Representations of cryptocurrency bitcoin, in this illustration picture created in Paris, France, on March 9, 2024. Benoit Tessier/Illustration/Reuters Federal prosecutors will drop all charges against Roger Ver, an early bitcoin investor known as “Bitcoin Jesus,” after he agreed to pay nearly $50 million in back taxes and penalties, authorities announced on Oct. 14. Ver, 46,
LASOS summer campers hold up an art project at Bel Air High School in Bel Air, Md., on July 24, 2025. AP Photo/KT Kanazawich The 466 employees recently laid off in the already shrinking Department of Education were responsible for processing grants for special needs students and investigating discrimination and harassment complaints in schools. The
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), joined by other House Republicans, speaks during the 15th day of the government shutdown at a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Oct. 15, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times The Senate again failed to pass a continuing resolution that would temporarily fund the government as a shutdown of
President Donald Trump speaks to the media in the Oval Office of the White House, as Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought, and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem look on, on June 10, 2025. Evan Vucci/AP Photo A federal judge on Oct. 15 temporarily
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth addresses a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Oct. 15, 2025. Omar Havana/AP Photo Secretary of War Pete Hegseth warned Moscow on Oct. 15 that the United States and its NATO allies will “impose costs on Russia for its continued aggression” if it
The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Oct. 6, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 15 seemed likely to limit the use of race-based districting during an oral argument concerning Louisiana’s congressional map. At the same time, some justices on the nation’s highest court pushed back against the idea that
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks during a press conference at government quarters Rosenbad after the trade talks between the United States and China concluded in Stockholm, Sweden, on July 29, 2025. Magnus Lejhall/TT News Agency/via Reuters U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed on Oct. 15 that the United States will be using its investments