American journalist Thomas Pauken II admitted June 4 to a six-year campaign gathering intelligence on US political figures for China's Ministry of State Security under handler direction, and faces sentencing September 1.

Arcadia Mayor Eileen Wang agreed to plead guilty to acting as an illegal PRC agent in a case showing how Chinese officials allegedly used community media, political operatives, and local influence networks to promote Beijing’s messaging inside Southern California’s Chinese American civic space.

Norway detained a Chinese woman in a suspected espionage case involving an alleged Chinese state-backed effort to use a Norway-registered company to establish a satellite data receiving station near strategically sensitive Arctic infrastructure.

Toronto Police say Project Lighthouse disrupted Canada’s first detected SMS-blaster operation, alleging mobile “fake cell towers” pushed large-scale smishing while intermittently disrupting legitimate network access—including potential 911 impacts—leading to three arrests, dozens of charges, and seizure of multiple devices.

Las Vegas investigators seized lab equipment and large quantities of unknown liquids from a home linked to the 2023 Reedley, California illegal lab case, sent 1,000+ samples for FBI testing, and arrested the property manager on hazardous-waste charges while authorities work to identify what was stored and whether it posed a public health risk.

China’s sidelining of Zhang Youxia concentrates military authority even further around Xi and has sparked coup and loyalty speculation that underscores instability at the top of the PLA.