- New national security law will criminalize "treason, secession, sedition (and) subversion" against the Chinese government. - It will also permit Chinese security services to operate in Hong Kong "to fulfill relevant duties to safeguard national security in…
Chinese President Xi Jinping, waves to residents who are quarantined at home and sends regards to them at a community in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, March 10, 2020.Pang Xinglei | Xinhua via GettyChinese President Xi Jinping said Monday his country will provide $2 billion over two years to help other countries respond to the impact…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: The question of which country will benefit or lose most in prestige and power as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has been answered in various ways. In the first weeks, analysts stressed the impact on China and predicted that economic disaster there might well destabilize and weaken the Communist grip on its people.…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.China's newest supersonic stealth bomber -- which doubles the country's strike range and completes its nuclear triad -- could be ready for rollout later this year but Beijing has purportedly been weighing the step and what it could mean for escalating regional tensions…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…