Roger Stone speaks to Epoch Times reporters in Phoenix on Dec. 20, 2025. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times PHOENIX—At AmericaFest 2025, viewers have witnessed conflicts between major conservative commentators, including dueling speeches from Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson. In an interview with The Epoch Times, Roger Stone suggested that the sound and fury signifies very little
President Donald Trump is greeted by Bruce Blakeman (L), executive of Nassau County, New York, after arriving at the Republic Airport on Air Force One in Farmingdale, N.Y., on Sept. 26, 2025. Anna Moneymaker /Getty Images President Donald Trump on Dec. 20 threw his endorsement behind the new Republican candidate in the New York governor’s
President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the Diplomatic Room of the White House on Dec. 17, 2025. Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum ordering federal agencies to begin relocating government systems from key wireless frequencies, a move the White House said is aimed at securing U.S. leadership in the global
Leo Tolstoy is the greatest writer in the Western world—greater, yes, than Shakespeare, Dante, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, and Proust. In evidence I would submit his two masterpiece novels War and Peace (1867) and Anna Karenina (1878), and 20 or so magnificent novellas and short stories, among them “The Death of Ivan Ilych,” “The Kreutzer Sonata,” “Father
An aerial view of the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., on Dec. 15, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times The Pentagon has failed to pass a full financial audit for the eighth year in a row. Congress initially mandated annual independent audits across the Department of Defense in 2018. In that time, the department has failed to
The majority of all U.S. seeds are provided by four companies, which some experts say has become a pressing national security issue. Add to My List Save By Autumn Spredemann | December 20, 2025Updated:December 20, 2025 For decades, American farmers relied on a diverse patchwork of seed companies to grow the nation’s food supply. That
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, senior Ukrainian negotiator Rustem Umerov and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz meet with President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), U.S. Air Force General Alexus Grynkewich, in Berlin, on Dec. 14, 2025. Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via Reuters The United States has