Netanyahu Says Israel Is ‘Ruling Out’ the Hamas Disarmament Plan Announced by Trump

Are China's Surveillance Exports Turning Nations Into Digital Dictatorships? Authored by James Gorrie via The Epoch Times, Is Beijing hoping to turn other authoritarian societies into digital Chinas? China’s rise as the world’s leading exporter of surveillance technology is yielding some disturbing results. Beijing’s surveillance export packages comprise an entire technological architecture that can give governments an unprecedented ability to see, identify, and track their populations. Those technologies include cameras, artificial intelligence, telecommunications networks, cloud computing, facial recognition, license-plate recognition, and centralized command systems. Many mid-sized countries are becoming or are already customers. Turning...

Comey's '86 47' Post Could Objectively Be Read As Threat Against Trump, DOJ Argues Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) defended the ongoing prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey in a new court filing on Aug. 18, saying “an objective viewer” could interpret his social media post as threatening the president. The DOJ has denied that Comey is being prosecuted for his political views and said in the new filing that “there is no serious dispute” that a post of seashells arranged to...

Federal Court Rules For Woman Fired For Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Kaiser Permanente wrongly fired an employee who declined to receive a COVID-19 vaccine because she gave proper notice to the company of her religious objection to COVID-19 vaccination, a federal appeals court has ruled. A COVID-19 vaccination in Illinois on Sept. 9, 2022. Scott Olson/Getty Images Mimi Weiss, who worked for Kaiser Permanente's The Permanente Medical Group for 20 years before being fired, "plausibly alleged that she provided notice of her religious conflict with the...