With president Trump continuing to fight to keep the long overdue tariffs in place, China is working equally as hard to try and topple the U.S. dollar. “Xi Jinping has made no bones about the fact that he wants to displace the United States as the preeminent country in the world, and he also wants…
El Paso, Texas — The long white tents, visible to anyone driving across East El Paso, Texas, are designed to be part of the biggest immigration holding facility in U.S. history, with a capacity for as many as 5,000 immigrants. “That’s what it is, a giant tent city,” Democratic Rep. Veronica Escobar of Texas, who…
CLEVELAND, Texas (AP) — Police in Texas are searching for a man who opened fire at a bar early Sunday, killing a person and wounding five others in a county northeast of Houston. The Liberty County Sheriff’s Office said the shooter arrived at the Alas Locas restaurant and bar near Cleveland, Texas, around midnight, reports…
Amid growing anger from his political base, US President Donald Trump has defended his proposal to admit 600,000 Chinese students over two years, but analysts warn that the policy reversal may not ease the pathway to American colleges. Reaction to last month’s announcement prompted the administration, which previously “aggressively revoked” visas for Chinese students, to…
A Texas law restricting property ownership and leasing by Chinese citizens came into effect this week, thrusting affected residents into legal limbo with no path to relief before November. The law, which restricts real estate purchases by companies, individuals and government entities linked to countries that the federal government deems a threat to the US,…
Beginning at 8 years old, Chloe Childress followed a family tradition of spending summers at Camp Mystic, a private Christian summer camp for girls located along the Guadalupe River in Texas Hill Country in an area known as “Flash Flood Alley.” This year, she turned 18, and went from camper to counselor. “She was very…
A Texas man has been charged with murder in the shooting death of an 11-year-old boy who played a doorbell prank. Houston police charged Gonzalo Leon Jr., 42, with murder in the death of Julian Guzman, 11. Police said Guzman and his friends were pranking neighbors by ringing doorbells and running away from homes around…
A man has been charged in the deadly shooting of a boy who was struck in the back by gunfire while playing “ding dong ditch” Saturday night in Houston, Texas, authorities said. Gonzalo Leon Jr., 42, is charged with murder and currently jailed in Harris County, which includes the east Houston neighborhood where the shooting…
We have selected seven of the most interesting and important news stories covering US-China relations from the past few weeks. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Trump’s overhaul of State Department may play into Beijing’s hands for decades Illustration: Brian Wang The US effort to counter China’s…
A 66-year-old man has been arrested for the murder of a pregnant woman 20 years after her body was found in a Texas graveyard, authorities announced. Valerie Laguna, 26, was nine months pregnant at the time of her death in 2005, the La Salle County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. She was last…