It's easy to get lost in the daily news cycle, with its constant barrage of headlines and updates. What's often missing, however, is a broader and deeper analysis of what’s behind the headlines. Crossroads, hosted by Epoch Times senior investigative reporter Joshua Philipp, is an opinion and analysis show that presents deeper insights into the news cycle, culture, and society. It connects current events with history, ties various news stories together with analysis and opinion, and goes beyo ...
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Trump Serious About Canada as 51st State; IRS Agents to be Sent to Work on Border Security
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1:04:11It turns out President Donald Trump wasn’t joking when he suggested Canada could become the 51st U.S. state. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was caught on a hot mic stating that Trump isn’t joking about the suggestion, and Trump also confirmed the intent during a recent press conference. In other news, it appears that Trump was likewise seri…
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DOGE Investigation Blocked by Judge; Musk Alleges Billions In Social Security Fraud Each Year
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1:05:00The Department of Government Efficiency is facing legal challenges as it attempts to investigate the U.S. Treasury. The case is raising questions over the legalities of the department, which has been uncovering alleged overspending and other issues in the federal government. Yet the program actually isn’t new. It goes back to the Obama administrati…
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New Tax Priorities Unveiled by White House; Trump Admin to Dramatically Slash USAID Staff
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1:00:38The United States could soon have a very different tax system. The Trump administration has now unveiled its list of tax priorities. This includes campaign promises like no tax on tips, as well as other reforms. While it doesn’t go as far as the near elimination of federal income tax that some have floated, it does appear to be aimed at reducing th…
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White House Releases List on USAID "Waste and Abuse"; Democrat Rep. Moves to Impeach Trump Over Gaza
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1:02:18The Department of Government Efficiency’s investigations into the U.S. Agency for International Development have now revealed that several news outlets were receiving millions in government funds. This includes government funding that was going to many corporate news outlets like Politico. Not only that, the White House has also released a list sho…
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Trump Admin Obtains List of FBI Agents Involved in Jan 6 Cases; Trump Details Dead Man’s Switch Plan
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1:06:08The Trump administration has now obtained a list of FBI employees who were involved in cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach. Despite early attempts to block the list from being handed over, the FBI has now given the Justice Department a list of all employees who were involved in investigations and criminal cases related to the incident…
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DOGE Spars with USAID Over Government Aid
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55:57The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) under Elon Musk has gained access to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). And the investigations of what the USAID has been funding are now sparking a national debate. The agency is now being moved under the State Department and could serve a different mission going forward.…
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NGOs Tied to Illegal Immigration Get Funding Pulled; Tariff Wars Begin
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55:59Non-governmental organizations tied to the process of mass migration into the United States have now been defunded. The announcement came from the Department of Homeland Security, and it has brought attention to government grants and funding that were going to NGOs accused of helping facilitate the border crisis. In other news, the United States ha…
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RFK Jr Spars With Senate Over MAHA; Trump's Guantanamo Bay Plan for Illegal Immigrants
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59:18It’s now being determined whether the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda will become a reality. On Wednesday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sat before the Senate for the first day of his confirmation hearing. If he gets confirmed, he’ll become the new head of Health and Human Services, and with that, bring his stated plans to get harmful chemicals ou…
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Trump Proposes End of Federal Income Tax; Freezes $3 Trillion In Federal Funding
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1:02:44Federal income tax could be coming to an end in the United States. President Donald Trump first floated the idea when he was on the campaign trail, and it now seems he was serious. At a recent event, Trump discussed how the United States could replace income tax by using tariffs instead.Joshua Philipp
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Trump Effect Sees Huge Shift Toward the Right; California Considers Seceding?
