Whether you are walking around a city in the United States or abroad, you may have noticed iron bars on the windows. You may be most accustomed to seeing bars that are straight — going directly from ...

A window on a stone wall is covered by a window grill with a curve at the bottom - Geo-k/Getty Images ...

Jeffrey Wasserstrom is chancellor's professor of history at University of California, Irvine and the author of The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia's Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing, a short ...

There was a time when choosing a great curved gaming monitor was pretty straightforward. But today, there are countless brands flooding the marketplace, too many me-toos that look the same on ...

Barring an upset, Mark Carney is poised to be elected leader of the ruling Liberal Party on Sunday, becoming the country’s first prime minister without any political experience and setting the ...

The hit Broadway musical “Hamilton” has canceled its eight-week run in 2026 at the Kennedy Center amid President Donald Trump’s takeover of the national performing arts center. Jeffrey Seller, the ...

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 ...

A rout in the S&P 500 Index has boosted demand for short-term hedges, flipping the Cboe VIX Futures curve into a rare inversion. Traders who had been lining up options to hedge against a steep ...

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 ...

This year’s Oscars ceremony was an inward-looking affair that found the industry foremost concerned with itself. Photo: Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images The result was the most ...

Your device does not support the audio. Did you know that poor posture can be just as detrimental to your health as smoking? A study from the American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation ...