China is on track to double the size of its nuclear warhead stockpile while expanding foreign military bases capable of attacking the United States — worrying signs that Beijing is seeking global superpower status, the Pentagon warned in its annual survey of the Chinese military released Tuesday. The People’s Liberation Army currently has a warhead…
BEAVER CREEK, Colorado — The drug hydroxychloroquine has gotten a bad rap thanks to a politics, media hype, and some “garbage” medical research, according to Dr. Scott Atlas, a member of the White House coronavirus task force. “What’s happened with hydroxychloroquine is that the system has gone mad,” Dr. Atlas said Friday at the Steamboat…
Chinese technology theft costs the American economy $225 billion to $600 billion annually in stolen trade secrets, pirated software and counterfeit goods, according to a new FBI report. “The Chinese government is the world’s principal infringer of intellectual property, and it uses its laws and regulations to put foreign companies at a disadvantage and its…
First lady Melania Trump received fierce backlash from celebrity activist Bette Midler Tuesday night while recounting the realization of her American dream during a speech at the Republican National Convention. The “Hocus Pocus” star and singer referred to Mrs. Trump as an “illegal immigrant” who “can’t speak English” as millions listened to her journey to…
An “Angel Mom” whose son was killed by an illegal immigrant was pulled from speaking at the Republican National Convention Tuesday night after she retweeted a social media post containing an anti-Semitic message. Mary Ann Mendoza said on Twitter shortly before the second night of the convention began that she had “retweeted a very long…
FORT MILL, S.C. — A man has been accused of firing gunshots at a gathering of President Donald Trump’s supporters along a road in South Carolina. There were no injuries, police said. Marquise Damarius Asomani, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was arrested after police responded to a report of shots fired Monday evening in Fort Mill,…
A U.S. spy plane crossed into a no-fly zone in the Pacific on Tuesday and disrupted People’s Liberation Army drills, Chinese officials said in sharp accusations that mark yet another escalation of tensions between the two global powers. China’s Defense Ministry said that an American U-2 aircraft engaged in a “purely provocative act” by entering…
ATLANTA — Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said he would follow public health advisers’ advice if they called for a national shutdown should he take office and the coronavirus had not abated. “I would be prepared to do whatever it takes to save lives. We cannot get the country moving until we control the virus,”…
Joseph R. Biden pushed back against the notion he is not fit to be president on Sunday after President Trump and his Republican allies have repeatedly questioned the former vice president’s mental capacity. Mr. Trump’s campaign released an ad last week showing clips of Mr. Biden appearing to lose his train of thought while campaigning…
The Food and Drug Administration gave emergency approval to a COVID-19 treatment that uses antibodies in the blood plasma of survivors to help patients fend off the disease, one day after President Trump accused “deep state” figures at the agency of slow-walking therapeutics and vaccine trials to make him look bad. FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn…