It's Dolly Parton's birthday, and today we're celebrating a music legend and incredible woman, marking her 80 years on earth. Most people won't remember a time without knowing Dolly Parton's name, ...

The show’s final season will come as co-creator Taylor Sheridan winds down his tenure at Paramount. By Tony Maglio, Rick Porter Jeremy Renner’s Mayor of Kingstown reign is coming to a close. Was he ...

In the final weeks of 2025, as Sri Lankan households prepared for the dawn of a new year, a website URL ignited a firestorm that threatens to derail the NPP Government’s efforts at Educational Reforms ...

A Kentucky teacher was arrested for allegedly sending a fifth-grade student sexually explicit messages — including one sickening text saying she needed to “taste that d–k.” Sydnee Graf, 36, a ...

The Powerball jackpot climbed to an estimated $1.6 billion — the game's fourth-largest prize ever —after another drawing passed Saturday night without a winner. The winning numbers were 4, 5, 28, 52 ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A fifth-grade teacher in Louisville was charged after police say she engaged in sexual conversations with a student. According to the citation, Jefferson County Public Schools police ...

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 ...

Season 5 of Stranger Things got off to a strong start with deaths, surprise character returns — and a new person developing telepathic powers. The first part of the show’s final season premiered on ...

The Ravens are looking to do something this season that only four teams since 1933 have done—make the playoffs after starting the year 1-5 or worse. Baltimore shockingly started the season 1-5 (and ...

That’s how Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun described the blowback after OpenAI researchers did a victory lap over GPT-5’s supposed math breakthroughs. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis added, ...

Rescuing a man from a whale’s stomach and a catastrophe in space, all in one episode: That’s right, 9-1-1 is back. The ABC procedural drama returned for its ninth season Thursday — its first since the ...