Nine horses have entered Saturday’s $250,000 Sam F. Davis S. at Tampa Bay Downs, a Kentucky Derby qualifier worth 20-10-6-4-2 ...

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 ...

As an entrepreneur, it’s critical to have measurable checkpoints that determine whether you continue, pivot, or shut down. A startup’s earliest phase is like a racing video game where you have to pass ...

Nothing reveals more about a person than a good game of kiss, marry, kill. Need proof? Take a look at the wild answers these celebs gave. Unprecedented and unconstitutional: AG rejects Trump’s pardon ...

For Wordle enthusiasts, today, January 1, 2026, presents a fresh challenge with Puzzle #1657. This five-letter word might prove to be a bit puzzling for some players eager to maintain their impressive ...

New research shows that terminally ill baby ants tell other ants to kill them, potentially protecting the rest of the colony from their infection. In a study published today in the journal Nature ...

Entomologist Jessica Purcell calls the learned behavior “a new height of exploitation” Getty Parasitic queen ants infiltrate rival ant colonies and trigger workers to kill their own queen The takeover ...

For decades, researchers have been documenting death by plastic in marine animals. They have reported it in the gastrointestinal tracts of nearly 1,300 marine species — including every species of sea ...

Two baseballs for a sea turtle. Three sugar cubes for a puffin. A soccer ball for a harbor porpoise. That’s roughly how much ingested plastic would be deadly for each animal, according to a study ...

Based on Harper Lee’s 1960 novel, this production of To Kill A Mockingbird is written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Barlett Sher. Tom Robinson (Aaron Shosanya) is a black man from the Deep South who ...

Atticus Finch is one of fiction’s most noble and memorable characters, immortalized in print by author Harper Lee for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” and in an Oscar-winning ...