Even foreigners who criticize China could be jailed if they ever set foot in Hong Kong under the city’s controversial new national security laws, analyst and author Gordon Chang said Sunday on the Fox News Channel. The laws, which came into effect on Tuesday, not only clamp down on personal freedoms for Hong Kong residents…
London (CNN Business)Hong Kong insists its vibrant community of journalists has nothing to fear from the national security legislation China imposed on the city this week. But press freedom advocates…
After China published a Hong Kong national security law as a fait accompli Tuesday night without the usual consultation, the broader implications of the most consequential political change in the financial center since its 1997 handover are coming into focus.Overnight, Hong Kong’s 7.5 million residents were put under the same speech restrictions as the mainland,…
Seattle residents said Sunday that despite rumors that the city was going to reclaim the “occupied” area known as CHOP, little has changed on the ground and the “security” at the protest zone has actually gotten more “contentious” with residents who live nearby.“They won’t let people in the neighborhood sometimes at night,” Matthew Ploszaj, who lives…
FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A tense situation in Downtown Fresno ended with a man in handcuffs after police say suspect Richard Martinez tried robbing the Westamerica Bank on Tulare and O Street."During that time several people ran out and officers arrived very shortly, while the subject was still inside," says Fresno Police Captain Joe Alvarez.A…
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…