How Expanded Obamacare Made Premiums Spiral, Americans Dependent

A COVID-19 era stimulus package caused Obamacare enrollment to skyrocket but also increased dependency and fraud, further destabilizing the health insurance mar Add to My List Save Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images By Lawrence Wilson, Sylvia Xu | January 16, 2026Updated:January 16, 2026 Congress responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by passing the American

Amherst Lays Off Administrators Behind Sexually Explicit Programming and Announces Communications Chief Will Retire

The personnel changes at the liberal arts school come in the wake of a Free Beacon report about students performing mock sex acts in school chapel Haley Nicholas (amherst.edu), Jane Kungu (amherst.edu), Shahar Colt (Shahar Colt via Amherst Student), Scarlet Im (amherst.edu), photos of Amherst chapel simulated sex acts Amherst College appears to have laid

Mexico seeks answers after, it says, citizen dies in ICE custody in Georgia

Mexican authorities sought details Thursday about what they say was the death of a Mexican citizen this week in an immigration detention facility in Georgia. The number of people detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the U.S. has increased significantly in recent years, and 2025 was the deadliest year for ICE detainees in

Dueling accounts of ICE shooting of Venezuelan migrant in Minneapolis

Minneapolis — Two versions have emerged of Wednesday night’s shooting in north Minneapolis in which a Venezuelan migrant was shot in the leg by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer while allegedly trying to flee. The migrant and two others were arrested. Cell phone footage shared on social media by Democratic state Sen. Erin

New Deputy Director Appointed in ICE Leadership Shuffle

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents confront protestors in front of the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis on Jan. 12, 2026. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced attorney Charles Wall will serve as the new deputy director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to a news release