US-Backed Opposition Leader Secretly Whisked Out Of Venezuela María Corina Machado hasn’t appeared in public for nearly a year, after she was briefly detained back in Jan 2025 BY TYLER DURDEN As the main opposition figurehead and rival to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, she’s reportedly been in hiding for many months. María…
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Tyler Robinson, the alleged assassin of Charlie Kirk, appears in Utah State Court for a hearing at 2 p.m. ET on Dec. 11. …
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley responded to Trump’s criticism over the ‘blue slip’ agreement stonewalling the confirmations of the president’s US Attorneys. On Monday, President Trump went off on Republican Senators for letting Democrats stonewall his appointees because of the ‘blue slip’ tradition. The ‘blue slip’ custom defers the judicial…
The IRS in Washington on Aug. 7, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch TimesThe Department of the Treasury and the IRS released guidance on new tax benefits made available to holders of Health Savings accounts under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB), the IRS said in a Dec. 9 statement.A Health…
After nearly six years in retirement and a partial knee replacement, Lindsey Vonn opens her season in St. Moritz this weekendPublishedDecember 11, 2025 1:55 PM EST•UpdatedDecember 11, 2025 2:03 PM ESTFacebookTwitterEmailCopy LinkWith more muscle and a brand-new bionic knee, 41-year-old Lindsey Vonn says she’s ready to chase another Winter Olympics.Vonn…
By Wayne Allyn Root Think of all the dangerous criminals in America… America is overrun by murderers, rapists, kidnappers, drug traffickers, MS-13 gangbangers, carjackers, home invaders, armed robbers, perverts and pedophiles. Many of these criminals are illegal aliens. Democrats welcomed tens of millions of them in through the open border.…
The Department of Education in Washington. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch TimesThe Department of Education said it has prevented more than $1 billion in federal student aid-related fraud so far this year, including schemes in which scammers posed as students to steal money from the taxpayer-funded program.The department said on Dec. 11…
Democratic Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin spent four minutes during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Thursday hounding a Department of Defense (DOD) official about so-called illegal orders. Slotkin, who told military members in a video to defy President Donald Trump’s so-called illegal orders, on whether Trump is deploying the…
The Indiana Senate is expected to take a final vote on the state’s redistricting plan on Dec. 11 at 2:30 p.m. …
Notice that Hill also prefaced her comments by calling Sherrone Moore a “cornball.”PublishedDecember 11, 2025 1:35 PM EST•UpdatedDecember 11, 2025 1:35 PM ESTFacebookTwitterEmailCopy LinkMinutes after Michigan announced the firing of head football coach Sherrone Moore for cause stemming from an inappropriate relationship with a staffer, Jason Whitlock asked his X…
Kristi Noem mobbed by leftists after House Homeland Security Committee Hearing DHS Secretary Kristi Noem was mobbed and surrounded by a crowd of unhinged leftists after exiting a House Homeland Security Committee Hearing, where she testified on threats to the homeland and illegal immigration. Noem testified alongside National Counterterrorism Center…
A former Planned Parenthood director who spent 17 years working at abortion clinics has come forward with harrowing accounts of women delivering fully formed babies after taking abortion pills. She says they are told to flush the remains down the toilet, confirming the abortion procedure’s deadly toll on unborn children…
Death row inmates may have a final defense against execution: Stupidity. That depends on the decision of the Supreme Court, which heard oral argument in the case of Hamm v. Smith on Wednesday. The case concerns how states should evaluate the mental capacity of inmates sentenced to capital punishment. U.S.…
A state representative in Kentucky said during a Tuesday hearing that white people should feel guilty about their skin tone while debating diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Republican state Sen. Lindsey Tichenor of Smithfield, Kentucky, introduced legislation to ban DEI from public schools in the state Tuesday, the Paducah Sun…
Senate Democrats and Republicans each shot down the other’s healthcare proposal on Thursday, underscoring how divided the parties remain as the boosted Obamacare subsidies are set to expire at the end of the year. The Senate voted on a Democrat plan to extend the enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies…
“The Glory of Commerce” sculpture on the exterior of Grand Central Terminal in New York City on May 10, 2023. Jenny Zeng/The Epoch TimesNew York City Comptroller Brad Lander has launched a congressional campaign, challenging Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) in the Democratic primary. The candidate currently holds the position of New…
This would save a ton of confusionPublishedDecember 11, 2025 1:16 PM EST•UpdatedDecember 11, 2025 1:16 PM ESTFacebookTwitterEmailCopy LinkThe NHL is reportedly considering making the history of the Winnipeg Jets way less confusing by consolidating the histories of the two separate franchises into one.This way, the current Jets can add OG…
