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Recently, I was playing in the woods with my son when we decided to go the path least taken. Two roads diverged in the wood, and we took the one less traveled—the one that was overgrown, the one that had bushes everywhere. When we came out and got back to the car, I checked my legs, and found that I had a few new friends. Several ticks were stuck to my leg, sucking out my blood.

Not a big deal. I killed them, and then took one, placed it in a ziplock bag, and saved it, ju...

Right now, our friendly neighbors to the north (in the Canadian Province of Alberta) are in the process of breaking away from Canada.

The first major milestone has already been achieved—a referendum will be put to the people later this month. Meaning, on Monday, Oct. 19, of this year, the people of Alberta will be asked whether the province should remain in Canada or begin the process of secession.

Alberta is often referred to as the “Texas of Canada.” It has a lot of oil production. Politically, it’s very conservative. And it has a strong r...

If you happen to love cereal, then there is something that you should know. Recently, there have been some positive developments within the Make America Healthy Again movement’s effort to improve the safety and quality of American cereals.

Specifically, Kellogg’s announced that by the end of this year, all of their cereals will be free from petroleum-based artificial food dyes. Meaning, brands like Froot Loops and Apple Jacks are giving up their unrealistically vibrant colors.

Fear not, though, as they’ve apparently found a way to substitute these petroleum-based food dyes that they’ve been...

The city of Nashville, the global home to country music, is anything but “boring.” That was until Elon Musk’s The Boring Company began to dig tunnels underneath it.

The first of these tunnel loops is set to go live in about five months and promises to alleviate congestion and make traveling from downtown to the airport simpler.

The state is now expanding this project so locals within Nashville can travel from one area to another underground.

Let’s go through the details of this innovative, new technology together.

Apple settled a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California for a cool $250 million.

And it’s worth mentioning that over half of that money is actually earmarked for customers. Meaning that if you’re like me (and you’ve purchased an iPhone recently) then there’s a good chance you can get a piece of that settlement.

Let me briefly give you the history of the case, as well as how you can check whether you qualify for the money.

A few months ago, when President Donald Trump began floating the idea of taking over Cuba using military force, many people were understandably surprised.

Since then, however, the State Department has put out reports and statements making the case for why Cuba is such a threat to the United States, calling the regime “an espionage superpower.”

A recent report says the Cuban regime has waged a 70-year-long war against the United States—not with kinetic weapons of course, but instead by using the dark arts of sabotage and subversion, including by propping up anti-U.S. social...

There are some big moves happening in the gold market.

Last week, the Central Bank of the Netherlands confirmed that they moved 86 tons of gold out of North America—moving it to London.

Earlier this year France did something similar, removing all of their gold reserves from the U.S.—in favor of keeping them at home.

Germany did the same as well a few years ago. Their central bank moved the 111 tons of gold that they had in New York, and they brought it home to be kept in Germany.

All...

Anthropic recently settled a $1.5-billion civil suit over the illegal downloading of millions of books used to train its large language model.

It was the single largest copyright infringement settlement in U.S. history.

This past weekend, over 30 music companies filed a class-action lawsuit alleging Anthropic illegally downloaded song lyrics from the same torrent sites and intentionally removed copyright information.

How this case shakes out could very well dictate whether the live music industry is still a thing a generation from now. Let's go through the details together.

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Let’s delve into the history of the “prank video” format, and how it’s developed to where it is today, where TikTok stars are going into businesses pretending to work there in order to get access to unauthorized staff-only areas.

Humanoid robots from China—are they taking over, or just falling over?

Are they our cute companions? Or, are they watching us in our homes through secret backdoors left open by the China-based manufacturers? Let’s look at these important questions together.

How badly do you want that perfect beach body? Some are willing to get liposuction and have someone shuffle their own fat around. But how about getting one’s body enhanced by injecting fat from dead people? Is that a bit much?

Well, that’s what’s happening in the cosmetics industry.

Now, you might ask: Why do they need to use fat from cadavers? Why not just liposuction one area, and move it to another?

Here’s the twist: the rise of GLP-1 weight loss drugs are leaving people without enough fat to move...

Scientists in the U.S. recently announced that for the very first time, they were able to use AI to create viruses never before seen in nature. Don’t worry, though: these new viruses were designed to target specific strains of E.coli bacteria that have become resistant to natural antibacterials.

This development marks a major milestone in the field of synthetic biology, and it opens the door to potential rapid advancements in human healthcare. Maybe these AIs can develop never-before-seen cures to horrible diseases.

However, on the flip side, I think after living through th...

Today, we do a round up of three stories. First, a former acting U.S. attorney was found dead in his office in a federal building in California. Second, the USPS just issued new rules regarding mail-in ballot envelopes. Last, the State Department has issued travel advisories regarding three countries. Let’s go through it all together.

In just 48 hours, a coordinated cyberattack disrupted the digital controls of water systems across more than 30 Minnesota communities, forcing operators to switch to manual backup to keep pumps, valves, and treatment systems running without any data theft, financial loss, or ransom demands.

