Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem testified in a contentious hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 3. She addressed issues including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown, possible domestic Iranian sleeper cells in the United States, and finding missing children. We had a problem loading this article. Please
A polling place at Emerick Elementary School during the general elections in Purcellville, Va., on Nov. 4, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times Early voting in Virginia’s special election on a redistricting referendum is set to begin Friday after a Lynchburg Circuit Court judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit that sought to clarify whether local officials
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a news conference in the State Capitol in Austin on Aug. 15, 2025. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday suggested there could be Iranian “sleeper cells” in the state. His comments came after a man opened fire over the weekend at an Austin bar, leaving three
Two sources familiar with the U.S. military’s use of artificial intelligence confirm that the U.S. used Anthropic’s Claude AI model over weekend for the attack on Iran — and is still using it. The Pentagon has not said exactly how the AI tool is being deployed, but it’s being used despite a government-wide ban on
It is unclear how many regime officials from the so-called Assembly of Experts were gathered in the building, but the body includes a Khamenei confidant who serves on Iran’s interim leadership council Israeli forces reportedly “flattened” a building where Iran’s 88-member Assembly of Experts had gathered to select the regime’s next supreme leader, according to Israeli officials
The first American service members to die in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran were killed in an apparent Iranian drone attack on a makeshift office space in Kuwait, three U.S. military officials with direct knowledge of Iran’s attack told CBS News. At least six Americans were killed in a strike on a tactical operations center
President Donald Trump arrives to the White House in Washington on March 1, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he told Iran’s new leadership that it’s “too late” to have negotiations amid U.S. and Israeli strikes targeting the country since Saturday morning. Strikes on Saturday killed Iran’s top leader,