The Senate failed to advance a Republican healthcare plan in a 51-48 vote on Thursday. GOP Senator Rand Paul voted with the Democrats. Senators Bill Cassidy (LA) and Mike Crapo (ID) introduced the bill that would allow Obamacare tax subsidies to expire and expand health savings accounts. The legislation needed…
The Frederick County school board voted Wednesday to continue allowing students in the district to use whichever bathroom or locker room they choose, and to compete on boys or girls sports teams regardless of their biological sex. However, in that 4-2 vote, the board also removed the requirement that students…
On Friday, the United States seized a tanker carrying Venezuelan oil to Cuba, and MS NOW’s host of The 11th Hour, Stephanie Ruhle, freaked out, claiming it “sounds like pirates.” However, Ruhle and former Sen. Claire McCaskill ignored several facts that would disprove such crazy proclamations. Ruhle wondered, “But when…
Recently, in The Wall Street Journal, Neera Tanden, CEO of the Center for American Progress, a major foghorn in our nation’s capital for America’s left, explained “Why Democrats Won the Shutdown.” The most accurate declaration in the article is “fights tell the country a lot about what — and who…
“We hope the headlines and social media likes are worth it,” the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Wednesday, warning Democrat Illinois Governor JB Pritzker that he violated the U.S. Constitution Tuesday by signing a bill designed to thwart the federal department’s efforts to U.S. immigration law. “(President) Donald…
For elite journalists, being compared to Walter Cronkite is considered a great honor, so when the Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism announced their 2025 Walter Cronkite Awards for excellence in political journalism on Wednesday, it gave insight into who the industry views as…
Following months of rumors, CBS News’s parent company Paramount Skydance announced Wednesday that CBS Mornings co-host Tony Dokoupil will become the new anchor of the CBS Evening News on January 5, signifying editor-in-chief Bari Weiss’s biggest gamble yet, the network’s most serious attempt to break out of a lifetime in third…
Wikipedia is “Wokepedia,” complains Elon Musk. That’s because it’s become so left-wing. “It’s designed to push an ideological agenda that you can’t see,” says journalist Ashley Rindsberg in my new video. He runs “Neutral Point of View,” a Substack publication that exposes Wikipedia bias. “So what if it’s biased?” I…
CBS’s drama Fire Country, now in its fourth season, is set in the fictional town of Edgewater, California. So, it was only a matter of time before we got hit with the, “it’s climate change, not liberal bureaucracy,” excuse for the state’s ongoing, real-life problem of severe wildfires. Episode 7,…
The Washington Post would like you to pretend along with them that they’re the essence of fact-based neutrality, that they don’t play favorites. Then you notice that their Sunday Arts & Style section carried a sprawling four-page spread with ten color photographs on the glorious Rosie O’Donnell and her passionate…
Former The Late Show host David Letterman joined ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday to praise him as “the leader of the resistance” and also tell Kimmel that he and his contemporaries are helping to save democracy every night with their shows. Letterman kicked off his ode to his successors by…
PBS News Hour guest and anti-Trump activist Miles Taylor of “Anonymous” media fame whined about President Trump’s top adviser calling the Democratic Party a domestic extremist organization in an August 27, 2025 segment: “That’s really, really scary language.” So it’s fascinating how often PBS itself uses similar “really scary” hostile labeling…
The Thunder aren’t good, they’re historic.PublishedDecember 11, 2025 12:40 PM EST•UpdatedDecember 11, 2025 12:50 PM ESTFacebookTwitterEmailCopy LinkThe following statement is not hyperbole by any stretch of the imagination: this season’s Oklahoma City Thunder team may be the best squad ever assembled in the NBA. What’s scary is that the franchise…
A viral Waffle House clip shows employees uniting fast when a customer’s hashbrown dispute turns violent.PublishedDecember 10, 2025 7:40 PM EST•UpdatedDecember 10, 2025 6:07 PM ESTFacebookTwitterEmailCopy LinkIt’s been a few months since we stepped foot in a Waffle House. I’m happy to report, thanks to a video that has gone…
Arby’s is eating In-N-Out’s lunch.PublishedDecember 10, 2025 8:00 PM EST•UpdatedDecember 10, 2025 9:05 PM ESTFacebookTwitterEmailCopy LinkArby’s doesn’t have an appetite for CENSORSHIP. The chain, famous for bringing the beef, is flexing its freedom of speech, after calling out SoCal-based In-N-Out for ’86-ing’ a number trending with the youths.The ‘6-7’ trend…
Michigan’s latest scandal — culminating in Sherrone Moore’s firing and being detained by police — exposes years of dysfunction and fuels calls for a complete overhaul of the Wolverines athletic department.PublishedDecember 11, 2025 12:19 PM EST•UpdatedDecember 11, 2025 12:19 PM ESTFacebookTwitterEmailCopy LinkThis all feels like a Taylor Swift song now. How…
