Vice President JD Vance speaks as administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Mehmet Oz listens at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building of the White House on Feb. 25, 2026. Alex Wong/Getty Images The Justice Department has created a West Coast Health Care Fraud Strike Force targeting health care fraud in Arizona, Nevada,
Republican congressional candidates in Ohio’s 9th congressional district participate in a forum sponsored by VoteR PAC in Toledo, Ohio, on April 13, 2026. Courtesy of Toby Miller/VoteR PAC “Who is your choice to BEAT Marcy?” That catchphrase for a recent GOP candidate forum in Toledo, Ohio, is also the question that voters along Lake Erie
President Donald Trump signs an executive order recommending loosening the federal regulations on marijuana, in the Oval Office at the White House on Dec.18, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters President Donald Trump on April 30 signed legislation ending the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown after 11 weeks. The department had been partially shuttered for 76 days
The Senate side of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington on Jan. 5, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times Congress on Thursday passed a bill to temporarily extend a spying authority of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for 45 days as congressional debate on the controversial measure continues. The House passed the
The U.S. Capitol building on April 29, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a bill to extend a spying authority of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for 45 days as congressional debate on the controversial measure continues. Both chambers of Congress raced to pass the short-term
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) listens at a news conference on the Supreme Court at the U.S. Capitol on July 19, 2023. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images A Republican gubernatorial candidate and current U.S. senator from Tennessee called on lawmakers to change the state’s congressional map in the wake of a landmark Supreme Court decision that reversed a
(L–R) U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, President Donald Trump, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent attend talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the Gimhae Air Base in Busan, South Korea, on Oct. 30, 2025. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he