The Trump administration wants to work with traditional allies to secure new supplies of critical minerals. But months of aggression toward allies, culminating with since-aborted threats to seize ...

Matthew Whitaker, the US ambassador to Nato, responds to criticism in the Munich Security Conference report Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in prison for national security offences US ambassador to ...

Over two days of questioning during his Senate confirmation hearings last year, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeated the same answer. He said the closely scrutinized 2019 trip he took to Samoa, which came ...

When a movie, as a whole, persistently portrays a particular section of society in a derogatory and prejudicial manner and when such narratives are bound to disrupt public order and undermine social ...

Kennedy later said the purpose of his trip had nothing to do with vaccines. US embassy and UN staff at the time said otherwise, emails show Over two days of questioning during his Senate confirmation ...

“Swarms” of AI bots could soon invade social media, spreading misinformation and harassing real users, a new peer-reviewed study published in Science Journal suggested. The study, titled “How ...

Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-VT) recent call for a nationwide moratorium on data center construction may be framed as a pause for democracy’s sake, but in practice it would lead to very different ...

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 ...

Mr. Morales-Doyle is the director of the Brennan Center’s voting rights and elections program. President Trump has dropped unsubtle hints about his desire to cancel the November elections. “We have to ...

The Mummers got a chance to strut their stuff again in Philly. The string bands competed Saturday in the 2026 String Band Spectacular at Lincoln Financial Field. This, after windy weather postponed ...

After years of working inside institutions and alongside them, one lesson stands out: failure is not necessarily imposed. More often, it is carefully constructed through everyday decisions that go ...