A majority of Italians are in favor of using nuclear power plants to offset growing utility bills, a study published by the Italian market research firm Only Numbers found. Nuclear power has long since been described as a “taboo” subject in Italy, a country that phased away its nuclear power…
A bus driver who allegedly could not speak English crashed into stopped traffic on Interstate 95 in Virginia early Friday, killing five people including two children. U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said federal investigators are examining how the driver was permitted to operate a commercial passenger vehicle despite reportedly lacking…
The Iowa State Capitol, in this file photo. Melanie Sun/The Epoch TimesResidents in Iowa will head to the polls on June 2 to vote in primary races for the state’s most powerful elective offices, with no incumbent on the ballot after Gov. Kim Reynolds and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) decided…
A progressive Democrat in San Francisco who has championed pro-transgender legislation in California is leading the primary race to fill the House seat long held by Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who is retiring.State Sen. Scott Wiener, described by The New York Times as a “moderate state senator,” has dominated every…
A new study examining campaign donations from faculty members at top American universities found that politically active professors overwhelmingly support left-wing causes and candidates. The report, released Thursday and commissioned by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, analyzed campaign contributions from faculty members at 55 universities across the country.…
A federal judge on Friday ordered President Donald Trump’s name removed from the Kennedy Center, delivering a major setback to the administration-backed effort to overhaul the performing arts institution and renovate its aging facilities. The ruling from US District Judge Christopher R. Cooper also halted the planned closure of the…
What good is a ceasefire extension if nobody is upholding the terms of the current ceasefire? Honestly, can someone please explain that to me? There have been military clashes between the United States and Iran three times already this week. Meanwhile, fighting between Israel and Hezbollah is even more intense…
Many see this as a sign of no deal. I suggest something else.Trump Ups Terms for a Deal Deal in LimboGet Daily Emails Crow or Lobster? New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman says It’s Crow, Mr. Trump, Not Lobster Only two questions remain regarding the U.S. war with Iran. One, how…
Good Monday morning. Here is what’s on President Trump’s agenda today: 8:00 AM THE PRESIDENT participates in Executive Time 11:00 AM THE PRESIDENT participates in a Policy Meeting 4:30 PM THE PRESIDENT signs an Executive Order 5:00 PM THE PRESIDENT participates in a Policy Meeting News roundup: White House economic…
Please follow us on Truth Social, X, Youtube, Minds, Telegram, Rumble, GETTR, Gab BBC reports that US Central Command states they struck radar sites in Iran over the weekend, and on Monday that Kuwait officials have reported missile and drone attacks. Kuwait hosts a US base. BBC: “Kuwait’s military said…
Across America, citizens have been opposing actions taken by their local governments, often getting booted out of the meetings, a questionable violation of the First Amendment. Many years ago, it was the practice of citizens to address the city council and express how they wanted their city to be managed;…
Beyond waiting for President Trump’s final term to run its course, potential 2028 contenders appear to be looking for a cause. Center ground
And now a word from Emily Litella. Compare the speech Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney gave in New York Thursday to the one he gave in Davos in January, because January Carney seems to have been swapped out for a doppelgänger who has no idea what three-months-ago Carney thought. In…
Throughout most of human history, commerce and government have been intricately linked, at least geographically. Hubs of trade and business have almost always also been the seats of government. As cities grew and flourished, as commerce grew and flourished, and as both expanded into surrounding areas, governance became necessary and,…
As of May 2026, twenty-nine states have enacted Constitutional Carry. What about the rest of the country? The movement has stalled, since red states with GOP trifectas have all gotten the job done. Constitutional Carry’s advance has paused since South Carolina finally approved the reform on March 7, 2024. Of…
Police handcuffed and arrested an 18-year-old while he was bleeding out from multiple stabbings because the stabber, a Sikh, accused the victim, a white man, of racism. The stabber showed no signs of being the victim of violence. He said the man lying in his own blood on the ground…
CNN host Jake Tapper, who moderated the 2024 debate debacle for Joe Biden, reacted to snippets of Jill Biden’s CBS interview in a video posted on Thursday. “Doctor” Biden claimed that she wondered if her husband had had a stroke. No one saw a stroke in real time. Tapper began: “’Now…
