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 […]
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Election Integrity Watchdog Sues Minnesota Over Refusal to Clean Up Its Voter Roll
By Matthew Vadum An election integrity group filed a legal complaint under the federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA) against Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon for failing to remove duplicate names from the state’s voter roll as federal law requires. An analysis by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), which filed the complaint (pdf), found 586 duplicate registrants, meaning […]
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US Gas Prices Jump Again to Near-Record Highs
By Naveen Athrappully Gas prices in the United States are once again moving along an upward trajectory, with May 9 prices coming close to the record high seen in March. The average price of regular unleaded gas was $4.328 per gallon as of May 9, according to the American Automobile Association (AAA). The highest recorded […]
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‘Egregious Breach’ of Trust: Supreme Court Marshal to Investigate Leak of Draft Roe V. Wade Opinion
By Caden Pearson U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts has directed the marshal of the Supreme Court to launch an investigation to determine the source of the leak of its draft opinion on its pending Roe v. Wade case to Politico. In a statement on May 3, the nation’s top court confirmed the majority draft opinion was […]
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New Jan. 6 Bodycam Videos Show DC Police Officer Assaulting Unconscious Protester
By Joseph M. Hanneman A District of Columbia police officer used a large wooden stick to strike the body and head of protester Rosanne Boyland three times as she lay motionless on the ground on Jan. 6, 2021, according to bodycam footage from several officers obtained by The Epoch Times. Use-of-force expert Stanley Kephart, upon reviewing the previously […]
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NATO Scrambles Jets After ‘Unidentified’ Aircraft Detected
By Jack Phillips NATO announced it scrambled fighter jets over both the Black and Baltic seas due to Russian aircraft flying near the military alliance’s airspace. Over the past four days, NATO jets were scrambled several times in the two regions, the military alliance confirmed in a statement on Friday, to track and intercept the planes. The alliance said those […]
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Number of Illegal Immigrants Living in US Rose by 1 Million in Biden’s First Year: Report
By Zachary Stieber The illegal immigrant population in the United States increased by one million in President Joe Biden’s first year in office, according to a new report. At the end of 2021, 15.5 million illegal aliens were residing in the country, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) estimated. After rolling back key Trump-era policies, Biden […]
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Another High-tech Titan Falters
By Steven Moore Commentary You’ve probably heard of the high-flying Big Tech FAANG stocks—Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google. Among the five of them, their market cap reached $6 trillion last year, which is more than the GDP of all but a small handful of entire countries. Moreover, their net worth is larger than the entire annual output […]
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White House Visitor Logs Reveal Meetings Between Hunter Biden Business Partner and Joe Biden
By Nick Ciolino The White House is so far not commenting on reports that a close business associate of President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, made several visits to the White House while the elder Biden was serving as vice president during the Obama administration. Eric Schwerin, the former president of Hunter Biden’s now-dissolved investment firm Rosemont […]
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Filmmaker: Documentary Proves Rampant Illegal Vote Trafficking in 2020
By Steven Kovac Filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza believes that evidence presented in his new documentary, “2000 Mules,” proves that large-scale, illegal vote trafficking occurred in the 2020 election. “2000 Mules will settle the issue beyond a shadow of a doubt by using two powerful, independent modes of investigation,” D’Souza said in an interview with The Epoch […]