The incident, which remains—officially, at least—without a named suspect, highlights the longstanding vulnerabilities in local U.S. water infrastructure. Let's go through the details of the attack, as well as some of the possible culprits.

Leprosy appears to be not only spreading in central Florida, but according to the CDC, it might now be endemic to the region. Let’s explore why that is, as well as what it means for the safety of Americans.

A first-of-its-kind study reveals that one out of eight apps marketed to U.S. military service members (and their families) contain foreign code—some from China and Russia—that could be remotely updated to leak sensitive data to adversaries. This alarming finding arrives just as reports confirm foreign adversaries are already using cell phone location data to target American troops in the Middle East. Let’s go through it all together.

It turns out that Anthropic—the giant AI company behind the Claude chatbot—has been secretly destroying millions of books in the process of feeding them into the AI system. Slicing off the spines. Cutting the pages. Scanning them. And then discarding the remains.

All to avoid paying copyright fees to the creators.

The initiative was called Project Panama—and it was supposed to be a secret. We only learned about it through luck, basically—it was made public only because of the discovery process in an unrelated lawsuit.

And the kicker is that it’...

China launched the world’s first geosynchronous synthetic aperture radar satellite in 2023, giving it continuous all-weather surveillance over roughly one-third of the planet (including the Asia-Pacific and Indian Ocean), later pairing it with a high-resolution optical spy satellite.

Let's discuss the critical mineral chokehold that allowed China to achieve this milestone, as well as the alternative supply chains that the United States is now building to counter the ruling Chinese Communist Party.

Havana Syndrome refers to a mysterious set of symptoms—headaches, dizziness, tinnitus, and cognitive issues—that has affected more than 1,500 U.S. intelligence and diplomatic personnel since 2016. The latest case, which was the most high-profile to date, is that of the former CIA Director James Woolsey, whose wife said that he was suffering from Havana Syndrome in the years leading up to his recent death. Let’s go through the details of what we know about this mysterious malady.

Venezuelan interim President Delcy Rodríguez has formally begun withdrawing the country from the International Criminal Court (ICC).

The United States, which never ratified the Rome Statute and has long viewed the ICC as a threat to its own sovereignty, publicly praised the move and framed it as support for an American-led effort to dismantle what the Department of State calls a “corrupt and worthless” court.

Let’s go through the details.

Let's go through the most recent spate of warnings, arising primarily from the Iran war, issued by the U.S. State Department and the embassies of several different countries.

A woman in Texas was shocked when she opened her front door and found the local police standing there, ready to arrest her over a Facebook post.

And the reason she was shocked was because that post wasn’t threatening anyone, nor was it calling for violence. Instead, she was simply commenting on the horrible quality of the water in the town’s local water supply.

One of our senior reporters here at The Epoch Times, Darlene McCormick Sanchez, went to where this all took place to get the full story. So today, let’s go thr...

A federal judge on July 13 found that President Donald Trump improperly used a $10 billion lawsuit he ​filed against the IRS to extract personal benefits from the government he oversees, preventing the terms of a settlement agreement from taking legal effect.

Miami-based ‌U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams excoriated Trump's personal lawyers and attorneys in his administration, concluding their interests were not opposed to each other as is legally required for civil lawsuits. Williams referred a Trump lawyer in the case and senior Justice Department officials who signed off on the settlement to state bar authorities to determine whet...

The story I’m bringing you today is one that you’ve probably never heard of before. Because, for one, it involves a continent that very few people have been on: Antarctica; and secondly, it involves a concept that very few people are familiar with: gravity holes.

And right off the bat, I’ll mention that it’s not science fiction, nor is it a conspiracy theory. Gravity holes really do exist. The earth’s outer layers have different densities in different places (because the distribution of mass beneath the crust and the mantle isn’t consistent)—the effect of...

In 2003, Florida harvested 242 million boxes of oranges. This season, they’re expecting 12 million.

That’s a 95 percent drop in just over 20 years—in a single generation.

Something’s very wrong with Florida’s orange industry, and that something came here from China.

Citrus farmers all over the Sunshine State are seeing the destruction of their family farms and their livelihoods. Some are fighting back—but the challenges they face make the effort a true uphill battle.

Let’s go through it all together.

Under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention softened its longstanding position in November 2025, shifting from “vaccines do not cause autism” to stating the evidence isn’t strong enough to completely rule out a possible link, citing several older studies on aluminum adjuvants and vaccine timing.

Months later, key studies used to justify that change were retracted by journals for methodological flaws, sparking backlash from Kennedy, who demanded greater transparency, while the CDC’s revised stance faced fresh scrutiny.

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The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne say they have run Rosary Hill Home for 125 years, providing free palliative care to thousands of poor, terminally ill cancer patients without taking taxpayer money.

New York’s LGBTQ Long-Term Care Bill of Rights now threatens them with fines, license revocation, or prison for refusing to use preferred pronouns, allow opposite-sex bathroom use, or undergo gender ideology training, prompting a religious-freedom lawsuit in which the U.S. Department of Justice has joined them as a co-plaintiff.

