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
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a Mexican Border Defense Medal presentation in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Dec. 15, 2025. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images President Donald Trump said on Dec. 15 that he has spoken to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping about releasing Hong Kong pro-democracy
The Supreme Court building in Washington on Nov. 10, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times The Supreme Court on Dec. 15 ordered a federal appeals court to reconsider its ruling denying attorney’s fees to a white man who succeeded in blocking a Biden-era debt-relief program he alleged was racially discriminatory. The court’s decision in Holman v.
House Assistant Speaker Rep. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) speaks during a rally in Washington on Nov. 16, 2021. Jemal Countess/Getty Images for SEIU Jonathan Paz, a former city councilor for Waltham, Massachusetts, and founder of Fuerza, a group that supports illegal immigrants during Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations, announced he is running in the Democratic