A missile is launched from a military vessel in a still from video released on Dec. 25, 2025. Department of War/Screenshot via The Epoch Times U.S. President Donald Trump announced a “powerful and deadly strike” targeting the ISIS terrorist group in northwest Nigeria on Dec. 25. Trump said on Truth Social that the terrorists targeted
A gavel sits on a desk before the a meeting of the House Justice and Human Rights Committee in Ottawa on Feb. 13, 2019. The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld A federal judge in Washington has stopped the Trump administration’s effort to revoke the security clearance of attorney Mark Zaid, determining that a presidential memorandum against him
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) website is displayed on a phone, in this photo illustration. Oleksii Pydsosonnii/The Epoch Times The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said federal agencies terminated or scaled back 14 additional contracts over the past two days, cutting nearly $98 million in spending in a Christmas Eve update that described the
Erika Kirk speaks at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest in Phoenix on Dec. 20, 2025. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times PHOENIX—A wild and bright spectacle. A marketplace of ideas, not to mention right-branded products. An arena of pundit-on-pundit conflict over Israel and other issues, waged for the era of X threads and Instagram reels. A gathering of
Mesa County, Colo., clerk Tina Peters at a rally in Denver, Colo., on April 5, 2022. David Zalubowski/AP Photo Attorneys for Tina Peters, a former Colorado county clerk convicted of state-level election interference, are asking a Colorado court to free her after President Donald Trump pardoned her. In a motion filed Dec. 23, Peters’s lawyers
Attorney General Pam Bondi at a press conference in Washington on Dec. 4, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times The Justice Department said on Dec. 24 that it has uncovered more than 1 million additional documents potentially related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s case. “The [Justice Department] has received these documents from [the U.S. Attorney
European Union flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels on July 16, 2025. Yves Herman/Reuters European leaders expressed outrage on Tuesday and Wednesday after the U.S. State Department designated five European nationals—including former European Commissioner Thierry Breton—as anti-free speech activists to be blocked from entering the United States. On Dec. 23, U.S. Secretary