Aside from the significant losses that were handed to him in a series of Supreme Court decisions, President Donald Trump did score one significant victory.

The case in question was called Trump v. Slaughter, and the decision in that case bestowed significantly more power and authority not just to Trump, but to the office of the president itself—whoever that may be in the future.

Let’s go through the details of that case together.

In what amounts to a major win for Second Amendment advocates, the U.S. Supreme Court just struck down one of the most restrictive state-level gun laws—a law that required gun owners to get express permission to carry their weapons in stores and hotels.

Let's go through the backstory of this law, the unique rationale behind it, as well as what the new ruling means for the country as a whole.

A woman named Carleen Noreus ran a massive diploma mill in South Florida, selling nearly 3,000 fake nursing diplomas for around $25 million over seven years to people who never completed the required training.

The scam, uncovered as part of the larger federal Operation Nightingale, allowed more than 2,200 unqualified "graduates" to pass licensing exams and work as nurses across the country, endangering patients until her recent guilty plea on wire fraud and money laundering charges.

The US Supreme Court just ruled in favor of a criminal defendant in a case that was rather interesting. It presented a simple question: Are prosecutors allowed to force you to sign away your right to appeal, and then slap you with a—potentially—unconstitutional punishment?

Basically, can plea deals be formulated such that you get hit with an unconstitutional penalty, but then you also can’t appeal that penalty?

And the answer is: No. They cannot. Although, as always with these Supreme Court rulings, there is a lot of nuance, so let...

A 2021 federal law (Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Section 24220) mandates that all new U.S. passenger vehicles starting in 2027 must include "Advanced Impaired Driving Prevention Technology." These appear to be taking the shape of passive AI systems using infrared cameras, biometric sensors, and behavioral tracking to detect driver impairment and automatically intervene by limiting speed, pulling over, or shutting down the vehicle.

While intended to improve safety, the mandate raises major concerns about constant surveillance, massive data collection shared with insurers and third parties, high rates of false positives, and the erosion of personal freedom...

So many corporations, wealthy individuals, and middle-class people are leaving California that it’s beginning to affect their tax base in a real way. Let’s go through the details together.

Scientists have made a new scientific breakthrough in the study of the human body.

Researchers in the United States have discovered something amazing: a third circulatory system within the human body.

Alongside the previously known cardiovascular and lymphatic systems, this interstitium system (as it’s being called) appears to allow the different organs of the human body to pass things along to one another.

Which in-and-of-itself is an amazing discovery, but it’s made even more exciting by the fact that this newly discovered system maps very well...

Youhuang Xiang, a biology researcher at Indiana University, was arrested for smuggling plasmid DNA derived from E. coli bacteria from China. He concealed the biological material by labeling the shipment as “women’s underwear” on the manifest, admitted during questioning that he did it to evade customs detection. He also admitted to previously lying about his Chinese Communist Party membership and government lab affiliations. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four months in prison, a $500 fine, supervised release, and immediate deportation.

Let’s go through the details together.

Google's Debug program is releasing 64 million Wolbachia-infected sterile male mosquitoes into parts of Florida and California over four years to combat disease-spreading mosquitoes.

The Sterile Insect Technique works by having these males mate with wild females, causing their eggs to fail to hatch (via cytoplasmic incompatibility), which gradually crashes the local mosquito population over generations.

The approach has shown strong results in past trials (90 percent+ reductions), but it carries risks such as imperfect male/female sorting by AI and potential ecological disruptions if mosquitoes are fully eliminated from an area.

A German-American couple, Christian and Melissa Steffen, kept their three young children—a 10-year-old and 8-year-old twins—locked inside their villa in Spain for nearly four years due to an extreme fear of COVID. The children endured squalid conditions—including a room piled with used diapers—never left the house, had no outside contact, and received no medical care, resulting in severe physical and developmental issues such as difficulty walking, hunched postures, and bowel control problems.

The children were discovered after a neighbor’s suspicions led to a police raid, and the parents were convicted of habitua...

Every so often, an archeological discovery is made that helps give us a clearer picture of our timeline of human history. In Norway, a still-expanding treasure trove of silver coins has been discovered dating from the Viking Age.

Let’s go through the discovery together—in terms of what was found, and also what light it sheds on the final, volatile decades of the Viking Age.

The Department of Justice released a statement, announcing the conviction of a man at the center of a billion-dollar Medicaid fraud scheme.

Brett Blackman, the CEO and owner of software company HealthSplash was convicted in federal court for his part in the sprawling fraud scheme. The scheme involved using foreign telemarketers to aggressively call elderly Americans, get their medicaid beneficiary numbers, push medical devices onto them that they did not really need, then generate fraudulent doctors' orders for those devices.

He would then pass on the scripts in return for illegal...

It's been a long time coming: the IRS recently launched a pilot program using Palantir AI-technology to help it figure out who most needs to be audited.

This means that, as fun as it was to pay taxes already—and then have a federal bureaucrat decide whether you deserve an audit or not—moving forward, the decision will be heavily influenced by an AI machine.

Let's go through the details together.