By Dylan Loeb McClain Boris Spassky, the world chess champion whose career was overshadowed by his loss to Bobby Fischer in the “Match of the Century” in 1972, died on Thursday in Moscow.

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion ... the then-29-year-old chess genius from Brooklyn, New York, brought the U.S. its first world chess title. Fischer, known to be testy and ...

Then, a new administration arrived in Washington. By Liam Stack and Katherine Rosman During New York City’s darkest days, some residents found purpose and meaning in helping their neighbors ...

Boris Johnson is charging £121 a head for a meet and greet before his live show in Edinburgh. The former prime minister is performing at Usher Hall on September 2, where in addition to tickets ...

A deadly fire in Bayside, Queens was under investigation Sunday after three people were killed during the overnight hours, the New York City Fire Department said. More than 100 fire and EMS ...

At least three people, including an elderly woman with Alzheimer’s disease and her two adult children, were killed in a raging house fire early Sunday morning in Bayside, Queens, according to ...

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 ...

Boris Johnson has reacted to Donald Trump’s claims that Ukraine started the war with Russia, as the president came under fire for branding Volodymyr Zelensky a dictator. The former prime ...

BAYSIDE, Queens (WABC) -- Three people are dead after flames ripped through a home in Queens overnight. The fatal fire happened around 2:40 a.m. on Sunday at a two-story house on 208th Street near ...

She could be No. 12. There needs to be a more thorough probe into the 2013 suicide of Queens woman Natasha Jugo, argued onetime prosecutor Raymond Zuppa, who believes she was murdered by the Long ...

‘We’ll be coming home, riding the plasma, splashing in the ocean, so that’s what we’re looking forward to,’ a 62-year-old astronaut, Barry ‘Butch’ Willmore, says. The university’s provost pushed back ...