Americans using Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to purchase groceries may need to adjust their shopping habits in 2026 as some states will prohibit the use of SNAP funds to purchase certain “junk foods.” Also starting next year, states will have to shoulder a larger portion of the cost of running the program. In
Viewed from the observation level of the Washington Monument, demolition work continues where the East Wing once stood at the White House in Washington, DC, on on Dec. 8, 2025. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images PALM BEACH, Florida—The White House will unveil new details on President Donald Trump’s planned East Wing ballroom during a hearing early next
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks at the White House on Dec. 1, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt revealed Friday that she is expecting her second child, a girl, due in May. The 28-year-old press secretary to President Donald Trump made the news public in an Instagram post,
The Department of Education in Washington on April 28, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times The U.S. Department of Education has so far denied requests from more than 300,000 existing student loan recipients seeking new repayment terms, according to documents filed in a federal court earlier this month. The Dec. 15 status report in the American
FBI Director Kash Patel speaks during a briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., Nov. 12, 2025. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters FBI Director Kash Patel announced on Dec. 26 that the agency would be permanently shutting down the J. Edgar Hoover Building, which has served as the agency’s headquarters for roughly 50 years. “December 26:
Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu attends an ECOWAS meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, on June 22, 2025. Olamikan Gbemiga/AP Photo The Nigerian government said on Dec. 26 that the recent U.S. strikes on ISIS were part of a broader effort to ensure regional security while affirming its collaboration with the United States and other foreign partners.
The Trump administration is tightening the net around Venezuela’s oil exports, saying that the country stole American property and that its governing regime is illegitimate. The “illegitimate Maduro regime is using oil from these stolen oil fields to finance themselves, drug terrorism, human trafficking, murder and kidnapping,” President Donald Trump said in a Dec. 16