James Earle Fraser’s bronze statue of Alexander Hamilton on the south side of the Treasury Building in Washington. Public Domain The U.S. Treasury Department on April 21 announced that it is imposing sanctions on 14 targets “for their involvement in helping the Iranian regime obtain weapons,” in contravention of international sanctions. “As the regime attempts
Voters fill out their ballots at a polling station in the Hillsboro Old Stone School in Hillsboro, Va., on Nov. 04, 2025 Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Pennsylvania’s automatic voter registration option for driver’s license applicants works as intended to filter out noncitizens, but the process needs improvement, according to a report by the state’s auditor general.
Vice President JD Vance is waiting to find out if a planned trip to Islamabad will go ahead. Iran failed to respond to U.S. negotiating terms, putting the talks on hold. President Donald Trump says the United States is ready to bomb Iran if Tehran refuses to make a deal. The clock is ticking as
Shipping containers at the Port of Los Angeles in Long Beach, Calif., on March 10, 2026. Caroline Brehman/Reuters President Donald Trump said he would remember the companies that didn’t try to get refunds on tariffs the Supreme Court ruled were illegal earlier this year. During an interview with CNBC on April 21, Trump was asked
The Supreme Court in Washington on April 13, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times The Supreme Court on April 21 seemed poised to rein in the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) power to levy large fines through its in-house adjudication system. In the cases of FCC v. AT&T and Verizon Communications v. FCC, which were heard together,
The OpenAI logo is displayed on a cell phone with an image on a computer monitor generated by ChatGPT’s Dall-E text-to-image model, in Boston, on Dec. 8, 2023. AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has launched a criminal investigation into OpenAI after conducting an initial probe into the company’s ChatGPT program, which
An FBI agent at the Department of Justice in Washington on Feb. 12, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times The FBI said it is leading federal efforts to investigate potential connections in reports of dead or missing U.S. scientists in recent years, coming days after President Donald Trump expressed alarm. “The FBI is spearheading the effort