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Former President Donald Trump, who made his fortune as a real-estate magnate, is tapping into that background to chart America’s future. While making his third run for the U.S. presidency, Trump released a proposal that fell outside of conventional campaign rhetoric. If elected, Trump says his plan would propel the nation into a new era of economic development, innovation and...

Advocates warn that what’s at stake if developers and their foreign investors succeed in constructing offshore wind turbines along the east coast is a crucial food source and a rich cultural heritage preserved among fishermen. “Generations of fishermen could be sacrificed on the altar of green energy,” Meghan Lapp told The Epoch Times. Lapp is a representative for a commercial...

Hypocrisy as TikTok secretly uses U.S. courts against free speech Commentary As is well known, TikTok is a national security threat because communist China has laws that give it access to the data of its almost 1.7 billion global users. Yet naive teenagers around the world download the app on their smartphones, thirsty for the latest kid craze trend. TikTok’s...

A judge on Friday awarded Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, a black church in the District of Columbia, over $1 million in damages in a lawsuit against the Proud Boys. The lawsuit was filed in response to the Proud Boys’ destruction of a Black Lives Matter banner during a protest in 2020. Superior Court Associate Judge Neal Kravitz additionally imposed...

The conservative majority U.S. Supreme Court has been busy in the final days before its summer break, and the decisions it handed down this week have heartened and made Congressional Republicans mostly happy and left their colleagues on the other side of the aisle mostly unhappy and in many cases angry.   Following the court’s historic decisions on June 29, upending...

United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby issued a formal apology on Friday after facing criticism for chartering a private jet during the height of nationwide travel disruptions caused by adverse weather conditions. Kirby expressed regret for his decision to take a private jet from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey to Denver, Colorado, on Wednesday, acknowledging it was the “wrong decision because it...

Commentary After a few years of pathetic output, largely due to the pandemic, Hollywood is finally having a big summer. This year will be particularly prolific for Disney, which has several major pictures coming out during the summer months, both animated and live action. Among these is “Elemental,” the latest Pixar film characterizing inanimate objects or, in this case, elements....

“I oppose affirmative action. But I also oppose legacy admissions, I oppose any kind of process or system that tries to degrade us from the principle of merit that our country was built upon. We’re founded upon excellence. That’s what the American dream is….That is a universal Maxim with which we should be striving to.” In this episode of ATL:NOW,...

The online media platform, YouTube, is mulling whether to prevent users from using ad blockers while watching videos on its platform. The potential policy came to light on June 25 when online commenters on Reddit posted screenshots of a popup notice, warning viewers that they would be blocked after three videos if they refused to allow ads. The warning said that users...

Former U.S. President Donald Trump said a brief military mutiny by Russia’s Wagner Group private military force put Russian President Vladimir Putin on a less stable footing in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. “You could say that still there, he’s still strong, but he certainly has been I would say somewhat weakened at least in the minds of a lot of...

Commentary A recently released report from the Canadian Competition Bureau confirms what grocers have been saying all along: There is no “greedflation” happening in the retail food market and profit margins for retailers are low. And although the bureau did note that consumers would be better served if there were more competitors in the retail food market, it pointedly omitted...

“With the exception of the medical boards, all the authorities, or all the in Brazil, they never wondered whether we saved lives or not. They just wanted to charge me as guilty.” Dr. Flavio Cadegiani is one of Brazil’s leading scientists, specializing in endocrinology and sports medicine. He has published 25 peer-reviewed papers on COVID-19, including a landmark study showing...

President Joe Biden remarks on the Supreme Court’s decision on the student debt relief program at 3:30 p.m. ET on June 30. ...

SINGAPORE/LONDON—The yen briefly weakened past the closely watched 145 per dollar level on Friday although traders’ fears of intervention by Japanese authorities kept it in check, while the dollar was also strong more broadly ahead of U.S. inflation data. Barring unexpected interventions, the day’s main event for FX markets is the U.S. personal consumption expenditure price index, which will be...

Huntington Beach councilors on June 26 unanimously approved a $5.4 million 2023-24 fiscal year budget—which begins July 1—after an hours-long discussion which attracted over 100 residents, many of whom were concerned about a proposal posted online the Friday before the special meeting that showed the possibility of some services being cut, including at the city’s libraries. After being alerted to...

A New York appeals court has dismissed all claims against former President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump in a civil lawsuit brought by Attorney General Letitia James. The New York Appellate Division’s First Department ruled unanimously this week to dismiss claims against Ivanka Trump because they were filed too late and she was no longer part of the Trump Organization during the...

The New South Wales (NSW) Housing Minister Rose Jackson has become the first Labor state minister to swat down the left-wing Greens’ campaign for Australia to adopt rent controls to deal with its housing crisis. On June 27, federal Greens housing spokesperson, Max Chandler-Mather, reiterated his party’s position citing San Francisco as an example Australian authorities should follow. “In San...

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for August delivery rose 30 cents to $69.86 a barrel Thursday. Brent crude for August delivery rose 31 cents to $74.34 a barrel. Wholesale gasoline for July delivery rose 1 cent $2.62 a gallon. July heating oil rose 1 cent to $2.42 a gallon. August natural gas rose 3 cents to $2.70 per 1,000 cubic feet....

Commentary Riverside and San Bernardino Counties in Southern California have 52 cities. A number of their residents work in Orange County and make their commute using the Riverside Freeway, its express lanes, or the Metrolink rail. As housing costs tend to be higher the closer one comes to the coast, moving to the Inland Empire (IE) provides for more affordable...

Commentary The United States is the world’s No. 1 military power, while China is No. 3. To catch up with the United States, China will need to maintain a certain level of economic growth. However, given the slowing economy and the demographic challenge, the Carnegie Foundation expects China’s long-term GDP growth not to exceed 2–3 percent. “The world is entering a...