A Chino Hills, California man has been arrested for allegedly working as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) while also serving as the campaign manager for a local politician who was elected to office in 2022. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said 64-year-old Yaoning “Mike” Sun was arrested on Thursday […]

PONTIAC, Mich. — A judge on Thursday refused to allow a Michigan school shooter to withdraw his guilty plea to two dozen charges, including terrorism and first-degree murder. Ethan Crumbley’s appellate lawyers cited his mental health and other factors when he waived his right to trial at age 16 and at Oxford High School in […]

The House blocked Speaker Mike Johnson’s new and improved continuing resolution on Thursday night despite earning the support from President-elect Donald Trump. The CR failed in a 235-174 vote, with 172 Republicans and two Democrats voting in favor of the 116-page bill — and 38 Republicans joining 197 Democrats to block it. Since the vote […]

Creating “mirror life” could be one of science’s greatest breakthroughs, but some researchers who began the effort are now calling for it to stop. No mirror-life microorganisms exist yet. However, 38 scientists warned in a paper published in the journal Science on December 12 that if someone created one and it escaped the lab, it […]

U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to Rome next month to meet with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, President Sergio Mattarella and Pope Francis. Biden will “meet with Italy’s leaders to highlight the strength of the U.S.-Italy relationship, thank Prime Minister Meloni for her strong leadership of the G7 over the past year, and discuss […]

U.S. officials on Thursday arrested a Chinese man prosecutors say was at the center of an effort to influence local politics in California, charging him with acting as an illegal foreign agent over his role in getting a politician elected to a City Council position in the Los Angeles area. Prosecutors say Mike Sun, also […]

During his decade-long run as a star for the New York Knicks, Charles Oakley was known as a bruising player who embodied a hardnose style of basketball that endeared him to the fans at Madison Square Garden. That familiar grit seemed to surface at times on Thursday in a federal courtroom in Manhattan as Mr. […]

A meeting between President-elect Donald Trump and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Charles Q. Brown, Jr., in a luxury box at the Army-Navy football game last weekend may have delayed Trump’s plans to fire Brown, according to two people with knowledge of the conversation. For months, Trump and his close associates […]

On Bethlehem's Manger Square, Christmas decorations and pilgrims are notably absent for a second wartime festive season in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city.