U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks alongside Education Secretary Linda McMahon as President Donald Trump holds a cabinet meeting with members of his administration in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington on Aug. 26, 2025. This is the seventh cabinet meeting of Trump’s second term. Chip
Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russ Vought testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 25, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times The Trump administration has repealed 30 regulations for each new regulation, Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought announced on Aug. 26. During a Cabinet meeting, Vought noted that a
DNC Chair Ken Martin speaks during a Resolutions Committee meeting, at the party’s summer meeting in Minneapolis on Aug. 26, 2025. Screenshot from video A Democratic National Committee (DNC) panel approved a slate of measures at its summer meeting in Minneapolis, while two Gaza-related measures produced the day’s largest split. Early in the Aug. 26
People wait as videos are displayed as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) holds a major hiring event on in Arlington, Texas, on Aug. 26, 2025. Ron Jenkins/Getty Images ARLINGTON, Texas—Despite protesters, hundreds of vehicles filled the parking lot on the first day of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recruiting event to attract more
Iris Tao, a reporter with The Epoch Times’ sister media NTD News, speaks about her mugging at gunpoint after President Donald Trump asked her to share her story during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Aug. 26, 2025. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images At a White House cabinet meeting, a reporter with The
Iris Tao, a reporter with The Epoch Times’ sister media NTD News, speaks about her mugging at gunpoint after President Donald Trump asked her to share her story during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Aug. 26, 2025. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images At a White House cabinet meeting, a reporter with The
President Donald Trump participates in a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington on Aug. 26, 2025. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump on Aug. 26 called for the death penalty for anyone who commits murder in the nation’s capital city. “If somebody kills somebody in the capital—Washington,