A 10-foot Florida gator tried to swing by a Sarasota 7-Eleven on Tuesday, only to get dragged off by deputies.PublishedDecember 10, 2025 7:20 PM EST•UpdatedDecember 10, 2025 5:50 PM ESTFacebookTwitterEmailCopy LinkWhat’s a gator to do when he can’t even buy himself a Slurpee without getting hassled by law enforcement?A massive,…
The sun sets over a heavily damaged area of Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on Nov. 7, 2025. Omar Al-Quattaa/AFP via Getty ImagesU.S. President Donald Trump said on Dec. 10 that he expects to name the world leaders who will serve on the Gaza Board of Peace early in…
Shipping containers line the Port of Long Beach, Calif.,on March 28, 2025. John Fredricks/The Epoch TimesPresident Donald Trump’s tariffs helped shrink the U.S. trade deficit to its lowest monthly level in more than five years, according to new data released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis on Dec. 11.The U.S.…
A drone view of a California High-Speed Rail Bridge where it crosses over Highway 99 in Fresno, Calif., on June 8, 2025. Fred Greaves/ReutersA federal judge in California on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration’s effort to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the rescission of more than $4 billion in federal funding…
The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Nov. 10, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch TimesThe U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Louisiana courts must reconsider the case of a man who was denied access to a physical therapy clinic’s pool because he has human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).The Supreme Court issued a brief,…
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.).WASHINGTON—The Senate on Dec. 11 rejected a GOP health care plan proposed as an alternative to extending expiring subsidies for Obamacare.In a 51-48 vote, the bill failed to reach the 60-vote threshold to advance in the chamber. The…
SpaceX’s Starship rocket lifts off for its 10th test flight from Starbase, Texas, as seen from South Padre Island on Aug. 26, 2025. Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty ImagesElon Musk on Wednesday lent credibility to rumors about a SpaceX initial public offering via a social media interaction with Ars Technica space…
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable discussion with top business leaders in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, on Dec.10, 2025. Alex Wong/Getty ImagesWASHINGTON—President Donald Trump hosted business leaders for a roundtable discussion at the White House on Dec. 10 about facilitating technology innovation.“Our administration…
WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump has been frustrated by a Senate tradition that has negatively affected his appointments for U.S. attorney positions.The “blue slip” is a tradition in the upper chamber where home state senators of U.S. attorney and district court nominees either approve or disapprove of that person. Both state senators…
The Federal Reserve cut interest rates at the final meeting of the year, and the third straight rate reduction will impact your money.Central bankers voted 9-3 on Dec. 10 to lower the benchmark federal funds rate—a key policy rate that influences business, household, and government borrowing costs—by a quarter point.We…
Climate activists hold signs during a press conference with members of the House of Reps. Sustainable Energy & Environment Coalition (SEEC) on Capitol Hill in Washington on Nov. 13, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch TimesThe U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide whether it will take up a pivotal climate lawsuit case…
A newly revealed memo from August 2020 shows that some of Joe Biden’s own policy advisers warned his campaign that his proposed immigration policies could lead to “chaos” and a humanitarian crisis at the U.S. border. During the 2020 election, Biden staked out welcoming policies toward illegal immigration to differentiate…
Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) had harsh words for the European Union (EU) and its recent unsuccessful attempt to force free speech limits on the X social media platform in the name of “European Democracy.” Monday morning, in a post on X, Lee described the EU’s version of democracy as “an…
Good Monday morning. Here is what’s on President Trump’s agenda today: 2:00 PM THE PRESIDENT participates in a Roundtable News roundup: Netanyahu reiterates opposition to Palestinian state More frigid weather is on the way Scoop: Israel and Qatar hold secret meeting in New York to rebuild ties Judge: DOJ likely…
President Donald Trump has already begun making moves with his ongoing program to remove violent illegal immigrants from the United States. And his latest one brings him to Minneapolis, where he has recently sent more than 100 ICE agents into the city to arrest a large number of illegal Somalis.…
The quietude of looking out the kitchen window on a December morning at a meadow dusted in snow is magical. A deer pauses at the edge of the wood, breath steaming in the cold air, grazing on whatever bits of green poke through the snow. It is a scene replicated…
It is hard now even for Democrats to defend illegal immigration, given that the Biden administration allowed in more than 10 million entrants. Among them were an estimated 500,000 criminals. No one believes that was wise or should ever be repeated. Worse, the message went out that there would be…