April 7, 2026, 6:04 a.m. ET Danhao Wang has been identified by University of Michigan officials as the Chinese postdoctoral research fellow who died two weeks ago, prompting Chinese officials to demand an investigation after claiming the researcher underwent what they called “hostile questioning” by federal law enforcement. While Chinese officials did not name the…
March 19, 2026, 8:53 a.m. ET Beijing — China has arrested seven people and subjected 12 more to “criminal compulsory measures” in a campaign targeting traffickers in fentanyl precursor chemicals, state media said on Thursday, following pressure from the United States. China’s first wide-publication in years of legal action that has led to the arrests…
Feb. 11, 2026, 4:52 p.m. ET A Southern California man has been sentenced for covertly operating as a Chinese agent while serving as campaign advisor for a local city council candidate and carrying out orders that included monitoring Taiwan’s former president during her 2023 visit to the state. Yaoning “Mike” Sun, 65, of Chino Hills,…
Jan. 13, 2026, 8:41 a.m. ET A former U.S. Navy sailor has been sentenced to over 16 years in federal prison for selling secret military information on American ships to China, officials said. Jinchao Wei, 25, also known as Patrick Wei, was sentenced on Jan. 12 to 200 months on espionage charges, the Department of…
A Monroe man pleaded guilty to assault in Orange County Court on Nov. 14 in connection with his role in the May shooting of a robbery victim in Port Jervis. Orange County District Attorney David Hoovler announced John Selja Jr., 22, pleaded guilty to first-degree assault, a felony. Documents filed and statements made in court…
A 40-year-old man was hospitalized Nov. 12 after he was injured in a police shooting near Madison Street and 2nd Avenue. According to the Eugene Police Chief Chris Skinner, officers responded to reports of a man armed with a shotgun around 12:30 p.m. in the 1400 block of Railroad Boulevard in Eugene. Skinner said seven…
Sean “Diddy” Combs‘ prison release date has been pushed back by nearly a month. The 56-year-old, who is behind bars at New Jersey’s FCI Fort Dix as he serves a 50-month sentence for his conviction on prostitution charges, was previously scheduled for release on May 8, 2028. However, the Bureau of Prisons’ website now shows an…
President Donald Trump’s one-time friendship with disgraced sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has plagued his second term in the White House. While members of Trump’s current administration have for years called on federal officials to release their files on Epstein, they changed their tune in recent months, saying that no “client list” exists. On Nov. 12, new…
President Donald Trump‘s Republican allies in Congress, eager to help him rewrite the history of criminal investigations into his conduct after he lost the 2020 election, might have inadvertently offered us all a path to transparency about some of his alleged lawlessness. Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed in 2022 to investigate Trump’s attempts to…
STILLWATER ― Loud and persistent chants of “No means No!” and “No justice, no peace!” erupted in front of the Payne County Courthouse as upward of 150 people gathered to protest a ruling that allowed a teen who faced years of incarceration on charges of sexually assaulting two girls to avoid prison. Most of the…