Americans are travelling at record levels — the State Department issued 27.3 million passports in FY2025 and Expedia Group data also points to shorter planning windows, including a 20% ...

What originated as a narrow procurement notice has grown into a broader effort that links machine-learning models with government and commercial records, creating an enforcement infrastructure ...

Has AI coding reached a tipping point? That seems to be the case for Spotify at least, which shared this week during its fourth-quarter earnings call that the best developers at the company “have not ...

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 ...

Editor's Note: This story was updated to emphasize that Manheim Township's library is unaffected by the State Department's policy change and will continue to offer passport application services.

There are warnings of queues at passport control at airports in Europe over upcoming holiday periods, as the rollout of a new biometric border system continues. Passengers have already reported ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — More than two years after a county watchdog flagged the issue, Cuyahoga County is finally recouping some of the money it lost on a jail management system that was never implemented.

As 2026 dawned, Meta announced a $2 billion acquisition of Manus, a fast-rising artificial intelligence firm specializing in agentic AI. What promised to be a seamless union of U.S. platform power and ...

A woman on TikTok is seeking answers after she said she was “wiped” from the U.S. passport database. Alexis Rose, @travelingnurse on TikTok, shared her experience about receiving an “unusual” message ...

DETROIT, MI - A man from the Dominican Republic has pleaded guilty to illegally voting in a federal election and attempting to fraudulently obtain a U.S. passport. Jose Gargenis Vasquez-Rosa pleaded ...

The federal government is abruptly ending passport services programs at non-governmental sites nationwide, a move that eliminates much-needed funding to more than two dozen libraries in Pennsylvania ...