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In Congress and statehouses, the balloon’s journey added traction to decades-old concerns about foreign land ownership

The US president addressed Congress in an event marked by China, the Ukraine war, gun and police reform and calls for unity in defense of democracy

His speech before a politically divided Congress comes as the nation struggles to make sense of confounding cross-currents at home and abroad

The crisis sparked by the incursion of a Chinese spy balloon in US airspace is set to weigh heavily on the president’s most important speech of the year

Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng said he lodged a formal complaint over the ‘US attack on a Chinese civilian unmanned airship by military force’

Beijing responded that it reserved the right to ‘take further actions’ and criticized Washington for ‘an obvious overreaction and a serious violation of international practice’

A Costa Rica newspaper reported that hundreds of people have seen the aircraft in the sky in recent hours

China said Friday that a balloon spotted over American airspace was used for weather research and was blown off course, despite US suspicion it was spying

The discovery has further strained already tense relations between Beijing and Washington

The third-richest man in the world’s net worth halved in a week after he was accused of market manipulation by a US firm specializing in ‘man-made disasters’

A senior defense official said it has ‘limited’ value in terms of providing China intelligence it couldn’t already collect by other means

The large-scale Chinese deployment came as Beijing increases preparations for a potential blockade or military action against the island

Huawei Technologies Ltd., China’s first global tech brand, is at the center of conflict between the US and Beijing over technology and security

The company is reeling from a worldwide recall of sleep apnea machines and economic headwinds

A report Friday showed that US inflation is continuing to cool, raising hopes for a smaller increase that’s less painful than last year’s aggressive hikes

New restrictions are being imposed on travelers with cameras and binoculars as the regime attempts to restrict reporting on the repression

The Treasury and State departments announced the moves in coordinated statements that target dozens of the mercenaries’ affiliates

New research based on seismic waves suggests that the innermost level of the planet is losing speed and may be spinning in the opposite direction to the surface

The relaxation of restrictions let loose a wave of pent-up travel desire, particularly around the country’s most important time for family gatherings

Anatoly Legkodymov, who lives in China, was arrested Tuesday night in Miami

Economic growth fell to 3% last year, not even half 2021’s rate, under pressure from antivirus controls and a real estate slump

The electric car company has lost more than 70% of its value on the stock market and analysts doubt that it can maintain its market share in the long term

The toll included 5,503 fatalities due to respiratory failure caused by Covid-19 and 54,435 from other ailments combined with the disease

The scientific community is aghast at He Jiankui’s return after three years in prison and compares him to Nazi doctors

XBB and XBB1.5 now account for more than 44% of all coronavirus cases in the United States, although no data indicates that these infections are more serious

The IMF warns about concurrent downturns in the US, Europe and China