Tag: The Epoch Times

“It becomes scarier the more you learn about it and the more new studies are coming up. Instead of making it better, every new study demonstrates some new alarming outcome.” During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Mobeen Syed, also known as DrBeen, noticed there was a lack of unbiased, accessible information about both the virus and the vaccine. Using his skills ...

Federal Reserve economists still expect a recession starting later this year, according to minutes from the June Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) policy meetings. The economic forecast put together by staff at the policy meeting “continued to assume that the effects of the expected further tightening in bank credit conditions, amid already tight financial conditions” would trigger a “mild recession” ...

Commentary Canada is seen by many as a refuge. A refuge for those escaping regimes where their opinions or missions are seen as inconsistent with the types of societies those regimes try to impose on their populations. In these nations, there is one way, and only one way, of doing things. You either acquiesce or you get out (a third ...

An Oregon law that forbids recording in public without consent runs afoul of the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment, a U.S. court has ruled. Oregon law 165.540, first enacted in 1955 and subsequently broadened to bar secret recording of conversations, is unconstitutional, Judge Sandra Ikuta, a George W. Bush appointee writing for the majority in the 2–1 ruling, said. Exceptions to the ...

Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino on Tuesday wrote in a tweet a defense of the temporary cap announced on July 1 on the number of tweets users can read in a day, and the company said advertizing has been stable in the days since the step that drew heavy criticism from users and marketing professionals. Ms. Yaccarino wrote in her tweet: ...

President Joe Biden has announced plans to nominate Virginia Solicitor General Andrew Ferguson and Utah Solicitor General Melissa Holyoak to serve as Republican commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The White House announced the GOP nominations—part of a longstanding practice to include bipartisan membership—in a July 3 press release. Senate lawmakers will need to vote to confirm Biden’s nominees for the FTC ...

Anne Milgram, head of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), has said that social media companies haven’t been as cooperative as they could have in addressing the fentanyl crisis. “We have not until recently gotten nearly as much cooperation as we need,” she said on Sunday during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet The Press.” Social media companies have to comply with ...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Indonesian President Joko Widodo jointly denounced Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, noting its effects on the global economy through inflation, disrupted supply chains, and worsening food insecurity. Mr. Albanese welcomed Mr. Widodo to Australia on July 4 during the annual Australia-Indonesia leaders’ meeting in Sydney, where they deepened links between both nations. In a joint ...

URBANDALE, Iowa—Urbandale, population 46,000, is a slice of Americana nestled against the west side of Des Moines, the capital of Iowa. Despite being part of a metropolitan area of 700,000, Urbandale retains a small-town atmosphere. The city has suburbanized without becoming bougie, lending it a charm reminiscent of earlier days. That America-then feel combined with what locals proclaim is the ...

Commentary Canada’s federal government has cheerfully proclaimed June to September to be Pride Season. Beyond the commonplace vulgarity in pride parades, one reasonably perceives a push to include new identities. And generous Canadians are inclusive. But a push for inclusion is a push for power, and that makes inclusion a complex political beast. For starters, unless every person is included, any ...

The rivalry between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg has just heated up as Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has teased that it’s launching a platform to rival Twitter. Called “Threads,” the Meta-backed microblogging platform is billed as “Instagram’s text-based conversation app,” according to a listing on Apple’s App Store. The listing indicates that Threads will released on Thursday, ...

WASHINGTON—Through history, the Fourth of July has been a day for some presidents to declare their independence from the public. They’ve bailed to the beach, the mountains, the golf course, the farm, the ranch. In the middle of the Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt was sailing to Hawaii on a fishing and working vacation. It’s also been a day for some ...

Commentary Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently completed a “chief supplicant” mission to Beijing on June 19. The Cambridge Dictionary defines a supplicant as “a person who asks a god or someone who is in a position of power for something in a humble way.” Who could argue that Blinken acted otherwise? During the brief trip, he apparently made no “big asks” in representing U.S. interests and concerns vis-a-vis the Chinese communist ...

The Chinese regime is hiding trillions of dollars in “shadow reserves,” according to an economist and former Obama-era Treasury Department official. Mr. Brad Setser, who served on President Joe Biden’s 2020 transition Agency Review Team, recently warned that China possesses far more foreign exchange reserves than what the regime is reporting. He estimated in The China Project that Beijing likely ...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member countries confirmed on July 4 that current Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg will remain in office for another year. The announcement came after the alliance failed to settle on a candidate for the leadership position. “Honoured by #NATO Allies’ decision to extend my term as Secretary General until 1 October 2024,” Stoltenberg wrote on Twitter. “The transatlantic ...

Twitter users will soon need to be verified in order to use TweetDeck, the social media company said in a tweet on Monday. The change will take effect in 30 days, the company said. Twitter made the announcement in a tweet detailing an improved version of TweetDeck with new features. It was unclear if Twitter will charge users for both ...

LONDON/SINGAPORE—The dollar fell slightly against the yen on Tuesday as markets remained on high alert for signs of Japanese intervention, but the broader market was placid with U.S. traders off for a public holiday. The greenback was down 0.18 percent at 1104 GMT to 144.44 yen, after rising 0.27 percent on Monday. However, the yen remained close to last week’s ...

The launcher system of the PATRIOT (Phased Array Tracking Radar to Intercept on Target) surface-to-air missile system at the military base of Kaufbeuren, southern Germany, on June 17, 2023. (Christof Stache/AFP via Getty Images) WASHINGTON—The U.S. State Department has approved a possible $15 billion sale of an Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Battle Command System (IBCS) and related equipment ...

Commentary It seems that Chinese leader Xi Jinping is particularly sensitive to being described as a “dictator.” When U.S. President Joe Biden used the description, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was outraged, with its mouthpiece, the Global Times calling it a vicious attack. If Biden had said that Xi was the “leader of a dictatorship,” perhaps he would not have ...

Air travelers could breathe a little easier Monday, as a break in stormy weather—and lighter schedules a day before the July 4 holiday—helped airlines keep more flights moving on time. By 10 p.m. ET, about 133 U.S. flights had been canceled and 4,454 were late, according to FlightAware. Those numbers were down from more than 600 cancellations and 7,700 delays ...