Tag: Social Issues

China Collects $44 Billion to Save Real Estate Developers, 500,000 Presale House Buyers Stop Mortgage Payments

China plans to collect up to 300 billion yuan (about $44.4 billion) to support real estate developers struggling to finish their projects, while over half a million buyers stopped mortgage payments on their unfinished homes in July. The fund is collected by China’s State Council, financial information platform REDD reported on July 26. The China Construction…


Texas Lawmaker Wants to Ban Minors From Social Media

State Rep. Jared Patterson (R-Texas) plans to introduce legislation in 2023 that will ban minors from using social media. Patterson told The Epoch Times that the bill aims to protect children’s mental health. The idea for the new bill came after talking to school officials in the aftermath of the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting. School…


New York Judge Throws Out State’s Quarantine Camp Law Declaring It Unenforceable

A New York judge overturned a law that allowed the state government to place even healthy citizens in quarantine camps for an indefinite time without review. Until July 8, the New York Department of Health had immense power to enforce quarantine measures on citizens. It received this power from the state’s Rule 2.13. Legislators never…


Mass Shootings in US Are Rare, Despite Increased Attention

Mass shootings are extremely rare in America. But you wouldn’t know that if you listened to politicians and much of the media. Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said in a recent Senate hearing on gun control that there had been 309 mass shootings in America so far this year. CNN reported that “U.S. mass…


Former Head of China’s ‘Big Fund’ Management Company Is Under Investigation

The former head of the management company of China’s National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund was placed under investigation after a string of Chinese chipmakers went broke. According to a July 15 announcement by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, Lu Jun, the former deputy director of the Fund Management Department…


22 States Sue Over ‘Gender Identity’ Rule Controlling $29 Billion For Poor Kids’ Meals

Twenty-two states are suing President Joe Biden’s administration for threatening to zap school-meal program funding unless the states comply with new rules surrounding gender identity and sexual orientation in schools. The lawsuit represents the latest volley fired in the ongoing battles between state officials and Biden, who they accuse of usurping their authority through his…


Florida Files Complaint Against Bar Over Lewd Drag Show With Children Present

A Florida bar that held a drag show with a nearly nude dancer while children were present could have its alcohol license revoked after a state agency filed a complaint. R House, a bar in Miami, featured a nearly nude transgender dancer on or around July 3, according to video footage widely circulated online. That…


Judge Temporarily Blocks North Dakota’s Trigger Abortion Ban, Clinic Allowed to Continue Operations

A state judge in North Dakota has put a halt to the “trigger law” abortion ban that was set to come into effect on July 28, allowing the only remaining abortion clinic in the state to continue facilitating the procedure. In 2007, the North Dakota Legislative Assembly passed a trigger law that was written to…


Judge Temporarily Blocks North Dakota’s Trigger Abortion Ban; Clinic Can Continue Operations

A judge in North Dakota has temporarily halted the state’s “trigger law” abortion ban from beginning on July 28, allowing the only remaining abortion clinic in the state to continue the procedure. Burleigh County District Judge Bruce Romanick granted the order to the Red River Women’s Clinic on July 27, one day before the state’s…


‘Don’t Trust the CCP:’ Taiwanese Scholar Recounts His Experience in China

A Taiwanese scholar has shared his experience being monitored by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) when he was a university professor in China and why he chose to flee China in his unpublished anthology “Twenty Years of Sleep—Awakening from the Chinese Dream.” Wu Mingneng studied and worked in China for 20 years, through which he…