A still from footage of a boat strike targeting drug trafficking in the Eastern Pacific on Dec. 15, 2025. @Southcom/X The United States on Monday carried out airstrikes on three boats allegedly involved in narcotics trafficking, killing eight people aboard the vessels. “On Dec. 15, at the direction of [Secretary of War] Pete Hegseth, Joint
Former President Barack Obama urged Democrats to “meet the moment” at a Los Angeles fundraiser with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Sunday. “The short-term strategy is, win the House of Representatives,” stated the former president, garnering applause. “Because that’s going to be the circuit breaker that will give us control of one major component
A marijuana grow site in California’s Mendocino County on Oct. 9, 2025. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times President Donald Trump said on Dec. 15 that he’s considering an executive order to reclassify marijuana out of Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), a category reserved for drugs deemed to have no medical value and a
Hours after Jimmy Lai, a businessman and pro-democracy newspaper owner in Hong Kong, was found guilty on national security and sedition charges, his daughter Claire Lai told reporters in Washington, D.C., she hopes international pressure can spare her father from spending the rest of his life in prison. “We expected the verdict,” she told CBS
Marcy and Miguel Mendoza (R) who lost their 10-year-old son, Nathaniel Mendoza, to fentanyl, attend the fourth annual National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day in New York City on Aug. 21, 2025. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times President Donald Trump signed an executive order designating fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction during an award ceremony
The BBC logo outside the BBC Broadcasting House in London on Nov. 10, 2025. REUTERS/Jack Taylor President Donald Trump on Monday evening filed a lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) seeking $10 billion in restitution for alleged defamation in a news special that aired last year. The 33-page legal filing accuses the BBC of
James Boasberg, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, at an event in Washington on April 2, 2025. Drew Angerer/AFP via Getty Images A federal appeals court has halted U.S. District Judge James Boasberg’s pursuit of potential contempt for the Trump administration and signaled it would look into whether the