The U.S. Capitol at sunset in Washington on Dec. 2, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times The House passed a compromise version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Dec. 10. On Dec. 10, the House voted 312–112 to approve the NDAA bill, which authorizes $901 billion in military and national security programs. Eighteen Republicans
Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway at her office in Jefferson City, Mo., on Nov. 19, 2025. David A. Lieb/AP Photo A group of Missouri voters has filed a petition with more than 300,000 signatures calling for a referendum that they hope will block a redistricting plan favorable to Republicans. The group, known as People Not
Twin City Teachers and their supporters march in Minneapolis on Feb. 12, 2022. Hannah Hobus/Pioneer Press via AP A federal complaint filed on Dec. 9 alleges that one of the largest school districts in Minnesota illegally prioritized race and gender in hiring and personnel decisions. The lawsuit from the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division
Several IT firms that appear to bar U.S. citizens from certain jobs also have contracts with the federal government, suggesting that they are discriminating against Americans even as they receive millions in taxpayer largesse. The Trump administration is now investigating those companies, and the General Services Administration told the Washington Free Beacon it would “take
Columbia University published its fourth and final anti-Semitism report on Tuesday. It paints a “disturbing” picture of life as a Jewish student at the Ivy League institution, where instructors smeared Jews and Israelis in their classes as occupiers and “murderers” and used unrelated lectures on topics like astronomy to rail against “genocide” in Gaza. The
Minnesota governor Tim Walz (D.) is pledging to bring more Somalis to his state as he grapples with the fallout from a massive Somali welfare fraud scheme that occurred under his watch. “We are going to defend our neighbors,” Walz said at a Tuesday fundraiser, according to the Center Square. “Instead of demonizing our Somali
President Donald Trump makes an announcement from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on Dec. 3, 2025. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the United States seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela in what appears to be an escalation in the administration’s campaign