Tag: US Features

Small Town Culture Entwined With Giant Roadside Attractions

America’s rugged landscape and endless horizons seem to call to the inner pioneer of people who want to walk the world’s strangest places. Somehow, the World’s Biggest Ball of Twine in Darwin, Minnesota, also appeals to that exploring spirit. At roughly 13 feet tall, 40 feet around, and weighing 8.7 tons, the ball of twine…


Vermont Woman Fired, Denied Unemployment for Refusing Vaccine, Becomes Homeless and Flees to Florida

Karen “Kay Sea” Skau is a single mother of two adult children, Zachary (23) and Colby (21) who was living in Vermont. She had applied for a job at JK Adams in Dorset—makers of kitchen cutting boards and serving trays and sellers of wide variety of assorted kitchen accouterments—and was hired just before Thanksgiving in…


To Comply, or Not to Comply: Virginia State Employee Chooses Termination Over Obedience

For Nancy Orr, the decision to make her own medical decisions came with a high price. Getting fired in September from her executive assistant position at Richmond’s Library of Virginia wasn’t exactly a surprise, however, because, as she told The Epoch Times, she saw it coming. “Like many people at the beginning of this, I…


Wall Street Set to Open Higher on Bargain Hunting, Merck Boost

Wall Street’s main indexes were set to rise on Friday as steep losses in September saw investors buying into cheaper sectors, while drugmaker Merck rose on marking progress in the development of an oral COVID-19 drug. Shares of Merck & Co. Inc. jumped 8.3 percent in premarket trading after the company’s experimental oral drug for…


Attorney Behind Defeat of Local Vaccine Mandate in Florida Gathering National Lawyer Group

Florida attorney Jeff Childers gave up his for-profit clientele to represent a group of City of Gainesville employees facing termination due to their refusal to take the COVID-19 vaccines. Now, after a major victory last week in his case representing the 250 Gainesville workers, and a June victory in an appeal in June to end the…


Run on Horse Ivermectin to Treat COVID-19 Leaves Arizona Feed Stores in Short Supply

Amy Jonson pointed at an empty store shelf where the tubes of horse ivermectin paste used to be for sale and amply stocked. “We’re sold out [again],” said Jonson, vice president of The Western Ranchman Store in Phoenix, Arizona. In fact, Jonson said the feed store has been sold out for weeks. There’s no way…


Inside the Book That Provides America a Strategy for Defeating China

The Epoch Times sits down with Elbridge A. Colby, author of the new book “The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict,” to discuss America’s strategy for defeating China in a war over Taiwan. China aims to replace the United States as the dominant power in Asia, and it is…


Federal Prosecutors Unveil Murder Evidence at Chicago ‘Four Corner Hustlers’ Gang Trial

CHICAGO—During the first week of a months-long Chicago gang trial, federal prosecutors laid before jurors evidence of what they call “brazen violent murders” committed by the notorious Four Corner Hustlers, a street gang that had terrorized the West Side of Chicago for decades. Pictures of lifeless bodies were shown on the screen, blood-stained shirts and…


Ford Wakes up Badly Burnt From Its India Dream

NEW DELHI—When Ford Motor Co.Early Misstep built its first factory in India in the mid-1990s, U.S. carmakers believed they were buying into a boom—the next China. The economy had been liberalised in 1991, the government was welcoming investors, and the middle class was expected to fuel a consumption frenzy. Rising disposable income would help foreign…


Pennsylvanians Commemorate 20th Anniversary of 9/11 Terror Attacks

Pennsylvanians across the state came together on Saturday at various ceremonies to commemorate those lives lost during the 9/11 terror attacks 20 years ago. One such observance was held at the Washington Memorial Chapel in Valley Forge National Historical Park. This remembrance service paid tribute to Louis J. Nacke II, who is laid to rest…