A police vehicle, in this file photo. John Fredricks/The Epoch TimesAZUSA, Calif.—An attorney for the family of a 37-year-old man who died inside a patrol vehicle parked outside the Azusa Police Department—after he was released from custody—said on May 31 that the family is “shocked and saddened” after the county…
Royce Hall on the campus of University of California–Los Angeles (UCLA) in Los Angeles, Calif., on June 22, 2025. Joyce Kuo/The Epoch TimesLOS ANGELES—An international study co-led by UCLA found that an investigational targeted therapy significantly extended survival for pancreatic cancer patients, researchers said on May 31.The study found that…
Here’s a term from what feels like a prior age: Believe all women. It was the height of the #MeToo movement, and all it took on social media those days was for a woman to accuse a man of anything, and his career and life were basically done. That had…
NASA confirmed Thursday that the Russian segment of the International Space Station has begun leaking atmosphere into space again. It’s an old problem that NASA recently hoped was resolved.For more than half a decade, engineers from Roscosmos and NASA have been tracking the leak rate from a small Russian module…
President Trump declared Friday that he has “no interest in continuing” to oversee operations and renovations at the Kennedy Center – and will move to transfer those responsibilities to Congress – after a federal judge ordered his name to be removed from the performing arts venue. District Judge Christopher Cooper…
Here we go again, ladies and gentlemen. A transgender cyclist was the victor of two women’s mountain bike races in Oregon over a span of eight days, with one of the races seeing the biological male win by over 36 minutes.According to the results from the Oregon Bicycle Racing Association,…
Tough times are happening in the Washington Nationals’ media department.According to James O’Keefe, a secret video has surfaced of Nationals Director of Community Relations, Sean Hudson, who was let go on Friday, admitting the team doesn’t use pitcher Trevor Williams in video promotions on social media due to his religious…
In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the Donald Trump Administration and Presidency. This thread will refresh daily and appear above the…
A cotton field near Holcomb, Miss., on Oct. 5, 2025. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch TimesThe United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the launch of the Great American Cotton Plan, which seeks to strengthen the domestic cotton farm economy through measures such as increasing demand for American-grown cotton products, in a…
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation,…
By Melinda Patrick, Op-ed contributor Monday, June 01, 2026iStock/Ryan RahmanEach June, many Christian parents find themselves carrying a weight that few people fully understand.As pride month unfolds, conversations surrounding sexuality and identity become increasingly visible in schools, workplaces, social media, entertainment, and public life. For parents whose son or daughter…
By Rebecca Goropevsek, Op-ed contributor Monday, June 01, 2026A woman walks with orphans at the AGOHELD orphanage, hospital, training center and school, founded by Abebech Gobena, on March 19, 2013, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. | Sean Gallup/Getty ImagesGenerations of Christians have taken James 1:27 — the command to care for…
By Robin Schumacher, Exclusive Columnist Monday, June 01, 2026iStock/PhoenixStockWhen it comes to fully understanding God’s plans, Paul wasn’t kidding when he said that we now “know in part” and “see in a mirror dimly” (1 Cor. 13:9, 12). There’s so much we currently don’t fully understand and likely won’t until…
By Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post Contributor Monday, June 01, 2026U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth listens as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to senior military members at Marine Corps Base Quantico on Sept. 30, 2025, in Quantico, Virginia. In an unprecedented gathering, almost 800 generals, admirals and their senior enlisted…
Weeks after dramatically defeating Viktor Orbán to become Hungary’s first new prime minister in 16 years, Péter Magyar wasted no time in reversing many of the policies put into place during Orbán’s tenure. But Magyar, a former member of Orbán’s Fidesz Party who broke ranks with the party in 2024, is…
A former senior intelligence community official under President Barack Obama reported concerns earlier this year that the Hunter Biden laptop letter signed by 51 former intelligence officials in 2020 bore characteristics “consistent with coordinated intelligence deception operations,” according to a memo the ex-official submitted to the intelligence community inspector general.The…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit released an order last week concerning a judicial misconduct complaint against a federal district judge. According to the order, an Eleventh Circuit special committee determined that the “subject judge” engaged in an extramarital affair with a uniformed police officer and had sexual…
