U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during an end-of-year press conference in the State Department Press Briefing Room in Washington, on Dec. 19, 2025. Mandel Ngan/AFP The United States will block the entry of foreign nationals who have supported efforts to censor Americans, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Dec. 23. “For far
Students walk on campus at the University of Washington in Seattle on March 6, 2020. Karen Ducey/Getty Images University of Washington professor Stuart Reges was exercising free speech when he parodied his employer’s official statement that the land encompassing the Seattle school belongs to local indigenous people, federal judges have determined. The U.S. Ninth Circuit
By Owen Evans | December 23, 2025Updated:December 23, 2025 The West may have found an unexpected way to chip away at communist China’s dominance in the production of critical minerals: extracting metals from oil wells, waste streams, and discarded electronics in an attempt to scale up processing technologies at home. Instead of waiting years for
Fish Creek winds through the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, managed by the Bureau of Land Management on Alaska’s North Slope, on July 8, 2004. David W. Houseknecht/United States Geological Survey via AP The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will open more public land for oil and gas drilling in Alaska, the agency announced on Dec.
The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Oct. 20, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times The U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 23 ruled that President Donald Trump may not deploy National Guard troops to Chicago to protect federal immigration agents for the time being. “At this preliminary stage, the government has failed to identify a source
President Donald Trump delivers remarks on reciprocal tariffs during his “Liberation Day” event in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 2, 2025. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that his tariffs led to a significant expansion of the U.S. economy after a federal agency released its estimates
Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) (C) and Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.) (C) arrive for a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony for the “Harlem Hellfighters” of World War One on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on Sept. 3, 2025. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) on Dec. 22 sued President Donald Trump and the Kennedy Center board