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119 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: September 24, 2026.
The Chinese leader's first state visit in more than a decade opened with a rare planeside welcome at Joint Base Andrews. Bessent announced a two-month truce extension, far shorter than many expected.
Trump will meet Xi at the airport himself. The summit is the two leaders' second face-to-face of the year after May's meeting in Beijing, and it lands as an existing trade truce nears expiry and as the administration weighs what, if anything, to ask Beijing on AI safety.
Congress has 30 days to block the deal. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi said the sale could put 'the crown jewels of American military technology within reach of the Chinese Communist Party.' The kingdom is under daily Houthi attack and just lost its East-West pipeline.
WatchAir Force Secretary Troy Meink told a conference in Maryland that the Space Force now has 'on-orbit space control weapons.' He would not say what they are, how many there are or when they went up, and said the phrasing was 'very well thought out.'
It is the agency's biggest overhaul in a decade, with redesign plans due by the end of September and full operating capacity targeted for mid-January. Former officials say the director admitted 'they don't know how they are going to do it,' and that the agency is 'begging' ex-staff to come back.
A day after Anthropic's CEO said the industry needs to hit the brakes, and Musk and Altman agreed, the president told reporters in Ireland he won't cede America's edge to China. Kevin Hassett says White House meetings start this week.
U.S. officials told the Journal the imagery of Muwaffaq Salti Air Base is the clearest sign yet that Chinese help had lethal consequences for American troops. Beijing demanded proof. Xi visits the White House September 24.
'Japan does it, but they hire our people,' the president told Fox News on Friday. Detroit's trade group wants Congress to lock Chinese vehicles out permanently by the end of December.
India pushed a consensus text through an 11-member bloc that includes both Iran and the UAE, then sat down with China's president for the first bilateral on Indian soil since the 2020 Galwan clash. Putin arrived a night earlier and denounced 'ugly' Western trade tactics.
China's leader used a three-day state visit to pitch Beijing as the Middle East's stabilizer while the United States is six months into a war with Iran.
Trump signed a Section 232 proclamation doubling the price of large or thermal-imaging drones and their components. Smaller civilian models get 25%.
The former student leader admitted conspiring to seek Western sanctions on Hong Kong and China. The charge carries three to 10 years, or life if a court calls the offense grave.
WatchThe most powerful tropical cyclone to hit China this year came ashore in Zhejiang with Category 1-equivalent winds. Shanghai grounded about 1,400 flights and forecasters warned of up to 20 inches of rain inland.
Four people familiar with the effort told Reuters the administration wants to bar imports of new Chinese models of the devices that shuttle data over fiber inside data centers. China's Zhongji Innolight holds a 27% global share.
The additions to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act entity list cover aluminum, apparel, copper, cotton and tomato producers and push the total to 187 blocked entities. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the companies use 'slave labor.'
Instead of forcing local ore to fit existing formulas, an Uppsala University team is cataloging everything inside Sweden's deposits at Kiruna, Bergslagen and Norra Kärr, then designing magnets to match.
The White House has prepared duties of 10% to 12.5% on dozens of trading partners over forced-labor concerns, replacing a temporary blanket tariff that lapses this week after the Supreme Court struck down his earlier trade agenda.
A rain-triggered landslide in Chongqing's Pengshui County flattened more than 10 buildings, killing at least eight people as crews with excavators, dogs and detectors raced against the threat of a second collapse.
Genetic analysis of 144 people from one of prehistoric East Asia's largest settlements reveals a society organized around patrilineal clans — and mass burials of sacrificed men.
Samples from the Moon's far side show solar-wind particles struck it harder than the near side — because Earth's magnetic field slows the stream that reaches the hemisphere facing us.
WatchOpening Shanghai's World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Xi called for a “symphony of global cooperation” and unveiled a new China-headquartered organization to write the rules of AI — a direct challenge to Washington.
Officers targeted Have A Nice Stay and Greenfield Book Store, accusing five people aged 30 to 59 of displaying and selling material with 'seditious intent' — the third such round of arrests in four months.
By reverse-engineering earrings from a prince's 1545 tomb, researchers in Wuhan cracked 'jin zhe si' — a method that folded ultra-thin, high-purity gold into intricate satin-textured shapes.
WatchThe 9 p.m. speech is expected to allege Chinese interference and vulnerabilities in voting machines, as critics warn the president is again trying to cast doubt on his 2020 defeat.
WatchDays of torrential rain from Tropical Storm Maysak triggered a dam failure that inundated the Guangxi capital, killing at least 39 people and forcing about 130,000 residents to flee as rescuers deployed drones and thousands of boats.
The first stage of a Long March 10B booster touched down on a floating platform after lofting a satellite, a milestone that until now only SpaceX had achieved.
Super Typhoon Bavi, more than 1,000 kilometers across, forced evacuations along Taiwan's mountainous east as China and Japan braced and rescuers in southern China still dug through the wreckage of a storm that killed 39.
