Crossroads is a channel from The Epoch Times, focused on discussions about the major junctures of the world—from breaking news, to ideology, culture, and politics. Joshua Philipp is an award-winning investigative reporter.
The for-profit Child Protective Services (CPS) system is broken. According to Spike Cohen, founder of You Are the Power, even accusations of child abuse when none exist can trigger payouts.
We speak to Spike about what’s wrong with CPS, and how to fix it.
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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard outlined new evidence on July 23 on how the Trump–Russia narrative was created for the 2016 elections.
In it, she said false information was spread by the Obama administration, and alleged that this was designed to harm then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.
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A study from the HHS has found that some hospitals allowed organ procurement to begin despite patients showing signs of life. And now, the Department of Health and Human Services is moving to reform the organ transplant industry in the United States.
According to the HHS, they examined more than 300 cases where organ donation was authorized but not completed. And what it found was "at least 28 patients may not have been deceased at the time organ procurement was initiated."
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Chinese companies have been buying up land near key sites in the United States. It's being reported that a site next to a US water supply system in New Hampshire has just been bought by a Chinese company owned by one of China’s richest men.
And it’s not just water supply sites, or farmland, as we have been hearing about. The spotlight is also minerals. China has a near-total monopoly on Gallium, and a new report is warning that this monopoly could impact U.S. defense supply chains.
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Video game streaming is no longer what it once was. What used to be about community has now turned into drama farming for clicks, according to former pro-gamer JasonR. We speak to him about his own story and how streaming has fundamentally changed.
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Tensions are rising in the Taiwan Strait as both China and Taiwan conduct war drills, bringing the international spotlight back to the Chinese Communist Party’s revanchist strategy. We speak to Jack Posobiec, senior editor at Human Events, about what China really wants and what the communist regime is planning militarily to achieve its agenda.
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Florida has been at the forefront of taking down child-trafficking operations, with Operation Dragon Eye recovering more than 40 missing kids. We speak to Florida AG James Uthmeier about tracking down these operations, as well as Alligator Alcatraz.
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The Alligator Alcatraz model will soon spread to new states to help streamline deportations. This is a big step because the bottleneck for Trump’s deportation plans has been the lack of capacity at facilities.
And not only that, DHS also outlined a new approach to Temporary Protection Service. The programs were designed in the 90s to help people recovering from natural disasters – and now the DHS is moving to make sure that "TPS remains TEMPORARY."
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The Chinese Communist Party is holding drills for a possible sea invasion of Taiwan, and Taiwan has also launched its own largest-ever drills for a potential war.
Videos show the CCP’s armored landing crafts, being referred to as “tank boats,” setting off near Taiwan in tight formation and conducting live-fire exercises.
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The Trump admin has ended a long list of taxpayer-funded programs that were benefiting illegal immigrants. This move is being enacted across the whole administration and includes limiting illegal immigrants access to programs on housing, education, grants and many others.
Although these programs are ending on the federal level, it's not necessarily ending on state and local levels. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has announced a new initiative to provide cash cards to illegal immigrants who were impacted by ICE raids.
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We’ve seen a drift in focus away from the average American worker in the economic policies of the United States over the past few years, but now, that’s changing, according to Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio). There is a concerted effort to bring the conversation back to the average, middle-class American. We speak to Moreno about the One Big Beautiful Bill, the Medicaid debate, border security, and what’s next for the Republican Party.
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The education system in the United States is at a standstill. American school children are falling further behind in math and language proficiency. A big part of the problem, according to Corey DeAngelis, is the lack of school choice.
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The CCP has been using its networks of spies and foreign assets in a campaign to try to shut down performances by New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts—even within the US. We speak with Jared Madsen, a MC at Shen Yun, about what is happening.
https://ept.ms/40N9nIt
The tariffs are back. President Donald Trump has now issued letters to several international leaders announcing the new tariff rates. And with this, Trump is also detailing his vision of what these tariffs will lead to.
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Churches in the US have been seen as a sleeping giant for elections. The issue is, because of regulations on nonprofits, churches have not been able to endorse political candidates. But now, the IRS has determined that churches can now endorse candidates.
