Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), joined by other Senate Republicans, speaks during the government shutdown at a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Oct. 15, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times WASHINGTON—Just one day before Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding lapses, the Senate has once again hit the brakes on legislation that
The E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. federal courthouse in Washington on Jan. 6, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times WASHINGTON—A federal judge has blocked Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s censure of Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), halting a process that could lower the senator’s military rank and benefits. “This Court has all it needs to conclude that Defendants have
The U.S. Capitol building in Washington on Feb. 4, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times As the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues to escalate its military threats against Taiwan, the House of Representatives on Feb. 9 raised the economic stakes for Beijing. In a bipartisan vote, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the PROTECT Taiwan Act,
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, at E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington on March 16, 2023. Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via AP A federal judge in Washington has ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of Venezuelans whom he said
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chair Ho Nieh (R) and former commissioner Jeffrey Merrifield discuss rapid changes at the federal regulator under the Trump administration at the U.S. Nuclear Industry Council’s 13th annual Advanced Reactors Summit in Seattle on Feb. 11. John Haughey/The Epoch Times SEATTLE—When President Donald Trump tabbed Ho Nieh to chair the five-member Nuclear
White House border czar Tom Homan speaks at a press conference at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, on Feb. 4, 2026. John Moore/Getty Images Border czar Tom Homan said Thursday that thousands of unaccompanied alien children were located in a multi-monthlong operation in Minnesota as he also confirmed that the federal government
WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin on Feb. 12 announced the elimination of a 2009 finding that served as the basis of U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. “Effective immediately, we are repealing the ridiculous endangerment finding and terminating all additional green emissions standards imposed unnecessarily on vehicle models