Israeli Attacks Pound Gaza, Killing at Least Seven Palestinians Over 24 Hours

Chinese National Madam Indicted For Running Brothels Out Of Boston Apartments Authored by Frank Fang via The Epoch Times, A Chinese national living in New York has been indicted for allegedly running a sex-trafficking ring out of several residential brothels located in Boston's Allston and Brighton neighborhoods. The Department of Justice building in Washington on July 21, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times Liu Zengzeng, 40, of the Flushing neighborhood of Queens, was arrested in New York on July 1, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts announced on July 2. Liu, who...

Congress Ordered An Annual Accounting Of Terrorism; The Counting Has Stopped... Authored by David E. Firester via RealClearDefense, On May 1, 2026, the State Department released the 2024 edition of the Country Reports on Terrorism - a full year past the deadline in effect when the report came due, and months past even the more forgiving date Congress has since written into law. No Annex of Statistical Information, the report's statistical backbone in years past, has been published with it. And the report's own pages cite terrorism-incident rankings from the Global Terrorism...

U.S. To Begin 86-Million-Barrel SPR Dump Next Week Via Exchange Program The speed of the energy shock rippling out from the U.S.-Iran conflict in the Middle East and the near-paralysis of the Strait of Hormuz forced the 32-member IEA last week to approve a 400-million-barrel release from Strategic Petroleum Reserves to help cushion the blow to the global economy. The bulk of that supply will come from the U.S., with the Trump administration preparing a request to exchange 86 million barrels of crude oil as soon as next Wednesday. The planned...