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 ...

Dec. 19 (UPI) --The Department of Justice is appealing a ruling that prevents it from freezing federal research funding to Harvard. U.S. Judge Allison Burroughs of the District of Massachusetts on ...

The civil complaint by the former governor claims his civil rights are being violated by an ethics panel that wants him to pay back $5.1M from book deal Andrew M. Cuomo's years of legal battles with ...

Texas on Friday filed an emergency petition with the U.S. Supreme Court after a ruling by a panel of federal judges blocked the state from using its redrawn congressional map, calling it "racially ...

A bill that would force the Justice Department to release all files related to its investigation into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is on its way to President Donald Trump’s desk after it ...

The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia, the American Association of University Professors, and the Middle East Studies Association filed a motion on Monday asking a federal judge to block ...

GOP Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky discussed the effort to release any additional Jeffrey Epstein files using a discharge petition in the House, and predicts there will be enough public pressure to ...

ST. LOUIS – St. Louis residents concerned about wasteful spending at City Hall have filed a lawsuit, accusing the city’s elections board of blocking efforts to bring in the Missouri state auditor. The ...

House Democrats prevented a Republican bid to force a quick vote on legislation that would require the Justice Department to release all its files on sex predator Jeffrey Epstein, apparently… Coach ...

In November 2025, a rumor spread that Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives blocked Rep. Tim Burchett, a R-Tenn., from forcing the Department of Justice to release the files related to the ...

President Donald Trump and his top officials spent Wednesday scrambling to defend him against damaging emails from the estate of financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and head off ...

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