Occupational therapist Lim Siong-hua arrives for every workday at her hospital carrying a backpack stuffed with books, water and survival gear. She ditches the elevator, climbing 11 flights before descending to her ninth-floor office. Lim, 37, is training for an invasion. She wants to be prepared and fit enough to get her 3-year-old daughter and 6-year-old son to safety if China starts raining missiles onto Taiwan.

Armenia’s June 7 election will determine whether the country continues its cautious westward shift or drifts back into Moscow’s orbit.

Washoe County Commissioner Alexis Hill may face an uphill battle in the Nevada governor’s race, but on Wednesday morning, dozens of her supporters packed a wing of a downtown Las Vegas restaurant to hear her economic proposals.

Democrats in Congress led the charge to release the Jeffrey Epstein files. Now, prominent party power brokers and allies are paying a price, losing their jobs and seeing their reputations tarnished as a result of information in the documents.

A trend of "Chinamaxing" has swept the Western internet world, with people imitating Chinese lifestyles such as drinking warm water and taking off their shoes when entering a house. Scholar Austin Horng-En Wang pointed out that this trend is more like young people being quirky, rather than the "sudden surge in pro-China sentiment among American youth" that the media is worried about.

OpenAI, the developer of the chatbot ChatGPT, released a report indicating that the Chinese government used ChatGPT to generate images and text to launch cyberattacks. Scholar Austin Horng-En Wang pointed out today that the development of artificial intelligence (AI) has made related cyberattacks and cognitive warfare larger in scale and lower in cost.