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U.S. authorities said Monday that they had arrested a Chinese researcher accused of smuggling biological material into the country, the second such case in days. The FBI said in a criminal complaint that the researcher, identified as Chengxuan Han, a Chinese doctoral student at the College of Life Science and Technology at the Huazhong University […]
A Chinese national has been charged with smuggling a toxic fungus into the US, the FBI has said. Zunyong Liu, 34, flew into Detroit Metropolitan Airport in July last year with fusarium graminearum – a pathogen which can attack wheat, barley, maize and rice, and sicken livestock and people, according to court documents. According to […]
The United States is being asked to explain why it appears to be deporting migrants from as far away as Vietnam and Cuba to South Sudan, a chaotic country that’s once again in danger of collapsing into civil war. A U.S. judge ordered Trump administration officials to
The Trump administration on Wednesday backed away from federal efforts to investigate or oversee nearly two dozen police departments accused of civil rights violations, abandoning an effort designed to reform local law enforcement agencies in the wake of high-profile police killings. Officials said they planned to drop agreements reached after incidents of police violence against […]
An Ohio man is accused of burning 100 library books on African American, Jewish, and LGBTQ history, sparking a public outcry. Cuyahoga County Public Library’s Beachwood library branch on Shaker Boulevard in Beachwood, Ohio.Google Maps The Beachwood Police Department said the man checked out the books in April, days after he went to the Beachwood […]
Rodney Scott, Donald Trump’s nominee to lead Customs and Border Protection (CBP), has been accused by a former top official of orchestrating a “cover-up” over the death of a man detained while trying to enter the country from Mexico, according to a letter obtained by the Guardian. Scott is a former US Border Patrol chief […]
An appellate court in Russia reduced the jail time for a U.S. soldier accused of stealing and making murder threats in the country. A judge in the 9th Court of Cassation ruled Monday that Staff Sgt. Gordon Black’s prison sentence would be adjusted from three years and nine months to three years and two months,

The sibling ex-leaders of Mexico’s violent Zetas cartel were arraigned on Friday in the United States on charges including drug trafficking, firearm possession and money laundering, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Brothers Miguel and Omar Trevino Morales — aliases “Z-40” and “Z-42” — led . . .