Trump Admin Moves Ahead With Biden’s 10-Year Deadline for Lead Pipe Replacements

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington on Jan. 6, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times The Trump administration on Friday affirmed a 10-year deadline for most cities and towns to replace dangerous lead pipes, informing a federal court that it will maintain a major drinking-water overhaul finalized in October 2024 under the Biden administration.   The

France to summon U.S. ambassador over comments on Quentin Deranque’s death

France will summon U.S. Ambassador Charles Kusher to protest comments made by the Trump administration over the death of a far-right activist, the foreign affairs minister said on Sunday. Jean-Noel Barrot was reacting to a statement by the U.S. State Department’s Counterterrorism Bureau, which stated that “reports, corroborated by the French Minister of the Interior,

Trump Pledges to Lift Tech Curbs on Vietnam, Lam Says

U.S. President Donald Trump gives a speech about the economy at the Coosa Steel Corporation factory in Rome, Ga., on Feb. 19, 2026. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images President Donald Trump committed to removing Vietnam from the list of countries the United States has curated to curtail access to advanced technology, according to Hanoi’s communist

The Slavery Story You Won’t Learn in School

For historians of human enslavement—and for black Africans more generally—the recently concluded African Nations soccer cup revealed images of an ugliness that has roots in the Muslim world’s trans-Saharan slave trade. As Senegal defeated host Morocco in the final, sections of the Moroccan crowd hurled racial insults at the Senegalese—just as Algerian spectators had, earlier