A group of Republican state attorneys general are pushing back against U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland’s comments made in March at a church in Selma, Alabama, where he discussed using the Department of Justice (DOJ) to interfere in state voting laws. Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, in a letter supported by 15 other GOP prosecutors, […]

President Joe Biden told a Spanish-language media platform in an interview on Tuesday that his administration is looking into whether he has the authority to close the border. In response to a question from Enrique Acevedo on Univision about whether he’s made a final decision to close the U.S.-Mexico border, President Biden said, “Well, I […]

The final two members of the so-called “Goon Squad” of police officers in Mississippi were sentenced on Thursday in federal court for the January 2023 torture and assault of two black men, Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker. On Thursday afternoon, Judge Tom Lee of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi sentenced […]

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has vetoed a bill that would have made border crossing a state crime. Republican state Sen. Janae Shamp sponsored Senate Bill 1231, which “makes it unlawful for a person who is an alien [illegal immigrant] to enter Arizona from a foreign nation at any location other than a lawful port of […]

A county prosecutor in Arizona won’t be extraditing a murder suspect to New York City because of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s handling of violent offenders, she told local media at a news conference on Feb. 21. “I know there’s been discussion about New York wanting to extradite this individual,” said Maricopa County Attorney Rachel […]

The Supreme Court has refused to take up an appeal of a group of House Republicans regarding the pay that was docked because they did not follow the COVID-19 mask mandate in the House of Representatives between 2021 and 2o22. The lawsuit—filed by Reps. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.)—was […]

Actress Gina Carano, former star of “The Mandalorian,” has filed a lawsuit in California federal court against Lucasfilm and the Walt Disney Company, alleging discrimination over her political views. The lawsuit is now being financially supported by Elon Musk’s X Corp. “As a sign of X Corp’s commitment to free speech, we’re proud to provide […]

Carl Weathers, famous for his role as Apollo Creed in the “Rocky” franchise, and later as Greef Karga in Disney’s “The Mandalorian,” has died at 76. In a statement obtained by Deadline, his family said they are “deeply saddened” to announce his passing. “He died peacefully in his sleep on Thursday, February 1st, 2024. … […]

The Republican governor of Montana voiced support for Montana authorities’ decision to remove a child from their parent’s care, possibly referencing a coinciding case that saw the removal of a 14-year-old girl from the home of parents who refused to affirm her decision to be a boy. “To give them their best shot at reaching […]

FBI Director Christopher Wray guaranteed election security during a roundtable discussion on how his agency, along with others, is partnering with public and private entities to combat misinformation and disinformation. Mr. Wray praised his partnership with Paul Nakasone, the National Security director and commander of the United States Cyber Command, who also attended the discussion. […]

Former A-list actress Cameron Diaz has issued a public statement claiming she had no relationship with now-deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.  Ms. Diaz was named within the thousands of pages of court documents released on Jan. 3 that came out of a 2015 defamation lawsuit Virginia Giuffre filed against Ghislaine Maxwell. Ms. Giuffre filed the […]

The New York Times has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit arguing that Microsoft and OpenAI used its content as a paradigm from which the two companies built their large-language models (LLMs). The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. Southern District of New York, alleges that, to construct its generative artificial intelligence program, the defendants copied “millions […]

A court deposition in a sex discrimination and retaliation case in Hennepin County, Minnesota, has shed more light on the background discussions in which county attorneys expressed doubt over the prosecution of Derek Chauvin. Mr. Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer convicted of second- and third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd […]

Six former Mississippi sheriff’s deputies who called themselves the “Goon Squad” pleaded guilty to state charges on Aug. 14. The five former deputies with the Rankin County Sheriff’s office and one former Richland Police Department officer admitted their guilt to charges of aggravated assault, home invasion, obstruction of justice, and hindering a prosecution. The Rankin […]

