Marshall County Sheriff Mike Dougherty shared a year end statement recently outlining key accomplishments for 2025. At the ...

The federal charges against a former Blount County Juvenile Court magistrate have been dropped following her entering a guilty plea in county criminal court.

After more than a year of delay — including a legal battle that has stretched on for months — the University of Virginia has begun to release the taxpayer-funded review of the 2022 shooting on Grounds ...

The November jobs report, which was delayed by about a week as Bureau of Labor Statistics workers caught up after the government shutdown, was released on Tuesday morning. And it was rather dismal.

At MAI (Microsoft AI), we don’t just build AI tools, we care about how real people interact with them. So as 2025 wraps up, we’ve gone headfirst into a mountain of de-identified data, searching for ...

The Dow industrials declined Tuesday after data on the U.S. labor market came in tepid. The U.S. unemployment rate rose to 4.6% in November, its highest in more than four years, fueling questions ...

The NFL draft will be moving a bit faster in 2026. Per ESPN's Adam Schefter, the league notified teams on Wednesday that it will shorten the time between picks in the first round from 10 minutes to ...

A new monthly jobs report this morning showed employment decreased in October followed by a light rebound and gains in November. Trump said tonight on T ruth Social that he will nominate Homeland ...

President Trump delivered a prime-time address to the nation live from the White House on Wednesday evening, focusing on his economic policies and immigration as the year comes to a close. Follow ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump announces changes to the country's fuel economy standards in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., on December 3, 2025. President Donald Trump announces ...

Wondering what the commotion was in your neighborhood? Here's a collection of daily incident reports from the week.