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HEBRON, Ky.—One day before voters in Kentucky’s Fourth Congressional District head to the polls to determine if incumbent Republican Rep. Thomas Massie is nominated to run for another term, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth campaigned for challenger Ed Gallrein, who…

Georgia voters head to the polls on Tuesday in primaries that span gubernatorial, U.S. Senate, U.S. House, state legislative, and judicial races. At the top of the ticket are an open governor’s race as Republican Gov. Brian Kemp is term-limited,…

President Donald Trump participates in a health care affordability event in the White House at 4:30 p.m. ET on May 18.

Long considered a cornerstone of financial aid for low-income college students, federal Pell Grants will be extended to short-term career training for the first time in the program’s history. The U.S. Department of Education announced on Monday that it has…

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., host a major announcement and roundtable discussion at 3 p.m. ET on May 18. This joint briefing outlines the Trump…

Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche and ATF Director Robert Cekada participate in the grand opening ceremony of the Forensic Crime Gun Intelligence Laboratory at Wichita State University at 10:30 a.m. ET on May 18. ...

U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth presides over a ceremony at 10 a.m. ET on May 18 to award Purple Hearts to 101st Airborne Division Soldiers wounded during a 2003 grenade attack in Kuwait and to administer the oath of…

President Donald Trump’s attorneys on Monday filed a court notice voluntarily dismissing his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS and the U.S. Treasury Department, in a case that accused the agencies of failing to prevent a former contractor from leaking…

American forces carried out additional airstrikes against the ISIS terrorist group in northeastern Nigeria on May 17 in coordination with the Nigerian government, the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) said on May 18. “Intelligence confirmed the targets were ISIS militants.…

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and U.S. President Donald Trump spoke by phone on May 17 to discuss the outcome of the recent U.S.–China summit in Beijing and reaffirm cooperation between Washington and Seoul amid growing geopolitical tensions in…

The Senate’s nonpartisan referee has rejected a bid by Republicans to fund $1 billion for the White House ballroom expansion and other White House security upgrades. According to Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, the $1 billion proposal breaks the rules of…

FLORENCE, Ky.—Fighting for his political survival amid President Donald Trump’s push to remove him from Congress, libertarian Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) took the stage at a weekend campaign rally and proclaimed that his gathering on May 19 would be “a…

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is scheduled to join Ed Gallrein, the Trump-endorsed Republican primary candidate for Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District at a May 18 event in the state, a day before voters head to the polls in Gallrein’s race…

China has agreed to address concerns over shortages of rare earths and other critical minerals that stemmed from export controls imposed in retaliation to U.S. tariffs, the White House said on May 17. In a fact sheet, the White House…

An administrative consolidation of federal wildland firefighting resources will be tested in the coming months, with the National Interagency Fire Center warning more than 60 percent of the United States is now in drought and AccuWeather projecting that up to…

Notable moments from the past week in America.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday delivered a new warning to Iran’s leadership and said that Tehran must move quickly or “there won’t be anything left,” providing an update on what the administration wants from the regime as a tentative…

Tracy Beth Hoeg, acting director of the Food and Drug Administration’s drug research center, said on May 15 that she had been fired from her position, days after the FDA commissioner resigned. “Today I was fired I’m incredibly grateful to…

The U.S. government has allowed an April 17 sanctions waiver on certain Russian oil shipments to expire, ending a policy that permitted some Russian crude already loaded onto tankers to continue being sold and transported through global markets without triggering…

WASHINGTON—In an exclusive interview with The Epoch Times, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, the United States’ Special Envoy to Greenland, described his plans for his inaugural trip to the Danish territory, which is scheduled for May 17 through May 20. He…