Few politicians have had the roller-coaster career that Alexander Downer did, from being born into the establishment, ...

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India has sent in its largest-ever contingent of 117 athletes across 16 diverse sports disciplines to the Paris Olympics, ...

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The tech-induced selloff across global stocks accelerated on Tuesday and soft U.S. labor market indicators also weighed on ...

In response to an incoming storm, the Colorado Department of Transportation has made the decision to close Independence Pass on Saturday at 4 p.m. Independence Pass, the stretch of Highway 82 ...

Now, that's exactly what the 38-year-old Princeton University grad student is doing weeks after her release in a Nov. 5 article by The New York Times. The idea is to expose the "sadism and vileness" ...

Another vote failed to garner enough support to push a funding bill forward. And millions of Americans are reeling as they miss both benefits and paychecks. Trump could be handing the Virginia ...

Students returned to Nowlin Middle School in Independence for the first day of school in 2022, amid a metro-wide teacher shortage. The following year, the Independence School District adopted a ...

Truman High School teacher Shelley Lauber addresses the Independence School Board in 2022 ahead of their vote on a four-day school week. A new Missouri law requires certain school districts to get ...