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41,000 Homeland Security Employees And Undercover ICE Agents Exposed In Data Leak, Hackers Say Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times,An internal database with personal information identifying more than 41,000 employees at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) - including undercover immigration officers - was hacked by activists and published online, the group claimed Wednesday.A Homeland Security spokesperson said the department was aware of the security breach."DHS is aware of a potential breach and is actively working to address the situation swiftly and effectively," the spokesperson told The Epoch...

The Day Civilization Runs Out Of Bread Will Not Feel Like Fiction Authored by Madge Waggy, For nearly three decades, much of the modern world behaved as though the nuclear age had quietly expired sometime in the early 1990s. The collapse of the Soviet Union created the comforting illusion that humanity had stepped away from the edge permanently, as if the terrifying balance that defined the Cold War had dissolved together with old political maps. Younger generations grew up hearing about nuclear drills, fallout shelters, and atomic panic the same way...

A Leaner Federal Workforce Is A Win For Taxpayers Authored by David Harsanyi via The Epoch Times, One of the most unheralded policy successes of President Donald Trump's second term has been the purging of many unnecessary federal jobs. The U.S Capitol building in Washington on May 5, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch TimesThe federal government has reduced its workforce by 300,000 jobs since Jan. 20, 2025, bringing it down to a still-bulky 2.7 million employees. Not since President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society vastly expanded the scope of the national government has the...