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 ...

The number of people in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody declined by 12% from a record-high in January to the end of March, data released by the agency on Thursday shows, driven largely by ...

Comedian Nate Bargatze is at the helm of what ABC has billed “a hilarious new game show that celebrates the power of being perfectly average.” Three contestants advance through rounds of quick‑hit ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested more people per day in 2025 than at any time in the past decade, according to new research by CU Boulder economists. Meanwhile, the ...

Chipotle is turning its focus on higher-income customers, and menu prices could soon reflect that. During an earnings call last week, CEO Scott Boatwright said that they’re targeting their primary ...

Generative artificial intelligence is all the rage these days. We’re using it at work to guide our coding, writing and researching. We’re conjuring AI videos and songs. We’re enhancing old family ...

Neural tissue normally dies quickly without oxygen. Yet bird retinas—among the most energy-demanding tissues in the animal kingdom—function permanently without it. This may be relevant in future ...

Pain has to lead to promise at some point. This hurts. This would be different if we knew the Philadelphia Eagles were a bad team, but we know better. They're the defending Super Bowl champions, ...

A study from OpenAI aimed to assess the business impacts of AI. Productivity gains were found to vary between particular roles. Early studies like this should be taken with a grain of salt. The use of ...

Wealthy people can easily become disconnected from reality. Those who have a great deal of money can struggle to connect with the average person. In a society where money rules everything, wealthy ...

Over the past decades, a growing number of robotics teams have started developing modular robots inspired by the ancient paper-folding art of origami. More recently, some of these teams started ...