U.S. President Donald Trump, with a recently signed executive order classifying fentanyl as a ‘weapon of mass destruction’, during a ceremony for the presentation of the Mexican Border Defense Medal in the Oval Office of the White House on Dec. 15, 2025. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump awarded Mexican Border Defense Medals to 13
Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith speaks during a news conference on President Donald Trump’s plan to place Washington police under federal control and deploy National Guard troops, in Washington on Aug. 11, 2025. Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo WASHINGTON—A Congressional committee has accused the chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) of pressuring her staff
A still from footage of a boat strike targeting drug trafficking in the Eastern Pacific on Dec. 15, 2025. @Southcom/X The United States on Monday carried out airstrikes on three boats allegedly involved in narcotics trafficking, killing eight people aboard the vessels. “On Dec. 15, at the direction of [Secretary of War] Pete Hegseth, Joint
A marijuana grow site in California’s Mendocino County on Oct. 9, 2025. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times President Donald Trump said on Dec. 15 that he’s considering an executive order to reclassify marijuana out of Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), a category reserved for drugs deemed to have no medical value and a
Marcy and Miguel Mendoza (R) who lost their 10-year-old son, Nathaniel Mendoza, to fentanyl, attend the fourth annual National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day in New York City on Aug. 21, 2025. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times President Donald Trump signed an executive order designating fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction during an award ceremony
The BBC logo outside the BBC Broadcasting House in London on Nov. 10, 2025. REUTERS/Jack Taylor President Donald Trump on Monday evening filed a lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) seeking $10 billion in restitution for alleged defamation in a news special that aired last year. The 33-page legal filing accuses the BBC of
James Boasberg, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, at an event in Washington on April 2, 2025. Drew Angerer/AFP via Getty Images A federal appeals court has halted U.S. District Judge James Boasberg’s pursuit of potential contempt for the Trump administration and signaled it would look into whether the