The changes to Army fitness testing have been constant and confusing, even to soldiers, over the past decade. The first ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — New York State assessments are underway for students in grades 3 through 8 across the state but plenty of parents continue to want to opt their children out of participating. Jillian ...

Soldiers serving in front-line fighting jobs will soon have to pass two annual Army fitness tests after the service rolled out its new combat-focused physical assessment on Wednesday. The new Combat ...

A serum immunofixation test measures specific proteins in your blood. It helps to identify certain illnesses that are otherwise hard to detect, such as multiple myeloma, a blood cancer. The test is ...

Earnings over $24,480 (2026) before full retirement age reduces Social Security benefits. Claimed Social Security early; half of earnings above the threshold are withheld. Benefits recalculated at ...

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There is good and bad news in this year’s newly released standardized test scores for New Jersey public school students. The good news is the average test scores on the science portion of the tests ...

Students across Pennsylvania — including in Berks County — continue to perform below expectations on state standardized tests. The state Department of Education earlier this month released ...

President Donald Trump’s announcement that he has ordered the United States to resume nuclear testing “immediately” — a move that could overturn a global taboo against the practice that has lasted ...

Results from the PREVUE-VALVE study suggest that there are currently at least 4.7 million people aged 65–85 living with moderate or greater valvular heart disease (VHD) in the United States, and at ...

The president predicted that Democratic Reps. Jasmine Crockett and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could not perform as well as he did in a cognitive exam President Donald Trump seemed to refer to a dementia ...