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"By the time a child gets trafficked, society has failed that child. We need to do a lot better at recognizing the vulnerabilities in children and shoring up those vulnerabilities before the predator exploits them….The average predator in America invests nine months in a victim before they strike [i.e] ask the potential victim to self-expose or physically meet in person. Nine months.
The average predator at any given time profiles and engages with 32 potential victims at the same time…At any given moment in America, there are three quarters of one million - 750,000 - active predators online, right now as we speak.
…You're talking about millions of American children being profiled as we speak, in everyday life, and they don't know what the wolf looks like. They don't know how the wolf talks. Where would he show up? They're told that it looks like kidnapping, or you would self-evidently see it when it happens. They don't know the wolf is in their DMs."
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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard outlined new evidence on how the Trump–Russia narrative was created for the 2016 elections. In it, she said false information was spread allegedly designed to harm then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.
https://ept.ms/40v46W3
The Department of Health and Human Services is moving to reform the organ transplant industry in the United States. This follows a study that found that some hospitals allowed organ procurement to begin despite patients showing signs of life.
https://ept.ms/3IEryKl
Russiagate is being revisited. The Trump administration is now alleging that the 2016 case was itself disinformation, and that evidence was misrepresented to clear the way to investigate then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.
https://ept.ms/45fpotm
The Chinese Communist Party has a revanchist strategy towards Taiwan, South Korea and Japan.
We speak to Jack Posobiec about how the CCP will move to enact this agenda and how it won’t necessarily be through the military.
https://ept.ms/4f7OYE3
New York City could have government-run grocery stores. Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic mayoral candidate, has stated that if he’s elected, he plans to create a network of city-owned grocery stores that aims to fix affordability and access issues.
We can look to history and basic economics to understand where this new initiative will likely lead, and the truth of state interventionism.
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New York City could soon have government run grocery stores. At least that’s an issue now on the ballot with the upcoming mayoral elections. But we can look to history and basic economics to understand where this new initiative will likely lead.
https://ept.ms/3GNhHBo
The Alligator Alcatraz model will soon spread to new states. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has announced five additional Republican governors are now planning to build similar facilities to help streamline deportations.
https://ept.ms/40R04Hy
The CCP is holding drills to prepare for a sea-borne invasion of the self-ruled island of Taiwan, while Taiwan is responding with its own drills for a potential war. In the face of this, the US is shifting its military focus to the Asia-Pacific.
https://ept.ms/46Japch
In a sweeping move, the Trump admin has ended a long list of taxpayer funded programs that were benefiting illegal immigrants. However, some states are now looking to create new programs to assist illegal immigrants, using money outside of federal funds.
https://ept.ms/4kCJZMU
As the saying goes, the youth are the future. So what really matters to young voters in America? We sit down with Charlie Kirk, Founder of Turning Point USA, one of the largest conservative youth movements in the country, about what issues really hit home for young people, and how to engage them in politics.
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The CCP has tried painting itself as the face of “the new China.” Yet before this, the CCP established itself by waging war on true Chinese culture.
That culture is now being revived by New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts, with its tagline of “China Before Communism.”
Because of this, the CCP has deemed Shen Yun a key enemy of the Party and has been using networks of spies in a campaign to try to shut the performances down—even within the US. To learn more about this, we speak with Jared Madsen, a MC at Shen Yun.
https://ept.ms/40N9nIt
President Donald Trump has now issued letters to several international leaders announcing new tariff rates with an August 1st deadline.
Currently, the US has already brought in $100 billion from tariffs, and that is expected to reach $300 billion by the end of the year.
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The IRS has determined that churches can now endorse political candidates.
Previously, because of different regulations on nonprofits, churches have not been able to endorse political candidates. So churches have been regarded as a kind of sleeping giant for elections.
And now with this IRS determination, we could see big political shifts.
Watch more:https://ept.ms/44TKj4Y
The Chinese regime is showcasing a new type of weapon. This is being called a blackout bomb, and it aims to destroy an electric grid. A propaganda video for this was released by a social media channel run by CCTV.
The CCP has never hid its intent to target the US electric grid in the event of a war. This is part of its Assassin’s Mace program, which says the CCP cannot stand up to the full force of the US military, so instead, the regime aim to wipe out our enabling technologies.
Watch more:https://ept.ms/4knMKkP