Why Is China's Embassy In D.C. Hardening Security Perimeter With Barbed Wire

Over the weekend, Israeli forces launched substantial attacks in the northern part of Syria’s Quneitra Governorate. Syrian state media reported heavy gunfire was seen against the farmlands in that area, and that they had sought an explanation for the Israeli operations, but hadn’t received any explanation. For the most part there weren’t casualties in the […]

CDC Adds Another Airport For Screening Of Travelers Who Might Have Ebola Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Two more airports have been added as options for people traveling from countries affected by the Ebola outbreak in Africa. People traveling from Congo, Uganda, or South Sudan can go to the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia, and George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas, starting May 26, Customs and Border Protection said on May 22. The CDC said in a statement that Atlanta airport “has established operational procedures in place”...

GOP Lawmakers Leery Of Trump's Billion-Dollar Ballroom-Security Package Wary of the terrible election-year optics, some federal Republican legislators are less-than-enthusiastic about approving a request for a billion dollars in security funding relating to President Trump's White House ballroom project. Some of them shared those feelings with reporters after they received a Tuesday afternoon closed-door briefing by Secret Service Director Sean Curran.  When he first rolled out the 90,000-square-foot ballroom project, Trump repeatedly emphasized that the project would cost $200 million and be funded entirely with private donations. Now the ballroom itself is...