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Netflix has warned that a bill to reform regulation of public service broadcasters could “prove unworkable” and have a “chilling effect” on what the streamer offers in Britain. Benjamin King, Netflix’s director of public policy in the UK and Ireland, spoke at a Westminster Media Forum event, where he addressed the issues arising from the provision of the Media Bill....

Commentary On Thursday, former CIA Director John Brennan “will sit for a transcribed interview” with members of the House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, according to sources who spoke to the New York Post. The interview comes days after the release of an email showing a correspondence between Brennan and former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell, in...

Twitter will soon allow users to make video and voice calls and send encrypted messages, CEO Elon Musk has said. Musk took to the platform on May 9 to announce a string of new features that will be coming to Twitter soon. “With latest version of app , you can DM reply to any message in the thread (not just most...

Tom Homan, former director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in an exclusive interview with The Epoch Times, described the crisis at the United States’ southern border as “the largest homeland security intelligence failure since 9/11,” adding that the problem will only exacerbate with the lifting of Title 42 on May 11. The ending of Title 42, a COVID-19 pandemic-era...

The United States Department of Defense (DOD) is seeking nearly $30 billion in its $680 billion Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) budget request for missile defeat and defense programs across all branches of the military. Right now, the DOD is in a race to develop its own hypersonic missiles and engineer effective defenses against the high-velocity, maneuverable missiles being developed by...

Fox News may be willing to keep paying Carlson millions of dollars to keep him under contract despite taking him off the air, at least according to foreign policy analyst and political commentator Frank Gaffney. “It seems as though Tucker is still under some constraints from Fox, at least as best I can tell for the moment,” Gaffney told NTD...

In the digital era, the right to access information goes hand in hand with freedom and democratic values. However, authoritarian regimes and private sector actors in 35 countries have stepped up the use of internet blackouts as a method to control protests, free speech, and suppress information. Five nations enacted internet blackouts related to national elections in 2022. Last year,...

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson released a video on Tuesday afternoon saying he will bring a new show to Twitter. “Starting soon, we’ll be bringing a new version of the show to Twitter,” Carlson said in his first remarks about his future post-Fox plans. It’s “the show we’ve been doing for the last six and a half years” but...

What happens when large swathes of society stop trying to make sense of the world themselves and simply defer to “experts”? What happens when those “experts” actually have no moral grounding or sound scientific reasoning? And what happens when young people are trained to self-censor to the point that they don’t even notice that that’s what they’re doing? In this...

Commentary The CRTC is best known as the Canadian content regulator. For the last half-century or so it has seen to it that Canadian productions, like “Anne of Green Gables,” and Canadian music artists were featured with sufficient regularity. (Those of us of a certain age would joke about having Anne Murray’s “Snowbird” seared into our skulls, it was played...

The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) reported that the U.S. government would likely default on its payment obligations sometime between early June and early August if changes aren’t made. The group’s May 2023 debt-limit analysis report, which was released on May 9, cited pressure from a decline in tax revenue as the support for their conclusion on a default date. The...

Ahead of today’s high-stakes meeting between President Joe Biden and congressional leaders to discuss raising the debt ceiling, U.S. business executives have issued a stern warning, urging both parties to reach an agreement. The cost of a default or even the possibility of one is too high, the group warned. “With the U.S. at risk of defaulting on its obligations...

Many Americans say they are suffering sharply from higher levels of financial anxiety as the economy takes a downturn. Money is now the prime cause of stress for most Americans, according to May 8 survey by Bankrate. At least 52 percent of respondents reported that personal finances have had a negative impact on their mental health, a significant increase from 42...

Commentary On May 2, The Epoch Times published an opinion piece entitled “Yes Is for Bringing Australia Together and Moving Forward.” The article argues that opponents of The Voice claim that the proposed entrenchment of The Voice in the Constitution repudiates “a central tenet of liberalism—the idea that we should be treated equally.” The article’s author argues that this claim by...

FARMVILLE, Va.—A second inmate who escaped from a Virginia jail last week was apprehended Monday after he showed up at a local university and asked for medical assistance. The inmate, identified by jail officials as Bruce Callahan, was detained by Longwood police after he walked into Lancer Park—a 50-acre residential community owned by Longwood University—and pulled an outdoor fire alarm,...

As 2024’s Iowa GOP caucus slowly approaches, two likely frontrunners are preparing to talk past each other from across the Hawkeye State. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump will hold competing events on May 13 in Iowa. Trump will hold a “Make America Great Again” rally at Lauridsen Amphitheater, Water Works Park, in Des Moines, the state’s...

Shop For Night Vision | See more... John Birch Society Leads Con-Con Victory in Iowa, Notching Number 13 This Year  Paul Dragu The John Birch Society’s success in guarding the U.S. Constitution from being opened and gutted through an Article V Convention is another reminder that truth is its own currency.   With the help of other constitutionally aligned ally...

Twitter owner Elon Musk said the platform is permanently removing inactive accounts to release desirable usernames back into rotation, a move that had long been promised but never delivered. While Twitter does have an inactive account policy in place, it hasn’t done much to enforce it. The platform encourages users to log in at least once a month to stay...

All eyes this week will be on the April inflation report. Will it continue its downward trend, or will the consumer price index (CPI) continue to be stubborn and sticky? The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland’s Inflation Nowcasting is penciling in an annual inflation rate of 5.2 percent, which would be up from 5 percent in March. The core inflation...

“He came to visit a home that I was renting in Karachi, and he went off for an interview. And he never came back. The man whom he was supposed to interview had set a trap for Danny. It was actually a kidnapping scheme. And Danny was never to be seen again.” In 2002, Wall Street Journal correspondent Asra Nomani...