By Naveen Athrappully The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) paused the implementation of its climate disclosure requirements for companies as legal challenges against the rules are pending in a circuit court. In March, the SEC finalized a controversial rule requiring publicly traded companies to disclose any climate-related risks to their business. The SEC’s Final […]
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US Gas Prices Could Eye $4 in Summer as Oil Rally Persists
By Andrew Moran The average cost of gasoline could rise to $4 a gallon this summer, reigniting inflationary pressures and weighing on motorists’ wallets. According to the American Automobile Association (AAA), the national average for a gallon of gasoline has surged about 15 percent year-to-date to $3.53. “Watch out for summer gasoline prices, which some […]
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Trump Denounces Biden’s Border Policies as ‘Country-Wrecking’
By Janice Hisle GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—The immigration policies of President Joe Biden are “country-wrecking,” because of the number of illegal immigrants who are flooding into America and committing crimes, former President Donald Trump declared in a speech here Tuesday. “This is country-changing, it’s country-threatening, and it’s country-wrecking,” President Trump told several hundred invited guests at […]
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ICE to Deport 215 Illegal Immigrants Involved in Riot at Border Wall in El Paso
By Tom Ozimek Customs officials are working to deport 215 illegal immigrants charged with various offenses in connection with breaking through a razor wire barrier in El Paso County and stampeding through a group of outnumbered Texas National Guard troops. A spokesperson for U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) told The Epoch Times in an […]
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RFK Jr. Gathers Enough Signatures to Appear on the North Carolina Ballot
By Jeff Louderback Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has collected enough signatures to appear on the North Carolina presidential election ballot, according to a press release released by his campaign on April 1. Considered a key battleground state, North Carolina has 16 electoral votes. It represents the largest state for which Mr. Kennedy has secured a […]
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Mayorkas Impeachment Articles to Be Sent to Senate on April 10
By Jackson Richman, Mark Tapscott and Joseph Lord The House of Representatives will send the articles of impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate on April 10, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has announced. In a March 28 letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Mr. Johnson asked Mr. Schumer to […]
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Conservatives Express Anger Over $1.2 Trillion Spending Bill
By Jackson Richman and Joseph Lord Conservative Republicans didn’t hold back on March 21 over the $1.2 trillion spending bill that would fund 70 percent of the government—as the clock ticked toward a partial government shutdown on March 23. The bill, the text of which was unveiled in the early morning hours of March 21—less […]
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Terrorist Caught Illegally Crossing Border Says He Was ‘Here to Make a Bomb’
By Alice Giordano A member of the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah was caught entering the country illegally at the Texas border, where he told agents he was plotting to make a bomb once settled in the country, according to a March 19 federal court document. Basel Bassel Ebbadi, a Lebanese national, told a Texas border […]
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Elon Musk May Endorse a 2024 Presidential Candidate ‘In the Final Stretch’
By Aaron Pan Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk may consider endorsing a presidential candidate for the 2024 White House race, but he has not yet made such a commitment, he has revealed. “I may, in the final stretch, endorse a candidate, but I don’t know yet,” Mr. Musk told former CNN host Don Lemon during an […]
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New Florida Laws Aim to Keep Illegal Immigrants Off Roads, Deported Felons Off Streets
By John Haughey WINTER HAVEN, Fla.—Florida lawmakers have adopted some of the most restrictive illegal immigration laws in the nation in recent years and continued to do so in 2024 by approving measures that tighten identification requirements, punish repeat unlicensed driving with prison, and make being in Florida after being deported a felony. Florida Gov. […]
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Sen. Rick Scott Demands Answers From Mayorkas Over Policy on Illegal Aliens Boarding Flights Without IDs
By Aaron Pan Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) is demanding information from the Biden administration, questioning the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for allowing 320,000 inadmissible illegal immigrants to fly on commercial airliners without government-issued identification. In a letter dated March 13 to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Mr. Scott raised concerns over security […]
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How ‘Sanctuary Cities’ Are Costing American Lives
By Simon Hankinson Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) asked police in Montgomery County, Maryland, 119 times this year to detain and hand over criminal aliens they had arrested, individuals whose records included “convictions for assault, robbery, illegal firearms, sex abuse of a minor, rape, and MS-13 gang membership,” former ICE official John Feere says. Montgomery […]
