Ramaco Resources plans to extract more than 450 tons of rare earths from its 4,500-acre Brook Mine near Ranchester, Wyom., where graders, conveyors, and sifters were quiet on July 11, 2025, during the mine’s ceremonial ribbon-cutting at the companies nearby offices and labs. John Haughey/The Epoch Times RANCHESTER, Wyo.—A mine in Wyoming is drawing national
Presidential candidate Donald Trump took the stage at a routine campaign rally exactly a year ago in Butler, Pennsylvania, July 13, 2024. But this rally would turn out unlike any others of his political career.
A long time ago, in a media environment far, far away, an editor walked into my office and dropped a pile of books by Dave Barry on my desk. “Here’s an idea,” he said. “Read these and figure out how he does it.” At the time, Barry was a weekly humor columnist at the Miami
In publishing, as in much of life, timing is everything. And by that measure, if by no other, Iran’s Grand Strategy, Vali Nasr’s latest analysis of the Islamic Republic, is a smashing success. First available just two short weeks before Israel’s stunningly successful aerial campaign against the mullahs, Nasr’s book attempts—but fails—to frame the Islamic
Man is a ranking animal. He is not content for there to be a multiplicity of greats, all of roughly equal worth. No, there must be a No. 1, a No. 2, a No. 3… Man must rank. When I was in college, I took a class from the anthropologist Richard Wrangham. I can’t remember
Federal immigration authorities said Saturday they arrested more than 300 immigrants suspected of being in the country illegally in raids Thursday on two California cannabis farm sites as protesters engaged in a tense standoff with authorities during an operation at one of the farms. One farm worker also died after sustaining injuries during one of the
The Justice Department and FBI are struggling to contain the fallout from this week’s decision to withhold records from the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation, which rankled influential far-right media personalities and supporters of President Trump. The move, which included the acknowledgment that one particular sought-after document never actually existed, sparked a contentious conversation between