Tag: The Epoch Times

Commentary I feel sorry for college students today. Tuition and other costs keep going up and up. The latest: California State University is proposing at a tuition increase from $174 to $462 a year, plus future increases. Current tuition is $5,742 a year. So in fall 2024 the cost could be as high as $6,204, or 8 percent higher. The ...

BURBANK, Calif.—Two North Hollywood men have been arrested for allegedly carjacking a pizza delivery driver at gunpoint in Burbank, police said June 9. The crime occurred on Tuesday about 4:25 p.m. in the 1500 block of North Naomi Street, according to the Burbank Police Department. “The victim, who works for Domino’s Pizza, told officers he was delivering an order to ...

Former President Donald Trump could theoretically pardon himself after he was indicted in a federal investigation connected to whether he mishandled classified records, according to George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley. Speaking to Fox News, Turley said that for the 2024 election, “Trump could run on pardoning himself. You know, for people that feel that this is biased, that this ...

The percentage of homes purchased by real estate investors fell 49 percent  compared with what they bought a year before, and overall home purchases fell 41 percent, according to real estate brokerage Redfin, which analyzed date from 40 major metros. Something that may have led investors to retreat from the housing market likely are rising interest rates. Even though investors buy ...

A senator is sounding the alarm about China’s fashion retailer Shein, alleging it is using forced labor in its clothing supply chains and is lobbying to dismiss the claim. “I write to make you aware of actions by Shein, an apparel company founded in China that profits from Uyghur slave labor. Shein is hiring D.C. lobbyists to protect the trade ...

Louisiana is the latest state to require persons under 18 years old to have their parents’ permission to create an online account. Over the past year, legislators across the country have been increasingly concerned about the effects of social media on the mental health of children, encouraging a wave of proposed online safety laws for minors. The Louisiana Legislature unanimously ...

Commentary The two facts about China most important to the interests of freedom in the world (one, if you will, the enemy to the other) are: 1) the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is succeeding in its stated goal to become the dominant power on the globe by midcentury; and 2) another Tiananmen Square massacre, the 34th anniversary of which was last week, is ...

The Biden administration’s agents working along the U.S.–Mexico border are primarily providing illegal immigrants with “care and welfare” services, according to a senior Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official. DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari made the claims during a hearing before a House Oversight subcommittee on June 6 to discuss the ongoing law enforcement staffing challenges relating to the southern ...

U.S. Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) on June 8 introduced bipartisan legislation aimed at preventing foreign-produced drones from flying over American skies. Known as the “Stemming The Operation of Pernicious and Illicit (STOP Illicit) Drones Act,” the bill (pdf) would ban the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) from buying or using drones produced in China as well as a ...

In what appears to be a world first, a government agency in New Zealand has banned employees from using AI technology over data and privacy concerns. The New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment (MBIE) issued the ban on tools like ChatGPT after concerns sensitive information inputted into such platforms could be later retrieved, reported RNZ. AI-powered chatbots trawl through ...

Presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina appeared on The View to prove that skin color and partisanship do not have to go together. By sharing his story of overcoming obstacles and achieving success, Tim Scott argued that character and hard work are available to everyone. Scott’s life certainly makes the case that his conservative values are worthy of ...

Over a quarter of residential properties purchased in Australia’s eastern states in 2022 were mortgage-free, indicating that a significant portion of the population was not affected by interest rate hikes. Property data firm PEXA has released a report that analyses residential property purchases in the states of New South Wales (NSW), Victoria and Queensland between January 2019 and March 2023. ...

Chancellor says open records case is new legal territory. The parents of the Nashville Covenant School shooter Audrey Hale, through their legal counsel, told a Nashville judge on Thursday, June 8, they are in the process of assigning all ownership of their daughter’s writings to the children of The Covenant School. The documents are still in the hands of the ...

“Idiocracy is the gateway drug that leads to communism,” says comedian JP Sears. Before the spring of 2020, Sears said he took America’s freedoms for granted. It wasn’t until the pandemic that he became aware of the extent of government and media corruption, hypocrisy, and brainwashing. “ try to deny reality, it literally makes us insane, because reality is a ...

Instagram’s algorithms connect a vast network of pedophiles, an investigation by The Wall Street Journal, Stanford University, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst discovered. An investigaton by the Stanford Internet Observatory’s chief technologist, David Thiel, research manager Renée DiResta, and director Alex Stamos discovered that a massive network of English-speaking social media accounts buy, sell, and share child sexual abuse ...

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed a 28th amendment to the U.S. Constitution to curtail specific aspects of gun rights. “Our ability to make a more perfect union is literally written into the Constitution,” Newsom said in a Thursday press statement announcing the proposed amendment. “So today, I’m proposing the 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution to do ...

Meta Platforms on Thursday introduced WhatsApp Channels, a feature that the social media giant said would help make the app a “private broadcast messaging product.” Users in Colombia and Singapore will be the first to receive access to Channels. Over the coming months, Meta will expand the availability of the tool for users in more countries, it said. The company ...

Mortgage applications have fallen for the fourth straight week amid elevated mortgage rates, according to a recent report by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). The volume of mortgage loan applications fell by 1.4 percent for the week ended June 2, on a seasonally adjusted basis, said an MBA press release on June 7. On an unadjusted basis, the decline was ...

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq opened slightly higher on Thursday as Treasury yields slipped after data showed weekly jobless claims rose more than expected, countering some concerns about further interest rate hikes. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 8.04 points, or 0.02 percent, at the open to 33,656.98. The S&P 500 opened higher by 1.17 points, or 0.03 percent, at ...

Commentary Is my child going to be OK? It’s one of the most basic, yet crucial questions a parent can ask, and for good reason. After all, parents have the primary responsibility for their children’s mental and physical health. But what are parents supposed to do when public schools, where kids spend almost seven hours each day, hide important information ...