President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Md., on Aug. 1, 2025. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images President Donald Trump said Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is welcome to call him “anytime,” as tensions rise between the two governments over new U.S. tariffs and sanctions on a Brazilian Supreme Court justice.
Law enforcement officers shoot non-lethal munitions, as people march as part of protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations in Los Angeles on June 11, 2025. Leah Millis/Reuters A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a lower court ruling that barred federal agents from carrying out immigration stops and arrests targeting illegal immigrants without
A protester holds a Palestinian flag as students participate in a “Walkout to fight Genocide and Free Palestine” at Bruin Plaza at University of California–Los Angeles on Oct. 25, 2023. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images Reforming higher education was a campaign promise made by President Donald Trump, and it remains among his highest priorities.
Mifepristone tablets in a Planned Parenthood clinic in Ames, Iowa, on July 18, 2024. Charlie Neibergall/AP Photo Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Taylor Bruck, a clerk from Ulster County, New York, after he refused to impose a $100,000 fine against a doctor who mailed abortion pills to a patient in Texas. Texas is
Marshall Islands-based Meuse Shipping Inc.’s Palau-flagged tanker Iris transits Bosphorus in Istanbul on July 25, 2024. Yoruk Isik/Reuters WASHINGTON—The U.S. Treasury Department announced fresh sanctions on Wednesday on over 115 Iran-linked individuals, entities, and vessels, in a sign the Trump administration is doubling down on its “maximum pressure” campaign after bombing Tehran’s key nuclear sites
The Senate side of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on July 14, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times The U.S. Senate on Aug. 1 passed a so-called “minibus” spending package to fund the government in the upcoming fiscal year, approving a slate of non-controversial spending items. The slate of funding bills includes around $187 billion in
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 20, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times In his department’s latest move related to vaccine-related reform, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Aug. 1 announced more repeals of federal policy that rewarded hospitals