By Joseph Lord | October 24, 2025Updated:October 24, 2025 Images of the East Wing of the White House being pulled down to make way for an expansive new ballroom have sparked controversy in some quarters. As some historians have noted, however, the $300 million ballroom will join a long line of renovations that, regardless of
President of Colombia Gustavo Petro Urrego addresses the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York City on Sept. 23, 2025. Pamela Smith/AP Photo The Trump administration on Friday imposed sanctions against Colombian President Gustavo Petro, his family, and a close associate, alleging the sanctioned parties are complicit in
People cast their ballots at a mobile outdoor vote center at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on Election Day, Nov. 5, 2024. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images The Department of Justice (DOJ) is sending monitors to six counties to watch polling sites, it said on Oct. 24. The personnel will monitor polls in Los Angeles
Former President Barack Obama addresses the Obama Foundation’s 2024 Democracy Forum in Chicago on Dec. 5, 2024. Scott Olson/Getty Images Former President Barack Obama joined California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Oct. 22 for a virtual volunteer event urging support for Proposition 50, the ballot measure that would let California redraw its congressional maps in response
Democratic U.S. Senate candidates Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff are seen in a combination of file photographs as they campaign on Jan. 5, 2021. Reuters A small but growing group of Senate Democrats is splitting with party leaders on how to handle the ongoing government shutdown. The breaks have come on two tracks—votes to
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) speaks during the fifteenth day of the government shutdown at a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Oct. 15, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) endorsed the Democratic Party’s nominee for mayor of New York, state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani (D-Astoria), on Oct.
Fallen shipping containers (L) next to stacks of leaning containers on a vessel moored at the Port of Long Beach in Long Beach, Calif., on Sept. 9, 2025. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Jamieson Greer announced on Oct. 24 a new investigation into whether China upheld the “Phase One” agreement