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Jesse Collins/Wikimedia Commons A week from today the Supreme Court will issue its ruling in a long-pending case that could dramatically impact the 2024 elections: Moore v. Harper. At issue is a deceptively simple question: Does the Constitution give power to state legislatures to regulate federal elections, or doesn’t it? In Article I, Section 4, Clause 1, the U.S. Constitution...

katrinaelena/iStock/Getty Images Plus It appears that when it comes to LGBT ideology, the debate isn’t as settled as the Left would like us to believe. According to a newly published poll, a rising number of Americans are rejecting the concept of gender fluidity, with an increased number of respondents to the survey saying they believe a person’s gender should be...

Looking back on the 2023 legislative session, New York Democratic Sen. James Skoufis told The Epoch Times that he pushed several high-priority bills with statewide impacts through both houses. He also worked with Republican colleagues in the Assembly in passing local laws that allow a number of towns and villages in Orange County to levy hotel and motel taxes. This...

The latest chapter in U.S. President Joe Biden’s mishap-filled history came on Friday. In his speech in Connecticut, the 80-year-old Democrat discussed the need for tougher gun control laws. He closed by saying “God save the Queen!” to the audience. It is unclear why he said this and whether he was referring to the late British monarch Queen Elizabeth II....

Arkadiusz Warguła/iStock/Getty Images Plus Associated Press writer Ali Swenson is described as AP’s specialist on “disinformation,” and this week she dismissed the description by Republicans of some Democrats as Marxists or Communists as an example of said “disinformation.” She cited the remarks of former President Donald Trump, although she opted to just call him “Donald Trump,” without the “former president”...

AP Images Petteri Orpo After weeks of what were, at times, fractious negotiations, Finland’s new leaders have announced that they have come to terms on the formation of a new government. The National Coalition Party (NCP), also known to Finns as Kokoomus, emerged from April’s general election with the most parliamentary seats (48). The National Coalition will lead a government...

Commentary As I have been writing in The Epoch Times, everything Gov. Gavin Newsom does now advances his ambition to move into the White House—probably as early as Jan. 20, 2025. So watch how he handles negotiations with the California Legislature over the budget for fiscal year 2023-24, which begins on July 1. Unlike last year, when he and the...

Published in Kommersant (Russia) on 16 June 2023 by Anton Grishanov Translated from Russian by Nikita Gubankov. Edited by Wes Vanderburgh. Posted on June 19, 2023. *Editor’s Note: On March 4, 2022, Russia enacted a law that criminalizes public opposition to, or independent news reporting about, the war in Ukraine. The law makes it a crime to call the war...

filo/iStock/Getty Images Plus The newest federal holiday, “Juneteenth,” is observed this year on the actual date of June Nineteenth — Juneteenth being the combination of those two words. As with most federal holidays, in order to give federal employees a three-day weekend, it would have been observed on Monday anyway. So, what is Juneteenth all about? When I first heard...

Commentary The Federal Open Market Committee’s unanimous decision on Wednesday not to raise the federal funds rate, which banks charge each other for overnight loans, has champagne corks popping in some quarters, where it is hailed as evidence of the long-in-coming conquest of inflation; while others see Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell turning chicken in the face of a long-term...

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the leading Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, has asked the FBI to make public evidence that would confirm that President Joe Biden is not under federal investigation for bribery. At heart are allegations made by an FBI informant and documented in form FD-1023 claiming that then-Vice President Biden engaged in a $5 million bribery scheme...

Democrats warn that Congress is still facing the threat of a shutdown at the end of the year, despite an agreement on the Federal budget. The agreement earlier this month between House Republicans and the Democrats was supposed to create a bipartisan framework for annual spending bills that would take a government shutdown off the table. Congress may have avoided...

Newly passed legislation that would ban ballot harvesting in Mississippi is being challenged in court by several civil rights organizations that claim it would harm minority voters and those with disabilities. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Mississippi Center for Justice, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), ACLU-MS, and Disability Rights Mississippi (DRMS) filed a federal lawsuit challenging S.B. 2358, legislation which would...

Commentary This year marked the 34th anniversary of the June 4th incident, a 1989 student-led demonstration in China that resulted in bloody suppression and massacre. Since then, the annual June 4th candlelight vigil has been part of Hong Kong’s history until 2020, when the national security law banned such national security-threatening activities. However, with the ongoing exodus of Hongkongers, the...

Vladimir Vladimirov/iStock/Getty Images Plus “Our strength lies in our diversity!” Some may wonder for how much longer we’ll hear this rallying cry now that leftists, at least in one U.S. city, are being “diversified” right out of a cherished agenda. The place is Hamtramck, Michigan, where officials are now poised to prohibit the display of the “LGBTQ” rainbow “Pride” flag...

Commentary Donald Trump is right that the special counsel’s 37-count indictment against him for holding classified documents is federal law enforcement’s latest effort to interfere in a presidential election, as they did in the last two. But there’s something else, too. For the 2016 and 2020 elections, there was alleged evidence of the Democratic Party candidate’s corruption. The same is...

First lady Jill Biden is gearing up to raise funds for President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, working toward securing a second term for her husband. This year, following her return from a six-day trip abroad, the first lady is embarking on her first solo trip for the 2024 campaign season. She will make a three-day fundraising tour, with stops in...

Foreign Affairs The Ukraine Lobby’s Latest Targets A powerful pressure campaign is operating behind the scenes and distorting American policy. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images) In his 1796 Farewell Address, President George Washington warned against the danger that would ensue if Americans identified too closely with the interests of any foreign country. He stated that “nothing is more essential than...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas issued a lengthy, critical dissent in the high court’s ruling that struck down Alabama’s electoral map for congressional elections. In a 5–4 ruling (pdf) last week, the court found that a map drafted by state Republican lawmakers violated the provisions of the federal Voting Rights Act (VRA) that mandates that states not racially gerrymander districts. The...

A friend of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas says a highly publicized media report that accused the justice of violating ethical norms contained “old news” and failed to disclose that Thomas was cleared of accusations of wrongdoing “more than a decade ago.” Left-wing criticism of Thomas and the Supreme Court as an institution has escalated since the unprecedented leak last...