A store in Washington on Aug. 19, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times WASHINGTON—Across the nation’s capital, business owners and employees offered mixed opinions of President Donald Trump’s push to clamp down on crime in the city. Trump’s Aug. 11 order to temporarily take over the city’s police department has prompted a surge of law enforcement agents
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 14, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) offered support for the Trump administration’s plan to take an equity stake in chipmaker Intel. The stake would be in exchange for the previous administration’s award to Intel of almost
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. looks on during a news conference at the USDA headquarters building in Washington on July 14, 2025. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images Early in his tenure as Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowed to make transparency a key element of the department under his
(Left) U.S. Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) speaks at Irvine Valley College in Orange County in Irvine, Calif., on Oct. 14, 2022. (Right) Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco addresses supporters of U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a rally in Coachella, Calif., on Oct. 12, 2024. Mario Tama/Getty Images; Frederic J. Brown/AFP via
“Alligator Alcatraz” ICE detention center at Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in Ochopee, Fla., on July 24, 2025. Marco Bello/Reuters A federal judge on Thursday evening ordered President Donald Trump and the state of Florida to stop bringing new detainees to “Alligator Alcatraz,” a detention center for illegal immigrants in the middle of the Florida
“Alligator Alcatraz” ICE detention center at Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in Ochopee, Fla., on July 24, 2025. Marco Bello/Reuters A federal judge on Aug. 21 ordered President Donald Trump and the state of Florida to stop sending detainees to “Alligator Alcatraz,” a detention center for illegal immigrants in the Everglades, and barred new construction
Semi-trucks line up near Pier J to retrieve shipping containers from a China-based ship at the Port of Long Beach in California on April 4, 2018. Bob Riha Jr./Reuters The Trump administration will immediately pause the issuance of all worker visas for commercial truck drivers, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Aug. 21. “Effective