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A former official of the Central Intelligence Agency was arrested on charges of conspiring with a relative, who also worked for the CIA, to spy on China. Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 67, was arrested and charged Friday, the US Department of Justice said. He is accused of revealing to Chinese intelligence officials sensitive national security knowledge. It is the latest intelligence arrest between Washington and Beijing at a time of increasing uncertainty. Mr Ma is due to appear in court on Tuesday and if convicted, faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. Mr Ma, a Hong Kong-born naturalized US citizen, started working for the CIA in 1982.

Seven years later, prosecutors said he left the CIA and served in Shanghai Chinese City, before moving to Hawaii in 2001. They accuse Mr Ma and his relative of spying for China in a scheme which started in March 2001 with meetings in Hong Kong over the course of a decade. The ex-CIA officers suspect of sharing information with the Chinese intelligence service “about the CIA ‘s staff, activities, and methods of covering communications.” Part of their Hong Kong meeting capturing on videotape and shows Mr Ma counting $50,000 (£38,000) in cash for the secrets they exchange, stating the release.

The Democratic National Convention 2020 opening night was unlike all others before it. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, performers and speakers gathered virtually, coming to the living rooms of American people from states across the nation. The event focused largely on COVID-19, Democratic racial justice and testimonials – such as former first lady Michelle Obama – who called former vice president Joe Biden to be a man of compassion to unite the country. The evening also included comments from Republicans including former presidential nominee John Kasich who endorsed Biden now. Here’s a rundown of some of the highlights:

Former first lady Michelle Obama highlighted the first day of speeches by saying that the presidential election would expose the nation’s character. Obama, wearing a gold necklace that worded out “VOTE,” urged voters to give Biden an overwhelming victory to turn out in force. She said Trump had seriously mishandled the pandemic, which claimed more than 170,000 lives and left millions unemployed, and said he lacked the experience and moral compass required to lead the nation through the crisis.

Social media lit up with a seemingly innocent moment between the US president and the First Lady as they departed from Air Force One. President Donald Trump and Melania Trump had come back from his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, to Washington. When the pair descends the aircraft’s stairs, Ms Trump appears to brush aside repeated attempts by the president to hold his hand. Some suggested the First Lady should actually hang on to her dress to protect her in strong winds.

It is the first time that Facebook Inc. hit its record high in optimism over the release of its TikTok competitor Reels was Thursday’s net worth $100 billion. The 36-year-old is the only person in the world to hold centibillionaire status, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires List, and he joins fellow technicians, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates. The fortune of Mark Zuckerberg is primarily attributed to the 13 per cent of his Facebook share.

This year, the founders of America’s largest technology companies have enjoyed an overwhelming accumulation of wealth, as the coronavirus pandemic is driving more people online, despite the rapid decline in the US economy. Mark Zuckerberg has gained some 22 billion dollars this year and Bezos has risen by over 75 billion dollars.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday, China’s entry into the World Trade Organisation is the worst of all deals.

China’s entrance into the World Trade Organization which is presumably the most noticeably awful of the considerable number of arrangements, in the event that you need to realize the truth…They abused the guidelines like no one had ever disregarded it previously,” Trump said at the Whirlpool Corporation Manufacturing Plant in Ohio.

Previously, government officials have forcefully sought after an approach of globalization, moving our occupations, riches, and our manufacturing plants abroad.

Globalization has made the elites who give to lawmakers affluent and has left nothing for our laborers expect for neediness and anguish he added.

In January, Trump stated that the US has not been “Treated fairly” by the WTO (World Trade Organisation), which thought about China and India as developing countries.

In addition, the US President called China a developing country, “but we did not agree” advantages. Trump said earlier in January that the United States was not “treated equally.” The United Kingdom was deemed to be developed nations by the World Trade Organization ( WTO).

Videos of a North Carolina prisoner’s body camera show his death days after being arrested and fighting with guards to get up and ring for his mom and shouting more than two decades after he was stopped. The videos released today demonstrate the moment when a nurse in Winston-Salem County prison told John Neville, 56, he had been confiscated.

On December 4th, three days after his arrest on a warrant accusing him of assaulting a woman, Neville died of brain injury in a local hospital. On the death of Neville in July five former prison officers and a nurse were accused of involuntary killings. Video of a cardiac camera shows the nurse with blue surgical gloves, which initially appears to be unresponsive, kneeling next door to Neville.

The former Vice President Joe Biden will defeat President Donald Trump for the November elections, Professor of the US university, Allan Lichtman, who’s well known for forecasting American presidential stated precisely.

One of just a few forecasters who in 2016 expected Trump to become the 45th president while also rightly forecasting Trump’s presidency was Lichtman, a political historian who had predicted the results of every presidential election since 1984 with asterisks. He uses a system of “13 major factors” to determine who will win. Factors such as the benefits of incumbency, long-term and short-term economic statistics, scandals, social discontent and much more.

