House Passes Bill to Restore Whole Milk to National School Lunch Program

Milk at a grocery store in Columbia, Md., on May 17, 2023. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times The House of Representatives on Dec. 15 passed the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025, which seeks to restore whole milk to America’s school nutrition programs. The bill passed the Senate in November. With the passage in

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At Hearing, Lawmakers Debate SPLC’s ‘Hate Map’

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) listens during a hearing in Washington on Dec. 5, 2023. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times WASHINGTON—Lawmakers at a Dec. 16 subcommittee hearing debated the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Hate Map” and other research it has produced. While Democrats defended the group’s civil rights record and its right to free speech, Republicans questioned

Capitol replaces statue of Robert E. Lee with civil rights icon Barbara Rose Johns

The U.S. Capitol on Tuesday began displaying a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school, a pointed replacement for a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was removed several years ago. An unveiling ceremony of the statue representing Virginia in the Capitol

Former top vaccine official sues Trump administration over her firing

A former top official at the National Institutes of Health sued the Trump administration Tuesday, alleging she was illegally fired by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after she blew the whistle on internal clashes over vaccine research at the agency.  Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo ran the NIH division responsible for vaccine research until late March,