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A group of House Republicans is demanding a hearing on the White House’s response to the surge of unaccompanied illegal immigrant children near the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a letter sent on March 4. Noting a “sharp increase in unaccompanied alien children” along the border, the lawmakers said there should be “proper oversight” over the

Every Democrat but one voted late March 3 for H.R. 1, a massive voting reform bill that has drawn harsh criticism from the GOP. Every Republican voted against the bill. They were joined by Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.). Thompson told The Epoch Times that he heard from constituents who opposed certain portions of the legislation. “My

Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee plan to introduce an amendment to the $1.9 trillion CCP virus relief bill to kill funding for five transit projects that collectively would cost more than $175 million, The Epoch Times has learned. The five projects were added in the 11th hour of House consideration of the gigantic bill

From the canceling of Dr. Seuss—If Theodore Geisel was a racist, I’m a Martian—to the President of the United States calling the governors of Texas and Mississippi “Neanderthal” for wanting to open their states and allow their increasingly depressed, suicidal children to go back to school, to the House of Representatives shutting down for fear

The White House on Thursday sidestepped questions asking if President Joe Biden was doing anything to curb rising gas prices, as those in the industry warn motorists might face $3 per gallon in a matter of weeks. A reporter at the daily briefing asked White House press secretary Jen Psaki if Biden was planning to intervene

The founder of Drivers’ Alliance, which is a mutual aid network of Chinese delivery drivers, was recently arrested in Beijing for establishing a union-like civil organization to protect the workers’ rights. His arrest has attracted both domestic and international attention. Xiong Yan, a native of Guizhou Province and whose real name is Chen Tianhe, has

The Senate on Thursday advanced President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan, with Vice President Kamala Harris needing to step in and provide the tiebreaking vote. All Republicans voted against beginning debate on the plan while all Democrats, including two nominal independents, voted for it. That left the decision up to Harris, the president

Authoritarianism, political discrimination, and self-censorship are rife in British universities and have thrown academic freedom into a crisis of cancel culture, a landmark study revealed on Monday. The discrimination, mainly experienced by conservative academics, manifests as “hard authoritarianism,” and involves “no-platforming, dismissal campaigns, social media mob attacks, open letters … formal complaints, and disciplinary action,”

Big market sell-off today just as the Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell spoke. NTD brings you the market analysis. A new ETF launches that tracks social media hype about stocks. An eccentric internet celebrity advertises the fund. New York’s governor launches a new Covid passport. It’s just in the testing phase now. NTD asks New

WASHINGTON—Attitudes among Americans toward China have soured significantly in the past three years, with 70 percent of those surveyed saying Washington should stand up to the regime in Beijing over its human rights record, even if it damages economic ties. Nearly nine in 10 respondents to a Pew Research Center survey of more than 2,500