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  • Trump Touts Rollbacks on Regulations, Cutting Red Tape in Speech

    Updated Jul 16, 2020

    ALAN MCDONNELL The Epoch Times President Donald Trump touted his administration’s record of rolling back regulations and cutting red tape in a speech on the White House south lawn Thursday. Trump said that before he came into office, “American workers were smothered by a merciless avalanche of wasteful and expensive and intrusive federal regulation. These oppressive burdens and mandates were a stealth tax on our people, slashing take-home pay, suppressing innovation, surging the cost of goods and shipping millions of Ame...

  • Asylum rules test Trump's legal skills to make new policy

    Updated Jul 16, 2020

    ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Critics of the Trump administration's most sweeping set of rules to restrict asylum in the United States sent in a deluge of comments opposing the effort, hoping an old law that serves as a check on presidential power will weaken or even doom it. Opponents submitted nearly 80,000 public comments before Wednesday's deadline, with about 20,000 in the final hours. The Trump administration must address each concern in the final rules, setting itself up for legal challenges if it r...

  • Virus prompts drastic measures as death tolls set records

    Updated Jul 16, 2020

    NOMAAN MERCHANT, JEFFREY COLLINS and ARITZ PARRA Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The coronavirus kept surging in hot spots around the U.S. on Thursday, with one city in South Carolina urging people to pray it into submission, a hospital in Texas bringing in military medical personnel and morgues running out of space in Phoenix. Record numbers of confirmed infections and deaths emerged again in states in the South and West, with hospitals stretched to the brink and fears worldwide that the pandemic's resurgence is only g...

  • Hawley Seeks Civil Rights Probe of Confiscation of St. Louis Couple's Firearms

    Updated Jul 16, 2020

    MARK TAPSCOTT The Epoch Times Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is calling for Attorney General William Barr to open a Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation to determine if St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner's confiscation of firearms owned by Mark and Patricia McCloskey violated their civil rights. The McCloskeys became national figures June 28, when hundreds of protesters poured into their private, gated community while allegedly threatening to kill the couple and burn down...

  • UK, US, Canada accuse Russia of hacking virus vaccine trials

    Updated Jul 16, 2020

    JILL LAWLESS and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) - Britain, the United States and Canada accused Russian hackers on Thursday of trying to steal information from researchers seeking a coronavirus vaccine, warning scientists and pharmaceutical companies to be alert for suspicious activity. Intelligence agencies in the three nations alleged that the hacking group APT29, also known as Cozy Bear and said to be part of the Russian intelligence services, is attacking...

  • More than 1M Americans seek help as companies cut more jobs

    Updated Jul 16, 2020

    CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - More than a million Americans sought unemployment benefits last week, indicating that companies are cutting more jobs as the resurgent coronavirus scythes through the Sunbelt and some of the nation's most populous states. Layoffs in Florida, Georgia and California rose by tens of thousands, the Labor Department said Thursday in its weekly report. The number of laid-off workers seeking assistance remained stuck at 1.3...

  • Barr Slams Hollywood, Big Tech for 'Kowtowing' to Communist China Over Profits

    Updated Jul 16, 2020

    CATHY HE The Epoch Times Attorney General William Barr called out corporate America, including Hollywood and big tech, for "kowtowing" to the regime in Beijing for the sake of profits in a speech that highlighted the communist regime's threats to U.S. freedom and prosperity. Hollywood and U.S. technology companies have allowed themselves "to become pawns of Chinese influence," Barr said in a speech, given at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Jul...

  • Trump Administration Invests $153 Million In Rural and Low-Income Communities

    Updated Jul 16, 2020

    TOM OZIMEK The Epoch Times The Trump administration has announced an investment of $153 million in America’s rural regions, with a particular focus on small and low-income communities. The funds will be disseminated through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and are expected to benefit nearly two million rural Americans, the agency said in a statement on Wednesday. Through a combination of low-interest loans and grants, which may be combined with commercial financing, the money will be used to improve critical communit...

