Starbucks issued a statement clarifying its company policy after an employee denied a customer’s request to have Charlie Kirk’s name written on their cup. Footage captured by Valerie on Monday, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order overhauling the H-1B visa program, accusing companies of using it to replace American workers with lower-cost foreign labor. The order cites rising ...

Senate Democrats unveiled a proposal on Wednesday evening that would reverse the nearly $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid implemented under President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill, among other ...

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2018 file photo, the U.S. Medicare Handbook is photographed in Washington. Making more than the maximum income level for Medicaid isn’t necessarily a deal breaker. After a long ...

Section 1. Purpose. My Administration has worked relentlessly to undo the disastrous immigration policies of the prior administration. Those policies produced a deluge of immigrants, without serious ...

Valentino Luchin faced similar charges in 2018 after robbing a bank in Orinda. A prominent Bay Area chef was arrested last week for allegedly robbing three San Francisco banks in a single day, ...

The H-1B nonimmigrant visa program was created to bring temporary workers into the United States to perform additive, high-skilled functions, but it has been deliberately exploited to replace, rather ...

After a Cambridge man’s bag went missing from an Air France flight, the airline wouldn’t use the information from the tracking device to retrieve it Josh Bittker tucked a tracking device inside his ...

Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani said he would drop a Holocaust remembrance group’s definition of “antisemitism” if he becomes mayor — a turnaround in police that has some Jewish rights ...