The Epoch Times Orange County

08/25/2026

The Department of the Interior will cut the amount of water it allocates through the Colorado River to Arizona, Nevada, and California in 2027 and 2028.

08/24/2026

Government spending helped support the economy, but Eric Swanson says it also helped push prices higher. Now the U.S. faces a harder question: how long can the government keep borrowing before markets force a reckoning?

Swanson explains how stimulus, deficit spending, and debt can feed into inflation, why economists worry about a future debt crisis, and whether the AI boom can keep growth strong enough to offset some of the pressure.

Government spending helped support the economy, but Eric Swanson sa...

08/24/2026

The U.S. attorney’s office in San Diego was effectively closed Aug. 21 as staff coped with the loss of Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Haden, who was discovered by police in an office of the Edward J. Schwartz Federal Building on Aug. 19.

08/24/2026

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08/24/2026

A federal appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit by California and a gun safety advocacy group seeking stricter federal rules on “ghost guns”—firearms with no serial number on them, making them untraceable by law enforcement.

08/22/2026

China has built a commanding lead in electric vehicles and is expanding into markets around the world. Can U.S. automakers keep up?

08/21/2026

AI is often framed as a technology story. Jack Myers sees it as an economic warning. He says media and advertising are already showing what may come next: a shrinking middle, more money flowing to the top, and more low-cost automated output at the bottom.

Myers explains how this pattern has changed advertising, weakened parts of Hollywood, and could spread into agriculture, health care, finance, and other sectors as AI accelerates the push toward lower costs and fewer human relationships.

AI is often framed as a technology story. Jack Myers sees it as an ...

08/21/2026

California is sending inhalers to all schools, officials said on Aug. 20.

08/21/2026

California state Sen. Aisha Wahab won the Aug. 18 special election in the state’s 14th Congressional District to serve the remainder of U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell’s term.

08/18/2026

A total of 592 cases of silicosis were identified between January 2019 and June 2026 among California workers who were fabricating engineered stone countertops, with 31 people dying from the illness, according to a public health alert.