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State media: No survivors found in China Eastern plane crash

March 21, 2022 at 11:14 p.m.

No survivors have been found as rescuers on Tuesday searched the scattered wreckage of a China Eastern plane carrying 132 people that crashed a day earlier on a wooded mountainside...

A visitor rides a virtual roller coaster ride operated by a robotic arm in a VR theme park in Nanchang, China, on April 2. Dake Kang, The Associated Press

Far from glitzy tech hubs, Chinese city bets big on virtual reality

May 5, 2019 at 11:00 a.m.

Enthusiasm for VR has cooled somewhat after years of hype, but China鈥檚 leaders are trying to drum up excitement, hoping to take the lead in a technology they expect will...

Huang Yongzhen, CEO of Watrix, demonstrates the use of his firm鈥檚 gait recognition software at his company鈥檚 offices in Beijing. Mark Schiefelbein, Associated Press file

Chinese 鈥済ait recognition鈥� tech IDs people by how they walk

December 23, 2018 at 1:00 a.m.

Chinese authorities have begun deploying a new surveillance tool: 鈥済ait recognition鈥� software that uses people鈥檚 body shapes and how they walk to identify them, even when their faces are hidden...

In this Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, photo, a guard tower and barbed wire fences are seen around a facility in the Kunshan Industrial Park in Artux in western China’s Xinjiang region. This is one of a growing number of internment camps in the Xinjiang region, where by some estimates 1 million Muslims are detained, forced to give up their language and their religion and subject to political indoctrination. Now, the Chinese government is also forcing some detainees to work in manufacturing, food and service industries, in what activists call “black factories.” (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

U.S. sportswear traced to factory in China鈥檚 internment camps

December 17, 2018 at 4:23 p.m.

Chinese men and women locked in a mass detention camp where authorities are "re-educating" ethnic minorities are sewing clothes that have been imported all year by a U.S. sportswear company.

2-story “Star Wars” replica in Ohio yard for Halloween getting visitors from across state

October 19, 2017 at 9:30 p.m.

A two-story, "Star Wars"-inspired Halloween yard display in Ohio is enticing kids to get toy lightsabers and attracting hundreds of visitors from across the state.

Ohio man sues city for arresting him over parody Facebook page

October 11, 2017 at 1:43 p.m.

A man acquitted of a felony for creating a fake Facebook page that parodied a suburban Cleveland police department is suing the city, saying they violated his right to free...

Student freed by North Korea has severe neurological injury

June 15, 2017 at 12:06 p.m.

An American college student who was imprisoned in North Korea and returned to his home state of Ohio in a coma suffered a "severe neurological injury," a hospital spokeswoman said...

New coal mine touted by Trump — yet planned before election — opens in Pennsylvania

June 9, 2017 at 8:52 a.m.

President Donald Trump hailed the opening Thursday of a new coal mine as proof deregulation is helping bring jobs to the industry, even though plans for the mine's opening were...

Cleveland fires 1 officer, suspends 2nd in Tamir Rice shooting

May 30, 2017 at 11:11 a.m.

The city of Cleveland has fired one police officer and suspended a second involved in the shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice.

Neighbor charged in Ohio fire that killed 5 kids, 2 adults

May 23, 2017 at 4:28 p.m.

A neighbor of a family that died in a house fire was charged Tuesday with intentionally setting it ablaze, killing two adults and five children.

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