  • List of national retail chains requiring masks is growing

    Updated Jul 16, 2020

    ANNE D'INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Two major retailers on Thursday joined the growing list of national chains that will require customers to wear face masks regardless of where cities or states stand on the issue. Target's mandatory face mask policy will go into effect Aug. 1, and all CVS stores will begin requiring them on Monday. More than 80% of Target's 1,800 stores already require customers to wear masks due to local and state regulations. Target will hand out masks at entrances to those who need them. T...

  • Trump Cabinet members look to reassure battleground voters

    Updated Jul 5, 2020

    BOBBY CAINA CALVAN, ELLEN KNICKMEYER and JOHN FLESHER Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue tromped through a strawberry festival in central Florida, detailing the government's new trade pact. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo talked about foreign policy at a roundtable in south Florida. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler toured parts of Michigan and Wisconsin, where he boasted of the Trump administration's efforts to clean up the Great Lakes. And just this p...

  • Facebook groups pivot to attacks on Black Lives Matter

    Updated Jul 5, 2020

    AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A loose network of Facebook groups that took root across the country in April to organize protests over coronavirus stay-at-home orders has become a hub of misinformation and conspiracy theories that have pivoted to a variety of new targets. Their latest: Black Lives Matter and the nationwide protests of racial injustice. These groups, which now boast a collective audience of more than 1 million members, are still thriving after most states started lifting virus restrictions. A...

  • Democrats, Biden look to accelerate Southern political shift

    Updated Jul 5, 2020

    BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — From Mississippi retiring its state flag to local governments removing Confederate statues from public spaces, a bipartisan push across the South is chipping away at reminders of the Civil War and Jim Crow segregation. Now, during a national reckoning on racism, Democratic Party leaders want those symbolic changes to become part of a fundamental shift at the ballot box. Many Southern electorates are getting younger, less white and more urban, and thus less likely to embrace P...

  • More fireworks in Americans' hands for July 4 raises risks

    Updated Jul 4, 2020

    SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) - For many Americans, the Fourth of July will be more intimate this year. It also could be riskier. Saturday will be unlike any Independence Day in recent memory. From Atlanta to San Diego, hundreds of fireworks shows have been canceled as officials restrict large gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic, especially as infections surge across the U.S. With fewer professional celebrations, many Americans are bound to shoot off...

  • Trump, Biden fight for primacy on social media platforms

    Updated Jul 4, 2020

    ALEXANDRA JAFFE and AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - On an average day, President Donald Trump sends about 14 posts to the 28 million Facebook followers of his campaign account. His Democratic rival, Joe Biden, delivers about half that many posts to an audience of just 2 million. The numbers are similarly skewed in other spheres of the social media landscape. On Twitter, Trump's 82.4 million followers dwarf Biden's 6.4 million. The president has spent years...

  • In troubled times: Independence Day in a land of confusion

    Updated Jul 4, 2020

    TED ANTHONY AP National Writer It was the worst of times. It was the weirdest of times. It was a season of sickness and shouting, of defiance and tension, of industrial-strength falsehood and spin. It was a moment of ugliness and deep injustice - and perhaps, too, a moment when the chance for justice felt nearer than ever before. On Independence Day, we Americans - if there is in fact a "we" in American life - celebrate the anniversary of a time when a lot of people, feeling...

  • At Mount Rushmore, Trump digs deeper into nation's divisions

    Updated Jul 4, 2020

    STEPHEN GROVES, DARLENE SUPERVILLE and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press MOUNT RUSHMORE NATIONAL MEMORIAL, S.D. (AP) — At the foot of Mount Rushmore and on the eve of Independence Day, President Donald Trump dug deeper into America's divisions by accusing protesters who have pushed for racial justice of engaging in a "merciless campaign to wipe out our history." The president, in remarks Friday night at the South Dakota landmark, offered a discordant tone to an electorate battered by a pandemic and seared by the recent h...

  • Much of US scales back on holiday, but Trump plans to go big

    Updated Jul 4, 2020

    AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As coronavirus cases spike, public health officials are pleading with Americans to avoid large crowds and hold more muted Independence Day celebrations, but subdued is not President Donald Trump's style, and he aimed to go big, promising a "special evening" in Washington that could bring tens of thousands to the National Mall. Trump's "Salute for America" celebration on Saturday evening was to include a speech from the White House South Lawn that he said would celebrate A...

