House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 8, 2025.Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times Health care has become a sticking point in congressional negotiations over a stopgap spending bill to avoid a shutdown of the federal government on Oct. 1. The House passed a continuing spending resolution with
Former FBI Director James Comey leaves a closed session with the Senate Intelligence Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 8, 2017. Drew Angerer/Getty Images On Sept. 25, grand jurors returned an indictment on two counts against former FBI Director James Comey, accusing him of making a false
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth speaks during a ceremony at the Pentagon to commemorate the 24rd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, in Washington on Sept. 11, 2025. Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has recently summoned the U.S. military’s top brass overseeing forces around the world to a base in Virginia for
President Trump’s Justice Department charged former FBI Director James Comey on Thursday with lying to Congress, an unprecedented step against a longtime Trump foe that revisits controversies over the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe from nearly a decade ago. A grand jury in Northern Virginia voted to indict Comey on two counts: making a false statement to
Eduardo Bolsonaro, Brazilian congressman and son of Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, during an interview in Washington on March 16, 2019. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times NEW YORK—A new round of U.S. sanctions related to Brazilian authorities was imposed on Sept. 22—the same day lawmaker Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, was charged with coercion.
FILE – Ryan Walters, Republican candidate for Oklahoma State Superintendent, speaks at a rally in Oklahoma City on Nov. 1, 2022. AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File Oklahoma Education Superintendent Ryan Walters will step down from his state leadership position to take over as chief executive officer of the Teacher Freedom Alliance on Oct. 1, the organization
Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted by the Justice Department on Thursday. He has been charged with one count of making false statements and one count of obstruction of justice, related to Senate testimony he gave almost five years ago. In a video posted to Instagram following the indictment announcement, Comey asserted his innocence.