President Donald Trump has backed Republicans’ demands for Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the head of the House Intelligence Committee, to testify in the impeachment inquiry. In a series of heated tweets, Trump described the impeachment probe as a “one-sided Witch Hunt,” accusing Schiff of fabricating a portion of the transcript of the call at the […]

Commentary House Republicans recently indicated that they intend to call Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) as a fact witness in the House’s ongoing impeachment inquiry. While that’s unlikely to succeed based on the terms of the recent resolution, Schiff’s testimony could serve to derail, or to seriously undermine, the House’s unrelenting quest to impeach the president based on […]

President Donald Trump’s campaign manager stated that his reelection campaign raked in millions on the same day the House voted on a resolution related to the impeachment inquiry on Thursday. The Democrats’ strategy to impeach Trump is “backfiring already,” tweeted Brad Parscale, Trump’s campaign manager, on Friday morning. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) “impeachment resolution […]

News Analysis This article is the first in a multi-part series about the rise of socialism in Brazil and South America. RECIFE, Brazil—The election of conservative President Jair Bolsonaro in 2018 brought an end to the left-wing government of the Workers’ Party, which first rose to power in Brazil’s 2002 general election. Luiz Inácio Lula […]

Just how is it that the Chinese Communist Party can control the speech of NBA coaches and executives in America, and the content of Hollywood movies? In what ways is China still fundamentally a communist state? Why does the Chinese communist regime view a free Hong Kong and even Taiwan, as threats, and how might […]

After about two dozen House Republicans entered a closed-door impeachment proceeding on Wednesday, House Democrats threatened Republican lawmakers with rarely used ethics violations. The Republicans wanted access to the meeting with Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Laura Cooper. According to the Washington Examiner, they argued that Cooper is under the jurisdiction of the House Armed Services […]

Following a Wednesday morning press conference, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and about a dozen other GOP lawmakers went into the House Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF), and according to one lawmaker, House Democrats ended the hearing and left. The representatives went into a secure hearing to attempt to view testimony into the impeachment inquiry against […]

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who led the House impeachment effort against Bill Clinton in the 1990s, said that President Donald Trump shouldn’t worry because “he will not be convicted, period.” Speaking to CBS News on Monday, he said Trump should “relax” and “rely on the Senate.” He added that “it’s inconceivable” that the Senate […]

An anonymous whistleblower whose complaint prompted an impeachment inquiry misled the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) about his or her communications with Congress, according to a source familiar with details of the complaint. The source told The Epoch Times that the whistleblower didn’t check the box on the application that asks to disclose whether he […]

Republican congressional leaders accused Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Democrats of rigging the impeachment scheme after news broke that Schiff was in contact with the whistleblower before the complaint against President Donald Trump was filed. The report from the New York Times claimed that Schiff received an “early account by the future whistleblower” days before the person […]

The top Republican in the House accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) of doing what Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) proposes the night before. The accusation comes after Pelosi announced on Tuesday, Sept. 24 that Democrats were conducting an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. “I don’t know why the Democrats are excited, because first of […]

BOGOTA, Colombia—Colombian guerrillas are enticing Venezuelan children to become combatants through operations in hundreds of schools across border regions, where they talk to students and offer them free recreational activities and gifts, according to a new report from a Venezuelan NGO. The practice is a growing and increasingly important strategy to recruit minors, of which […]

WASHINGTON–Since being nominated for the Supreme Court, Justice Brett Kavanaugh has been dogged by unproven allegations, most recently in the New York Times story “Brett Kavanaugh Fit in With the Privileged Kids. She Did Not.” The New York Times story claims that Kavanaugh exposed himself before a female student during a party at Yale. The […]

BOGOTA, Colombia—Tensions have escalated between Colombia and neighboring Venezuela following the invocation of a regional defense pact by the United States and other Latin American allies that would support Colombia in the case of a regional conflict. The United States and other signatories triggered the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR) on Sept. 11 after […]

BOGOTA, Colombia—A candidate who aspired to become the first female mayor of a municipality in southwestern Colombia, a candidate running for city council, and four others were brutally killed by former members of the Marxist guerrilla group FARC, who refused to disarm during the country’s 2016 peace process, the government has said. The bodies of […]