  • 'People aren't stupid': Pence's virus spin tests credibility

    Updated Jul 4, 2020

    JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence has long played the straight man to Donald Trump, translating the president's bombast into more measured, calming language. His job has become even more difficult. As coronavirus cases spike across large parts of the country despite months of lockdown, Pence has spent the past week trying to convince the American public that things are going very well, even though they're not. "Make no mistake about it, what you see today is that America is going back t...

  • Discourse over national anthem looms for NBA, other leagues

    Updated Jul 3, 2020

    SCHUYLER DIXON AP Sports Writer Rick Carlisle isn't sure what to expect from players during the national anthem when the NBA season resumes in empty arenas in Florida. The Dallas Mavericks coach does know how he will react if players kneel or otherwise violate a longtime league policy that requires them to stand during the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner." "We support our players 100% in terms of their ability to express themselves individually or as a group if they wish,...

  • Move to rename 'Bloody Sunday' bridge has critics in Selma

    Updated Jul 3, 2020

    JAY REEVES Associated Press SELMA, Ala. (AP) - Thousands gathered in this river city in 1940 to dedicate a new bridge in honor of white supremacist Edmund Pettus, a Confederate general and reputed Ku Klux Klan leader. Just 25 years later, the bridge became a global landmark when civil rights marchers were beaten at its base. Today, with thousands protesting nationwide against racial injustice, a years-old push is gaining steam to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge in honor of...

  • 'Huge bummer': July Fourth will test Americans' discipline

    Updated Jul 3, 2020

    JOHN SEEWER Associated Press The U.S. headed into the Fourth of July weekend with many parades and fireworks displays canceled, beaches and bars closed, and health authorities warning that this will be a crucial test of Americans' self-control that could determine the trajectory of the surging coronavirus outbreak. With confirmed cases climbing in 40 states, governors and local officials have ordered the wearing of masks in public, and families were urged to celebrate their independence at home. Even then, they were told to...

  • Trump plans fiery speech for Mount Rushmore fireworks

    Updated Jul 3, 2020

    STEPHEN GROVES and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — President Donald Trump planned a fiery Mount Rushmore speech Friday night including denunciations of protesters he says are trying to "tear down" the nation's history, coupling condemnation of those who pull down statues with the more traditional July Fourth praise of America's past and values. Trump, who has spoken forcefully against protesters who have tried to topple Confederate monuments and statues honoring those who have benefited from s...

  • NASA names DC headquarters after its first black female engineer, Mary Jackson

    Updated Jul 3, 2020

    Isabel Van Brugen The Epoch Times NASA announced Wednesday, June 24, that it will name its Washington headquarters building after Mary W. Jackson, the first African American female engineer at the agency. According to a news release Wednesday, Jackson, a mathematician and aerospace engineer, began her career at NASA in the segregated West Area Computing Unit of the agency's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Virginia-born Jackson continued to head programs...

  • Project Veritas: Facebook moderators say they delete everything conservative, Pro-Trump

    Updated Jul 3, 2020

    PETR SVAB The Epoch Times Undercover videos indicate that some Facebook content moderators actively focus on posts that are supportive of President Donald Trump, revealing political bias in the company’s policing efforts. In addition, one former moderator, Zach McElroy, indicated that at least one Facebook algorithm seemed designed to flag predominantly right-leaning content. McElroy, who spoke to investigative journalism nonprofit Project Veritas, said he’d be willing to testify under oath about what he saw. Material ide...

  • Golden State Killer admits murders, rapes for life in prison

    Updated Jul 3, 2020

    Don Thompson and Brian Melley The Associated Press Gay Hardwick stood arm-in-arm with her husband to face a criminal dubbed the Golden State Killer and couldn't recognize the elderly man hunched in a wheelchair as the sadistic rapist who had terrorized them 42 years earlier. In a hushed and raspy voice, Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. – a serial rapist before he became a serial killer – acknowledged in two words, "I admit," that he had attacked the couple in 1978 as he pleaded gui...

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