By Joseph Lord The Senate Judiciary Committee on May 25 met to consider the nomination of Steven Dettelbach to be director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, and Tobacco (ATF), leading to a tense exchange between Dettelbach and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) over the definition of an “assault weapon.” The meeting comes in the wake of a […]
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Ernst Says US Taxpayers Shelling Out $3 Million Daily for Border Wall That Biden Won’t Build
By Mark Tapscott American taxpayers are still paying $3 million a day for former president Donald Trump’s border wall with Mexico that President Joe Biden cancelled on his first day in office, according to Sen. Joni Ernst. The Iowa Republican wants to know since taxpayers are funding it anyway, why not go ahead and build the wall? “We are […]
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Biden’s Latest Comments Seen as Proof He Intended to Drive Up Gas Prices
By Bob Unruh Joe Biden appears in a new video that appears to confirm his plan all along was to make gasoline prices surge so high that they would force Americans to hunt for alternative energy sources. Fuel prices were in the range of about $2 a gallon when Biden took office, following President Trump’s […]
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Republicans in Congress Attack Biden for Restricting Energy Production as Gas Prices Reach New Record High
By Bryan Jung Republicans in Washington have accused the policies of the Biden administration and of his political allies of worsening a global energy crisis that is causing pain at the pump for Americans nationwide. The average gas price for the week ending May 20 reached $4.59 a gallon, after eleven days of record-high consecutive […]
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DeSantis Braces for End of Title 42, Promising New Legislation
By Jannis Falkenstern PUNTA GORDA, Fla.—In preparation for the potential influx of illegal aliens that would result from the Biden administration’s ending Title 42, Gov. Ron DeSantis vowed he would be ready and do everything in his power to protect Floridians. “When Title 42 ends, you’re going to see a major flood of people going across […]
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Key NIH Research Executive Received 70 Secret Royalty Payments; Colleague Got 7
By Mark Tapscott Two key National Institutes for Health (NIH) executives in positions of influence on decisions about who gets grants from the agency received a total of 77 previously undisclosed royalty payments from outside firms between 2010 and 2014. The secret royalty payments, which were first reported by The Epoch Times, are among thousands estimated to […]
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California Church Congregants Hogtied Shooting Suspect Until Police Arrived
By Vanessa Serna LAGUNA WOODS, Calif.—Taiwanese parishioners likely saved many after they hogtied a gunman who opened fire, killing one and injuring five, at an Orange County church on May 15, officials say. “That group of churchgoers displayed what we believe is exceptional heroism and bravery in interfering, intervening to stop the suspect,” said Orange […]
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Trevor Loudon Exposes Marxist Groups, Foreign Connections Behind Mass Voting Drives
By Ella Kietlinska and Joshua Philipp The recently released documentary “2000 Mules” by Dinesh D’Souza shows that there were about 2,000 individuals who received ballots from various nonprofit organizations and delivered them in the middle of the night to many mail-in dropboxes ahead of the 2020 election. While those organizations’ names were not mentioned in the documentary, Trevor […]
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Rep. Cammack on Why She Exposed Pallets of Baby Formula Sent to Border
By Patricia Tolson As the baby formula shortage escalates across the United States and American parents struggle to feed their children, Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.), the youngest Republican woman in Congress, went live on social media on May 11 to drop a bombshell. Photos she had received that morning from Border Patrol agents at the Ursula Migrant Processing Center in […]
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Higher Gas Prices Result in $160 Billion More Spent on Gasoline: Report
By Emel Akan Retail gasoline prices have risen by $1.40 per gallon on average nationwide over the past year, squeezing consumer budgets and limiting spending on non-energy items. “If sustained, consumers will shell out nearly $160bn more for gasoline relative to last year,” a new report by Deutsche Bank says. Pump prices continue to soar, reaching another all-time […]
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Democrats Silent as Republicans Rip Into Secret Royalty Checks to Fauci, Hundreds of NIH Scientists
By Mark Tapscott Top Democratic leaders with oversight of the National Institutes for Health (NIH) are keeping quiet about the $350 million in secret payments to agency leaders like Dr. Anthony Fauci and hundreds of its scientists. The Epoch Times received no responses from multiple requests to Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rep. Frank Pallone […]
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Retail Diesel Prices Surge to Fresh Record High Amid Tight Supplies
By Andrew Moran Retail diesel prices hit a fresh record high of $5.557 per gallon on Thursday, according to the American Automobile Association (AAA). The cost of a gallon of diesel has been up 1.5 percent over the last week. Retail diesel prices are also 10.5 percent higher than a month ago. Several states are seeing diesel […]
