The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Nov. 10, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times The federal court system returned some landmark rulings for the American people in 2025, but many legal questions remain unanswered as judges absorb the flood of litigation challenging President Donald Trump’s policies. In his second term, Trump has pursued an ambitious
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