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The planned reopening of Anaheim’s trademark amusement park marks the start of a financial comeback for the city, a spokesman says. “It’s not like flipping a switch and going back to normal, but we will take that because it’s the beginning of an economic recovery roadmap that we have,” Mike Lyster told The Epoch Times.

The Seattle Police Department (SPD) investigated 50 homicides last year, the most homicides in the city in 26 years. This was an increase of 61 percent compared to the 31 cases in 2019. Law enforcement personnel cited issues such as ongoing protests as well as officials actively limiting police power. Data from local police also

WASHINGTON—A group of 17 U.S. House Democrats on Monday are introducing legislation on Monday that would award $6 billion to the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to buy tens of thousands of additional electric delivery vehicles. The bill sponsored by Representative Jared Huffman and seen by Reuters would require at least 75 percent of the new

VARANASI, India—Every day, scores of beggars line the banks of the river Ganges in the city of Varanasi, where pilgrims pour in from across India to cremate their loved ones, perform the rituals of life and death, or visit the ancient temples in the world’s longest continuously inhabited city. The city, which is part of

A U.S. Border Patrol official in Arizona is warning that illegal immigration is on track to overtake the past three years combined because of a surge of migrants at the U.S.–Mexico border. “So right now, we’re about a hundred percent over where we were this time this last fiscal year,” John Modlin, interim chief in

The Supreme Court on March 8 dismissed former President Donald Trump’s final remaining challenge to the 2020 presidential election results, a lawsuit challenging the results in the state of Wisconsin. At the same time, the high court also declined to hear an emergency petition for mandamus brought by pro-Trump lawyer L. Lin Wood who on

Commentary Last month, Quebec Premier François Legault took to Facebook to criticize “radical activists” who he said are taking political correctness to extremes. He was in part reacting to the suspension last September of a francophone University of Ottawa professor for using the N-word in class. “If we don’t defend someone who is a victim

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) told “Axios on HBO” in an interview published March 8 that he will block President Joe Biden’s next major legislative initiative unless more effort is made to include Republican voices. Manchin told the outlet that the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill that cleared the Senate this weekend could have won some

Former U.S. Attorney John Durham agreed that there was no intelligence showing collusion between former President Donald Trump or his campaign and Russia, according to the former director of national intelligence John Ratcliffe. “Last summer, we went over the intelligence, and we all unanimously agreed that there was no intelligence from the intelligence community that

Two top Democrats in the House of Representatives on Monday urged the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to mimic what was done last year and extend the tax filing deadline, citing the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-Mass.) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-N.J.) said in a