Alaska Summit: How Trump’s Pressure Campaign on Oil, Banking, and Diplomacy Is Redrawing the Global Chessboard

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin talk during the group photo session at the APEC Summit in Danang, Vietnam, on Nov. 11, 2017. Jorge Silva/Reuters File Photo Commentary When President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in Anchorage on Aug. 15, their handshake will make headlines. But the real story

Senators Call for Probe Into Meta After News Report on AI Conversations With Children

The offices of Meta in Menlo Park, Calif., on July 31, 2025. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times Two Republican Senators on Aug. 14 called for a congressional investigation into Meta Platforms, Facebook’s parent company, after a recent news media report revealed an internal policy document that allowed the company’s chatbots to have “romantic or sensual” conversations

DOE Announces 11 Selections for New Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program

Test engineer Jacob Wilcox pulls his arm out of a glove box used for processing sodium at TerraPower, a company developing and building small nuclear reactors in Everett, Wash., on Jan. 13, 2022. Elaine Thompson/AP Photo The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has identified 11 projects that will receive federal support in advancing “first mover”

Bondi scraps limits on cooperation between D.C. police and immigration agents

Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday scrapped local directives that severely limited cooperation between police officers in Washington, D.C., and federal agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other immigration agencies. The move amounts to a sweeping reversal of “sanctuary” policies in the nation’s capital, allowing the Metropolitan Police Department, for the time being, to