President Donald Trump’s 50 percent tariffs on steel and aluminum went into effect at midnight on June 4, following through on last week’s announcement at a U.S. Steel facility.
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President Donald Trump’s 50 percent tariffs on steel and aluminum went into effect at midnight on June 4, following through on last week’s announcement at a U.S. Steel facility.
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Following the Trump administration’s move to curb Harvard University’s international admissions and vet Chinese nationals studying in the United States for ties to the communist party, the Ivy League school’s extensive involvement with Beijing has come to the fore.
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Diversity, equity, and inclusion programs remain entrenched at airlines, despite President Donald Trump’s executive orders against the practice and growing concerns over air crashes and safety incidents.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio condemned the Chinese Communist Party’s brutal crackdown during the June 4, 1989, student protests in Tiananmen Square, marking the anniversary of the event.
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🍵 Health: Simple lifestyle changes may help prevent lingering exhaustion after a mini-stroke.
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A graduate holds a globe beachball during Harvard University's 374th Commencement in Cambridge, Mass., on May 29, 2025. As the Trump administration moves to curb Harvard's international admissions, the university's close ties with the Chinese regime comes into focus. (Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) |
Following the Trump administration’s recent action to curb Harvard University’s international admissions and vet Chinese nationals studying in the United States for ties to the Communist Party, the Ivy League school’s extensive involvement with Beijing has come to the fore.
The oldest and wealthiest U.S. university is under increasing scrutiny for its controversial research collaboration with China, its role in educating Chinese regime officials, and providing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) with a platform to spread its propaganda narratives and marginalize dissenting voices on U.S. soil.
The State Department ordered a freeze on all student visa interviews on May 27. The next day, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the department was tightening restrictions on visa applications by Chinese nationals and would “aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields.”
Harvard has long been known among Chinese people for its role in educating the communist regime’s elites, including the progeny of the CCP leaders themselves. In 2014, one state-run media outlet, the Shanghai Observer, nicknamed the Ivy League university’s Kennedy School of Government an unofficial “Party school”—a reference to the institutions in China used to train and indoctrinate the regime’s cadres. U.S. lawmakers have singled out Harvard for its China partnerships, including with sanctioned organizations believed to be complicit in the CCP’s human rights abuses, while other observers have criticized the school for allowing Beijing’s influence over the institution to expand unchecked.
In addition to receiving billions of dollars in U.S. federal funding, which the Trump administration is currently attempting to revoke, Harvard has accepted vast sums in donations and gifts from China, including from individuals affiliated with the CCP. (💬 Comment)
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The White House said the family of the suspect in Sunday’s terror attack in Boulder, Colorado, might be deported from the United States immediately.
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Tech billionaire and former White House adviser Elon Musk on Tuesday criticized a budget bill backed by congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump, drawing a response from the administration.
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The Pentagon will allow its civilian employees to assist Department of Homeland Security personnel in operations related to border security and immigration enforcement, as the Trump administration intensifies efforts to deter unlawful border crossings and drug trafficking.
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With the One Big Beautiful Bill pending before the Senate, several provisions may be stripped out in what is known as a “Byrd Bath.”
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President Trump vowed to place “large-scale fines” on California after a transgender athlete competed in a girls’ high school track and field event and won gold.
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A man from Romania has pleaded guilty to felonies after he made false reports to elicit tactical police responses—known as “swatting”—against a former U.S. president, several members of Congress, federal judges, and state officials.
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For one veteran airline captain, a routine flight to Denver changed her view about aviation safety, but not because of an in-flight crisis. Rather, the captain heard a story that, for the first time in her decades-long career, made her uneasy about putting her loved ones on a plane. During a conversation last year, a flight instructor described unusual steps managers had taken to salvage the career of a young female trainee pilot. The instructor described an “egregious” example of the apparent relaxing of standards to meet diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) goals, the captain said.
The trainee repeatedly failed rudimentary pilot training tests. By “crashing” a computer simulation flight, she proved her inability to operate an airplane’s three most basic control mechanisms, the instructor said. Yet management balked when the instructor failed her.
“She was rehabilitated and allowed to continue, even though she should have been washed out,” the captain told The Epoch Times, speaking on condition of anonymity because her employer had not authorized her to speak to reporters. “I don’t care if you’re a man or a woman, that is concerning to me.” Disturbed that such a trainee may still be in the cockpit, the captain said: “I don’t want myself or my family to be in the back of that airplane. ... That’s really what it comes down to, right? Would you want to be in the back of that airplane?”
The captain, a woman who was hired long before DEI programs took hold, said the story of the trainee shows how far her airline was willing to go for the apparent sake of diversity agenda.
