Nearly 42 million Americans will have less money in their food budget in November if the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, is allowed to run out of funds. President Donald Trump promised on Oct. 29 to find additional funding for the program amid the month-long government shutdown. A federal judge is also considering
Members of the U.S. National Guard patrol in Lafayette Square near the White House on Aug. 29, 2025. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images The Trump administration is intensifying its push to combat high levels of crime in the nation’s capital, revealing on Oct. 30 a new recruitment campaign soliciting elite federal officers for the streets
A TikTok building in Culver City, Calif., on March 17, 2023. Damian Dovarganes/AP Photo China has approved a transfer agreement with the United States for the popular TikTok social media app, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced on Oct. 30. Chinese leader Xi Jinping told U.S. President Donald Trump at the beginning of their meeting
People stand around the statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike after it was toppled by vandals in Washington on June 19, 2020. Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty Images WASHINGTON—The statue of a Confederate general in the District of Columbia was restored over the weekend, after being toppled and set on fire during the 2020 George Floyd
Democratic National Committee chairman Ken Martin speaks after winning the vote at the DNC’s winter meeting in National Harbor, Md., on Feb. 1, 2025. Rod Lamkey, Jr./AP Photo With less than a week until Election Day, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is mounting an aggressive final push in New Jersey, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, where party
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) speaks during a hearing with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 4, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times Democrats were kept out of an Oct. 30 congressional briefing concerning recent lethal U.S. strikes on Latin American drug traffickers, according to Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.). Warner,
The first group of Afrikaners from South Africa to arrive for resettlement listen to remarks from U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau and U.S. Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Troy Edgar (both out of frame), after they arrived at Washington Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Va., on May 12, 2025. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty