Coming from diverse backgrounds, the president-elect’s Cabinet selections bring a variety of skills to the new government. Illustration by The Epoch Times, The Epoch Times, Getty Images, Public Domain) By Jacob Burg, Jackson Richman | January 05, 2025Updated:January 05, 2025 After sweeping all seven battleground states this year and becoming the first Republican to win
Several inches of snow are expected to hit the Washington area, forecasters warn. Washington, D.C., could face a significant snowstorm on Monday into early Tuesday and one lawmaker signaled it could potentially impact the certification of President-elect Donald Trump’s November win. The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a winter storm warning for Virginia, Maryland, and
Attorney Stanley Woodward will serve as assistant to the president and senior counselor. President-elect Donald Trump announced a number of additions to his incoming White House team on Saturday. Trump’s transition team said in a statement that attorney Stanley Woodward, Robert Gabriel Jr., Nicholas Luna, and William “Beau” Harrison will join the White House, to
The American Civil War was a war of dualities—North and South, Union and Confederate, slave and free—and never less so than when it comes to dual biographies. Pairing personalities—Lee and Grant, Lee and Jackson, Grant and Sherman, McClellan and Lincoln—has been one of the most unusual features of the limitless literature of the Civil War.
Humans born in 1900 witnessed a startling stream of technologies that transformed their everyday lives and their understanding of the universe. Cars, telephones, and the internet overturned where we lived, how we worked, and whom we knew. Other scientific feats took the breath away by their sheer might—most of all, the atom bomb and a
Matt Parker is a mathematician who does comedy. Or a comedian who does math. It’s as eccentric a combination as you’re likely to find, but the amazing thing about his new book, Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World, is that he managed to find over 50 other people to join him in the math.
ATLANTA— Six days of funeral observances for former President Jimmy Carter began Saturday in Georgia, where he died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100. The first events reflected Carter’s climb up the political ladder, from the tiny town of Plains, Georgia, to decades on the global stage as a humanitarian and advocate for