MINNEAPOLIS—When Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara received an alert from dispatch Saturday of another shooting involving a federal officer, the shock hit hard. “I was physically shaking,” he said ...

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 ...

RENSSELAER, N.Y. — The Rensselaer Common Council voted in favor of a measure to create a new director of operations position for the city, after the Rensselaer Republican Committee called out Mayor ...

The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) is the largest federal employee union proudly representing 700,000 federal and D.C. government workers nationwide and overseas. Workers in ...

In a massive 20,000-word screed, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that AI will act as a “general labor substitute for humans.” Elon Musk has previously imagined a future where “probably none of us ...

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To many, the phrase “family business” connotes a small or midsized company with a local focus and a familiar set of problems, such as squabbles over succession. While plenty of mom-and-pop firms ...

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