These diversity programs, aimed at boosting women and minorities, remain entrenched at airlines, despite President Donald Trump’s executive orders against the practice and growing concerns over air crashes and safety incidents, the captain and other workers said. The captain pointed to signs that additional inept trainees are being “pushed through.” (More) More U.S. News: |
- Employment vacancies unexpectedly rose in April, reaffirming the health of the U.S. labor market.
- The U.S. Army has reached its fiscal year 2025 recruitment goal of 61,000 active-duty enlistments, four months ahead of schedule, marking what officials call a pivotal moment in military readiness and national morale.
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The rates of measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination declined during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, researchers reported in a new paper.
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Two Chinese nationals, including one who works at the University of Michigan, were charged with smuggling a potential agroterrorism weapon into the United States.
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio condemned the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) “brutal crackdown” during the June 4, 1989, student protests in Tiananmen Square.
“We remember the Chinese Communist Party’s brutal crackdown 36 years ago in Tiananmen Square and commemorate the courage of the innocent people killed and imprisoned that day. Freedom, democracy, and self-rule are human principles the CCP cannot erase,” he wrote on X.
Rubio also issued a State Department statement commemorating the students, with a rebuke to the CCP for its censorship and human rights abuses. It noted that the pro-democracy demonstrations had begun in the spring of 1989 and “inspired a national movement.”
“Hundreds of thousands of ordinary people in the capital and throughout China took to the streets for weeks to exercise their freedoms of expression and peaceful assembly by advocating for democracy, human rights, and an end to rampant corruption,” the statement reads.
“The CCP responded with a brutal crackdown, sending the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to open fire in an attempt to extinguish the pro-democracy sentiments of unarmed civilians gathered on Beijing’s streets and in Tiananmen Square.”
The CCP met protesters with tanks and opened fire, and protester casualties numbered in the thousands, but Chinese authorities, in one of its best-known instances of censorship, told the Chinese people that the students had been the ones to attack the soldiers. (More)
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Tiffany Meier, our colleague from NTD Television, prepared a special report to show how today’s trade war with China is playing out in the shadow of the events 36 years ago. Watch the exclusive premiere on Wednesday, June 4, at 9:30 a.m. ET.
- Two Chinese citizens who run a private learning program focused on traditional culture have been detained by the authorities in a case of religious persecution spanning multiple provinces, according to a former colleague.
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U.S. embassy officials in Mexico this week confirmed reports of American citizens having been kidnapped in Mexico by people they met on dating apps.
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Washington has voiced support for a plan by Damascus to incorporate thousands of foreign Islamist fighters, many of whom fought the former regime, into the ranks of Syria’s reconstituted military apparatus.
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Ukraine says it has damaged the Kerch Bridge, which links Russia with Crimea, with underwater explosives.
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Vietnamese businesses are set to sign memorandums of understanding to buy $2 billion worth of U.S. farm produce.
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The Dutch government collapsed after Party for Freedom leader Geert Wilders said his party would pull out of the governing coalition. Wilders said other coalition parties were unwilling to acquiesce to his wishes to completely stop illegal immigration, which he had demanded support for last week.
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Lee Jae-myung was officially announced the winner of South Korea’s presidential election on Tuesday. The 61-year-old liberal politician will take office immediately and serve a single, five-year term. His opponent and conservative contender, Kim Moon-soo, conceded and congratulated Lee.
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For half a century, the North Sea was the heart of one of the world’s most productive energy industries, before Britain turned its back on fossil fuels in favor of renewables. But now, U.S. President Donald Trump said he would like to see drilling restart. Trump’s message underscores industry warnings about the economic “vulnerability” of the UK, which they say is created by net-zero policies.
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A transient ischemic attack (TIA), otherwise known as a mini-stroke, is a temporary block in blood flow to the brain. While it may cause symptoms that disappear quickly, a recent study has found that about half of people who have a TIA experience long-term tiredness that can last up to one year.
Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum, a board-certified internist and author of “From Fatigued to Fantastic!,” noted that as many as 500,000 to 650,000 Americans may experience post-TIA or stroke fatigue each year—a condition he says is highly treatable with well-tolerated dietary supplements. Healthy lifestyle practices can also help reduce the risk of this frequent cause of tiredness. Symptoms of a TIA may include slurred speech, arm weakness, and face drooping, which typically disappear within a day. However, preliminary evidence suggests that some people continue to face challenges such as depression, thinking problems, anxiety, reduced quality of life, and tiredness.
To examine the extent of the tiredness, a study published in Neurology monitored a group of 354 people with an average age of 70 who had a TIA. Participants completed questionnaires about their energy levels two weeks after the event and again at three, six, and 12 months. At the 2-week mark, 61 percent reported significant tiredness, and at later check-ins, up to 54 percent reported that the fatigue remained.
“If people experience fatigue within two weeks after leaving the hospital, it is likely they will continue to have fatigue for up to a year,” said study author Dr. Boris Modrau of Aalborg University Hospital in Denmark, in a press statement. (More)
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