The Trump administration is once more invoking upside-down alibis of state to conjure the bogus specter of imminent threat.

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When President Trump shared an unverified photo of Nicolás Maduro in U.S. custody, a corner of the internet followed a ...

Memecoins were never about memes, jokes, or financial nihilism; it is the underlying technology and its implications that are promising. Memecoins are not dead because the market is down and the ...

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 ...

Authorities in San Jose have launched a hate crime investigation after students at a high school formed what was described as a "human swastika" on the school's football field. San Jose police told ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A viral image of San José students forming a human swastika while lying on their high school’s football field has ...

Researchers have identified gene-regulatory variants that might have contributed to Neanderthals’ beefy jaws — offering a window on how the human face developed 1. This ‘non-coding’ sequence controls ...

If you work in a corporate environment, you might always see human resources as the bad guys. And you wouldn't be alone in that sentiment: although 71% of American employees trust HR, 39% are wary of ...

On TikTok, some reckon that memes are less funny than they used to be, and have proposed drastic action. Hence, in 2026, TikTok memes are scheduled to change, wiping away the current slate of trends, ...