NTD Reporter Describes Being Mugged, Pistol-Whipped in DC at Trump Cabinet Meeting

Iris Tao, a reporter with The Epoch Times’ sister media NTD News, speaks about her mugging at gunpoint after President Donald Trump asked her to share her story during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Aug. 26, 2025. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images At a White House cabinet meeting, a reporter with The

At Trump Cabinet Meeting, NTD Reporter Describes Being Mugged, Pistol-Whipped in DC

Iris Tao, a reporter with The Epoch Times’ sister media NTD News, speaks about her mugging at gunpoint after President Donald Trump asked her to share her story during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Aug. 26, 2025. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images At a White House cabinet meeting, a reporter with The

Trump Calls for Death Penalty for Murders in Washington

President Donald Trump participates in a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington on Aug. 26, 2025. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump on Aug. 26 called for the death penalty for anyone who commits murder in the nation’s capital city. “If somebody kills somebody in the capital—Washington,

Fed Governor Lisa Cook to Sue Over Trump’s Decision to Fire Her, Attorney Says

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve member Lisa Cook, speaks during a conversations with leaders from organizations that include nonprofits, small businesses, manufacturing, supply chain management, the hospitality industry, and the housing and education sectors at the Federal Reserve building in Washington on Sept. 23, 2022. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo Federal Reserve Governor Lisa

U.S. to resume “neighborhood checks” for citizenship applications

The Trump administration is reinstating a long-dormant practice of conducting “neighborhood checks” to vet immigrants applying for U.S. citizenship, expanding its efforts to aggressively scrutinize immigration applications, according to a government memo obtained by CBS News. The neighborhood checks would involve on-the-ground investigations by officials at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services that could include interviews

FDA Ramps Up Inspections of Shrimp Amid Radioactive Contamination Reports, RFK Jr. Confirms

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Washington in a file photograph. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday that federal health authorities are taking a closer look at shrimp being imported into the United States after the Food and Drug Administration issued warnings about potentially radioactive shrimp that were