Category: National News

EXCLUSIVE: NYC Agency Struggles to Cope With ‘Drastic Influx of Asylum Seekers,’ Urges Staff to Work Overtime, Leaked Email Shows

NEW YORK CITY—An email recently sent from New York City’s Human Resources Administration (HRA) to all names on its distribution list, and obtained by The Epoch Times, urged all staff who can work overtime to do so, to deal with a “drastic influx of asylum seekers” in Manhattan and the outer boroughs. The internal request…


EXCLUSIVE: Leaked Email Shows NYC Struggling to Cope With ‘Drastic Influx’ of Illegal Aliens Amid Border Crisis

NEW YORK CITY—An email recently sent from New York City’s Human Resources Administration (HRA) to all names on its distribution list, and obtained by The Epoch Times, urged all staff who can work overtime to do so, to deal with a “drastic influx of asylum seekers” in Manhattan and the outer boroughs. The internal request…


Buzz About Buttigieg as 2024 Candidate Overlooks His Far-Left Agenda, Analysts Say

News Analysis Amid renewed concerns over President Joe Biden’s health and mounting speculation that he may not end up as the Democrats’ nominee for the White House in 2024, attention increasingly focuses on other potential candidates within a highly diverse and fragmented field. Pete Buttigieg, who ran for president in 2020 and currently serves as…


Authorities Yet to Arrest Anyone Over More Than 50 Pro-Abortion Attacks

Since May 8, pro-abortion radicals have attacked pro-life institutions nationwide, but authorities have yet to make a single arrest. So far, the “Summer of Rage” announced by pro-abortion groups has seen more than 50 attacks on pro-life groups, according to Catholic Vote. Attacks by pro-abortion groups have left a trail of smashed windows, graffitied walls,…


Democrats Face Turmoil As Concerns Mount About Biden’s Suitability to Run in 2024, Observers Say

The widely-expected losses that the Democratic Party will face in the November midterm elections, as voters register their frustration and anger over record inflation, surging mortgage rates and house prices, a bearish stock market performing markedly worse than during the previous administration, and concern about the course of the Ukraine crisis, leave the party with no…


Colorado Bishops Call for Pro-Abortion Officials Not to Receive Communion

The Catholic Archbishop of Denver and three fellow religious leaders in Colorado have written an open letter urging Catholic legislators who live or worship in the state to refrain from receiving Holy Communion if they voted for HB22-1279, the Reproductive Health Equity Act, which Gov. Jared Polis signed into law on April 4, but which…


GOP Senator Issues Challenge to Biden After President Blasts Republicans’ Economic Plan in Speech

Republican lawmakers responded in a flurry of tweets to President Joe Biden’s speech on May 10 on inflation, in which the president cast himself as the ally of struggling American families and repeatedly took jabs at the GOP leadership in Congress, saying they plan on making things even tougher on working people. Biden’s Argument The…


Industry Calls on Biden to Lift Moratorium on New Oil, Gas Leases

Domestic producers in the United States welcomed President Joe Biden’s March 8 order banning Russian oil and gas imports but say his muddled energy policies will prolong consumers’ pain at the pump and inhibit efforts to restore American energy independence. “This crisis should be a wake-up call that we need [a] strategic American energy policy…


Please Help Me Write My Book on Blue/Red Migration—‘The Southbound Train’

Commentary I have committed to writing a book for the good people at Encounter Books (Roger Kimball & co.) on the you-could-almost-say-massive migration (some call it in-migration) to red states from blue that has been occurring the past few years—who’s making it, why they’re doing it, and what it means now and to the future…


Debate Over Water in Southwest Ignores Immigration

News Analysis The Biden administration’s move to revisit a 2019 U.S. Bureau of Reclamation biological opinion that had relaxed restrictions on water access in California has drawn the ire of state and national Republicans, who issued a statement claiming that “California Democrats and the Biden administration now want to deprive [Californians] of water supplies.” Yet as…