As detainments and deportations cause many travellers to turn away from America, Annabel Grossman journeyed deep into the ...

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President Donald Trump gathered dozens of hard-hat-clad coal miners around him in the White House East Room. He joked about ...

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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 ...

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Until Elon Musk. Those 200 people were fired in early April by Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. Controversy ensued, and many of them have been temporarily rehired, but they’re slated to be ...

Brantley Baird never misses a chance to talk history, from how his great-grandmother helped settle the town of Snowflake long before Arizona was granted statehood to tales of riding to school bareback ...

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