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 ...

Tesla is facing an investigation into claims that its electric door handles are trapping children inside cars.

Access to child care in Oregon has slowly expanded, according to a new study from Oregon State University, but it remains far from adequate to serve even half the state’s children. A child care spot ...

The U.S. needs to start treating child care as a human right and not as a commodity, write Antoine Lovell and Anna McPhatter, which would benefit families, secure employment, stabilize housing and ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday turned down a request from a tech industry group to temporarily bar Mississippi from enforcing a state law that restricts access by young people to social media. In a ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman today said that the company will allow Plus users to continue to use the prior-generation GPT-4o model if they don't want to use the new GPT-5 model that came out yesterday.

Children who vape are more likely to go on to be smokers, be diagnosed with asthma and have poor mental health, a new analysis suggests. The largest global review on vaping in young people found ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - Back-to-school season is here, and many young adults are getting ready to head off to college. While many students are bringing books, blankets, and other supplies to school, ...

China plans to add 660,000 affordable nursery care slots, increasing the number of places per 1,000 people to 4.5 by the end of this year, as part of efforts to ease the child care burden on families ...

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Three children are accused of murdering a man on the Isle of Sheppey using a glass bottle and rocks. A 16-year-old girl and two boys, aged 14 and 15, appeared at Medway Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday ...