Fed Chair Jerome Powell testifies before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 25, 2025. Kent Nishimura/Getty Images Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell responded in a July 17 letter to a senior Trump administration official who last week accused the leader of the nation’s central bank
(L–R) Piero Tozzi, senior policy adviser to Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), Robert Destro, former assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor, and Smith stand together with people who received certificates for quitting the Chinese Communist Party-affiliated organizations, in Washington, on July 17, 2025. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times WASHINGTON—Lawmakers
Kinney County Sheriff Brad Coe talks about the border crisis in his county, in Brackettville, Texas, on May 23, 2021. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times Cuts to a Texas border-security effort have created a jail space shortage, causing thousands of outstanding warrants tied to human smuggling and trespassing across the southern border to go unserved, according
An El Cajon police officer books a man into the San Diego County Jail on April 24, 2020, in San Diego, Calif. Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images The Department of Justice on July 17 requested data on incarcerated illegal immigrants from sheriffs in multiple major California counties, including reasons for arrests or convictions and scheduled release dates.
As the Trump administration looks to reset the global trade system, one of the longest-running international trade disputes in North America is returning to the forefront. The United States is reconsidering how it deals with the massive imports of Canadian softwood lumber. The two continental neighbors have feuded over the forest product since the 1980s.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom looks on before speaking at East Los Angeles College in Monterey Park, Calif., on Feb. 26, 2025. Mario Tama/Getty Images California Gov. Gavin Newsom spent nearly four hours on an episode of the “Shawn Ryan Show” released this week, opening the conversation by accepting a boxed Sig Sauer P365 Macro pistol
President Joe Biden signs a resolution to avert a nationwide rail shutdown, in Washington on Dec. 2, 2022. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images The White House Counsel’s Office is investigating the Biden administration’s use of the autopen, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced on July 17. “The White House Counsel’s Office has launched their