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Protestors rally in opposition to The Walt Disney Co.’s stance against a recently passed Florida law outside of the company’s headquarters in Burbank, Calif., on April 6, 2022. (Jill McLaughlin/The Epoch Times)As the battle between Florida and The Walt Disney Co. executives continues to rage on, a longtime employee of Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando is speaking out, sharing how he and the majority of his fellow cast members are “ashamed to work for this company.” The employee, a custodial cast member of 35 years for Disney’s Magic Kingdom Park, spoke to The Epoch Times under the condition of...

WASHINGTON - One of the CIA's top spooks has come out of the shadows. With little fanfare, Jose Rodriguez, who heads the National Clandestine Service, had his cover lifted about a month ago. CIA spokesman Mark Mansfield said the driving factor was his interest in publicly participating in minority recruitment events. He's also retiring later this year after more than three decades with the agency. Rodriguez is the most important man in the U.S. spy game whose name you probably never knew. When he was mentioned publicly before now, he was referred to only as "Jose." Rodriguez became head of...

LOS ANGELES – Less than a month after retiring on his 100th birthday, longtime county transit employee Arthur Winston died in his sleep, his family said Friday. The man co-workers celebrated as Mr. Reliable had recently been admitted to a hospital for exhaustion and dehydration, but returned to his home April 6. He died Thursday evening. To his former colleagues at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Winston was more than a model employee known for his energy, punctuality and, of course, longevity. He was a legend. Winston missed one day of work in over 70 years, and that was to attend...

(IsraelNN.com) In a Tuesday evening address to a forum of the Presidents Conference of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem, Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert spoke of his support for a Gaza withdrawal from its earliest stages, adding he was also aware of the level of difficulty involved, but still supported the move. “Their opposition prevented us from assisting them,” added Mr. Olmert.

Battered by conservative allies who believe he's broken faith with them, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Friday replaced Cabinet Secretary Terry Tamminen, a Democrat and well-known environmental activist whose appointment two years ago was trumpeted as a show of the Republican governor's bipartisanship. Tamminen, who headed the Santa Monica-based Environment Now foundation when he became one of the governor's first major appointments in November 2003, will hold an advisory job as special assistant to the governor for energy and environmental technologies, Schwarzenegger's office announced late Friday. Fred Aguiar, who now runs the State and Consumer Services Agency, will replace Tamminen as Cabinet...

WASHINGTON - Longtime federal judge William B. Bryant — the first black person to serve as chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia — has died. He was 94. Bryant, who continued hearing cases as a senior judge until recently, died Sunday night, court spokesman Sheldon Snook said. President Johnson nominated Bryant to the federal bench in 1965, after Bryant distinguished himself in private practice and as a federal prosecutor in Washington. He was first hired as an assistant U.S. attorney in 1951. On Friday, President Bush signed legislation that will name a new $110...

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<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) - Garry South, longtime chief political adviser to Democratic Gov. Gray Davis, is signing on with Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., as a senior adviser to his presidential campaign.</p> <p>South, whose aggressive tactics are credited with engineering Davis' hard-fought re-election victory in November, will remain in Los Angeles and focus his efforts on Lieberman's California campaign operation, said Lieberman spokesman Jano Cabrera.</p>

OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) - An ailing, 92-year-old man who had pleaded to be allowed to stay in jail jumped to his death from a bridge less than two weeks after he was released. The body of Coval Russell was found Wednesday under a 40-foot bridge over the Feather River. Officials believe he may have been California's oldest county jail inmate. Russell had served 14 months while waiting for sentencing on an assault charge for stabbing his landlord. He was put on three years' probation and released from the Butte County Jail on June 26. A judge had denied his request...