The Independent - News
US warplanes, ships and troops ready in the Middle East if the conflict expands
The U.S. has kept an increased military presence in the Middle East throughout much of the past year
The Independent - News
Judge denies effort to halt State Fair of Texas' gun ban
A judge has denied a effort by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to halt the recently announced ban on guns at the State Fair of Texas
The Independent - Culture
Bachelorette winner Devin Strader denies ‘misconstrued’ restraining order reports
‘The accusations are simply not true as I have never inappropriately laid hands on another individual or treated my ex-girlfriend in any of the ways I have been depicted,’ Strader’s statement reads
The Independent - News
US Senate panel OKs action against Steward Health Care CEO for defying subpoena
Members of a Senate committee looking into the bankruptcy of Texas-based Steward Health Care have adopted two resolutions designed to hold CEO Ralph de la Torre in contempt for not testifying before the panel
The Independent - News
US troops finish deployment to remote Alaska island amid spike in Russian military activity
About 130 U.S. soldiers are returning to their bases after being deployed to a remote Alaska island amid a spike in Russian military activity off the western reaches of the U.S. The deployment of the 11th Airborne Division and two task forces included mobile rocket launchers and lasted about a week
The Independent - News
Apple releases AI software for a smarter Siri on the iPhone 16
Apple is accelerating the rollout of a software update that will implant intelligence into its virtual assistant Siri and automate a variety of tedious tasks to coincide with the release of its latest iPhone
The Independent - Europe
Vladimir Kara-Murza: How I survived 11 months of torture in Putin’s gulag
Exclusive: Vladimir Kara-Murza, one of the faces of Russian opposition to Vladimir Putin alongside Evan Gershkovich, sits down with The Independent for the first time since being freed in a historic prisoner swap
The Independent - News
JD Vance now forces journalists to become part of his show at rallies
Reporting from Raleigh in the swing state of North Carolina, Eric Garcia notes that Trump’s running mate has a fascinating new tactic
The Independent - News
Vladimir Kara-Murza: How I survived 11 months of torture in Putin’s gulag
Exclusive: Vladimir Kara-Murza, one of the faces of Russian opposition to Vladimir Putin alongside Evan Gershkovich, sits down with The Independent for the first time since being freed in a historic prisoner swap
The Independent - News
Young love can be hell. 'Tell Me Lies' showrunner Meaghan Oppenheimer wants to write it that way
The Hulu series “Tell Me Lies” is about a toxic relationship between two college students, played by Grace Van Patten and Jackson White
The Independent - News
Attorney for notorious mobster Whitey Bulger to lead new prosecution of Karen Read
Read, 44, is accused of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend
The Independent - News
At Google antitrust trial, documents say one thing. The tech giant's witnesses say different
The judge who will decide whether Google holds a monopoly over technology that matches buyers and sellers of online advertising must choose whether to believe what Google executives wrote or what they’ve said on the witness stand
The Independent - News
Judge in Trump’s classified documents case under fire for failing to disclose right-wing banquet
Trump-appointed federal judge Aileen Cannon tossed classified documents case against former president in July
The Independent - News
Israel launches major strikes on Lebanon as Hezbollah chief says device explosions ‘cross all red lines’
Tensions rise after two days of detonations targeting Hezbollah members’ pagers
The Independent - News
Hunter Biden's sentencing on federal firearms charges delayed until December
Hunter Biden will be sentenced on felony firearms charges in December after the judge agreed to a delay requested by the defense
The Independent - News
Road work inspector who leaped to safety during Baltimore bridge collapse to file claim
Attorneys for a road construction inspector who survived the Baltimore bridge collapse in March are planning to file a claim against the owner and manager of the ship that lost power and crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge
The Independent - News
Woman sues Florida sheriff after mistaken arrest lands her in jail on Christmas
A Texas woman is suing a Florida sheriff after she says a mistaken arrest made her miss her family's Christmas in 2022 and her Marine son's departure for deployment in Japan
The Independent - News
Donald Trump can start selling his nearly $2billion worth of shares in his media company. But will he?
Trump owns nearly 57 percent of all shares in Trump Media & Tech Group
The Independent - News
Mexican president blames the US for bloodshed in Sinaloa as cartel violence surges
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has blamed the United States for the surge in cartel violence terrorizing the northern state of Sinaloa which has left at least 30 people dead in the past week
The Independent - News
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs joins list of Hollywood stars charged with sex crimes
With his arrest this week, Sean “Diddy” Combs joins a short list of celebrities prosecuted for sex crimes in the wake of the #MeToo movement
The Independent - Culture
Chester Bennington’s mother says she feels ‘betrayed’ by Linkin Park reunion
Susan Eubanks says her son’s former band are ‘trying very hard to erase the past’
The Independent - News
Happy 50th 'SNL!' Here's a look back at the show's very first cast
Happy 50th “SNL!"
The Independent - News
Attempted prison escape in Honduras leaves 2 inmates dead and 3 injured
Authorities in Honduras say that an attempted prisonbreak left two inmates dead and three injured
The Independent - News
A couple found the Kentucky highway shooter's remains by being bounty hunters for a week, they say
It was a married couple who discovered remains that authorities believe were a man who opened fire on a Kentucky highway
The Independent - News
Families of Oxford shooting victims lose appeal over school's liability for tragedy
The Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of the Oxford school district in a lawsuit that seeks to hold employees partly responsible for a shooting that killed four students and wounded others
The Independent - News
White officer who fatally shot Black man shouldn't have been in his backyard, judge rules in suit
A federal judge has partially sided with the family of a Black man who was fatally shot by a now-imprisoned white Kansas City, Missouri, police detective
The Independent - News
The Trump-quatch! Giddy NYU students are sharing blurry videos of Barron sightings on social media
Barron Trump is a freshman at the Manhattan school
The Independent - News
San Francisco officials admit woman’s father is not dead three years after she was given his ashes
Kylie Robinson was told in 2021 by the San Francisco medical examiner that her father, James Robinson, had overdosed in a hotel room in the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood
The Independent - News
Human remains are found inside an SUV that officials say caused pipeline fire in suburban Houston
Officials say human remains have been found inside an SUV that authorities say hit an aboveground valve on a pipeline in suburban Houston, causing a fire that has burned for four days
The Independent - News
Jurors watch video of EMTs failing to treat Tyre Nichols after he was beaten
Jurors in the trial of three former Memphis police officers charged in Tyre Nichol's fatal beating have seen video showing two EMTs just standing around, doing nothing to help him as he sat bleeding on the ground