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On the 31st anniversary of its introduction to the public, Falun Dafa has been recognized by officials and elected bodies across the United States for the spiritual values of its teachings and adherents’ contributions to communities. Falun Dafa, also known as Falun Gong, is a spiritual practice involving meditative exercises and moral teachings rooted in traditional Chinese beliefs in body and...

FEC United, a grassroots movement to “restore and secure the blessings of liberty guaranteed by the United States Constitution,” holds a forum called StandInTheGap from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET on May 13 in Michigan to encourage people to stand up and be courageous in their life. The forum features the speakers Rebecca Kiessling, mother of two sons killed...

Commentary The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are ramping up efforts to counter CCP intelligence operations in the U.S. On May 11, the FBI arrested an alleged Chinese spy in Boston. Litang Liang was accused of spying on U.S.-based Chinese dissidents and critics of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime. This latest arrest comes as part of an...

A federal judge in Texas this week ordered the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make public data it relied on to license COVID-19 vaccines—Moderna’s for adults and Pfizer’s for children—at an accelerated rate, requiring all documents to be made public by mid-2025 rather than, as the FDA wanted, over the course of around 23.5 years. In a decision hailed...

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Wednesday that he had given the go-ahead for the first transfer of confiscated Russian assets to Ukraine. The U.S. Department of Justice charged Konstantin Malofeyev, a Russian oligarch, with breaching sanctions imposed on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine last year. The United States claimed that he had provided funds to Russians who were...

Commentary Leila Abdallah—a mother to Liana, Alex, Michael, and Selina, a wife to Danny, and the daughter of Norma Habis and Michel Geagea, has endured more than most women in a lifetime. On Feb. 1, 2020, the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar, the fifth Saturday of 2020, Britain officially exited the EU membership, Australian fires continued...

A Georgia congressman is hoping to introduce a federal vaccination bill to end what he calls outrageously unethical decisions by hospitals denying transplant patients life-saving organs because they don’t believe in the COVID-19 vaccines. Rep. Richard McCormick (R-Ga.), who is also a medical doctor known for supporting natural immunity over the experimental jab, told The Epoch Times that the legislation,...

Reporter Todd Bensman is one of the few journalists at America’s southern border in Texas, covering the mass migration crisis that has worsened since the lifting of Title 42—a Trump-era policy allowing U.S. authorities to swiftly expel illegal immigrants. “You cannot find a single Border Patrol agent anywhere in sight. They are pulled off of this operation,” says Bensman. “At...

CNN’s on-air personalities are defending the network’s decision to host a town hall-style interview with former President Donald Trump on Wednesday night. While many Republicans and conservatives cheered on Trump’s performance on the stage, numerous Democrat politicians criticized the cable news network for giving him such a platform. For instance, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) posted that “CNN should be ashamed of...

Tucker Carlson’s announcement that he would be bringing his “same show” to Twitter drew more than 126 million impressions this week, signaling there is widespread interest in a program with the former Fox News host hasn’t waned. Of that figure, some 26.6 million watched the clip on Twitter. In the video, Carlson said that he would be doing a similar...

Commentary The recent Liberal Party convention revealed just how anxious delegates are to censor online media, but that’s nothing compared to what the federal government has planned. There was an abundance of insanity at the  convention last weekend. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s “woke speech,” where he demanded Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre “wake up” too and get his ideology in line...

The U.S. Senate narrowly approved two resolutions on May 11, both on 51-49 votes, that overturned the Biden administration’s endangered species regulations. One of the votes struck down the regulation that not only protects areas from development where endangered species live, but also potential habitats for those species. The Senate vote returns the protection of the narrower designation that the...

This week on Kash’s Corner, we discuss a major new House Oversight memorandum released on Wednesday. Investigators say millions of dollars from China and other foreign entities went to President Joe Biden and nearly a dozen members of his family. New details have also emerged surrounding the origins of the “51-intel letter” discrediting the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020....

Environmental conservation groups across four Australian states have criticised the Albanese government for failing to add additional funding from the federal budget towards meeting targets set under the Murray Darling Basin Plan (MDBP). Environment Victoria, Nature Conservation Council NSW, Queensland Conservation Council, and the Conservation Council of South Australia have said that while the Albanese government has committed $146.8 million...

“Independent voters will look at some of these charges and say, gee, where there’s smoke, there’s fire. But of course, where there’s smoke, sometimes there’s arson,” says Alan Dershowitz, professor emeritus of law at Harvard Law School. “I think a lot of these fires have been set politically in order to get Trump,” Dershowitz says. He’s the author of the...

Commentary Xi Jinping has amassed a greater concentration of power than Mao Zedong, and has greater power to suppress domestic and foreign opponents than any Chinese leader in history. And yet the threat to his—and the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP)—ability to retain power faces challenges of an enormity and imminence that Mao never knew. These threats, ironically, parallel the disruptive...

Pennsylvania has settled a federal election integrity lawsuit, saying that it has removed more than 178,000 ineligible voter registrations and promising greater transparency in its future housekeeping efforts. As part of its settlement with conservative legal group Judicial Watch, Pennsylvania and several of its counties will publish information related to voter registration, including the total number of active voters; total...

Lawmakers and political insiders had a wide range of reactions to former President Donald Trump’s participation in a Town Hall event hosted by CNN. Trump’s May 10 appearance at the New Hampshire event allowed the candidate to present his plan for the country as he wades deeper into his 2024 presidential campaign. Many Republicans congratulated the former president on his...

In the climate of a global pandemic, COVID-19 vaccines were rolled out under emergency use authorization after a much shorter than normal testing period. Millions of people rolled up their sleeves because they were told they were doing their part to end the pandemic. But for some—it didn’t go as expected.  The Unseen Crisis is a feature-length documentary that provides...

Elon Musk on Thursday announced the official launch of Twitter’s new encrypted direct messaging (DM) function, urging users to give it a try, but warning that the encryption feature in the early version should not be trusted. “Early version of encrypted direct messages just launched,” Musk stated in a Thursday tweet. “Try it, but don’t trust it yet.” Direct messages...