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The boy who died, Kismet Sengdan, was found in a bedroom with a gunshot wound to his head when police arrived at the home. Three other children between the ages of 8 and 12, as well as an adult resident of the house were seen leaving before officers showed up, Ohio news station WJW reported on Friday. The Akron Police Department said that preliminary information has led them to believe that one of the children accidentally fired the gun, which was discovered in the home....

The hospital is located in Colorado, where medical and recreational marijuana use is legal. However, the hospital does not dispense medical marijuana. “Our hospital neither advises the use of it nor recommends nor prescribes, or even talks with patients about how to use it,” Jennifer Jorgensen, PharmD, clinical pharmacist at The Children’s Hospital Colorado, tells Verywell. “But families in our communities are coming into the hospital and they’re already reading about medical marijuana online and seeking it out....

Lawmakers in the southwestern Japanese city of Ishigaki voted Monday to change the name of the East China Sea administrative area of Tonoshiro to Tonoshiro Senkaku by October 1. The change was said to prevent confusion with the similarly named Tonoshiro district in downtown Ishigaki but adds a reference to the Japanese name for the contested isles, which are also claimed by China and Taiwan. Both nations expressed frustration with Japan’s move....

The 31-year-old, who has started just four Bundesliga matches in 2016-17, has joined the struggling Andalusian side for the remainder of the season. The Colombia international is expected to leave for the Chinese Super League following the end of the campaign, with Dortmund having reached an agreement with Chongqing Lifan last week over a reported €12million deal. Pulisic pens new Dortmund deal “Colombian striker Adrian Ramos trained on Tuesday with the Granada squad, with the permission of Borussia Dortmund,” a Granada statement confirmed....

The offending tweet was posted on January 7 last year from the embassy’s verified account. It shared a China Daily article that sought to refute charges of extreme population control in China’s northwest region of Xinjiang, where research has found a sharp decline in birth rates—said to be the result of forced sterilization, among other repressive policies. The newspaper, which is published by the Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda arm, reported on the findings of a local study that attributed the decrease in births to the government’s effective deradicalization of Muslim women....

On Thursday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said the country is revoking visa exemptions for U.S. diplomatic passport holders visiting Hong Kong and Macau and imposing sanctions on some members of Congress. “China has decided to take action against U.S. executive officials, congressmen, nongovernmental organization personnel and their immediate family members who have performed badly on Hong Kong-related issues,” ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said. “At the same time, China has decided to cancel the visa-free treatment for temporary visits to Hong Kong and Macau by U....

The government is incentivizing scientists to research the virus’ origins in southern China with grants of up to hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to the internal documents, which were obtained by the AP. The region where the virus was first identified is of immense interest to the international scientific community, but much of that information has been withheld from the rest of the world because of China’s control over the release of details....

China is well on its way to building a planned 10 million 5G mobile base stations by 2024, wiring virtually the whole country for game-changing technologies. It has already deployed some of them in its response to COVID-19. Sensors connected to smartphones and linked to centralized databases monitor the vital signs of hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens and visitors in real time. Three-dimensional facial imaging allows these systems to monitor the mobility of people and contact with others....

The phone conversation between Yang, the director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission, and Blinken marked the first time the two have spoken since a face-to-face meeting in March in Alaska. That last talk was widely characterized as contentious, as the two diplomats publicly criticized policies from each other’s countries. On Friday, Yang said his country was concerned about people in the U.S. spreading the “absurd story” that the coronavirus escaped from a Wuhan laboratory....

According to a statement issued by the Chinese Ministry of Education on Monday, in May 2022, the illustrations in the eleventh set of primary school math textbooks published by the state-owned People’s Education Press received “widespread attention” from Chinese society. There was an outcry on Chinese social media over drawings of students with small eyes that some described as racist. There was also an illustration of a girl’s underwear being exposed as she jumps over a rope....

The Chinese Navy’s second Type 075 landing helicopter dock—launched into the water just this April—was pictured leaving Shanghai’s Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard en route to the East China Sea on Tuesday. Media outlets in China have touted the 40,000-ton warship as being key to Beijing’s ambition of dominating military exchanges in the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea, where frequent encounters with the United States Navy have occurred this year. A total of eight Type 075 amphibious assault ships have been ordered by the PLA, with the third currently under construction and expected to be delivered in early 2021....

