A man from California has pleaded guilty in court for using unemployment compensation to run a fake business selling COVID-19 personal protective equipment. Two others have been charged in the same case.

LOS ANGELES — A Rancho Cucamonga woman was sentenced Monday to more than 3 years in prison in a long-running case over a business that helped pregnant Chinese women travel to the United States to deliver babies who automatically became American citizens.

China appears to be building a large laser-ignited fusion research centre in the southwestern city of Mianyang, experts at two analytical organisations say, a development that could aid nuclear weapons design and work exploring power generation.

Eight suspects from throughout Southern California were arrested, and one remained a fugitive, in the alleged $200-million smuggling operation

In an email to its members, the Navy banned the use of DeepSeek AI “in any capacity” for fear of “potential security and ethical concerns associated with the model’s origin and

An investigation reveals a network of nonprofit organizations in the US linked to China's Communist Party, leading to the establishment of unofficial courts. These actions aim to bolster Beijing's global influence and contradict official claims of benign overseas operations,

Released last week, the Chinese company’s website claimed its new R1 artificial intelligence model sported “performance on par with OpenAI-o1.” OpenAI is the San Francisco-based company headed by Sam Altman. Its main product is ChatGPT.

In the run up to the election Trump, who described tariffs as "the most beautiful word in the dictionary," vowed hikes as high as 60 percent on Chinese goods, saying this would not only protect domestic industries but serve as critical tax revenue. Economists have pointed out such a move would raise costs for American consumers.

newsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will meet with Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang at the White House on Friday, a White House official said, following reports the Trump administration is studying new ways to restrict AI chip sales to China. Additional details were not immediately available.

One such beneficiary is the Peace Oasis of the Holy Spirit Amparito shelter in the southern Mexican city of Villahermosa. The shelter has been treading water for months as Mexican authorities — under pressure from the U.S. to stem migration flows — have dumped migrants rounded up throughout the country.

U.S. carriers were in Thailand, Japan and the Eastern Pacific this week, while a carrier from France is set to visit the Pacific for the first time since 1968.

China has made little secret of its expansionist ambitions, in particular its insistence that the autonomous island of Taiwan is part of its territory.