A group of aviation enthusiasts was, instead, intently scanning radio frequencies for the exchanges between the pilots who would follow as Huntress, NORAD’s eastern air defense sector controller, tracked the exact distance as two Air Force F-22 fighter jets closed in on the Chinese balloon.

The more than $2 million that Air Force veteran Stewart Olani Stant, the former director of a Maui county department, accepted in bribes and spent on gambling, hostess bars and luxury travel constitutes “the largest single known case of bribery prosecuted“ in the district of Hawaii, officials say.

Some lawmakers have raised alarm over a litany of Chinese advancements in recent years, including China’s buildup of the largest army and navy in the world and its impressive advances in hypersonic technology and artificial intelligence.

The Pentagon said it’s a spy balloon, but China said it was a weather balloon. Officials expect the debris collected offshore will reveal more information about it.

The Army says its Waikiki museum is the service’s third most visited museum and is housed inside historic Battery Randolph, a former coast artillery fort built in 1911.

Trade in goods between the U.S. and China climbed to a record in 2022, a reminder that consumers and companies in the world’s two biggest economies remain deeply connected while their governments diverge on a range of economic and political issues.

People in China, India, Pakistan and Peru live in greatest danger of tsunamis from melting glaciers, a study says.

Even as Washington takes a hard line on keeping U.S. technology and data beyond China’s reach, the federal government has thus far been slow to close another channel of technology assistance: potentially billions of dollars in U.S. investment in Chinese tech startup companies.

To contain fallout, China will need to find a credible way to spin events that will both appease Washington without appearing to capitulate. Doing so will not be easy, especially when the United States is in the process of examining components retrieved from the debris field in the Atlantic Ocean.

Contaminated soil must be removed after a catastrophic storage tank failure saturated the ground with diesel fuel at a mountaintop observatory on Maui operated by U.S. Space Forces Indo-Pacific, its commander said.