The administration has been cracking down on fraudulent state-issued licenses.
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| Ivan Pentchoukov
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| Ivan Pentchoukov
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Good morning. It’s Wednesday. Here are today’s top stories. |
- With gamblers now leveraging everything from election outcomes to mundane aspects of daily life on for-profit prediction markets, one Oxford philosopher warns that many public forecasts can be disastrous for individuals making decisions about their futures.
- Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) easily fended off a primary challenge from Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), who made the 80-year-old progressive senator’s age a top issue.
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The Federal Trade Commission and 22 state attorneys general sued Amazon on Monday, accusing the company of running a years-long scheme that secretly increased prices in its online search advertising auctions.
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The U.S. military launched new strikes against Iran following attempted attacks by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
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Epoch Survey: The trade talks between the United States and Canada have broken down. What is your take on the matter? The results will be featured in an article published this Saturday. Take the survey here.
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Since early 2025, the Trump administration has been cracking down on commercial driver's licenses given to foreign truck drivers, amid several high-profile fatal accidents. The government released a final rule in February blocking untrained foreign nationals from obtaining licenses. During a recent five-day operation in Arizona, border agents arrested 95 illegal immigrant truck drivers with state-issued licenses. Jack Phillips has more details on the operation. |
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Carissa Véliz, professor of philosophy at Oxford University, speaks with "American Thought Leaders" host Jan Jekielek in Oxford, England, on June 26, 2026. (The Epoch Times) |
Predictions are enmeshed in daily life, from weather forecasts to gambling, but are they as accurate or beneficial as they may seem? Carissa Véliz, an associate philosophy professor at Oxford University’s Institute for Ethics in AI, believes heeding the predictions can derail peoples’ lives. “If you take my prediction at face value and just act as if that were true, then you’re obeying. And that gets trickier when there are social predictions,” Véliz told “American Thought Leaders” host Jan Jekielek. “If I tell you ... ‘Tomorrow, AI is going to replace you,’ and you quit your job because it’s no longer worth it, then you’re obeying. And if I’m a tech executive who’s selling this product, well, then you’re doing me a favor.”
In a conversation about her new book, “Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future,” Véliz said that not only are public predictions unethical drivers of human behavior, but many of the most widely accepted forecasts never come to pass.
“There was a very, very strong belief that it was inevitable that there would be so much overpopulation, that there would be famine, and it would be a disaster. And that never happened,” she said.
“And then a few decades later, it was inevitable that we were going to shrink to nothingness and that the population was going to be dwindling. And that didn’t happen [either].” (More) |
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Tyler Robinson (L), charged in the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, speaks with defense attorney Staci Visser as he attends a preliminary hearing in 4th District Court in Provo, Utah, on Sept. 1, 2026. (Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP, Pool) |
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The man accused of assassinating conservative commentator Charlie Kirk with a bullet to the neck will stand trial for aggravated murder, a Utah judge ruled on Sept. 1, almost a year after the fatal shooting rocked the nation.
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The House of Representatives passed a bill on Sept. 1 to fund the government past the midterms, thereby avoiding a shutdown. It now goes to President Donald Trump for his signature. The Senate passed the measure on Aug. 8 by a vote of 90–6.
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President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he will nominate Hung Cao to be the next secretary of the Navy, according to a post on Truth Social. Cao has been the acting secretary since April this year after John Phelan stepped down.
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The House of Representatives censured Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.) on Sept. 1 over his alleged conduct toward two female staffers in his office.
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The Trump administration is promoting small businesses in the U.S. through a new high-stakes reality television competition with rapper Nicki Minaj among its celebrity judges.
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Apple has changed the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America on the web version of its Apple Maps service, following an executive order from U.S. President Donald Trump that renamed the body of water located on the U.S.–Canada border.
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- The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has opened its own investigation into the medication error at a Nashville hospital that left four surgery patients seriously harmed, including one paralyzed.
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Bank of America executive Erin Piacenti has been identified as the victim of an unprovoked fatal daytime stabbing in New York City’s Times Square.
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An Ohio man pleaded guilty to smashing windows and damaging a Secret Service vehicle at Vice President JD Vance’s home earlier this year.
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A vaccine researcher extradited to the United States from Europe after being a fugitive for more than a decade pleaded guilty to wire fraud.
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An American who worked with Chinese intelligence for years and worked for Chinese state media has been sentenced to two years in prison for acting as a Chinese agent.
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OpenAI has pushed back against Apple’s accusations that it stole the iPhone maker’s hardware secrets, blaming the dispute on Apple’s own handling of departing employees.
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A woman walks among the ruins of flash floods in Nepal's Nuwakot district on September 1, 2026. (Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty Images) |
- At least 1,109 bodies have been recovered or deaths confirmed after the disaster along the Nepal-Tibet border. More than 4,500 are still missing.
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Russia targeted the Kyiv region with jet-powered drones and ballistic missiles, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on the sixth straight day of attacks by Russian forces.
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China has made support for Chinese Communist Party leadership an explicit legal qualification for lawyers, elevating a political requirement already imposed through Ministry of Justice regulations into the national law governing the profession.
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Taiwanese Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung told The Epoch Times on Tuesday that a Chinese diplomat’s warning of “consequences” over Taiwan’s presence at an annual Pacific summit in Palau reflected Beijing’s willingness to pressure countries to accept its demands.
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