An Air India Boeing 787‑8 Dreamliner, Flight AI171, en route to London Gatwick, crashed into the B.J. Medical College hostel in Ahmedabad shortly after takeoff Thursday at 1:38 p.m. local time, killing more than 240 people, officials said.

Chengxuan Han, a doctoral student from Wuhan’s Huazhong University of Science and Technology, was arrested June 8 at Detroit Metropolitan Airport and charged with smuggling biological materials into the U.S. and making false statements, federal prosecutors said. Han is the third Chinese national in two weeks accused of secretly sending research specimens to a University of Michigan laboratory.

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that a U.S.-China trade deal is “done” after two days of high-stakes negotiations in London, but observers say it just put Washington in a circle.

Gina Ortiz Jones defeated Rolando Pablos to become the mayor of San Antonio, Texas, making history as the city’s first Asian American woman, first Filipino woman and first openly gay mayor.

China and the Philippines have issued safety advisories via their Los Angeles consulates, warning their citizens to remain alert amid demonstrations over federal immigration raids that led President Donald Trump to deploy 2,000 National Guard personnel over the weekend.

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health released a rare internal protest letter known as the “Bethesda Declaration” on Monday to publicly condemn the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to biomedical research. The declaration, signed by 92 current and former NIH staff members and endorsed anonymously by 250 others, accuses NIH leadership of political interference, abrupt grant terminations and undermining the agency’s core mission of safeguarding public health.

Software developer Sahil Lavingia, who worked briefly for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), claims that abuse within the federal government was “relatively nonexistent” during his 55-day stint at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

FBI Director Kash Patel has faced backlash over his jail threat to anti-ICE protesters, with critics accusing the administration of applying different standards compared to Jan. 6 defendants.

Boxing legend Manny Pacquiao delivered an emotional speech as he was enshrined in the International Boxing Hall of Fame on Sunday in Canastota, New York, marking a historic milestone in a career that has spanned over two decades.