In an exclusive interview airing Sunday on 60 Minutes, President Trump said that Chinese President Xi Jinping knows “the consequences” of military action in Taiwan, but he declined to expand on his plan if China were to invade the island, telling correspondent Norah O’Donnell: “I can’t give away my secrets.” “One potential flashpoint with China,
The Trump administration’s deportation program has divided Americans in recent months, marked by consistently strong backing from Republicans and MAGA Republicans, in particular, and less so among others. Earlier in President Trump’s term, it had larger majority approval, but since mid-summer, the program has hovered around more even division. Its approval is a bit higher
A U.S. military strike on a drug-laden vessel in the Caribbean on Nov. 2, 2025. Screenshot via The Epoch Times/X/Department of War The U.S. military carried out a strike on a vessel it said was smuggling illicit narcotics to the United States, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth confirmed in an X post in the early
The Amazon Fort Powhatan Solar Farm in Disputanta, Va., on Aug. 19, 2022. Drew Angerer/Getty Images The Nov. 4 New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races are being closely watched as they spotlight issues that could determine how campaigns nationwide approach 2026’s midterm elections. In both mid-Atlantic states’ elections, voters’ chief concerns include taxes, health care,
The Amazon Fort Powhatan solar farm in Disputanta, Va., on Aug. 19, 2022. Drew Angerer/Getty Images The Nov. 4 New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races are being closely watched, as they spotlight issues that could determine how campaigns nationwide approach the 2026 midterm elections. In both mid-Atlantic states’ elections, voters’ chief concerns include taxes, health
The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Oct. 20, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times Should federal law protect defense contractors from facing lawsuits over alleged failures to prevent a terrorist attack? That’s a question the Supreme Court is expected to take up on Nov. 3 when the justices hear oral argument in Hencely v. Fluor
Jonathan Mahler’s first book, the 2005 Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning, was a work of historical journalism that re-created the summer and fall of 1977. Mahler interweaved the story of the New York Yankees World Series-winning season with the chaotic events in the city that year, including the Son of Sam murders, the