Tag: Social Issues

‘DOJ Will Come After You’ If It Disagrees With Your Position, Says Subpoenaed Nonprofit

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has issued a subpoena to Alabama-based conservative non-profit Eagle Forum for exercising its constitutionally protected free speech rights in a case involving transgender treatments for children. Eagle Forum had lobbied the Alabama legislature to pass a law that blocks children from treatments that alter their gender. Earlier this year, the…


Top Medical Center to Pause Transgender Surgeries on Minors After Backlash

A top medical center in Tennessee is pausing the removal of breasts and other procedures that it says were performed on transgender youth in recent years. The Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) disclosed the pause in a letter to a state representative on Oct. 7. VUMC doctors have performed breast removals and other surgeries for…


Activists Protesting Oil Industry Use Products Only Made Possible by Petroleum, Energy Insiders Note

At a recent charity event held by J.P. Morgan Chase in San Francisco, activists attempted to “take over” by protesting the financing of the oil and gas industry. When doing so, they wore and used products only made possible by the industry, industry insiders note. Stop The Money Pipeline, a coalition of groups committed to…


EXCLUSIVE: Former Employee Sues Miami-Dade County for Violating Rights of Religion, Free Speech

A former employee of Miami-Dade County in Florida is suing the county’s board of commissioners after he says he was fired over his Christian beliefs about transgender ideology and his refusal to attend punitive “diversity training.” John Labriola, who served as a media aide for the Miami-Dade County Board of Commissioners from 2013 to 2021, wrote…


LIVE NOW: Public Witness for Equal Justice

On Oct. 7, 2022, at 11 a.m. ET, Local Citizens and National Leaders will gather in front of the offices of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania’s U.S. Attorney to protest the FBI SWAT raid against Mark & Ryan-Marie Houck and their family on Sept. 23, 2022. The Epoch Times will livestream this event starting at…


Public Witness for Equal Justice

On Oct. 7, 2022, at 11 a.m. ET, Local Citizens and National Leaders will gather in front of the offices of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania’s U.S. Attorney to protest the FBI SWAT raid against Mark & Ryan-Marie Houck and their family on Sept. 23, 2022. The Epoch Times will livestream this event starting at…


Protest Against FBI Raid of Pro-Life Activists Mark & Ryan-Marie Houck

On Oct. 7, 2022, at 11 a.m. ET, local Citizens and National Leaders will gather in front of the offices of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania’s U.S. Attorney to protest the FBI SWAT raid against pro-life activists Mark & Ryan-Marie Houck and their family on Sept. 23, 2022. The Epoch Times will livestream this event…


Kanye West Discusses Death Threats For Backing Trump, Why He Wore ‘White Lives Matter’ T-Shirt

Hip-hop artist Kanye West touched on a range of hot-button topics in an Oct. 6 interview on “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” including why he donned a T-shirt emblazoned with the words “White Lives Matter” and revealing he received death threats for his embrace of former President Donald Trump. The musician, also known as “Ye,” turned heads…


CDC Allocated $85 Million for Grants Requiring Schools to Start Student-Led Clubs Supporting LGBT Youth

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) spent $85 million on a grant program requiring public schools to start Gay-Straight Alliances, public documents show. According to a notice of funding report for a grant offered by the CDC, the federal agency has a total of $85 million to spend over a five year…


Defense Secretary Agrees to $62.5 Million Renaming of Select Military Bases

The United States will rename nine military bases that honor Confederate officers after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin signed off on the move, the Department of Defense (DOD) announced on Oct. 6. In a press release, the DOD said the bases will be renamed by no later than January 2024. The decision comes after the Naming Commission, established by…