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The Bronx man accused of running a secret Chinese police station in Manhattan's Chinatown has been convicted of illegally serving as an agent of Beijing in federal court.

Igor Lytvynchuk, 38, of Covington, Washington state, faces federal misdemeanor charges after a May 5 video appeared to show him throwing a coconut-sized rock toward a male monk seal near Lahaina. His attorney, Myles Breiner, said his client saw two honu, or sea turtles, resting on the rocks and believed the seal was disturbing them, with one turtle already knocked into the water.

[ Source ] An almost entirely Vietnamese American field of candidates is competing for California's 45th Congressional District seat, anchored by Orange County's Little Saigon.

A Washington state man accused of throwing a rock at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal on Maui never meant to harm the animal and thought he was shielding nearby sea turtles, his attorney said. Igor L...

Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and translator Lin King’s queer colonial romance has become the first Mandarin Chinese work to win one of fiction’s most prestigious international honors last week. A love story layered in colonial history Set in 1938 Japan-occupied Taiwan, “Taiwan Travelogue” centers on Aoyama Chizuko, a young Japanese novelist on a government-sponsored tour of the island, and Chizuru, the enigmatic Taiwanese interpreter assigned to accompany her. As Chizuko grows infatuated, Chizuru keeps her at arm’s length. The novel is disguised as a recovered Japanese travel memoir, with its metafictional framework built from fictional introductions, footnotes and afterwords alongside real ones by King. This created what judging chair Natasha Brown described as “an intriguing metafictional layer around its core love story.”

A review of social media posts and public statements has revived scrutiny of Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong's past calls to abolish police departments, a position most Democrats have abandoned.

U.S. Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) was pepper-sprayed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents Monday as he tried to defuse a confrontation

Orange County authorities lifted all evacuation orders Tuesday night after declaring that a damaged chemical tank at the GKN Aerospace facility in Garden Grove no longer posed a risk of explosion, fire or toxic release.

The number of immigrants dying by suicide in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention has climbed to its worst point in at least 20 years, with five confirmed deaths in 2026 alone and the y...

A review of social media posts and public statements has revived scrutiny of Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong’s past calls to abolish police departments, a position most Democrats have...