Former President Barack Obama during the Obama Foundation’s 2024 Democracy Forum in Chicago on Dec. 5, 2024. Scott Olson/Getty Images Former U.S. President Barack Obama said in a Feb. 14 podcast interview that aliens are real but that none are kept at the secretive Area 51 military base in the Nevada desert, later adding that
A view of Josephine, Texas, on Dec. 24, 2025. Community Capital Partners LP have proposed a Muslim-centric development in the area. Bobby Sanchez for The Epoch Times Texas has filed a second lawsuit aimed at stopping the construction of an alleged Muslim-only development in rural East Texas, claiming a utility district for the development sidestepped
Fulton County elections workers process absentee ballots at the new Fulton County Elections Hub and Operations Center in Union City, Ga., on Nov. 4, 2024. Elijah Nouvelage/AFP via Getty Images The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on Feb. 15 asked a federal court to restrict how the federal government may use
Water samples are taken from the Potomac River in Glen Echo, Md., on on Jan. 23, 2026. Nathan Ellgren/AP President Donald Trump is directing federal emergency teams to respond to a sewage spill on the Potomac River, calling it a “massive ecological disaster” and blaming local leaders for not handling the crisis, which began nearly
Ryan Routh was arrested on suspicion of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Sept. 15, 2024. Martin County Sheriff’s Office via CNN Ryan Routh, the man convicted last year of attempting to kill then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2024, is appealing his life sentence. Routh’s attorney filed a brief
Rep. Burgess Owens (R-Utah) speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on voting rights on Capitol Hill on April 20, 2021. Bill Clark/AFP via Getty Images Utah Republicans announced that they have collected enough signatures to qualify an initiative for the November ballot to ask voters whether to repeal the state’s independent redistricting committee and
Golfers play as trucks unload debris and soil from the demolition of the White House’s East Wing at East Potomac Golf Course in Washington on Oct. 24, 2025. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Two Washington-area golfers and a preservation group have filed suit against the Trump administration over its takeover and planned overhaul of a historic public