July 17, 2026, 6:14 p.m. ET WASHINGTON – Among President Donald Trump’s many assertions about election insecurity in his July 16 nationwide address, perhaps none was more alarming than his accusation that China carried out the “largest compromise of election data in history” through its “illicit acquisition of 220 million U.S. voter files.” Not true,…
Updated July 17, 2026, 8:58 a.m. MT In a Thursday night address to the nation, President Donald Trump claimed China had meddled in U.S. elections. During the July 16 primetime address, Trump alleged that newly declassified documents would reveal Chinese efforts to interfere in multiple U.S. elections, including the 2020 election, when he lost to…
10:48 pm ETShare this update Trump-backed GOP Senate candidate thinks Americans should be ‘alarmed’ Terry Collins Georgia Rep. Mike Collins, who’s also the state’s Republican Senate candidate, said on social media Thursday that Americans should be “alarmed” by their enemies’ attempts to prevent secure elections, echoing sentiments in a speech made by President Donald Trump….
July 7, 2026, 12:25 p.m. ET Detroit — A day before he is set to debate the other two Republicans running to be Michigan’s next governor, Mike Cox lobbed the label of “hypocrite” at U.S. Rep. John James for his business dealings with China. Cox, the state’s former attorney general from 2003 through 2010, held…
Updated May 30, 2026, 1:31 p.m. ET A former Southern California mayor has pleaded guilty to acting as an illegal agent for the government of China, according to court proceedings Friday reported by People and CNN. Eileen Wang pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to charges that she secretly carried out work directed by Chinese…
Updated May 14, 2026, 11:51 a.m. ET President Donald Trump is in China for a packed two-day trip, including one-on-ones with President Xi Jinping, in the first U.S. state visit to China in nearly a decade. In November, Trump announced he had accepted an invitation to visit China in April, but that was delayed as…
May 13, 2026, 8:35 p.m. ET Vice President JD Vance compared himself to Kevin McCallister, the character played by Macaulay Culkin in the “Home Alone” movie franchise, as he remains in the country during President Donald Trump’s trip to China. “I walk into the White House, it’s very quiet, and no one’s there, and it takes…
Updated May 9, 2026, 2:54 p.m. ET A former University of Michigan visiting scholar from China in 2012 has been charged with lying to U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents when he tried to leave the country in 2023. Chuan Wang, who was born in 1989, was charged Friday in U.S. District Court in the…
May 5, 2026, 5:08 a.m. ET WASHINGTON – U.S. flagmakers say that half the star-spangled banners sold in this country are made in China, so the manufacturers are urging the Trump administration to impose huge new tariffs on imports rather than wave a white flag after the Supreme Courtoverturned his emergency tariffs. “The American flag,…
May 5, 2026, 12:01 a.m. ET Waymo LLC, Alphabet Inc.’s autonomous ride-sharing brand, plans to expand its service to Detroit later this year. But a recent vehicle sighting by The Detroit News suggests the Motor City fleet will include Waymo’s latest vehicle: a China-sourced minivan. Called the Waymo Ojai, the electric minivan shares the so-called…