Education Department to Release Billions in Withheld Grant Money for Schools

The U.S. Department of Education building in Washington on July 21, 2007. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images The U.S. Department of Education is expected to release to public schools soon billions of dollars in federal grants previously put on hold. In an email response to The Epoch Times, Madi Biedermann, the Department of Education’s deputy

Breaking down latest Justice Department shakeup

Alina Habba, a one-time personal lawyer to President Trump, has been appointed to the top federal prosecutor job in New Jersey. Meanwhile, two federal prosecutors who had handled cases related to the attacks of Jan. 6, along with the top ethics watchdog at the department., have been fired. Scott MacFarlane has details. Original CBS News

Judge Maintains Nationwide Block on Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order

People hold a sign as they participate in a protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court over President Donald Trump’s move to end birthright citizenship as the court hears arguments over the order in Washington, D.C., on May 15, 2025. Drew Angerer/AFP via Getty Images A federal judge in Massachusetts has maintained his nationwide block on

DOJ’s closed-door meetings with Ghislaine Maxwell fuels pardon speculation

President Trump is still being hounded by the case of Jeffrey Epstein. It’s not clear if a second day of meetings between a top Trump administration official and Epstein’s imprisoned co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell will cool the controversy. But as Scott MacFarlane reports, it is raising a new question: Is Maxwell about to score a deal?