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News Analysis A damning report by the UK parliament’s Public Accounts Committee on the Johnson government’s “Test and Trace” flagship scheme, which was introduced after the first lockdown for combating the spread of COVID-19, has just been published. Committee Chairwoman Meg Hillier MP said, “Despite the unimaginable resources thrown at this project [$51 billion], Test […]

The Biden administration is set to spend $86.9 million to house family units unlawfully crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, officials at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed to The Epoch Times. In a statement to The Epoch Times, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Tae D. Johnson said a short-term contract was awarded

AstraZeneca said its CCP virus vaccine is safe and effective following an interim analysis of data from a U.S.-based Phase 3 trial involving more than 32,000 participants. “The vaccine was well tolerated, and the independent data safety monitoring board (DSMB) identified no safety concerns related to the vaccine,” the company said in a March 22

Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) released several photos from an overflow tent facility in Donna, Texas, showing extremely crowded conditions as hundreds of illegal immigrants and minors pour across the border. The photos show children sleeping on the floors along with makeshift beds. Cuellar, whose office first shared the photos with Axios, told the news outlet

A protest on March 21 in Bristol against a new policing bill turned into a violent riot, leaving 20 police officers injured. According to the police, two of the officers were taken to hospital with broken bones, and one of them also suffered a punctured lung. Hundreds gathered outside Bridewell police station in Bristol city

The European Union has imposed sanctions on four Chinese officials over their alleged roles in the human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims in northwest China. The EU sanctions, announced on March 22, are targeted at “the large-scale arbitrary detentions of, in particular, Uyghurs in Xinjiang in China,” said the European Council, an EU body that

Former President Donald Trump is warning Republicans that efforts to abolish the filibuster in the Senate would cause significant damage to the GOP, following Democratic leaders saying that the 60-vote threshold needs to be eliminated to push their agenda through Congress. “Look, he’s hanging by a thread right now with respect to the filibuster,” Trump

Commentary There is a lot of chatter among conservatives (well, among some conservatives) about finally dispensing with chatter and moving on to action. We’ve had a lot of diagnosis. Where’s the treatment? As a first offering in this big project, I’d like to propose three courses of action. None is original. This pleases me. Novelty

Commentary Did you know that all of the evil in the world was brought about by Western imperialism and colonialism? That is the message of “postcolonial theory,” the dominant narrative in university social sciences, humanities, and education. Canada in particular is a “colonial settler” society living on land stolen from First Nations. But students are

China has closed the trial of the second arbitrarily detained Canadian, while once again denying consular access to the hearing, a move which an expert says is a violation of consular agreement. Michael Kovrig, a former Canadian diplomat, faced a closed-door trial on Monday on charges of “spying into state secrets and intelligence” for foreign