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When a judge was ready to sentence R. Kelly for sexually exploiting children, Breon Peace, the federal government’s top prosecutor in Brooklyn, was in the courtroom’s front row. Peace, who oversees more than 160 attorneys and many times that number of cases, can’t go to many hearings personally. This one …

President-elect Donald Trump may only have four years in power ahead of him — assuming American democracy holds — but these four years could prove critical in the fight against climate change. With the U.S. poised to not only withdraw from the climate fight but likely become a detrimental force …

TikTok’s future in the United States is in serious jeopardy, and Donald Trump may be the only person who can save it. The president-elect told reporters at Mar-a-Lago on Monday that he would “take a look” at the situation surrounding the platform’s future, before meeting with TikTok CEO Shou Zi …

Eric Adams wanted to see the world, to see it in style. But he wasn’t a rich man, just a former cop and rising politician in a largely ceremonial job, Brooklyn Borough President. Luckily for him, there were a number of benefactors who federal prosecutors say were ready to help …

In the spring of 2022, Chloe Joy Sexton’s mother died after a years-long battle with brain cancer. The loss came during what was already a trying period in Sexton’s life. She’d recently given birth herself, and had been fired from her job after getting pregnant. Now, at 27 years old, …

If he becomes president again, a recently run wargame determined NATO could collapse under another Trump administration. Donald Trump loves to complain about NATO and what he perceives as member nations not contributing enough financially to shared defense. He has threatened to put the U.S. on a “standby” position in …

The Senate voted Tuesday to pass a bill that would either ban TikTok from American app stores and web-hosting services or force its China-based parent company ByteDance to sell the video-sharing platform within nearly a year. The bill, titled the Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, would also …

J ohn Woo couldn’t miss. The godfather of gun fu, who helmed a number of balletic, bullet-riddled Chinese actions hits — A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, and Hard Boiled among them — before taking his talents to the States, was coming off four consecutive Hollywood smashes. First came the Jean-Claude …

A coalition of Democrats serving in the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party has requested to receive a classified intelligence briefing on “how the CCP and our foreign adversaries are leveraging current political dysfunction in the U.S. House of Representatives to discredit democracy globally.” In a Monday letter …

Hackers linked to Beijing breached the email accounts of government officials this year and stole 60,000 emails from the U.S. State Department, a Senate staffer told Reuters Wednesday. The emails were stolen from 10 State Department accounts, according to the source, who works for Senator Eric Schmitt and was present …