Former President Barack Obama addresses the Obama Foundation’s 2024 Democracy Forum in Chicago on Dec. 5, 2024. Scott Olson/Getty Images Former President Barack Obama joined California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Oct. 22 for a virtual volunteer event urging support for Proposition 50, the ballot measure that would let California redraw its congressional maps in response
Democratic U.S. Senate candidates Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff are seen in a combination of file photographs as they campaign on Jan. 5, 2021. Reuters A small but growing group of Senate Democrats is splitting with party leaders on how to handle the ongoing government shutdown. The breaks have come on two tracks—votes to
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) speaks during the fifteenth day of the government shutdown at a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Oct. 15, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) endorsed the Democratic Party’s nominee for mayor of New York, state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani (D-Astoria), on Oct.
Fallen shipping containers (L) next to stacks of leaning containers on a vessel moored at the Port of Long Beach in Long Beach, Calif., on Sept. 9, 2025. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Jamieson Greer announced on Oct. 24 a new investigation into whether China upheld the “Phase One” agreement
New York Attorney General Letitia James pleaded not guilty on Friday in a bank fraud case relating to a mortgage application for one of the properties she owns. Five years on, the United States will investigate whether China has lived up to commitments it made as part of the U.S.–China Phase One Agreement in December
Attorney General Merrick Garland, flanked by Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco and FBI Director Christopher Wray, speaks at the Justice Department in Washington on Jan. 27, 2023. Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo Former Attorney General Merrick Garland and former FBI Director Christopher Wray were among the officials who signed off on the “Arctic Frost” probe targeting top
A screenshot shows the moment before a U.S. military strike on a vessel suspected of carrying narcotics through international waters near Venezuela, posted by War Secretary Pete Hegseth on Oct. 24, 2025. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth via X The U.S. military carried out its 10th strike on a drug trafficking boat in the Caribbean Sea,