Trump’s aid cuts leave the Philippines more exposed to powerful cyclones like Typhoon Ragasa

Philippine NGO the Centre for Disaster Preparedness tells The Independent how its programmes to help people prepare for ...

How the First Amendment protects Americans’ speech − and how it does not

Speech that enjoys the strongest free-speech protections is that which is critical of government policies and leaders. As the Supreme Court said in 1966, “There is practically universal agreement that ...

Facing a shutdown, budget negotiations are much harder because Congress has given Trump power to cut spending through ‘rescission’

Continuing resolutions usually just extend current levels of spending for a short time so that the two parties can continue negotiating. But as negotiations over long-term budgets have tended to fail ...

4 decades after the landmark book ‘Alone in a Crowd,’ women in the trades still battle bias – a professor-turned-welder reflects

Back in 1985, Schroedel wrote that she had three goals for “Alone in a Crowd”: to let women doing nontraditional work know ...

We tracked every overseas trip by world leaders since the end of the Cold War – here’s what we found

A pivotal characteristic of contemporary global leader travel is its predominantly intraregional nature. Leaders overwhelmingly prioritize visits to countries within their own geographic areas: ...

NASA will say goodbye to the International Space Station in 2030 − and welcome in the age of commercial space stations

It will be several years before any of these new commercial space stations circle the Earth at around 17,500 miles per hour (28,000 kilometers per hour) and several years before the ISS is deorbited ...

Fed, under pressure to cut rates, tries to balance labor market and inflation – while avoiding dreaded stagflation

The labor market has seen continued deterioration, most notably with the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ revisions to nonfarm ...

Scams and frauds: Here are the tactics criminals use on you in the age of AI and cryptocurrencies

Technology has supercharged age-old fraud. AI makes deception virtually indistinguishable from reality, crypto enables anonymous theft, and the remote-work era expands opportunities to trick people.

How wind and solar power help keep America’s farms alive

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic ... energy is a significant economic driver in rural America. In Iowa, for example, over 60% of ...