The U.S. Attorney’s Office charged 19 people, including 18 former NBA players in a nearly $4 million fraud scheme. The players are accused of defrauding the league’s health and welfare benefit plan. The video above shows the announcement of the charges on Thursday. According to officials, former NBA player Terrence Williams led the fraud scheme,…

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki confirmed at her daily White House briefing Wednesday that President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping will hold a virtual meeting by the end of the year. The video above shows her discussing the future meeting. “We continue to believe that leader level engagement is an important part of…

Taiwan’s newly elected leader is pledging to renew stalled talks with China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory. This comes after China has stepped up military and political pressure against the island. Do these developments mean we are about to see a major shift in the region? For starters, it’s unlikely China will take…

People in the Henan province in Central China continued cleanup efforts Thursday after floods killed at least 33 people in the area earlier in the week. The video above shows ongoing flooding in the cities of Zhengzhou, Xinxiang and Anyang seen Wednesday and Thursday. Another eight people remain missing in the floods. Tens of thousands…

Fresh off a meeting with German Chancellor Angele Merkel Thursday, President Joe Biden is set to meet virtually with other world leaders to discuss how to recover the world economy after the pandemic. The meeting will focus on the Pacific Rim, with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and Russian President Vladimir…

China celebrated its centennial rule by the Communist Party with about 70,000 people at Beijing’s iconic Tiananmen Square. The event was invitation-only. President Xi Jinping told the crowd that “no one should underestimate the Chinese people’s determination, and strong ability to defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity.” In an hourlong address, he pledged to build…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will buy 500 million more doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to share through the global COVAX alliance for donation to 92 lower income countries and the African Union over the next year, a person familiar with the matter said Wednesday. President Joe Biden was set to make the announcement…

From Russia’s cyberattacks and election interference to China‘s economic buildup and expansion in the South China Sea, both countries pose pressing challenges to the global balance of power. Earlier this year, a U.S. intelligence report identified how and why Russia and China remain America’s top two international threats. It detailed how China has become a…