Tag: US Features

Rural Electric Companies Hit Hard by Keystone XL Cancellation

This is part one of a series exploring the impacts of President Joe Biden’s cancellation of the Keystone XL oil pipeline. MURDO, S.D.—For over a decade, Jeff Birkeland had been waiting expectantly in the hope that the Keystone XL pipeline would finally materialize and bring with it a much needed boost to his rural community. His dreams…


Californians Part of ‘Cal-Exit’ Say Why They Left

Mike Kimmel and his wife, native Californians, moved to Arizona last year. Kimmel speaks of his love for California—but in the past tense. “We loved the area and state we were born in,” he told The Epoch Times via email. “The beauty and diversity of the state stayed constant across those years. But the taxes…


In Venice, LA, Residents Point Out Failures of Homelessness Policy

LOS ANGELES—When Brian Ulf says it’s a problem that the weight of homelessness throughout Los Angeles County has landed squarely on the shoulders of a few cities, he should know. Formerly homeless, he used to be part of the problem. Now he’s trying to be part of the solution—but when he looks around Venice Beach…


For Millions in China, Persecution Casts a Shadow on New Year Celebration

NEW YORK—Around this time every year, what Gao Hongmei looks forward to the most is a phone call. In a conversation that would sometimes stretch for hours, she would exchange Lunar New Year greetings with her mother in China—whom she last saw face-to-face 12 years ago before she left the country— and chat about other…


America’s Spy-Busters Put Secret-Stealing Chinese ‘Grad Students’ Under Microscope

The FBI last month arrested Gang Chen, a well-known MIT nanotechnologist, and charged the China-born naturalized American with concealing close and lucrative connections to China’s scientific and technological establishment on his applications for federal research grants. Chen, who has pleaded not guilty and is supported by MIT, is not the only prominent academic figure to be arrested…


Parents Struggle as Biden Administration Gives Mixed Messaging on Reopening Schools

Parents across America in areas without in-person teaching are desperate for help as their children fall behind academically and their community life evaporates under lockdown. President Joe Biden has promised to reopen schools, but teachers’ unions are pushing back, citing COVID-19 concerns. Biden’s head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently appeared…


Entrepreneur Launches New Internet Browser to Promote Free Speech

A software start-up company has launched a new browser that offers a number of privacy solutions, has no censorship, and no fake profiles, in an effort to counter censorship, fake news, invasion of privacy, and the stifling of conservative voices by Big Tech. The browser, called “The New Internet,” allows people to comment on any…


Antifa’s True Goals and Tactics Exposed: Andy Ngo

Antifa is both an ideology and a movement that uses intimidation and violence to oppose capitalism and anybody who disagrees with their far-left, anarchist political agenda, journalist Andy Ngo, an expert on the anarcho-communist group, told The Epoch Times in an interview with Crossroads. In September 2020, FBI Director Christopher Wray described Antifa as more of an…


A Tenacious LA Salon Owner’s Fight to Keep Business Alive

SANTA MONICA, Calif.—Michael Sparks has always been a go-getter. Though he was exposed to substance abuse growing up, he channeled the negative energy from his hardships into a drive to succeed. He made his way to college on a football scholarship, but when that didn’t work out, he came up with a new dream and…


Rural Pharmacist Talks Strain, Key Role Amid Pandemic

MANCHESTER, Iowa—Since the pandemic hit in March, the workload has greatly increased for the pharmacists and technicians at Brehme Drug in Manchester, a rural town of some 5,000 people in eastern Iowa. “They call you up and say, ‘Help! Explain this to me,’” pharmacist Cathy Lilienthal told The Epoch Times. She has worked at the…