Members of the National Guard patrol the Washington Monument in the District of Columbia, on Aug. 16, 2025. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Police and federal officers in the Washington D.C. area have made 465 arrests since the federal government took over policing of the nation’s capital this past week. Fifty-two arrests and nine firearms seizures were
Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) presides over a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 5, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times A top House Republican said Monday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has agreed to hand over documents from the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation. “There are many
White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said President Donald Trump has “firmly restored America’s status as the undisputed leader of the free world.” Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro says he’s deploying 4.5 million militia members in response to the United States sending destroyers to the waters off Venezuela to press drug cartels… Original News Source Link – Epoch
Intel’s headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., on Aug. 1, 2024. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The U.S. government is seeking an equity stake in chipmaker Intel, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Aug. 19. In November 2024, the previous administration awarded Intel nearly $11 billion in grants from the CHIPS and Science Act—legislation designed to bolster U.S.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.S. President Donald Trump participate in a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Aug. 18, 2025. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP) Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images There will be no U.S. boots on the ground in Ukraine to enforce an eventual
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Texas Department of Transport representatives, and other state and local officials are scheduled to attend a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the reopening of Cow Creek Bridge in Marble Falls at 11 a.m. ET on Aug. 19. After the ceremony, the bridge will be officially open to the public. Original News Source
U.S. President Donald Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office at the White House on May 21, 2025. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images JOHANNESBURG—South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC), in power since apartheid ended in 1994, is being assaulted on two fronts, with salvos fired from inside the government, as well as from