Two Democrat governors trying to advance progressive policies on immigration and gun control are facing pushback from local law enforcement, with sheriffs and prosecutors in Maryland and Virginia openly resisting portions of the states’ new agendas.In Maryland, a majority of the state’s elected sheriffs filed a federal lawsuit challenging the…
Jing Dong, a U.S. citizen after immigrating from China, will be charged with involuntary manslaughter in the quintuple fatal crash early Friday morning, State Police in Virginia say.Dong drove a motor coach for E&P Travel, headquartered in Kings Mountain, N.C., from New York to North Carolina. A family of four…
The jobs report is the main event this week. But the real question is bigger than payrolls.Can household spending keep holding up when the finances behind it are deteriorating? That is the tension in the economy right now. Consumers are still spending – and on the surface, that looks fine.…
Virginia wrote off roughly $300 million in unemployment overpayments while recovering about $6 million over nine quarters, according to a new state audit of the Virginia Employment Commission.The audit from the Office of the State Inspector General analyzed recovery reports from July 2023 through September 2025 and found Virginia ranked…
Voters in Iowa will head to the polls Tuesday to elect candidates in several high-profile primary races that will be watched across the country.Many of Iowa’s races for the U.S. House are highly anticipated as midterm general elections approach. An open U.S. Senate seat has also brought in fierce competition…
Kerry Sheron, a 69-year-old Army veteran whose Escondido, California, home was so covered in pro-Trump banners and American flags that neighbors called it the “Trump House,” died Sunday night after spending nearly a week in critical condition. His alleged attacker, 32-year-old Thomas Caleb Butler, already faces attempted murder charges. Prosecutors…
Kerry Sheron, a 69-year-old Army veteran whose Escondido, California, home became a local landmark for its American flags and pro-Trump decorations, is dead, and the man accused of beating him outside his own front door now faces the prospect of homicide charges. A family GoFundMe campaign has raised nearly $50,000…
Leaks to the press, reports of a heated phone call, and unnamed U.S. officials telling reporters that “Netanyahu’s hair was on fire”, it all looked like a genuine rupture between Washington and Jerusalem over Iran’s nuclear program. But a senior Israeli defense researcher says the apparent rift was strategic theater,…
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Florida’s lawsuit against California and Washington over their practice of issuing commercial driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, and Gov. Ron DeSantis isn’t letting it go quietly. Speaking at a Florida Highway Patrol facility in Davie on Friday, DeSantis called the Court’s decision a…
Democratic Rep. Frederica Wilson of Florida announced Friday that she will not seek a ninth term in Congress, just six days after she called reports of her retirement a “crazy rumor” and insisted she still planned to run. The 83-year-old lawmaker missed every House vote for a full month before…
President Donald Trump acknowledged Saturday that his administration will “probably” lose its landmark challenge to birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court, a rare public concession that came as federal judges handed him a string of separate legal defeats on the same day.The admission, posted on Truth Social, arrived weeks after…
When California voters open their primary ballots on June 2, they will find a familiar name near the top of the gubernatorial field: Barack Obama. Not the former president. A man who legally changed his name from Cecil Shaw III to Barack Denzel Obama Shaw in January 2013, and who…
Rep. Frederica Wilson, the 83-year-old Florida Democrat who vanished from Capitol Hill for a month and missed more than 40 House votes, announced Friday that she will not seek a ninth term, just days after dismissing her own retirement as a “crazy rumor.”Wilson told the Miami Herald she had made…
Graham Platner, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, posted a topless selfie on Kik, a messaging app widely associated with hookups and plagued by child safety scandals, and engaged in sexually explicit messaging with multiple women outside his marriage, according to reporting from the New York Post. The…
A federal jury in Spokane, Washington, found three protesters guilty of conspiracy charges for attempting to block Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers from transporting two detained illegal immigrants. The verdict, handed down Thursday after a nearly two-week trial, marks a clear message from federal prosecutors: obstructing immigration enforcement carries real…
By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Monday, June 01, 2026Zachary Garris is the pastor of Bryce Avenue Presbyterian Church in White Rock, New Mexico. | YouTube/ Conversations That MatterThe Rio Grande Presbytery, a regional governing body of the Presbyterian Church in America, has indefinitely suspended Zachary Garris, pastor of Bryce Avenue…