The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that people get sick and die right after swallowing the hand sanitiser. Four deaths and other visual impairments or seizures have occurred due to the same. Hand sanitizer is available and allows you to purify your hands during the pandemic of coronavirus. However, swallowing is not healthy, the CDC warns.

Cases of 15 adults hospitalized for methanol poisoning in Arizona and New Mexico following alcohol-based manual sanitisers were identified by a CDC team from may to juin. The CDC doesn’t know why people should drink sanitise hands. Kids might misunderstand, and other adults may assume that alcoholic beverages are a suitable substitute. This doesn’t happen. In some hand sanitisers distributed in the United States, the Food and Drug Administration has been repeatedly warning of methanol.

More than a dozen major American technology firms, including Google, Facebook and Microsoft, joined a complaint against the new regulation by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Monday that prohibits foreign students from remaining in the U.S. unless they attend at least one course in person.

In pursuit of a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction, Google and other firms, along with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other IT advocacy organizations, argued that the ICE Directive of 6 July would hinder their recruiting plans, make it difficult to bring in foreign students that firms, including amici, had intended to hire and interrupt the recruitment process in which the companies were hired. The July 6 Directive would prohibit significant numbers of foreign students from participating in the CPT and OPT programmes.

The annual list of the best US cities, released today, tracks some of the cities that weathered COVID-19 better but also the opposite is valid as well. The ranking highlights how cities can support or impede the incentives for people to be physically active, lose weight and prevent medical diseases like diabetes, obesity and heart disease, which raises the risk of serious disease and COVID-19 death.

The COVID-19 death rate is 56 per 100,000 population for Arlington, Virginia, the nation’s best-fitted city for the third year in a row. Much like other Washington, D.C. Arlington’s suburbs had more per capita cases than more rural areas of the state. Indiana’s Marion County, which contains 94th-ranked Indianapolis, has the state’s largest number of cases and deaths.

Ventura County Sheriff Bill Ayub said on Monday that actress Naya Rivera used the last of her strength to save her 4-year-old son before she died.

A body that was found at Lake Piru on Monday morning was confirmed as the former “Glee” star, the Ventura County Sheriff’s office said during a news conference. Rivera rented a pontoon boat at Lake Piru Wednesday, along with her son. The child told rescuers that he and his mother had gone swimming in the water, but she did not get back on the boat. He told police he then looked back and saw her vanish under the water’s surface, Ayub said.

An explosion on a US Navy ship moored at a base in California caused a massive fire on Sunday injuring 21 people – 17 of the sailors, according to the naval operations chief. The USS Bonhomme Richard, an amphibious assault vessel, was in port for repairs at its home base in San Diego when the explosion occurred around 8:30 local time on Sunday (15:30 GMT).

Thick smoke from large parts of the 844-foot (257-meter) warship sees billowing, as firefighters on tugboats attempting to contain the blaze using water cannon. The injury with minor injuries taking to the hospital. Several firefighters also reportedly endured burns and inhalation of smoke. Rear Admiral Charles Brown, a Pentagon spokesman for the US Navy, said the wounded sailors had suffered mainly smoke inhalation and mild burns. At the time there are around 160 sailors on board, and all account for, the Us Navy state. The ship usually holds about 1,000 crews.

A 30-year-old Texas man died from the novel coronavirus after attending a party named “COVID-19” hosted by an infected male, a doctor has reported, highlighting the danger to younger people. Jane Appleby, chief medical officer at San Antonio’s Methodist Hospital, said the man believed the virus was a hoax, even though it has killed more than 135,000 people in the United States so far.

On Sunday, the Trump administration again called for full school reopenings in the fall, just as resurgent coronavirus outbreaks — many of which blamed younger people — and a recent increase in Florida cases raise more concerns about the country’s attempts to quench the disease. The United States has the highest caseload and death rate in the world by far.

Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University has successfully completed clinical trials of the world’s first coronavirus vaccine on volunteers, Sputnik news agency has reported citing an official. Clinical trials of the vaccine developed by Russia’s Gamalei Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology began on 18 June at the Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University.

Amazon.com Inc. on July 10 has asked workers to uninstall the TikTok video-sharing app from their mobile devices on “security threats” according to a Reuter’s employee memo.

One of the fastest rising digital channels in history, the Chinese-owned social media site TikTok faces intense scrutiny outside of China. India outlawed TikTok in June, and other Chinese devices.

A.S. State secretary Mike Pompeo said Washington was considering banning TikTok in the United States earlier this week.

On Friday, President Donald Trump commuted former campaign advisor Roger Stone’s prison term, saving his long-time strategist from going to jail next week.

A source told NBC News Trump on Friday night that they called Stone to tell him the story. The announcement came soon after Stone ‘s emergency motion was rejected by a federal appeals court to extend his surrender date of July 14.