Republican lawmakers this week urged the Department of Education to look to Taiwan to provide “censorship-free alternatives” in teaching Mandarin and Chinese culture on American campuses, in place of Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-funded Confucius Institutes (CI). In a letter (pdf) to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, Rep. Michelle Steel (R-Calif.) and Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) led […]

Former President Donald Trump’s net worth shrank by nearly one-third over his four years in the White House, according to the Forbes annual billionaire list. The Forbes roundup of the world’s richest individuals, published Tuesday, shows that Trump ranked at 1,299 with an estimated net worth of $2.4 billion in 2021. In 2017, Trump’s first year […]

WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden on Tuesday moved up the COVID-19 vaccine eligibility target for all American adults to April 19, but warned that with new virus variants spreading “we’re still in a life-and-death race” with the coronavirus. Biden directed states to widen the vaccine eligibility to people 18 or older by April 19, two weeks earlier […]

The governor of Montana, Greg Gianforte, has tested positive for the CCP virus, his office announced. “After exhibiting mild symptoms on Sunday and out of an abundance of caution, Governor Greg Gianforte today was tested for COVID-19 and received a positive result,” the Republican governor’s office announced in a statement late Monday. Gianforte’s wife Susan has […]

Young adults have fueled the latest surge in COVID-19 cases on a national level, according to the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Dr. Rochelle Walensky on Monday blamed the increase in cases on young adults taking part in “youth sports and extracurricular activities,” as well as an increasing spread […]

Colorado on Tuesday reported its first two cases of the Brazilian variant of the CCP virus. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment said in a release it was notified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of two new cases in the state of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus P.1 variant, also […]

U.S. Border Patrol agents in California arrested an illegal alien previously convicted of raping a child, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced Tuesday. The 46-year-old male, who is a citizen of Mexico, was arrested on Monday afternoon after he illegally entered the United States by Border Patrol agents assigned to the El Centro sector. Agents […]

Major League Baseball (MLB) on Tuesday said its all star game will be held in Colorado. MLB moved the game and its 2021 draft from Georgia to protest lawmakers passing and Gov. Brian Kemp signing a new election reform law. MLB said it chose Denver because the Colorado Rockies, the state’s baseball team, was already […]

The Biden administration has opened another two emergency holding facilities used to temporarily house unaccompanied minors who illegally crossed into the United States amid the ongoing crisis at the southern border. Both facilities are located in Texas and will receive their first group of unaccompanied children on Monday, who will be transferred out of U.S. […]

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), said that the federal government won’t mandate the usage of vaccine passports—coming after White House officials said the Biden administration is working with private firms to potentially give advice on such a system. So-called vaccine passports for COVID-19, the […]

Abid Ali Khan allegedly ran a Pakistani-based smuggling network to facilitate the illegal immigration of Pakistanis and Afghanis into the United States, the Department of Justice stated on April 7. Khan, a Pakistani national, allegedly ran the network between January 2015 and December 2020, the DOJ said. “Khan allegedly accepted payment in exchange for planning […]

Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer charged with murder in the death of George Floyd, received training years ago on how to restrain combative suspects with a knee, but that training instructed officers to “stay away from the neck when possible,” the lieutenant who trained Chauvin testified Tuesday. Department use-of-force instructor Lt. Johnny Mercil became […]

One of the few Senate Democrats against eliminating the filibuster said this week that she feels lawmakers should change their behavior instead of changing the body’s rules. “When you have a place that’s broken and not working, and many would say that’s the Senate today, I don’t think the solution is to erode the rules,” […]

CHARLESTON, W.Va.—U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin on Monday submitted a congressional inquiry with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regarding an HIV outbreak in West Virginia’s largest county. The West Virginia Democrat asked for the inquiry on behalf of the Kanawha County Commission two months after a CDC official warned that the county’s outbreak […]

A former adviser to Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) on Monday said FBI agents recently approached him with allegations he knew to be false, causing him to believe that the recent claims against his ex-boss are also untrue. Agents went to the home of Nathan Nelson on March 31 to question him about accusations against Gaetz, […]

A former transgender woman praised a new Arkansas law banning transgender procedures for minors, warning against children going through irreversible changes they may regret in the future. “They end up mutilating their bodies and destroying their lives, and by the time they’re 21 or 22 years old, they wish they’d never done it,” Walt Heyer, […]

The number of Americans who worry about becoming infected with the CCP virus dropped to the lowest on record in March, according to Gallup. Only 35 percent of the people surveyed from March 15 to 21 said they were worried about catching COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known […]

CBS on Tuesday responded to strong criticism of its report on COVID-19 vaccinations in Florida, which included accusing Gov. Ron DeSantis of engaging in a “pay-to-play” scheme with Publix. Several prominent Democrats defended DeSantis against the accusation, including Jared Moskowitz, a former Democratic state senator who now runs the state Division of Emergency Management. Moskowitz said […]

The education system promoting “woke” ideology should no longer receive any government funding, said philosopher and pedagogist Peter Boghossian on The Epoch Times’ “American Thought Leaders.” A professor at Portland State University, Boghossian is best known for co-authoring a series of satirical papers and publishing them in peer-reviewed academic journals to reveal how likely fake […]

The Supreme Court on Monday moved to dismiss a lawsuit from former President Donald Trump that asked the justices to allow him to block critics on Twitter. The nation’s highest court agreed with the Department of Justice (DOJ), which told it in January that the case would become moot when Joe Biden was sworn in […]