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NEW YORK—Tony Hernandez, a former Honduran congressman and brother of the sitting president, was sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years for drug trafficking by a U.S. judge on Tuesday. Hernandez, 42, was convicted on the drug charges and related weapons charges in October 2019. Hernandez will also be forced to pay $138.5 million […]

The Queensland government will mandate its new COVID-Safe check-in app for most pubs, restaurants, and cafes across the state from May 1 to help contact tracing during outbreaks of the CCP virus. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the check-in app would provide “relevant, legible and timely” information to help respond to an outbreak of COVID-19, the disease

Jorge Luis Antonis spent 17 years as a political prisoner of the Castro regime in Cuba simply for criticizing the ruling party. After his release, and finding refuge in the United States, Luis tells us what he faced and reflects on the values he learned through facing hardships bravely and with faith. These stories and

HONG KONG—A Hong Kong court found seven prominent pro-democracy figures guilty on Thursday of “unauthorized assembly,” including barrister Martin Lee and media tycoon Jimmy Lai, the latest blow to the city’s beleaguered democracy movement. The group were accused of taking part in an approved assembly on Aug. 18, 2019, when mass protests opposing the pro-Beijing

Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid is currently before the Supreme Court. It’s a case about upholding the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution and protecting property owners’ rights. We speak to Mike Fahner, owner of Cedar Point Nursery, about challenging California’s union access regulation and protecting the Fifth Amendment. These stories and more in this episode

LONDON—Britain will on Wednesday push G7 allies to get tough on China over “pernicious practices” that undermine the international trading system, calling for an overhaul of outdated and ineffective World Trade Organization rules. Trade minister Liz Truss will host her G7 counterparts and the new head of the WTO, using Britain’s platform as current president

Multiple people are dead, including a child, after a shooting late Wednesday at a two-story office building in Orange, California, according to police. The Orange Police Department announced in a statement that at 5:30 p.m. local time, it responded to a call of shots fired at 202 W. Lincoln Ave., Orange, a city about 30 miles southeast of

DAKAR—The terms of China’s loan deals with developing countries are unusually secretive and require borrowers to prioritize repayment of Chinese state-owned banks ahead of other creditors, a study of a cache of such contracts showed on Wednesday. The dataset—compiled over three years by AidData, a U.S. research lab at the College of William & Mary—comprises

ORANGE, Calif. (CNS) – Four people, including one child, were killed and a fifth wounded in a shooting at an office building in Orange March 31, and the suspected shooter was taken into custody. The surviving victim was taken to a hospital in unknown condition, according to Orange Police Department Lt. Jen Amat. The suspect

LOS ANGELES—Comcast’s Corp’s Universal Studios Hollywood theme park in California will reopen to a limited number of visitors on April 16, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. Most rides will be operating at that time, though some will stay closed to comply with the state’s coronavirus restrictions, the statement said. Tickets will go