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Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) prompted a fiery exchange by asking how much $50 trillion spent on carbon neutrality would actually lower global temperatures during Deputy Energy Secretary David Turk’s testimony on Capitol Hill this week. House and Senate Republicans are criticizing the U.S. Navy for using a drag performer in its recruitment program. The George […]

The Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona, dodged questions when asked to explain what a woman is at a House Appropriations Committee hearing on Tuesday. Senate Republicans are throwing up roadblocks at Democrats’ attempt to temporarily replace absent California Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein. In just over a year, Chinese police forced 230,000 Chinese nationals living abroad […]

United States Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Environmental Secretary Michael Regan, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, and Attorney General Merrick Garland deliver remarks at the United States Conference of Mayors’ 91st Winter Meeting in Washington. The Epoch Times will livestream the event at 10:30 a.m. ET on Jan. 20. (Courtesy of U.S. Conference of Mayors)

A 97-year-old woman is appealing her conviction in Germany of being an accessory to more than 10,000 murders when she was a secretary to the commander of the Nazis’ Stutthof concentration camp during World War II. In a Dec. 20 verdict, the Itzehoe state court gave Irmgard Furchner a two-year suspended sentence for being an […]

BERLIN—A German court on Tuesday convicted a 97-year-old woman of being an accessory to more than 10,000 murders for her role as a secretary to the SS commander of the Nazis’ Stutthof concentration camp during World War II. Irmgard Furchner was accused of being part of the apparatus that helped the camp near Danzig, now […]

Six states on Sept. 29 sued President Joe Biden and his education secretary, asserting that their bid to cancel thousands of dollars in student debt for millions of Americans is illegal. “It is the epitome of unlawful and arbitrary agency action, and it should be set aside,” officials with Nebraska and five other states said […]

Arizona state Rep. Mark Finchem has won the Republican nomination for Arizona secretary of state in the Aug. 2 primary election. Finchem defeated his closest rival Beau Lane with 38 percent of the vote. Lane received 26 percent, Arizona state Rep. Shawnna Bolick, 20 percent, and Arizona state Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita, 16 percent. Finchem, an […]

President Joe Biden says “yes” to defending Taiwan for the third time, only to be walked back by his staff again. I invite three experts to discuss the Taiwan question and the U.S.-China relationship regarding Taiwan. Plus, Secretary of States Antony Blinken laid out the Biden administration’s China policy. We cover what’s in the details. […]

CORDELE, Ga.—Georgia’s incumbent secretary of state Brad Raffensperger (R) has defeated a Trump-backed Congressman in the GOP secretary of state primary election on May 24. With more than 90 percent of the votes counted at 11:56 p.m. ET, Raffensperger received more than 51 percent of the vote, enough to avoid a runoff against Rep. Jody Hice […]

Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who was a central figure in the Clinton administration, died at age 84, according to her family in a statement released Wednesday. “We are heartbroken to announce that Dr. Madeleine K. Albright, the 64th U.S. Secretary of State … passed away earlier today,” her family said. “The cause was cancer. […]

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin tested negative on Sunday for COVID-19 a week after contracting the illness and plans to return to the Pentagon for work on Monday, the Pentagon said. “Secretary Austin is grateful for (the) efficacy of the vaccines he was administered. He knows that they rendered much less severe the effects of […]

The disruptions that are currently snarling supply chains across the globe and the United States will “certainly” continue into next year, said Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Sunday. Last week, some industry groups and companies said that the White House won’t be able to alleviate supply shortages and bottlenecks before Christmas arrives, potentially causing more […]

U.S. military department heads were ordered Tuesday to “immediately” start getting their troops vaccinated against the virus that causes COVID-19, two days after the first COVID-19 vaccine received federal approval. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a memorandum made public Aug. 25 that the secretaries of all military departments must “immediately begin full vaccination” of […]

Biden’s top spokesperson is out of the office for a week as the president stays silent on the Taliban overthrowing the government in Afghanistan.

HANOI—U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin sought on Thursday to nudge forward security ties with Vietnam that have been slowly deepening as both countries watch the Chinese regime’s activities in the South China Sea with growing alarm. Despite closer military relations, more than four decades after the Vietnam War ended in 1975, President Joe Biden’s administration […]

Conservative talk radio host Larry Elder has filed a lawsuit challenging a decision by California’s Secretary of State to block him from running in the state’s special recall election

Israel’s defense minister met with Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington, D.C., as the Israeli prime minister is potentially on the brink of losing power.