Incoming Senate Majority Leader Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) after the Senate Republican leadership election in Washington on Nov. 13, 2024. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has not ruled out recess appointments as an option to confirm a backlog of President Donald Trump’s nominees. That would require the Senate to enter
Former U.S. Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark at the District of Columbia Court of Appeals in Washington on April 3, 2024. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times A District of Columbia disciplinary panel recommended on July 31 that former Attorney General Jeffrey Clark be disbarred for writing a proof-of-concept letter that said the Department of Justice had
Venezuelans and Nicaraguans are transferred by agents of the Border Patrol after crossing the Rio Grande river from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico to El Paso, Texas, on Dec. 27, 2022. Herika Martinez/AFP via Getty Images A federal judge on July 31 blocked the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from ending temporary protected status (TPS)
The Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters in Washington on July 21, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times A classified annex to a report produced by Special Counsel John Durham was discovered “buried in a back room at the FBI,” according to FBI Director Kash Patel. The document was declassified and released by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 14, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times WASHINGTON—The Senate Appropriations Committee on July 31 voted to favorably report two bills to the full Senate that would fund the U.S. government’s defense, health promotion, education, and labor initiatives for the 2026 fiscal
President Donald Trump speaks before signing executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on March 6, 2025. Alex Wong/Getty Images President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that formalizes new tariffs on dozens of nations, plus the 27-member European Union. The reciprocal tariffs were announced in a July
An American Airlines Airbus A319 airplane takes off past the air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, on Jan. 11, 2023. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images WASHINGTON—The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on July 31 defended the staffing levels for air traffic controllers at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport when