U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio participates in a signing ceremony for the U.S.–Hungary Intergovernmental Agreement on Civil Nuclear Cooperation with Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto and holds a joint media session with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Budapest, Hungary, at 5 a.m. ET on Feb. 16. Original News Source Link – Epoch Times
Washington — The Department of Homeland Security remains officially shut down since funding ran out at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday, after Congress failed to pass a bill to fund its operations before a stopgap measure lapsed. Without funding, some DHS functions will cease, although the impact will likely be more widely felt after President’s Day
After setting social media abuzz by saying on a podcast over the weekend that aliens were real, former President Barack Obama said he didn’t see evidence that aliens “have made contact with us.” During a lightning round of questions with podcast host Brian Tylor Cohen, Obama was asked, “Are aliens real?” “They’re real,” he answered,
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) speaks during a press conferece on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 9, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said on Feb. 15 that Democrats will do “whatever it takes” to make Virginia’s redistricting plan successful in a bid to counter Republican moves in
San Francisco Unified School District teachers and students form a human banner spelling out “Strike” at Ocean Beach in San Francisco on Feb. 11, 2026. Nearly 6,000 educators in the San Francisco Unified School District are on strike for a third day, the city’s first teachers’ strike in almost 50 years, after contract talks have
Sunday marked the second day of a partial government shutdown impacting more than 260,000 government workers under the Department of Homeland Security across multiple agencies, including TSA, FEMA and the Coast Guard. Democrats are calling for a ban on face coverings for immigration agents and for officers to display identification and wear body cameras. Willie
In a CBS News “Things That Matter” town hall, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore criticized President Trump’s handling of immigration as well as the shortcomings of the Biden administration on the issue. He fired back at a spate of insults from the president, but hinted that Democrats could pick up a few lessons from Mr. Trump