ever: Why are so many homes still being built with wood? At least 10 people have bee...