FOWLER, N.Y.—A fierce wind is slinging sleet and forcing 30-foot hemlocks to genuflect in its gusts this gray, cold November morning, but Joel Rheault is enjoying a warm and fuzzy moment atop a dynamited blast bowl. Below, a bulldozer is churning through newly dredged soil and shoving boulders aside in an open pit burrowed into
President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House on Nov. 17, 2025. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump on Nov. 19 signed into law a bill to release the files surrounding the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Epstein Files Transparency Act—which was introduced by Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.)
NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch speaks during a news conference in New York on Feb. 18, 2025. AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced Nov. 19 that Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch has agreed to remain in her role. Her decision comes after Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist who once called for defunding
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive personnel in a file image. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images President Donald Trump has nominated a 20-year veteran of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to be its new director. The ATF has been run by interim directors since former Director Steve Dettelbach resigned just
First Lady Melania Trump addresses a crowd of U.S. Marines and military family members at a hangar bay on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, N.C., on Nov. 19, 2025. Ryan Morgan/The Epoch Times JACKSONVILLE, N.C.—First Lady Melania Trump and Second Lady Usha Vance visited Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune on Nov. 19 to
Crown Prince and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman and US President Donald Trump speaks at the US-Saudi Investment Forum at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington on Nov. 19, 2025. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump on Nov. 19 touted $270 billion
U.S. President Donald Trump poses for a family picture with Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman and other attendees the U.S.–Saudi Investment Forum at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington on Nov. 19, 2025. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump on Nov. 19 touted $270