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1:01:37The 2024 elections were telling. Not only did President Donald Trump win the popular vote, and win every swing state, but he also came close to winning many states that are otherwise thought of as solid Democrat. It’s possible we could even see states like New Jersey become swing states in the next election. And now, it’s possible that even some so…
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US Freezes Most Foreign Aid, Ends Mass Migration Agreement
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1:04:04The U.S. program to send money to countries around the world as foreign aid has been placed on hold and will be reviewed. This is part of a broader trend to end U.S. trade deficits, make NATO allies pay more, cut United Nations programs not in American interests, and many others. On Friday, the Trump administration froze nearly all foreign aid. The…
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Judge Blocks Trump’s Order to Restrict Birthright Citizenship
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55:16In just the first week of President Donald Trump’s second term in office, legal challenges are now emerging against his incoming policies. Among the 200 executive actions he came prepared with was an order to restrict birthright citizenship. That order was met with lawsuits from 22 states, and now a federal judge has temporarily blocked Trump’s ord…
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Trump Moves to Purge DEI from Government; Sends Active Duty Troops to Border
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1:00:01President Donald Trump issued an executive order to end affirmative action for federal contractors. He also directed all federal staff working on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs to be put on leave. And it doesn’t end there. Trump also put an end to the orders and policies of the Biden administration that focused on race politics. Th…
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Anti-Trump Resistance Forms Among Government Employees
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1:02:24President Donald Trump is now the 47th president of the United States. He has given some previews of his ambitious plans for office, including his 200 Day 1 executive actions. Yet this plan could soon meet with resistance. While the lead-up to the inauguration had been comparably smoother than the 2016 elections, when the nation saw large-scale ant…
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America Changes Overnight as Trump Issues Flurry of Orders
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1:01:39Overnight, the United States has changed. Immediately following his inauguration and speech, President Donald Trump signed a series of executive actions in front of a live audience at the Capital One Arena. With cheers from the crowd, he ended a long list of policies from the former administration and issued new orders, before heading to the White …
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Trump’s Inauguration: 100 Executive Actions Ready to Go Starting on Day One
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59:22President Donald Trump is being sworn in as the 47th president of the United States today. With this, the political landscape could change globally, and we already have a general idea of what’s going to happen, given that Trump has detailed what he has in store for his first days in office. He reportedly has 100 executive actions ready to go starti…
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Trump Announces Plan for Hollywood; SCOTUS Rules 9-0 on TikTok Ban
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55:51Hollywood hasn’t been doing so well. Many of the major planned blockbusters have fallen flat, and some have blamed this on things like social justice and other issues that have steered Hollywood more toward policies than toward creating good movies. President-elect Donald Trump is now saying he hopes to create a new “Golden Age of Hollywood,” and t…
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Why TikTok, RedNote and Tencent are Dangerous
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1:06:29TikTok may soon be banned in the United States due to its China ties, but some users are now migrating to a platform even more strongly linked to China’s communist regime. The case with TikTok is now in the hands of the Supreme Court, which is weighing the constitutionality of banning the video app unless its China-based owner, ByteDance, sells it …
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Trump to Create ‘External Revenue Service’; Jack Smith Says He Had Enough Evidence on Trump
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1:05:50President-elect Donald Trump has announced his plan to create a new agency called the External Revenue Service. This is an inversion of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and, as the new agency’s name suggests, its focus will be on collecting money from outside the United States—including through the use of tariffs. In other news, special counsel …
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As Trump Cabinet Hearings Begin, Veterans Rally Behind Hegseth
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1:10:44With the presidential inauguration now less than a week away, the Senate is holding hearings on the appointments of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees. The hearings could display the level of support, or lack of enthusiasm, that Republicans will show for the incoming administration. And there are also questions about how this will go f…
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How Censorship Was Forced On Facebook
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1:14:26Censorship programs were forced onto Facebook and Instagram through outside pressure, said Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who provided the details during an interview with Joe Rogan. Zuckerberg explained how programs for content moderation transformed into large-scale censorship systems after the COVID-19 outbreak. This ties in with his recent announcem…
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How the Legacy Media Helped Conceal Mass Killing in China: Levi Browde
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31:17A persecution of between 70 million and 100 million people has largely been hidden from the world, and western news outlets have played a role in concealing it from the public. The Chinese Communist Party launched a campaign of torture, killing, and live organ harvesting against the Falun Gong religious group in 1999. And while many news outlets ev…
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DEI Criticized as Fires Burn Los Angeles
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1:08:39The fires in Los Angeles are not just a natural disaster. They’re also turning into a political disaster, as blame falls on California’s policies on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and environmental regulation. Many are now raising concerns over regulations that allegedly led to water shortages, policies on forestry management, and money for…
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Biden Considering Preemptive Pardons Before Trump Takes Office
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1:00:28Individuals who risk prosecution under the incoming Trump administration could receive preemptive pardons. President Joe Biden said he was considering issuing pardons like this in order to shield key figures from prosecution. Biden demonstrated a novel use of pardons like this when he granted his son, Hunter Biden, a pardon for any potential crimes…
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Zuckerberg Ends Censorship on Facebook, Instagram
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1:04:35Meta is ending its third-party fact-checking system on platforms like Facebook and Instagram, and looking to adopt a community notes system following in the footsteps of X. This push for more freedom of expression was announced in a video from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, where he noted the problems that were caused by an increase in censorship in rec…
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