They’re beginning to get their wish. A year ago, “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” became the first off-Broadway production to be translated into Mandarin. Its producer, Broadway Asia Entertainment, is now working on Chinese-language versions of “SpongeBob SquarePants,” a musical based on the popular Nickelodeon cartoon, due to be staged in China later this year, and “The Wizard of Oz,” scheduled for 2009. And British producer Cameron Mackintosh is creating a Chinese-language version of “Les Misérables,” set to open at Beijing’s National Grand Theatre in November....

The sanctions were put in place over China’s alleged genocide and human rights abuses primarily against the Uyghurs in the western Xinjiang region. Products made from alleged forced labor include raw cotton, tomato products, gloves, fishing gear, silicon and solar energy components, the U.S. said. The new ban on imported goods “indicates that the U.S. has no scruples about smearing China by every means,” Wang Wenbin said. Independent investigations have discovered Uyghurs and other Chinese Muslims being held in detention camps to work in factories to produce a variety of goods....

On the final day of the Chinese Communist Party’s 20th National Congress on Saturday, thousands of delegates and reporters inside the Great Hall of the People witnessed what appeared to be a rare unscripted moment at the otherwise highly choreographed event. Hu, the CCP’s general secretary between 2002 and 2012, was seated to the left of current party leader, Xi Jinping, before two staff members escorted him out of the venue in a state of apparent confusion....

In downtown Changsha, capital of the Hunan province and a city of more than 10 million people, a huge plume of black smoke smothered the blue skyline, and large items and bits of debris were seen falling off the 42-floor building. State broadcaster CCTV said that dozens of storeys of the 715-foot-tall China Telecom building “burned with great intensity.” A video on social media appeared to show scores of people fleeing the state-owned company building as the fire engulfed the skyscraper....

Brent Christensen, the outgoing director of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), criticized China’s multifaceted diplomatic, economic and military pressure against Taiwan during an interview given to Apple Daily on June 1. “Only one side is violating the other side’s air defense identification zone every day,” Christensen was quoted as saying. “It is not Taiwan that has caused the deterioration in cross-strait relations.” Ma Xiaoguang, a spokesperson for the Chinese government’s Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO), responded at a fortnightly press conference on Wednesday, laying the blame squarely at the feet of Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)....

The country’s latest COVID-19 outbreak began in Nanjing, a city of more than nine million people, in late July. Officials have conducted three rounds of testing on the city’s residents and put hundreds of thousands under lockdown. The Nanjing outbreak, which was first detected at an airport, had spread to 15 other cities, according to the South China Morning Post. Chinese media have reported that the Nanjing Lukou International Airport has suspended all flights until August 11, to curb the spread of the virus....

China’s sports administration and top judicial authority are drafting rules that would apply criminal law to doping cases, official news agency Xinhua said Friday. Citing remarks made at a Friday meeting by Gou Zhongwen, director of China’s sports administration, Xinhua said that the new anti-doping punishments will be put into effect “probably in early 2019”. “It is our will to show the world we are really serious about anti-doping, and are taking concrete measures on fight against doping,” Gou said....

Publicly available data released by Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense since last September also shows an increased fighter aircraft presence in the island nation’s self-declared air defense identification zone (ADIZ). Analysis of the People’s Liberation Army’s incursions into Taiwan’s defensive airspace in 2020 showed China had dispatched an estimated total of 380 mostly slow-moving aircraft. The figure marked a serious escalation in cross-strait military tensions not seen since 1996, amid the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis....

A day after the Tennessee Titans’ stunning defeat of the top-seeded Baltimore Ravens, another upset appeared on the cards as the Texans raced into a 24-0 lead at Arrowhead Stadium. Kansas City committed a series of mistakes in a disjointed start that seemingly put the Texans in command, however, the Chiefs found their rhythm on offense in the second quarter and never looked back. Last season’s MVP Patrick Mahomes threw for 321 yards and five touchdowns, while tight end Travis Kelce and running back Damien Williams each scored three apiece in a remarkable offensive performance from Kansas City that ensured they will host the Titans next Sunday....