Rep. Mayes Middleton (R-Texas) (C) of the Texas Freedom Caucus addresses the media in the Texas Capitol in Austin, Texas, on July 13, 2021. Montinique Monroe/Getty Images Texas state Sen. Mayes Middleton edged out U.S. Rep. Chip Roy in a contentious Republican runoff in the race for state attorney general, winning 55.7 percent of the
Pro-Palestinian activists protest against the Israel-Hamas conflict on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles on April 25, 2024. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times California’s largest university allegedly has continued to demonstrate “deliberate indifference” to discrimination against Jewish and Israeli students despite prior federal complaints of anti-Semitic activities, the Department of Justice said in a recent lawsuit.
The Department of Justice in Washington on March 11, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times An American journalist and the son of a Texas Republican politician has been charged with acting as a Chinese agent, court records show. Thomas Pauken II, who has lived in China for more than a decade and worked for multiple Chinese
The U.S. Department of Justice in Washington on April 27, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times An American journalist, the son of a Texas Republican politician, has been charged with acting as a Chinese agent, court records show. Thomas Pauken II, who has lived in China for more than a decade and worked for multiple Chinese
The Maryland State Capitol Building in Annapolis, Md., in a file image. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson said the state Senate intends to advance a constitutional amendment allowing mid-decade congressional redistricting, reversing his months-long opposition. He cited a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in April that limited the use of race
The South Carolina State House in Columbia on May 16, 2023. Logan Cyrus/AFP/Getty Images The South Carolina Senate rejected a new U.S. congressional map on May 26 that could have eliminated the only Democratic seat in the state ahead of the midterms. It is currently held by Rep. Jim Clyburn. We had a problem loading
President Donald Trump arrives to speak during the National Memorial Day Observance at the Memorial Amphitheatre in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., on May 25, 2026. Kent Nishimura/AFP President Donald Trump visited Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, on Tuesday for his scheduled six-month physical examination. “Everything checked out PERFECTLY,” Trump