By El Salvador News Published April 16, 2026 U.S. Representative Chris Smith has issued a definitive defense of El Salvador’s current security transformation, asserting that the country’s progress can only be measured by looking back at its decades of bloodshed. Smith, a veteran advocate for global human rights, noted that any honest assessment of the nation must begin with the undeniable fact that daily life has been fundamentally altered for the better. The congressman drew from his extensive ... Read more

By The Catholic Herald Published April 12, 2026 at 11:40 AM A senior US congressman and a prominent human rights advocate have renewed criticism of the Vatican for hosting one of China’s top transplant officials at a 2017 conference on organ trafficking, arguing that the Holy See should now take a clearer public stand against Beijing’s alleged forced organ harvesting. The criticism came at a Hudson Institute event in Washington on 9 April focused on new evidence concerning organ harvesting in Ch... Read more

By Jenna Lee Published April 12, 2026 At The Heritage Foundation, policy experts recently exposed how China is murdering innocents for organ harvesting. The April 7 event, titled “Organ Harvesting: Communist China’s Hideous Shop of Horrors,” featured Rep. Christopher Smith, R-N.J., a panel of senior research fellows, and Jan Jekielek, senior editor of The Epoch Times and the host of “American Thought Leaders.” The speakers discussed reports of forced organ harvesting in China and the implication... Read more

By Kurt Zindulka Published April 11, 2026 Republican lawmakers in the United States have accused the European Union of intervening to subvert Hungary’s democratic process, putting its thumb on the scale against Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as he seeks re-election on Sunday. New Jersey Congressman Chris Smith and Maryland Representative Andy Harris wrote to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen — who controls the unelected federal branch of the European Union — accusing Brussels of us... Read more

By Jason Allentoff Published April 11, 2026 TOMS RIVER – Nearly six decades after being wounded in combat during the Vietnam War, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran has finally received long-overdue recognition for his service. Cpl. Leo Perlmutter was injured during the Tet Offensive in January 1968, when North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launched widespread attacks against U.S. and South Vietnamese troops. Amid incoming mortar fire, a blast struck near his position. “I didn’t even know I was hit,”... Read more

By Matt Rooney Published April 10, 2026 WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Rep. Chris Smith criticized House Democrats on Thursday after their attempt to advance an Iran war powers resolution by unanimous consent was blocked during a pro forma session of the U.S. House of Representatives. Smith, who presided over the April 9th U.S. House of Representatives session as speaker pro tempore, said the Democratic effort was procedurally flawed and urged lawmakers to instead focus on ongoing diplomatic developmen... Read more

By Madalaine Elhabbal Published April 10, 2026 at 10:41 AM ET A New Jersey congressman sharply criticized the Vatican for giving a platform to one of Beijing’s top transplant officials at a 2017 international conference on organ trafficking. During an April 9 event hosted by the Hudson Institute highlighting new evidence of forced organ harvesting in China, Rep. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey, called out the Vatican for hosting China’s leading transplant official at the Summit on Organ Trafficking an... Read more

By Catherine Yang and Eva Fu Published April 7, 2026 at 9:49:22 PM EDT WASHINGTON—When Robert Moffit learned about the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP's) forced organ harvesting industry through the recently published book "Killed to Order," he was reminded of the horrors of human experimentation in the Third Reich that came to light during the Nuremberg Trials. "Well, very frankly, like most human beings on this planet, I never thought that anything like this would be surfaced again. But when I ... Read more

By Yihua Lee Published April 3, 2026 Capitol Hill — As the leaders of the United States and China are expected to meet in mid-May, a Republican congressman in the U.S. Congress who has long been concerned about human rights issues said that U.S.-China relations should be based on truth and the defense of human rights. The veteran Republican also called on President Donald Trump to mention the case of Hong Kong's pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai during the talks and asked for Jimmy Lai's medi... Read more

By Jerry Carino Published March 18, 2026 at 5:15 AM ET Leo Perlmutter was a corporal in the U.S. Marines, fighting in the bloody Tet Offensive in 1968, when a mortar round exploded near his head. “I didn’t even know I had gotten hit,” he said. A Navy corpsman — a medical specialist — noticed his forehead was bleeding. “I said, ‘Eh, it’s just a pimple,” Perlmutter recalled. “He said, ‘That ain’t no pimple. You got some metal in your head.’” Leo Perlmutter during his service in Vietnam. Provided B... Read more