House Speaker Mike Johnson, Majority Leader Steve Scalise, Republican Conference Chair Lisa McClain, and Homeland Security Committee Chair Andrew Garbarino hold a press conference at 10 a.m. ET on Oct. 16 to address the ongoing U.S. government shutdown. Original News Source Link – Epoch TimesRunning For Office? Conservative Campaign Consulting – Election Day Strategies!
President Donald Trump, with FBI Director Kash Patel (L) listening, speaks in Washington on Oct. 15, 2025. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images President Donald Trump and other administration officials on Oct. 15 criticized the lack of jail time for teenagers who admitted to assaulting a federal worker. “That’s terrible,” Trump said in response to a question during
A woman speaks into a megaphone in front of Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices in Portland, Oregon, on Oct. 4, 2025. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times A federal judge on Oct. 15 extended her order preventing President Donald Trump from deploying members of the Oregon National Guard to protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities in
Washington — Nationwide, states are racing to win their share of a new $50 billion rural health fund. But helping rural hospitals, as originally envisioned, is quickly becoming a quaint idea. Rather, states should submit applications that “rebuild and reshape” how health care is delivered in rural communities, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services official Abe
10:48 PM CDC scientist laid off during shutdown warns RIF layoffs will mean “more preventable deaths” A scientist laid off by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said “the everyday American should be very concerned” by reductions in force amid the government shutdown. “It’s going to mean more deaths, more preventable deaths,”
A container ship is assisted by a tugboat as it arrives at the Port of Oakland on Oct. 10, 2025. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images President Donald Trump said on Oct. 15 that he plans to attend next month’s Supreme Court oral arguments about his reciprocal tariffs, most of which have been struck down by the lower
U.S. War Secretary Pete Hegseth (L) speaks to the press at the NATO headquarters prior to a NATO Ministers of Defence Summit in Brussels on Oct. 15, 2025. Nicolas Tucat/AFP via Getty Images The plane carrying Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was forced to make an emergency landing at a joint U.K.-U.S. airbase in the