BOGOTA, Colombia—Colombian President Ivan Duque offered a nearly $1 million reward for the arrest of the top peace negotiator for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia on Aug. 29, after the former rebel commander and a small cadre of hardliners vowed to resume their insurgency, in a major reversal for the country’s efforts to end […]

The Colombian government’s failure to fill a void left by Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels, who demobilized in 2016, is causing a spike in human rights abuses as armed gangs jostle for control of land on the Colombia–Venezuela border, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Aug. 8. Many of the victims […]

R | 1h 44min | Comedy, Drama, Sport | 12 July 2019 (USA) Here’s a minuscule comedy about a meek man-boy who joins a martial arts dojo in search of mature masculinity, but winds up being toxically masculine instead. It’s supposed to be funny. But it’s just so not. Casey (Jesse Eisenberg) is a skinny, […]

BOGOTA, Colombia—A former guerrilla commander accused by the United States of drug trafficking remains missing after his disappearance last weekend, in the latest blow to Colombia’s faltering peace process. Seuxis Paucias Hernandez, better known by his nom de guerre, Jesus Santrich, is believed to have fled to Venezuela. He was expected to appear in court […]

Lawyers for a Navy SEAL accused of killing an ISIS prisoner in Iraq in 2017 want the case thrown out because of alleged prosecutorial misconduct.

Unlike the famous fashion houses, Italian shoemaker Stefano Bemer continues to make shoes in the handmade tradition that’s been around for centuries

If you think Hollywood endings are unrealistic, trying living up to a Bollywood ending. Happily-ever-afters are simply beyond the reach of a poor, marginalized street worker like Rafi. Ostensibly, the educated Miloni has more advantages, but she is also restricted by social norms and her family’s expectations. Yet, maybe, just maybe, they can make some […]

Commentary As Venezuela teeters on the brink of counter-revolution, an influential delegation of U.S. Maoists from the Freedom Road Socialist Organization–Fight Back! group (FRSO-FB) is in the country building solidarity with the communist leaders of the embattled regime. FRSO-FB (not to be confused with the similarly named Freedom Road Socialist Organization/Organizacion Socialista del Camino para […]

Armed groups warring for control of Colombia’s busiest border crossing with Venezuela opened fire on one another on May 3, leaving a woman hospitalized and hundreds fearing for their lives. The woman caught in the crossfire was not affiliated with the two rival gangs, say officials from Colombia’s migration authority.

BOGOTA, Colombia—The continued flow of drugs from Colombia to the United States has become a point of contention between the two countries, as Washington loses patience with Bogota’s lack of progress in curbing drug production. While leaving a political event on migration in Florida on March 29, President Donald Trump complimented Colombian President Iván Duque […]

Commentary Now that special counsel Robert Mueller has submitted his final report to Attorney General William Barr, stating he and his crack team of investigators discovered no evidence of any collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government to influence the 2016 election, a key page has been turned in the story of Donald […]

NEW YORK—The turmoil of a confused, failing mind is examined in French playwright Florian Zeller’s “The Mother.” Translated by Christopher Hampton and having its U.S. premiere at the Atlantic Theater Company, the work is an attempt to view one woman’s disintegrating psyche from the inside. Anne (Isabelle Huppert) is a middle-aged woman in an unhappy marriage. Once completely […]

The Epoch Times had the opportunity recently to sit down with Eduardo Bolsonaro, a congressman in Brazil and the son of Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, to discuss the situation in Brazil, on the occasion of his father’s state visit to the White House on March 19. The Epoch Times: You have served two terms in […]

Living a long life has always been a very popular goal for people. As we age, we hope to do so gracefully, and we want to stick around for as long as we possibly can. According to the World Health Organization, 72 years of age is the average life expectancy at birth for the global […]

Back in the mid 1990s, the 7th Special Forces group conducted a lot of missions in Central and South America. Those missions—and the lessons I learned—stick with me to this day. One particular mission was in Colombia. The inter-agency conflicts were high inside the embassy that we operated out of. We were pursuing aggressive goals […]