Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick speaks at the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh on July 15, 2025. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on July 20 that the United States is still aiming to leave a 10 percent baseline tariff on many smaller countries, despite recent
Smoke billows after an Israeli strike on Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on June 28, 2025, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas terrorist group. Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty Images The Trump administration’s special envoy for hostage affairs said in a Sunday interview that the Hamas terrorist group should “take the
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a National Rifle Association event at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas on May 18, 2024. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called for a July 21 special session of the state Legislature to discuss efforts to redraw the state’s congressional map to make it
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas, Texas, on Aug. 5, 2022. Bobby Sanchez/The Epoch Times Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued an adult swimming organization last week after it allowed transgender athletes to compete at a women’s spring meet in San Antonio, with one getting first place
The CK Gold Project gold mine 20 miles west of Cheyenne, Wyoming, will eventually look like a quarry, U.S. Gold President and CEO George Bee said, but while drawing core samples in 2023-24, it looked like a nondescript slit trench on the prairie. U.S. Gold CHEYENNE, Wyo.—George Bee is prospecting for gold in folds of
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy testifies before a House committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 14, 2025. Reuters/Anna Rose Layden/File Photo The U.S. Department of Transportation imposed new restrictions on flight operations from Mexico to the United States on July 19, in response to flight restrictions Mexico previously levied against the United States.
Exterior view of the 22-story New Capitol building, which is part of the Capitol Complex in Tallahassee, Fla., on July 26, 2023. Joe Raedle/Getty Images BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.—Florida Democratic lawmaker Joe Casello has died while in office following a heart attack, according to state House officials. He was 73. Casello, who was first elected to