The death of Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei—along with more than 40 senior regime officials—has created a regime-altering power vacuum. But Tehran likely remains capable of quashing any uprisings thanks to its sprawling network of local security forces, former U.S. officials and regional analysts told the Washington Free Beacon, indicating that the sustained military action
California state Assemblyman Carl DeMaio, along with Congressman Ken Calvert (R) and state Sen. Tony Strickland (L) support a statewide voter ID ballot initiative at the Riverside County Registrar of Voters office in Riverside, Calif., on March 2, 2026. Brad Jones/The Epoch Times Californians are expected to be asked on their Nov. 3 ballots whether
Voters in three states are heading to the polls on Tuesday, with a four-term incumbent Republican senator in Texas seeking to fend off a primary challenge from his state’s starkly conservative attorney general while Democrats will be choosing their own candidate in hopes of breaking their decades-long losing streak in the state. There are also
Before the U.S. launched its military offensive against Iran on Saturday, President Trump had expressed frustration with the progress of talks about Iran’s nuclear program and deployed an “armada” to the Middle East. But said he had not said much about the reasons why the U.S. would conduct a bombing campaign against the regime. Mr. Trump
In the final days of 2025, governors around the country trumpeted the hundreds of millions of federal dollars they won from a new, $50 billion rural health fund. But plans to spend those nine-digit awards aren’t all warmly received. At least one group of Republican state lawmakers appears to have scuttled an initiative preapproved by
Voters in three states are heading to the polls on Tuesday, with a four-term incumbent Republican senator in Texas seeking to fend off a primary challenge from his state’s starkly conservative attorney general while Democrats will be choosing their own candidate in hopes of breaking their decades-long losing streak in the state. There are also
Voters head to an early voting polling site at East Carolina University as North Carolina begins its midterm primary election in Greenville, N.C., on Feb. 12, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times Today, voters in Texas and North Carolina will cast their ballots in the first major contested primary elections of the 2026 midterm elections. The