The U.S. Department of the Treasury in Washington on June 30, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times The Treasury Department on Friday designated Venezuela’s Cartel de los Soles—known in English as the Cartel of the Suns—as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) entity, accusing President Nicolas Maduro and senior members of his regime of leading the
Demonstrators take part in a pro-Palestinian protest at Butler Library on the campus of Columbia University in New York on May 7, 2025. Ryan Murphy/Reuters Under the agreement reached between President Donald Trump and Columbia University regarding campus anti-Semitism, the Ivy League school will pay a $200 million fine to regain its eligibility for future
Todd Harper, then-chairman of the National Credit Union Administration, testifies before the House Financial Services Committee in Washington on Nov. 15, 2023. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times A federal appeals court late on July 25 temporarily paused a lower court ruling preventing President Donald Trump from firing two of the three members of a financial regulator’s
California Gov. Gavin Newsom holds a news conference at Downey Memorial Christian Church in Downey, Calif., on July 16, 2025. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images Gov. Gavin Newsom vowed to redraw California’s congressional seats to elect more Democrats if Texas decides to move ahead with redistricting that would favor Republicans, he announced July 25.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detain an illegal immigrant near Washington in May 2025. Courtesy of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement A federal judge dismissed on July 25 the Trump administration’s lawsuit over Illinois’s sanctuary policies, holding that the policies either didn’t violate federal law or were protected by state sovereignty. Filed in February, the
Logs at a sawmill, in West Kelowna, B.C., on April 4, 2025. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck The U.S. government on Friday imposed 20.56 percent anti-dumping duties on softwood lumber imports from Canada following an administrative review to determine whether the goods were being sold below fair market value. The U.S. Commerce Department said that its
Logs at a sawmill, in West Kelowna, B.C., on April 4, 2025. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck The U.S. government on Friday imposed 20.56 percent anti-dumping duties on softwood lumber imports from Canada following an administrative review to determine whether the goods were being sold below fair market value. The U.S. Commerce Department said that its