Man Charged With Stealing Rare Chinese Manuscripts From University Library
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California on Aug. 7 announced that Jeffrey Ying, 38, of Fremont, had been arrested recently. Ying is charged with theft of a major artwork, a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
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Hong Kong press mogul Jimmy Lai's trial paused due to his heart issues
Aug. 15 (UPI) -- The trial of Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong media mogul, was postponed for a few days due to issues with the 77-year-old's heart. The three judges overseeing the trial said the proceedings will resume Monday with closing arguments. Lai was given medication and a Holter monitor, which tracks the heart's electrical activity. The trial had also been delayed Thursday because of torrential rain in the city. Lai, a citizen of the United Kingdom, founded Apple Daily, a Chinese-language newspaper published in Hong Kong from 1995 to 2021. The tabloid has been described as anti-government, pro-democracy and anti-China. He is accused of collusion with foreign forces and sedition. He has been in solitary confinement since December 2020. He faces life in prison. Prosecutors have accused the media tycoon of requesting foreign countries to engage in "hostile activities," such as imposing sanctions, against authorities in Hong Kong and mainland China. He allegedly conspired with senior editorial staff of Apple Daily and was the "mastermind and financial supporter" of the Fight for Freedom; Stand with Hong Kong advocacy group, which lobbied for international sanctions against Hong Kong and China. Lai denied in court that he had ever sought to influence the Hong Kong policies of other countries via his high-level contacts overseas, including former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and former Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen. Questioned about meetings with Pence and then-U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in 2019, Lai said the meeting with Pence was more of a briefing where he updated him and answered questions about what was going on in Hong Kong. With Pompeo, Lai denied asking him to do anything, saying he only asked him to speak out and "to voice support for Hong Kong." Beijing added national security laws directly into Hong Kong's mini-constitution in June 2020 after a year of pro-democracy protests and unrest. It criminalized subversion, secession, collusion with foreign forces and terrorist acts, which include disruption to transport and other infrastructure. This gave police broad new powers and led to hundreds of arrests, while dozens of civil society groups disappeared. Authorities said it restored stability and peace to the city, rejecting criticism from trade partners, the United Nations and non-governmental organizations. The trial has been going on since 2023, and Lai gave a 52-day testimony. U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he would "do everything [he] can to save" Lai, in an interview with Fox News. "We'll see what we can do," he said, adding that Lai "was not a young guy." Trump had said earlier that he would bring up Lai's case in trade negotiations with Beijing. Liu Pengyu, a spokesperson for China's embassy in Washington, said Beijing "strongly opposes external forces using judicial cases as a pretext to interfere in China's internal affairs or to smear and undermine Hong Kong's rule of law," the BBC reported. Liu described Lai as "a key orchestrator and participant in anti-China, destabilizing activities in Hong Kong." Lai has said he had always advocated against the use of violence and strictly enforced an Apple Daily editorial stance opposing independence for Hong Kong, including a hiring ban on staff supporting Hong Kong splitting from China, saying the idea was "too crazy" to even contemplate. He said the charges alleging he was pushing for independence were a "conspiracy" to entrap him.
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DOJ says UCLA violated civil rights law with ‘indifference' toward protecting Jewish and Israeli students
The Department of Justice (DOJ) said Tuesday the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) violated civil rights laws by acting with 'indifference' toward attacks on Israeli and Jewish students. In a press release, the DOJ said that its Civil Rights Division on Tuesday 'announced that the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by acting with deliberate indifference in creating a hostile educational environment for Jewish and Israeli students.' 'Our investigation into the University of California system has found concerning evidence of systemic anti-Semitism at UCLA that demands severe accountability from the institution,' Attorney General Pam Bondi said in the release. 'This disgusting breach of civil rights against students will not stand: DOJ will force UCLA to pay a heavy price for putting Jewish Americans at risk and continue our ongoing investigations into other campuses in the UC system,' she added. The Hill has reached out to UCLA and the University of California system for comment. UCLA recently agreed to pay more than $6 million in a consent agreement in the wake of Jewish faculty and students bringing an antisemitism lawsuit against the university regarding its handling of pro-Palestinian campus demonstrations. Last year, pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses erupted across the U.S. over Israel's war in Gaza. Protesters faced accusations of antisemitism amid an already heated political climate on the issue of Israel and Palestine as the war in Gaza raged on. The leading international authority on food crises said Tuesday via an alert that the worst-case scenario of famine was occurring in the Gaza Strip, with death and destruction of infrastructure also widespread in the territory. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Solve the daily Crossword
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Rogan says voters are frustrated because they expected Trump's ICE raids to nab gang members, not landscapers
Joe Rogan claimed on Wednesday that American voters are frustrated because they had hoped ICE raids would only target violent criminals, not laborers. The podcaster warned that ICE, by arresting people whose only crime was immigrating illegally, is alienating the electorate. Rogan, who endorsed Trump on the eve of the 2024 election and interviewed him during the campaign, criticized the president's immigration raids at construction sites and other workplaces during an early July episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience." Now, weeks later, Rogan made a similar critique after Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., argued on his show that recent pop-up riots against ICE have been spurred by Chinese money in an effort to divide Americans, particularly before the midterms. Rogan responded that while that may be true to some degree, there is also some genuine belief the administration has gone too far. "So, I absolutely believe this is true, that I'm sure other countries fund similar things, but also it was a reaction to some of the ICE raids, right?" Rogan said. "It was a visceral reaction that a lot of people had to the idea of people just showing up and pulling people out of schools and pulling people out of Home Depot and pulling people that were just hardworking people that maybe snuck over here because they didn't have a legal way to get over here, but since they've been here, they've been good people and they're a part of communities." The podcast host added further, "That's what freaks people out, because when people thought about ICE, they thought, 'Great, we're going to get rid of the gang members.' They didn't think, 'Great, you're going to get rid of the landscaper.'" "I'm sure some of these riots are manufactured, I'm sure they are," he later added, clarifying he doesn't disagree with Luna's assertions entirely. He also expressed his belief that America absolutely needs to enforce its border to prevent cartel members and other criminals from entering. "But the thing that freaks people out is, like, how many corporations rely on illegal labor?" he asked. He also empathized with the perspective of an illegal immigrant. "If you're just a landscaper, you're just a guy who lives in a Third World country and you want a better life, and you say, 'I heard you can get across, and I heard when you get across, you can get work' — like, what is that guy going to do?" Rogan asked. "That guy doesn't have the money to hire a lawyer. How is he gonna prove that he is more valuable than a United States citizen that's already here doing the exact same job?" Luna responded by arguing that both sides want the problem to continue because they benefit from it, a theory that frightened Rogan, who replied, "That's so nuts, and probably so accurate." Trump proposed making exceptions for millions of illegal laborers in various industries in July, while acknowledging this will enrage "radical-right people, who I also happen to like a lot."
