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BLM Activist Ordered To Pay Back $224,000 In COVID Relief Funds, Donations Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, A Black Lives Matter activist in Boston was ordered on March 23 to pay back more than $224,000 in pandemic relief funds and donations to her nonprofit. Monica Cannon-Grant, 44, pleaded guilty last fall to multiple fraud charges and filing false tax returns. She was sentenced to serve six months of home confinement, 100 hours of community service, and four years of probation. Federal District Court Judge Angel Kelly in Boston set the...

Has Concern Over Hormuz Made Us Forget The Red Sea? Authored by Gregory Copley via The Epoch Times, Wartime concerns about the security of maritime energy traffic through the Strait of Hormuz—connecting the Indian Ocean/Gulf of Oman with the Persian Gulf—have overshadowed the fact that the related issue of Red Sea security is far from resolved and is, in fact, becoming more dynamic. The Red Sea–Suez link between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean is of equal strategic importance to global trade as the Hormuz choke point and is, through geography and...

IOC Bars Transgender Athletes From Women's Events For Olympic Games Authored by Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Only females will be allowed in women’s events at the Olympics, according to the International Olympic Committee (IOC). People take part in a rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court as justices hear arguments in two cases in which states have banned males from participating in female-only sports, in Washington on Jan. 13, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times The March 26 decision by the committee excludes transgender-identifying individuals who were born male who...