Epoch Times

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) has filed for divorce from her husband, Jayson Boebert. The 36-year-old Republican who represents Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District announced the news in a statement on May 16, The Colorado Sun reported. Boebert cited “irreconcilable differences” as reasoning for the separation. “It is with a heavy weight on my heart that I have filed for divorce from my...

Home Depot’s revenue during the first quarter fell short of expectations and the company on Tuesday cut its annual sales forecast and projected a decline in profit for the first time since 2009. Shares of the nation’s largest home improvement chain tumbled about 4 percent, while those in rival Lowe’s dropped nearly 3 percent. For the three months that ended April...

Commentary Integral to the integrity of our society, based as it is on the rule of law, is the behaviour and competence of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). Revelations and accusations about the behaviour of the Australian Capital Territory’s DPP should send alarm bells ringing for all Australians. His behaviour and professionalism have come under some close scrutiny at...

The House Oversight and Accountability Committee is pushing back against Facts First USA’s call for an investigation into Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), describing the liberal advocacy group’s efforts as “theatrics” meant to intimidate. “Dark money organizations are attempting to intimidate congressional investigators who are shining a light on the Biden family’s shady business schemes,” a House Oversight Committee spokesperson...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has introduced articles of impeachment against Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray. “Director Wray has failed to uphold his oath and has instead overseen a denigration of the principles of our democratic republic by utilizing the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a Federal police force to punish or intimidate anyone who questions or opposes the...

The FBI as an institution “should not have existed in the first place” and should be shut down, says entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who is running for president as a Republican in 2024. “What we learned here is this was intentional, all the way down. They knew it was based on fraudulent premises. And yet they went on this hoax of...

Commentary On the same day the Durham report was released, revealing there was never any substance behind the Trump-Russia collusion story despite the media obsessing over it for two years, New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger ironically wrote about the importance of an unbiased press. In his piece in the Columbia Journalism Review, he strongly advocates that the New York...

Wholesale gasoline for June delivery rose 1 cent $2.48 a gallon. June heating oil fell 2 cents to $2.36 a gallon. June natural gas was unchanged at $2.38 per 1,000 cubic feet. Gold for June delivery fell $29.70 to $1,993 an ounce. Silver for July delivery fell 40 cents to $23.89 an ounce and July copper fell 8 cents to...

An unnamed Afghan on the terror watchlist was arrested by the U.S. Border Patrol on May 10 at the U.S.-Mexico border near Otay Mesa in Southern California, when trying to enter with a group of migrants. San Diego Supervisor Jim Desmond said the incident was a “stark remind” that the federal government should be doing more to maintain a secure border....

“Looking at the data from a totality of sources, I mean, the signals were absolutely alarming … You saw a failed medical experiment being covered up on a global scale,” says Dr. Pierre Kory. We discuss the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, what Dr. Kory describes as a decades-long war on repurposed drugs, and the information warfare tactics that have been deployed...

President Joe Biden’s choice to head the U.S. National Institutes of Health has hauled in hundreds of millions of dollars from the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer in recent years, raising concerns about whether she’d serve the public independently. Dr. Monica Bertagnolli received $247 million in research funding from Pfizer from 2016 to 2021, according to disclosures filed Open Payments, a government-run...

Nuclear is not on the table as an option to add to Australia’s energy mix amid a push for net-zero due to the huge initial costs, the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Chris Bowen, has said. As Australia lacks existing nuclear infrastructure due to its nuclear ban since 1998, the costs required to set up an industry from scratch...

Allies of former Vice President Mike Pence are launching a new super PAC backing him as a 2024 presidential candidate, officials have confirmed. Known as “Committed to America,” the PAC will be co-chaired by former Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) and longtime Republican strategist Scott Reed, who ran former Kansas Sen. Bob Dole’s 1996 presidential campaign, according to reports. Bobby Saparow, who managed Republican...

Commentary Some Senate Democrats are urging President Joe Biden to “use” the 14th Amendment to raise the debt limit by executive decree. For example, Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) stated: “The 14th Amendment is not anyone’s first choice. The first choice is that the Republicans raise the debt ceiling because the United States government never, ever, ever, ever defaults on its legal...

Twitter on Monday shared further details about why it restricted access to certain content in Turkey ahead of the country’s election, which took place on May 14. The election is headed to a runoff scheduled for May 28 after neither of the two top contenders got more than 50 percent of the vote. On the day prior to the election, Twitter...

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said on Monday that debt limit talks with Democrats and President Joe Biden are “not in a good place,” saying that Biden had delayed talks for 100 days. A debt ceiling meeting has been scheduled for 3 p.m. ET on Tuesday. The meeting was originally set for last Friday but was postponed. Adding to the pressure, Treasury Secretary...

WASHINGTON—General Motors said on Monday it will recall 42,000 sport utility vehicles in Canada from the 2014 through 2017 model years because the driver’s air-bag inflator may explode during deployment. On Friday, GM recalled 994,763 Buick Enclave, Chevrolet Traverse, and GMC Acadia vehicles in the United States from the 2014–2017 model years with modules produced by ARC Automotive Inc.. GM...

Commentary “Mr Speaker, I am announcing tonight a schedule to increase Australia’s defence expenditure to three percent of GDP over the next 10 years. “This is a necessary response to the Defence Strategic Review which the Albanese government commissioned, the recommendations of which we endorsed recently. It is a realistic response to the threats to our national security. The defence of...

Florida stops funding diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in higher education. Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump criticized the state’s abortion laws. Ahead of a make-or-break meeting between President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on debt ceiling negotiations, what are the two saying as time is running out to avoid a default? Officers gathered in Washington, D.C., Monday to honor fallen police...

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) has been a vocal critic of COVID protocols since early on in the pandemic. “As much as they said they were ‘the science’, they weren’t. And they didn’t follow the science. They ignored it. They had an agenda. They had their solutions, they had their response, and don’t let any facts or science get in the...