President Donald Trump speaks to the media after signing a document during a signing ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House on March 16, 2026. Alex Wong/Getty Images President Donald Trump said on March 16 that he believes the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran could be “wrapped up soon,” but added that it is
(L-R) Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, China’s Executive Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Ma Zhaoxu, and Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi hold a press conference after their meeting in Beijing on March 14, 2025. Lintao Zhang/Pool/AFP via Getty Images Operation Epic Fury presents Russia and China with a “mixed bag” of potential opportunities,
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks at a news conference following the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting in Washington, on Oct. 29, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times The Federal Reserve opened its two-day policy meeting on Mar. 17, and Wall Street overwhelmingly expects the central bank to leave interest rates unchanged. At the January
The Knight Institute is appealing a judge’s ruling that releasing the report—on a case that was thrown out and dismissed—would be a ‘manifest injustice’ to Trump Top left: Columbia Universoty logo (Wikimedia Commons) Right: Donald Trump (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Bottom left: Knight Institute logo (knightcolumbia.org) The Knight First Amendment Institute, an activist legal group funded
The New York Times is drawing bipartisan condemnation for its coverage of an attack on a synagogue in Michigan that critics faulted for seeming to justify the attack. “Synagogue Attacker Lost Family Members in Lebanon Airstrike” was the headline of a print Times news article, published Saturday, March 14, 2026. In print, the Times failed
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) website is displayed on a phone. Oleksii Pydsosonnii/The Epoch Times U.S. federal agencies have terminated or descoped 95 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $2 billion over the previous four weeks, saving $757 million in taxpayer funds, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said in a March 14
The race to fill the seat of retiring Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin has been heating up in the days leading up to Tuesday’s 2026 Democratic primary and could set the tone for other midterm primaries on issues like President Trump’s deportation policies and outside spending. And another factor in the race is Gov. JB Pritzker’s