By Rudy Blalock Forty percent of arrestees in the Pro-Palestinian protest at the University of California–Irvine May 15 had no connection with the school, according to numbers released by authorities. University spokesperson Tom Vasich confirmed to The Epoch Times 47 individuals were arrested—including 26 students, 2 employees, and 19 not affiliated with the institution—for disrupting […]
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Trump Says He May Wait to Announce VP at July GOP Convention
By Chase Smith As anticipation builds for who former President Donald Trump will choose as his 2024 running mate, the 45th president said in an interview released Thursday he would likely announce it at the Republican Convention this summer. The convention is slated for July in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a key battleground state in the 2024 […]
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US Credit Card Debts Rise, More Americans Become Delinquent: NY Fed
By Naveen Athrappully Credit card debts and delinquency rates among Americans increased in the first quarter of 2024, with newly delinquent individuals having a high median credit card utilization rate of 90 percent. Household credit card debt in the United States rose by $129 billion over the past year, reaching $1.15 trillion as of Q1 […]
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Special Counsel to Present Over 300 Exhibits in Hunter Biden Tax Evasion Trial
By Caden Pearson Special Counsel David Weiss is set to present over 300 exhibits, ranging from text messages to financial records, when the tax evasion case against Hunter Biden goes to trial on June 20, according to a court document filed on Wednesday. Money transfers to women, emails from ex-wife Kathleen Biden (now Buhle), tax […]
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This Market Loves Bad News
By Louis Navellier The market’s mantra in May seems to be “Bad News is Good News,” since it takes bad news to send the markets up. Specifically, it took a plunge in consumer confidence over food and energy costs, slowing job growth and decelerating wage gains, plus slower ISM manufacturing and service numbers (under 50, […]
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Majority of Likely Black Voters in House Battleground Districts View Democrats as More Extreme Than GOP: Survey
By Mark Tapscott According to the latest Cygnal Battleground Survey, 55 percent of black likely voters in 39 key House congressional districts view the Democratic Party as more extreme than the Republican Party. Thirty-seven percent of the back likely voters questioned in the May 6-8 survey by the Washington-based survey research firm said the Republican […]
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Biden Moves to Block House GOP From Getting Interview Tapes With Special Counsel
By Jackson Richman WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden has asserted executive privilege over the tapes of his two-day interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur in his probe of the president’s alleged mishandling of classified information. The tapes are at the center of a dispute between House Republicans and Attorney General Merrick Garland, who has defied a subpoena […]
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Trump Says He Believes a ‘Great Silent Majority’ Will Vote for Him in November
By Jack Phillips Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he believes he has a “great silent majority” who will vote for him during the 2024 election. While speaking to radio host Hugh Hewitt, the former president claimed that he may have the “biggest ever” silent majority, using a term that was popularized by former […]
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Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico Shot, in Life-Threatening Condition
By Jack Phillips Slovakia’s prime minister, Robert Fico, was shot Wednesday following a government meeting, according to his office. A reporter with TASR said that several shots were fired at Mr. Fico near a cultural house in Handlova, located in central Slovakia, and an assailant was detained. The individual’s identity was not disclosed. The Emergency […]
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The Inflation Tax Wrecking America
By Jeffrey A. Tucker Tired of it yet? Month after month, now going on more than three years, muckety-mucks with the government and the Fed, echoed faithfully by legacy media outlets, have kept assuring us that inflation is improving and effectively defeated. It keeps not improving and it surely isn’t defeated. The Consumer Price Index […]
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Michael Cohen’s Former Legal Adviser Disputes His Trump Trial Allegations
By Jack Phillips A former lawyer who once advised Michael Cohen testified in Congress on May 15 that some of Mr. Cohen’s testimony could be false in the ongoing Trump trial in New York. Robert Costello, a former prosecutor who had worked for Mr. Cohen and former President Donald Trump, told a House Republican-led panel […]
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California Leads the Nation in Job Losses: Federal Data
By Bill Pan California currently leads the nation in job losses, with a recent wave of layoffs particularly hitting the tech sector hard, according to the latest federal government data. According to the Federal Reserve of Economic Data (FRED), some 482,700 residents of California lost their jobs since the beginning of this year, positioning the […]
