By Zachary Stieber Classified documents from the Obama-Biden administration were found in a second location linked to President Joe Biden, a lawyer for the president said on Jan. 12. After the discovery of materials with classified markings at the Penn Biden Center in Washington—Biden worked out of the center from 2017 to 2019—lawyers for the president searched Biden’s […]
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House Creates Panel on ‘Weaponization of the Federal Government’
By Mimi Nguyen Ly The new Republican-majority House voted Tuesday afternoon to create a select subcommittee to investigate the “weaponization of the government” by federal law enforcement agencies under Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration. The special panel would have various functions, including the authority to have subpoena power to receive information on intelligence-related activity that’s typically only shared […]
House Panel Launches Investigation Into Biden’s Classified Document Stash
By Tom Ozimek The House Oversight Committee has launched an investigation into President Joe Biden’s handling of classified records from his time as vice president, following the discovery of sensitive materials in an insecure closet at a think tank, with the panel chair expressing concern that Biden may have compromised sourced and methods in mishandling the […]
‘No Legal Difference’ Between Biden’s Classified Document Stash and Trump’s: Lawyer
By Tom Ozimek The White House’s disclosure that classified documents were found in an office President Joe Biden used before taking office has prompted comparisons to former President Donald Trump’s keeping government records at his Mar-a-Lago home, raising questions about whether the two face the same legal consequences. Legal experts who spoke to The Epoch Times […]
Why No ‘Mar-a-Lago Raid’ for Biden?
By Nathan Worcester As Republican lawmakers like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) worry that President Joe Biden’s retention of classified materials from his vice presidency may be “swept under the rug,” legal experts told The Epoch Times why Biden and former President Trump appear to have been treated very differently in two strikingly parallel cases. FBI agents […]
McCarthy Fails in Votes for Speaker of the House; Bitter Battle Erupts Among GOPers
By Mark Tapscott and Madalina Vasiliu WASHINGTON—Chaos walked into the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday and made itself home as members of the new Republican majority rejected House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s bid to become speaker, but then failed to settle on an alternative candidate. In the first vote of a tumultuous first day of the 118th […]
Trump’s Tax Returns Released by House Democrats
By Jack Phillips The House Ways and Means Committee on Friday released six years of Donald Trump’s taxes, ending several years’ worth of protracted court battles over releasing the former president’s financial documents. The committee’s decision to release Trump’s taxes comes as Democrats are slated to cede control of the House next week. Republicans, who took the majority […]
Disney Facing Updated Lawsuit From More Employees Fired Over Refusing Masks, COVID-19 Vaccinations
By Darlene McCormick Sanchez Seven former Disney employees, who say they were unlawfully fired for refusing COVID-19 vaccinations and failing to adhere to masking policies, have updated a Florida lawsuit against the entertainment giant, claiming religious and disability discrimination. The 68-page lawsuit against Disney and its subsidiaries, originally filed in July, was updated in the […]
Ron DeSantis Offered Libs of TikTok Creator Refuge in Governor’s Mansion During Doxxing Threat
By Jackson Elliott When the press doxxed Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said she could stay in the governor’s mansion. “If you don’t feel safe, you or your family, if you need a place to go, to hide, to stay, you can come to the governor’s mansion. We have a […]
Ivermectin Is Safe and Effective: The Evidence
By Colleen Huber Decades of use with nearly four billion doses to humans preceded recent use with COVID patients. From the chapter ‘Ivermectin sends COVID to lockdown,’ in my book The Defeat Of COVID. Ivermectin is on the World Health Organization (WHO) List of Essential Medicines and is approved by the US Food and Drug Administration […]
A Deeper Dive Into $16 Billion in Omnibus Earmarks
By Tom Ozimek The more than 4,000-page $1.7 trillion “omnibus” government funding bill that President Joe Biden has vowed to sign into law includes around $16 billion in pet projects known as “earmarks” whose supporters see as a way for lawmakers to better serve the needs of their constituents but whose detractors often deride as […]
Job Gains This Year Overstated by 1.1 Million, Philadelphia Fed Reveals
By Andrew Moran Labor data might have been overcounted by as much as 1.1 million jobs earlier this year, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia revealed in a new quarterly report. According to the regional central bank’s second-quarter “Early Benchmark Revisions of State Payroll Employment” report (pdf), researchers’ estimated employment changes that occurred between March and June […]