Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, the self-described “working class Mainer,” attended an elite boarding school in Connecticut that costs upwards of $75,000 a year. Its alumni include Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart, former CIA director Porter Goss, Clinton family crony Strobe Talbott, MacKenzie Scott Bezos, and the veteran news anchor Chris Wallace. “Graham Platner is
(L–R) Independent candidate former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Democratic candidate Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa participate in a second New York City mayoral debate at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center at LaGuardia Community College in the Queens borough of New York City on Oct. 22, 2025. Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times via AP,
People march to protest the arrival of the Texas National Guard and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in downtown Chicago on Oct. 8, 2025. Octavio Jones/AFP A federal judge in Chicago on Oct. 22 said she would extend her order blocking President Donald Trump from deploying National Guard troops in the Windy City
Students return to the University of Virginia for the fall semester in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 19, 2017. Win McNamee/Getty Images The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Oct. 22 halted civil rights investigations into the University of Virginia (UVA) after the college agreed to abide by the Trump administration’s guidance to not engage in
Immigration demonstrators confront federal agents and California Army National Guardsmen in Los Angeles on June 8, 2025. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times The Trump administration is sending federal agents for immigration enforcement operations to San Francisco, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on Oct. 22. “DHS is targeting the worst of the worst criminal illegal
People shop at a grocery store in Columbia, Md., on June 8, 2024. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times President Donald Trump’s administration intensified efforts on Wednesday to combat rising beef prices, calling on domestic cattle ranchers to lower prices for consumers while also releasing a multi-agency strategy to restock the nation’s depleted cattle herd. Beef prices in
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks at a press conference on the sidelines of the IMF/World Bank annual meetings in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 15, 2025. Ken Cedeno/Reuters U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed on Oct. 22 that the United States is weighing export controls on software and aircraft engines to China if Beijing does