The U.S. Education Department announced Tuesday that a sizable chunk of its employees was receiving pink slips. President Trump has long ... On Tuesday, the Education Department announced plans to lay ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Education plans to lay off over 1,300 of its more than 4,000 employees as part of a reorganization that’s seen as a prelude to President Trump’s plan to ...

DDoS traffic analysis can break down the firehose of junk traffic in different ways, including by listing the countries that had the most IP addresses involved in an attack. But one researcher ...

(Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Elon Musk is on the defensive after Twitter (now known as X) was down for several hours today. He claimed in one report that the outage was due to a ...

Then win the midterms.” This is similar to James Carville’s telling Democrats to “lay down and play dead” against Trump and the strategy that appears to guide Democrats in their ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The City of Houston is remembering the late Sylvester Turner -- the former mayor of Houston who won election last November to fill late Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee's ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Workers install lighting on an “X” sign atop the company headquarters, formerly known as Twitter, in ...

Elon Musk said there is a ‘massive cyberattack’ against X, as access to the site remained inconsistent. Elon Musk said there is a ‘massive cyberattack’ against X, as access to the site ...

Getty Images/PhotoAlto A dog owner in Tennessee says he was shot in the leg by his pet while lying in bed with a female companion. According to a press release from the Memphis Police Department ...

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 ...

According to Downdetector, a website that tracks users’ reports of online outages, X went down for some users around 5:30 a.m. ET, with more than 20,000 users reporting outages. Though these ...

More generally, a number of major internet outages have caused significant disruption over the past year, including when Slack went down just a few weeks ago. Perhaps the most dramatic ...