It wasn’t a regular college party. Cookies and chips were served, as well as fruit punch. The entertainment was conversation and sewing machines. It was the Party with a Purpose at Indiana University ...

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 ...

An organisation started by a student sewing reusable period pads for refugees in her kitchen during the coronavirus lockdown has received charity status. Ella Lambert, 23, from Chelmsford in Essex, ...