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More Asian-American voters in New York City have voted Republican in recent years -- and now a record number are taking matters into their own hands by running as GOP candidates for state legislative ...

An image showing the Chinese bomber N-6H with a substantial payload beneath its fuselage—the WZ-8 drone—has surfaced online. This sizable drone is reputed to have a range spanning thousands of ...

WADA accepted that Chinese anti-doping authorities said positive drug tests for swimmers were the result of contamination.

Officials urge municipalities to begin emergency planning after major rivers and reservoirs threaten to overflow
Major rivers, waterways and reservoirs in China’s Guangdong province are threatening to unleash dangerous floods, forcing the government to enact emergency response plans to protect more than 127 million people.
Calling the situation “grim”, local weather officials said sections of rivers and tributaries at the Xijiang and Beijiang river basins are hitting water levels in a rare spike that only has a one-in-50 chance of happening in any given year, the state broadcaster CCTV news said on Sunday.

David Sanger of the New York Times delivers a must-read on the foreign policy challenges now facing US leaders
Russia bombards Ukraine. Israel and Hamas are locked in a danse macabre. The threat of outright war between Jerusalem and Tehran grows daily. Beijing and Washington snarl. In a moment like this, David Sanger’s latest book, subtitled , is a must-read. Painstakingly researched, New Cold Wars brims with on-record interviews and observations by thinly veiled sources.
Officials closest to the president talk with an eye on posterity. The words of the CIA director, Bill Burns, repeatedly appear on the page. Antony Blinken, the secretary of state, and Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, surface throughout the book. Sanger, for the New York Times, fuses access, authority and curiosity to deliver an alarming message: US dominance is no longer axiomatic.

As well as perform, Summers opened her club to other hopeful stand-up comedians. Some people liked her comedy routines; others scorned them. But either way, the club began to gain fame in Los Angeles, and popular Chinese-American comedian Joe Wong, who often performed there, became a friend.

I n the 2004 stoner comedy “Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle,” two Asian American protagonists, portrayed by John Cho and Kal Penn, embarked on a quest for White Castle burgers that was about much more than satisfying a case of the munchies.

Bill – with updated language that extends deadline to a year for ByteDance to divest of TikTok – to go before Senate next week
The House of Representatives voted 360 to 58 on the updated divest-or-ban bill that could lead to the first time ever that the US government has passed a law to shut down an entire social media platform.
The Senate is expected to vote on the bill next week and Joe Biden has said he will sign the legislation.

Nymphia Wind, known for her obsession with the color yellow and her couture-like design talent, was crowned winner of the 16th season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” ...

Revelations of nearly two dozen Chinese swimmers whose positive doping tests went unpunished have sparked an intense flurry of accusations and legal threats between the World Anti-Doping Agency and ...

A doping case involving Olympic swimmers has left unanswered questions and raised new concerns about the actions of a global antidoping regulator.

As tensions with China rise, scientists at America’s leading universities complain of stalled research after crackdown at airports
Stopped at the border, interrogated on national security grounds, laptops and mobile phones checked, held for several hours, plans for future research shattered.
Many western scholars are nervous about travelling to China in the current political climate. But lately it is Chinese researchers working at US universities who are increasingly reporting interrogations – and in several cases deportations – at US airports, despite holding valid work or study visas for scientific research.