The Committee on the Present Danger: China (CPDC), a Washington-based think tank, holds a forum at 11 a.m. ET on July 17, to call on the government to bust the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) weaponized marijuana operations in the United States. Moderator: Frank Gaffney, president, Institute for the American Future; vice cha… Original News Source
President Donald Trump speaks with members of the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on July 15, 2025. Mehmet Eser/Middle East Images via AFP via Getty Images President Donald Trump signed an executive order on July 17 to create a new classification of noncareer federal workers whose roles
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in Washington on Aug. 6, 2024. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times President Donald Trump’s termination of Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter is illegal under a decades-old Supreme Court ruling, a federal judge concluded on July 17. The 1935 Supreme Court ruling, known as Humphrey’s Executor, upheld legal limitations
A U.S. Marine and a U.S. Navy sailor salute in front of a mural reading NEVER FORGET aboard the helipad of the USS New York during Memorial Day events on the final day of Fleet Week in Manhattan, New York, on May 26 2025. Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images WASHINGTON—The House passed an $831.5 billion
Alcatraz, the former prison, in San Francisco, on April 7, 2011. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum visited the former federal prison Alcatraz in California on July 17, following President Donald Trump’s order to reopen the island prison to house the nation’s most dangerous criminals. Alcatraz, located off the
The U.S. Capitol in Washington on July 16, 2025. Alex Wrobleski/AFP via Getty Images The House of Representatives on July 17 passed a revised $9 billion rescissions package, sending the measure to President Donald Trump for his signature. The tally was 216–213, with two Republicans—Reps. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.)—voting against the bill.
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters as he departs for Florida from the White House on July 1, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times President Donald Trump said on July 17 that he had asked the Department of Justice to release “any and all pertinent Grand Jury testimony” from the case involving financier and sex offender