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In 1949, after losing the Chinese Civil War to the Chinese Communist Party led by Mao Zedong, Chiang Kai-shek and his Nationalist Party (Kuomintang or KMT) relocated the ROC government and roughly two million refugees to Taiwan

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Monday added Satinderjeet Singh alias Goldy Brar, one of India’s most wanted gangsters and deputy of jailed gang leader Lawrence Bishnoi, to its list of ten most wanted fugitives

Malone is charged with taking more than $180,000 in bribes and kickbacks from the director of another homelessness non-profit, Alexander Soofer, who has agreed to plead guilty in a separate case

Durk supporters including music stars Machine Gun Kelly and Ye — the artist formerly known as Kanye West — appeared in the audience during the two-week trial in downtown Los Angeles

A Christian podcaster was arrested after he allegedly made threats against President Donald Trump and his personal attorney

The department has leaned for investigative work on one of its agencies — Homeland Security Investigations — an arm of Immigration and Customs Enforcement that typically tackles major crimes like human trafficking, drug smuggling and child exploitation

The federal investigation, which began in 2024 with subpoenas for records related to sexual assault or harassment dating back years, found that inmates at two state-run women’s prisons routinely had their constitutional rights violated and that California prison officials failed to adequately establish safeguards required under the 2003 Prison Rape Elimination Act

Jeanine John Taele, 38, was arrested on Sunday at Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes, two days before the president was set to visit the town for a Republican National Committee dinner

George Retes, a security guard at the greenhouses, drove through the chaos to report for his 3pm shift until he reached a line of agents, who he said shouted conflicting orders

A California man accused of taking part in a violent confrontation during last year's anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles has been sentenced to more than three years in federal prison after admitting he targeted law enforcement officers caught in the chaos

Alison is a senior news reporter covering US politics and legal news

Satinderjeet Singh alias Goldy Brar is based in the United States and is the alleged leader of the Bishnoi organised crime group in North America

Verma’s statement comes a day after the US Department of Justice and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) linked gangster Lawrence Bishnoi and his deputy Goldy Brar to Nijjar’s killing

The FBI has accused Punjab Police SHO Gurinderjit Singh Nagra of allegedly attempting to extort about Rs 3.3 crore from an Indian-origin family in the US by threatening to implicate them in a murder case

Federal agents on Wednesday raided a section of Los Angeles that has become one of the country’s most notorious child sex-trafficking corridors, arresting nine people on charges related to selling girls as young as 14 for sex

Timelapse shows how quickly Palisades wildfires spread across Los Angeles

Bill Essayli, shown in November at a news conference, has urged Californians on social media to submit evidence of “potential election fraud.”

A week beyond the state’s primary, poll workers are still counting votes, even as all the major races have largely been decided

When President Donald Trump made claims of Democratic vote-rigging in the Los Angeles election, his top appointed prosecutor in the city took to the cameras to validate those beliefs while hinting his office may never be able prove that kind of grand conspiracy

When President Donald Trump made claims of Democratic vote-rigging in the Los Angeles election, his top appointed prosecutor in the city took to the cameras to validate those beliefs while hinting his office may never be able prove that kind of grand conspiracy

Former Fox News host Steve Hilton will face former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra in the November gubernatorial election

But these conspiracy theories don't withstand scrutiny, nor do they make much political sense

CNN exposes ridiculous MAGA conspiracy theory around Spencer Pratt and LA Mayoral race

Jonathan Rinderknecht, an occasional Uber driver, is accused of starting a small blaze on New Year’s Day 2025, later dubbed the Lachman fire

Bass, who has served as mayor since 2022 and faced scrutiny over her handling of the devastating LA fires, advanced to a runoff after no candidate secured more than 50% of the vote in Tuesday's primary

A federal investigation into California’s election process has opened after President Donald Trump made unsubstantiated claims of widespread fraud following the state’s June 2 primary, where vote counting is still ongoing

Jamshid Ghomi is a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen who led an Iran-based technology company

Eileen Wang, who stepped down as the mayor of Arcadia earlier this month, was charged in April with one count of acting in the United States as an illegal agent of a foreign government

