The recent conflict between India and Pakistan is prompting a reassessment of Chinese weapons, challenging long-held perceptions of their inferiority to Western arms and sparking concern in places wary of Beijing.

Pakistan hailed the use of its Chinese J-10Cs to shoot down five Indian fighters, including French-made Rafale aircraft, last week ...Read more

The U.S. needs global trade. However, the country needs to be smart about the policies around it, including tariffs, one local expert says.

Scott Martens — who cut his supply-chain chops in the military, worked for Twin Cities companies and now is a University of St. Thomas professor — says the discussion around supply chains and tariffs ...Read more

For years, outdoors enthusiasts in New Mexico have pushed to overhaul the state Department of Game & Fish — an agency plagued by leadership turnover, funding woes and the scorn of hunters and tree-huggers alike.

Now, state lawmakers have given the agency a new name, a new mission, new leadership and a boost in funding to expand its role. The ...Read more

PHOENIX — As an Arizona bill to block people from using government aid to buy soda headed to the governor’s desk in April, the nation’s top health official joined Arizona lawmakers in the state Capitol to celebrate its passage.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said to applause that the legislation was just the ...Read more

WYANDOTTE COUNTY, Kan. — Although Wyandotte County has yet to see a reported measles outbreak, public health officials are readying public guidance and offering vaccine services as the disease inches north from southwest Kansas.

As of May 7, Kansas’s 48 reported measles cases remained among eight counties in the state’s southwest corner, ...Read more

House Republicans released their first stab at a bill to extend President Donald Trump’s tax cuts, which would help pay for them by overhauling much of President Joe Biden’s landmark climate law.

The draft framework put out Monday by the Ways and Means Committee takes aim at billions of dollars of incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act, ...Read more

Key pillars of the Trump administration's policy toward Mexico involve large-scale deportations and a crackdown on cartels.

But reports in the Mexican media suggest that U.S. authorities recently orchestrated the secret, cross-border move of at least 17 relatives of Mexico's most notorious drug kingpin — Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán — to ...Read more

The one-time ‘king’ of one of Haiti’s most violent criminal gang, already looking at spending 35 years in a U.S. prison for his role in a gunrunning conspiracy that funneled high-powered weapons to gang members using kidnapping proceeds, will soon learn if he will face more prison time in the United States for his alleged role in the ...Read more

The residents of a California town are raising the alarm after dozens of birds appear to have exploded without explanation.

The phenomena appears to be limited to a single neighborhood in Richmond, about 10 miles north of Oakland.

Neighbors claim that more than 50 birds have suddenly fallen dead to the ground after sitting on a stretch of ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom's Office said Tuesday that President Trump's tariff policies will reduce state revenues in California by $16 billion through next year.

Despite personal income tax and corporate tax receipts in the state coming in $6.8 billion above projections through April, the Newsom administration is predicting that overall revenues will ...Read more

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka returned to the gates of an ICE detention center days after he was arrested for allegedly trespassing at the same facility.

Baraka, a Democrat running for New Jersey governor, was turned away shortly after he arrived outside Delaney Hall on Tuesday. He was blocked from getting within 20 feet of the entrance by eight ...Read more

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. celebrated Mother’s Day with his family by swimming in a contaminated Washington, D.C., creek used for sewer runoff.

“Mother’s Day hike in Dumbarton Oaks Park with Amaryllis, Bobby, Kick, and Jackson, and a swim with my grandchildren, Bobcat and Cassius in Rock Creek,” Kennedy ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams Tuesday announced a new city Office to Combat Antisemitism amid a surge in anti-Jewish hate crimes and an increasing focus on the issue in this year’s mayoral race.

The mayor said NYPD stats show that more than half of hate crimes are antisemitic despite Jewish New Yorkers making up about 10% of the city’s ...Read more

The Georgia Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a closely watched case to decide if housing authorities in the state are shielded from liability when tenants sue them over violent crime or other dangerous conditions.

Christina Guy, a former tenant at the Dogwood Terrace apartment complex in downtown Augusta, sued the city’s housing ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The resentencing hearing for Erik and Lyle Menendez Tuesday featured emotional testimony from family members, several of whom said in court that the brothers should be freed from prison for the shotgun killing of their parents more than 30 years ago.

The result, announced at the end of the day by Judge Michael Jesic, was a ...Read more

President Donald Trump has spent the first major overseas trip of his second administration — next stop Wednesday in Qatar — beating back allegations that he was personally profiting from foreign leaders by accepting a $400-million luxury airliner from the Gulf state’s royal family.

Trump has bristled at the notion that he should turn ...Read more