The Long March 10B's booster returned to a floating platform after reaching orbit, a milestone Beijing has chased for years as it races the U.S. back to the Moon.
Flammable materials and cluttered stairwells turned a midday blaze at a Jinjiang footwear plant into a deadly trap, and company officials have been detained.
Beijing's first publicly acknowledged strategic SLBM test into open ocean sent a training warhead more than 8,000 kilometers and drew sharp protests from Washington, Tokyo, Canberra and Wellington.
With the powerful Central Military Commission reduced to just two members, Xi Jinping elevated new commanders in a move analysts read as a drive to lock in the army's loyalty.
Featured on the cover of Nature, the giant underground observatory measured key neutrino properties with record precision after just two months of data — and put itself on track to crack one of physics' biggest puzzles.
A newly named microraptor relative, Jian changmaensis, glided on four feathered limbs and may explain piles of crushed bird bones in a 120-million-year-old fossil bed.
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory's first results, published in Nature, sharpen two key oscillation parameters by a factor of 1.6 — a major step toward solving the neutrino mass puzzle.
China's JUNO observatory achieves record precision in neutrino measurements, bringing scientists closer to solving the neutrino mass hierarchy puzzle.
China's JUNO detector achieves breakthrough measurements using just 59 days of data, boosting confidence for solving neutrino mass mystery.
JUNO detector reduces measurement uncertainties by factor of 1.6 using just 59 days of data, bringing scientists closer to solving neutrino mass hierarchy mystery.
The JUNO experiment achieved breakthrough results using just 59 days of data, improving measurement accuracy by 60% compared to decades of previous research combined.
JUNO detector delivers most precise measurements of neutrino oscillation parameters using just 59 days of data, advancing the quest to solve fundamental particle mysteries.
President Trump's warming relationship with Xi Jinping has ignited anxieties across Washington and Asia as the administration shifts its approach to China policy.
The Chinese leader's rare state visit to Pyongyang reasserted Beijing's role as North Korea's most important partner, even as Kim Jong Un deepens ties with Russia.
The updated 1260H roster now names 188 entities, sweeping in major consumer-facing firms the Defense Department says aid Beijing's military buildup. The companies flatly rejected the designations.
New burial-dating of three crania from the Yunxian site puts them at 1.77 million years old — the oldest securely dated human-relative fossils ever found in eastern Asia.
WatchThe Chinese leader was greeted by a 21-gun salute and a military band as he opened a two-day state visit, calling for stronger 'strategic coordination' with Pyongyang as North Korea's bond with Moscow deepens.
The plan to remake remote Great Nicobar with a transshipment port, an airport and a city for a million tourists is billed as a strategic counter to China — but critics warn it could fell a million trees and imperil two Indigenous tribes.
The Chinese leader will meet Kim Jong Un on June 8-9 in his first overseas trip of 2026, as Beijing moves to reassert its influence over an ally drawing ever closer to Russia.
New Delhi calls Great Nicobar a strategic chokepoint against China. Genocide scholars warn the project is a 'death sentence' for the few hundred Shompen who live in its forests.
Citing a Section 301 investigation into goods made with forced labor, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer proposed duties spanning Canada to China — months after the Supreme Court struck down the president's earlier tariff regime.
Newly named Jian changmaensis, a barn-owl-sized cousin of Velociraptor, is the first non-bird dinosaur found at a Chinese site that has yielded more than 100 ancient birds — and it appears to have preyed on them.
The U.S. Trade Representative proposed new duties on 60 economies, reviving Trump's trade war months after the Supreme Court struck down his earlier tariffs.
The unexpected debut adds another Falcon 9-like vehicle to China's growing roster of rockets designed for reusability.
The London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies says the world is entering a new nuclear arms race "with the Asia-Pacific at its core," with neither side showing clear guardrails against striking the other's command networks.
When a small Solomon Islands community requested help with youth problems, Chinese police arrived with comprehensive monitoring technology, raising regional security concerns.
Chinese tech giant claims it can produce cutting-edge semiconductors within five years as Beijing pushes to circumvent American technology restrictions.
The Chinese tech giant claims it can produce cutting-edge semiconductors within five years despite ongoing American restrictions.
Hundreds of "LabGerm" videos featuring gloved hands and AI narration have flooded social media platforms, exploiting algorithmic engagement patterns.
Chinese leader demands investigation and accountability as rescue teams race to find survivors in one of the deadliest mining disasters in recent years.
Deadly mining accident prompts investigation as Chinese leader emphasizes need to "hold those responsible to account."
Death toll rises dramatically as Chinese president calls for all-out rescue efforts and accountability measures.
During a state visit, the Chinese and Russian leaders cast themselves as a stabilizing force in a world thrown into tumult by Washington.
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