Ben Shapiro speaks at Turning Point USA’s America Fest in Phoenix, AZ., on Dec. 18, 2025. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times PHOENIX—By the end of day one, it was clear that AmericaFest 2025 was a big and very crowded tent. The first AmFest that Turning Point USA has held since its founder, Charlie Kirk, was assassinated
President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the Diplomatic Room of the White House on Dec. 17, 2025. Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump announced on Dec. 18 that an athletic contest and a UFC fight will occur next year in honor of America’s 250th birthday. The “Patriot Games” will span four days, featuring high
Tens of thousands of pages of documents have been released over the past year, in most cases by a House committee that subpoenaed the Justice Department and Epstein’s estate. They included emails and text messages showing that Epstein continued to court the rich and famous right up until his 2019 arrest. Dec. 18, 2025: Democrats
Washington — The Senate confirmed Admiral Kevin Lunday as Coast Guard commandant Thursday night after agency guidance on the display of hate symbols such as swastikas and nooses was clarified. Democrats objecting to the guidance had been holding up the confirmation. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, of South Dakota, called for and got senators to
A sign for the National Security Agency, U.S. Cyber Command and Central Security Service near the visitor’s entrance to the NSA headquarters in Fort Meade, Md., on Feb. 14, 2018. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images President Donald Trump has nominated Army Lt. Gen. Joshua M. Rudd for promotion to general and to assume the role
Six days after a senior FDA official sent a sweeping internal email claiming that COVID vaccines had caused the deaths of “at least 10 children,” 12 former FDA commissioners released an extraordinary warning in the Dec. 3 New England Journal of Medicine. They wrote that the claims and policy changes in the memo from Dr.
During her opening remarks at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest conference, Erika Kirk, CEO of the influential conservative organization, endorsed Vice President JD Vance for president in 2028. “We are going to get my husband’s friend, JD Vance, elected 48 in the most resounding way possible,” the widow of Charlie Kirk, the slain co-founder of Turning