Rep. Judy Chu Publicly Supports Impeachment Inquiry into President Trump
Democratic Rep. Judy Chu of California’s 27th Congressional District joins the majority of her Democratic colleagues in the House of Representatives who publicly support an impeachment inquiry into President Donald J. Trump. In an interview with NPR’s Scott Simon yesterday, Chu cited Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s July 24 testimony as a “public call to action that I saw to […]
U.S. Ends Cold War Missile Treaty, With Aim of Countering China
WASHINGTON — The United States on Friday terminated a major treaty of the Cold War, the Intermediate Nuclear Forces agreement, and it is already planning to start testing a new class of missiles later this summer. But the new missiles are unlikely to be deployed to counter the treaty’s other nuclear power, Russia, which the United […]
Trump Says Things Going `Well’ With China After New Tariff Shock
President Donald Trump said “things are going along very well with China,” two days after his move to threaten tariffs on hundreds of millions of dollars in additional Chinese imports sent global stock markets tumbling. Trump said that “so far our consumer is paying nothing” from the levies imposed on China, repeating a widely-challenged assertion […]
China’s scientists alarmed, bewildered by growing anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States
SHANGHAI, CHINA—Scientists in China are concerned about what they see as growing anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States. They dismiss claims of a vast conspiracy to steal U.S. intellectual property and worry that new visa restrictions, scrutiny of export of scientific devices, and U.S. investigations of Chinese and Chinese American scientists will hinder international collaborations. […]
Queens Congresswoman introduces bill to create first possible museum dedicated to Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
Congresswoman Grace Meng introduced a new legislation on Wednesday to examine the possibility of creating the first museum dedicated to preserving the history, culture, and accomplishments of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI). The bill “Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture Act,” would create […]
Police: Man allegedly stabs victim on NYC subway train, then stabs good Samaritan during police chase
RIBECA, Manhattan (WABC) — A man is accused of stabbing another straphanger on a New York City subway train after a dispute over a seat — then stabbing a good Samaritan who tried to intervene during a police chase. It happened around 7:20 p.m. on Tuesday on a southbound A train approaching the Canal Street […]
Man convicted of stealing trade secrets from Houston-based Trelleborg Offshore
Prosecutors said Shi sought to obtain information about syntactic foam for the benefit of CBM-Future New Material Science and Technology Co. Ltd. (CBMF), a Chinese company based in Taizhou, and for the ultimate benefit of China. Four of Shi’s co-defendants, some of whom worked at Trelleborg, had pleaded guilty to conspiring to steal trade secrets, […]