The Trump administration on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the University of California for alleged “deliberate indifference” to harassment against Jewish and Israeli students at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)

President Donald Trump has long tried to portray himself as something of a strongman on China, though his tough talk and trade wars are often undercut by his remarkably accommodating nature toward Xi Jinping

Nvidia's ability to sell advanced AI chips into China has been constrained for years following export restrictions introduced during the Biden administration on national security grounds

Greer comments suggest breakthrough on exports of Nvidia's advanced chips far off

The muted treatment of North Korea stood in noticeable contrast to previous U.S.-China summits, where denuclearization and regional security were often framed as shared priorities

President Donald Trump boarded Air Force One Friday afternoon and departed Beijing after two days of high-stakes talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, wrapping up the first U.S. presidential visit to China in nearly a decade with warm public rhetoric but few concrete agreements to ease tensions between the world's two largest economies

Taiwan has issued its first response after Donald Trump avoided answering questions on Taiwan during his high-stakes summit with Xi Jinping in Beijing

US President Donald Trump returns to Beijing after nine years to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping

Trade has emerged as a central focus of President Donald Trump’s high-stakes meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week, following a Supreme Court setback over Trump’s tariff agenda earlier this year

Matthew Perry’s addiction councillor jailed for selling Friends star ketamine

She faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison

The diagnosis fits neatly into a press release and MAGA arguments about elite institutions gone rotten

Federal agents swarmed a California park Wednesday as part of a sweeping operation targeting an infamous open-air drug market notorious for peddling fentanyl and methamphetamine

Federal authorities on Thursday announced a sweeping takedown of suspected Mexican Mafia members and associates in Southern California, charging 43 defendants in a wide-ranging case involving murder, kidnapping, drug trafficking and extortion for allegedly turning Orange County into a "Gangsta's Paradise."

US authorities arrested an Iranian national accused of brokering drones and munitions deals tied to Tehran, with potential 20-year prison sentence

Chamel Abdulkarim, a 29-year-old resident of Highland, is facing several arson charges in San Bernardino

Video appears to show disgruntled employee starting giant warehouse blaze in California

8 arrests made in federal crackdown on alleged health care fraud in Southern California

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against a Southern California tow company on Wednesday, accusing it of auctioning off or disposing of at least 148 impounded vehicles belonging to military service members

Officials described Matthew Edward Pysher as a "sadistic" predator who harbored ideologies consistent with nihilistic violent extremism (NVE) and "764," an online "gore" group characterized by hatred of society and the promotion of self-harm, sexual exploitation and violence among children

President Donald Trump has scored a win after a Californian law, which would limit when federal agents can wear masks, was blocked by the Department of Justice on Thursday

Arcadia Mayor Eileen Wang was previously engaged to Yaoning 'Mike' Sun, 65, of Chino Hills, who was jailed on Monday for acting as a political operative for China

On Friday, Bruce Springsteen gave a live rendition of his newly minted Streets of Minneapolis at a hastily arranged lunchtime benefit gig organised by Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, which pre-empted a long, sprawling march through the downtown thoroughfares

That was nearly eight years ago — after a 2018 mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, where a gunman killed 17 people

The protests, organized by "50501 movement," a grassroots political organization, were part of the "ICE Out of Everywhere" national day of action, aiming to show solidarity with Minnesota and for those who have died as a result of federal agents' aggressive tactics

Hannity questions Kristi Noem about calling Renee Good and Alex Pretti 'domestic terrorists'

Nationwide public criticism is mounting over federal immigration tactics in Minneapolis, which escalated following Saturday's deadly shooting of 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti

It was a tale of two films, one featuring the stark killing of a protester on a cold Minneapolis street and the other starring Melania Trump striking poses in a “documentary” shown at a private screening at the White House

Pressure is growing on key White House senior adviser Stephen Miller over the killing of intensive care nurse Alex Pretti by border patrol agents in Minneapolis and its politically divisive aftermath

Several of President Donald Trump's officials drew swift pushback from gun rights groups for their stance after Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse, was shot dead by federal agents on Saturday