The hot mic moment of China and Russia’s top leaders musing about immortality through organ transplants speaks to more than their mutual desire to stay in power. It touches on a sensitive topic for the regime—forced organ harvesting—the very mention of which Beijing has striven to erase even in the West. In a country with
Members of the National Guard patrol at a metro stop in Washington on Aug. 25, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times WASHINGTON—The District of Columbia sued the Trump administration on Sept. 4 over its deployment of the National Guard to the nation’s capital. The lawsuit alleges that the deployment violates the district’s semi-sovereign status known as
An AR-15 semi-automatic rifle at a gun shop in Richmond, Va., on Jan. 13, 2020. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times Several residents and a public-interest law firm sued Colorado’s governor and other state officials on Sept. 2 over the requirement for a permit to buy a gun set to begin on Aug. 1, 2026. The plaintiffs
Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, a Republican and a physician, said he was “deeply concerned” about how Kennedy and the CDC’s vaccine panel are approaching recommendations. “Secretary Kennedy, in your confirmation hearing, you promised to uphold the highest standards for vaccines. Since then, I’ve grown deeply concerned,” Barrasso said. “The public has seen measles outbreaks,
The U.S. military conducts a strike against an alleged drug boat tied to the cartel Tren de Aragua, in a still from video of the strike shared by President Donald Trump on Truth Social on Sept. 2, 2025. @realDonaldTrump via Truth Social President Donald Trump on Sept. 3 sent a warning to Venezuela after the
Washington — Justice Amy Coney Barrett said that the Supreme Court “should not be imposing its own values on the American people,” as the high court faces a longshot bid to revisit its decade-old landmark ruling legalizing same-sex marriage. In her first television interview since joining the Supreme Court in October 2020, Barrett told CBS
The Senate Banking Committee holds a hearing on the nomination of Stephen Miran, of New York, as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors at 10 a.m. ET on Sept. 4. Other nominations include Benjamin Hobbs, of Ohio, and Ronald Kurtz, of Georgia, for assistant secretary of housing and urban development; Chris Pilkerton,…