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
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