By Bill Pan A group of six Republican lawmakers in Wyoming are proposing to phase out the sale of new electric vehicles in the state by 2035 to protect its oil and gas industries and preserve critical resources. In their bill, introduced to the state legislature on Friday, the Republicans said that oil and gas production has “long […]
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Pay per Mile: States Move Toward User-Based Road Tax
By Beth Brelje With each gallon of gas pumped in the United States since 1932, drivers have been paying taxes. The revenue is used for road repairs and public transportation such as train and bus systems. Currently, the Fed takes 18.4 cents per gallon for gas or 24.4 cents per gallon for diesel. State gas […]
No Visitor Logs Exist for Biden’s House Where Classified Documents Were Found: White House
By Zachary Stieber There are no logs of who has visited President Joe Biden’s house in Delaware where classified documents were found, according to the White House. “Like every President in decades of modern history, his personal residence is personal,” White House spokesman Ian Sams said in a statement to news outlets. The U.S. Secret Services, which […]
State Governments ‘Weakest Link’ in Protecting America From ‘Enemy’ Cyberattacks
By John Haughey United States federal agencies and the Pentagon over the last decade have imposed a matrix of restrictions on purchasing technology from companies owned or influenced by China’s ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), but few of the nation’s 50 states have taken similar precautions. In fact, many state governments apparently aren’t aware—or haven’t […]
House Oversight Chairman Promises ‘Swift’ Investigation After More Classified Documents Found at Biden’s Home
By Frank Fang House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said that “swift congressional oversight” is coming, after the White House revealed on Jan. 14 that additional pages of classified documents had been found at President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware. “We first learned about the Penn Biden Center classified documents months after they were found in […]
Doctor Calls for Withdrawal of Pfizer, Moderna COVID-19 Vaccines Following New Research
By Zachary Stieber An American doctor is joining the calls for the withdrawal of the messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccines, pointing to new research that highlights a connection between the shots and adverse events. Dr. Joseph Fraiman, a doctor based in Louisiana who also conducts research on COVID-19 and other health issues, says it’s time to […]
Classified Documents Found in Biden’s Home: President’s Lawyer
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 […]
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 […]