After a hostile brawl at a riverfront dock in Montgomery, Alabama, law enforcement has charged three men and is continuing to investigate. The Aug. 5 clash took place at Montgomery Riverfront Park and was captured on videos from different angles that were uploaded onto social media. In one video, two men shoved each other before […]

Mississippi has ended its decades-long policy of having one of the strictest childhood vaccine requirements in the nation after a federal judge ruled in favor of religious exemptions. In April, U.S. District Judge Halil Suleyman Ozerden granted a preliminary injunction following an evidentiary hearing before handing down a full order the next day. Judge Ozerden—appointed […]

An Air Force veteran and former intelligence officer has come forward alleging that classified information about the government’s possession of nonhuman craft is being illegally withheld from Congress. David Grusch, 36, was a decorated combat officer in Afghanistan and is a former intelligence officer with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the National Reconnaissance Office […]

Country artist Travis Tritt has announced that he’s dropping all Anheuser-Busch products from his tour amid the beer company’s show of support for transgender ideology. Though the Grammy-winning musician didn’t mention his reason for boycotting the beer company, he did post on Twitter that Anheuser-Busch was a “great American company that later sold out to […]

Riley Gaines, a former National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) swimmer, was physically assaulted Thursday night at San Francisco State University (SFSU) after giving a speech on protecting women’s sports. After the assault, trans activists surrounded her and backed her into a room where she was barricaded for almost three hours. “The prisoners are running the asylum […]

State Rep. Tricia Cotham, who won her district Mecklenburg district in the 2022 midterm election, has announced that she’s switching from the Democrat to the Republican party, giving the GOP a full supermajority. A supermajority can override any veto from Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper, a governor who’s vetoed a record number of Republican bills. In […]

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) has called on the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security to investigate the shooting at a private school in Nashville, Tennessee, on March 27 as a hate crime against Christians. The Nashville Police Department (NPD) identified 28-year-old Audrey Hale as the shooter of six people, including three 9-year-old children, who […]

An animal welfare organization is calling for a National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)-funded biomedical research company not to return a shipment of over 1,000 monkeys back to Cambodia after federal agencies flagged the shipment last year. Liz Tyson Griffin, programs director and head of sanctuary at Born Free USA, said in a […]

Critics on both the left and the right are slamming a special grand jury foreperson’s media tour in which she discussed an investigation into former-President Donald Trump’s alleged criminal interference in the 2020 election in Fulton County, Georgia. “This was a horrible idea and I guarantee you prosecutors are wincing,” Elie Honig, CNN’s senior legal […]

The Georgia Department of Public Health (GDPH) confirmed on May 11 that of the 109 cases of hepatitis diagnosed in children throughout the United States, “several suspect cases have been reported” in Georgia. “They all remain under investigation at this time,” Nancy Nydam, media relations for GDPH, told The Epoch Times. Nydam gave no specific […]

A source who works with Bank of America has disclosed a pilot program beginning Nov. 18 that plans to separate vaccinated from unvaccinated employees at an administration building in Jacksonville, Florida. The source, who asked to remain anonymous, told The Epoch Times that the program was initiated as a way to bring employees back to […]

A federal judge has denied a restraining order on Thursday that would have blocked vaccine mandates for up to 125 city employees in South Carolina. Tom Fernandez and his firm Fernandez Law represented the plaintiffs, 100 of whom are first responders who filed a lawsuit against the cities of Charleston and North Charleston, Charleston County, […]

A North Carolina law now extends the authority of pharmacists to administer COVID-19 vaccines without a prescription from a physician. The temporary authority had been granted by an emergency amendment to the federal Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP) in 2020. Gov. Roy Cooper signed a bill into law on Friday. “This important legislation […]

Citing overriding federal authority under the Cyber and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the North Carolina Board of Elections (BOE) has denied a North Carolina House Freedom Caucus (HFC) request to examine voting machines. Chairman of the caucus, Rep. Keith Kidwell (R-Beaufort), told The Epoch Times that although there is a statute that requires state employees […]