Federal agents with Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) ride on an armored vehicle driving slowly down Wilshire Boulevard near MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, Calif., on July 7, 2025. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images A federal district court judge partially blocked a California law barring law enforcement officers from wearing masks in a Feb.
WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump often praises his Cabinet members, but no one has received as much attention lately as his secretary of state, Marco Rubio. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 21, Trump joked, “I became a diplomat for the first time.” We had a problem loading this article. Please enable javascript
A “for sale” sign in Washington on May 19, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times The House passed H.R. 6644—the Housing for the 21st Century Act—a bipartisan piece of legislation aimed at restoring affordability in the U.S. housing market on Feb. 9. Representatives voted 388–11 in favor of the bill: 198 Democrats and 190 Republicans. We
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) leaves the Senate floor at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, on July 15, 2025. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Sen. John Fetterman (D-Penn.) said Sunday that requiring voters to show identification is not “unreasonable,” breaking with Democratic messaging as Republicans push to tie the SAVE America Act’s voter ID provisions to
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott shares his plans for school choice at Power Empowerment Night in Tyler, Texas, on March 10, 2023. Courtesy of the Office of Gov. Greg Abbott The Lone Star State made history last week after more than 42,000 families applied for Texas Education Freedom Accounts as soon as the application window opened,
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore speaks as Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott listens during a news conference in Baltimore on Sept. 5, 2025. Nick Wass/AP Photo Maryland Gov. Wes Moore announced on Feb. 8 that he was uninvited from a dinner at the White House for the nation’s governors. Moore wrote on his website that his exclusion
Ghislaine Maxwell, longtime associate of convicted sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein, speaks at a news conference at the United Nations in New York on June 25, 2013. UNTV via Reuters WASHINGTON—Ghislaine Maxwell declined to answer questions on Feb. 9 in the House Oversight Committee’s probe of her longtime confidant, convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell invoked