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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 ...

In a grandmaster-level chess move, OpenAI has signed a five-year, $11.9 billion agreement with the GPU-heavy cloud service provider CoreWeave, which Reuters originally reported and CoreWeave ...

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A Guatemalan man and his top lieutenant have been arrested and face multiple federal charges for purportedly leading a human-smuggling ring that brought about 20,000 illegal immigrants into the U ...

Some of figure skating’s most legendary names from the past and present headlined a special two-hour benefit event on Sunday called “Legacy on Ice,” honoring the 28 members lost in the ...

Tasmania's environment watchdog is in the dark over how many salmon have died in a mass mortality event in the state's south, as the industry is self-regulating and self-reports, a federal ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Max Naumov reacts after performing Sunday, March 2, 2025, in Washington at the Legacy on Ice event, a figure ...

Chopper has always had one of the more interesting Devil Fruits in One Piece. The Human-Human Fruit, despite being incredibly simple, is a fairly important part of One Piece lore, with its models ...