Christina Zhao

Reporter

Christina is a breaking news reporter covering the U.S. and China beat. She has previously been published in the The Guardian, The Times, Vice and The Independent. Before she retrained as a journalist, Christina was a commercial lawyer in New Zealand. In her spare time she likes to play Zelda and eat hotpot.

  
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 Fraternity Suspended Over Viral Racist Beating Video Tau Kappa Epsilon expelled the four fraternity members after they were made aware of the video.
  
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 Fox News Asks Dem Senator: 'Did Your Party Go Too Far?' “If collusion is not found in a report that is released, would you acknowledge that your party, the Democrats, have overreached," Pete Hegseth asked Democratic Senator Chris Coons.
  
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 Pelosi Will Reject Highly Classified Mueller Briefing "The takeaway from this call is that the American [people] deserve the truth," Pelosi reportedly told Democrats on Saturday.
  
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 Chemicals Contaminate Water After ITC Deer Park Fire U.S. Coast Guard Captain Kevin Oditt said authorities deployed 8,500-feet of boom to capture the chemical waste in the water.
  
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 Trump 'Likes to Hurt People': Ex-Trump Casino Executive Jack O’Donnell, Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino's former president and chief operating officer, said there's a "mean streak" that runs through Trump, which he gets a "great deal of satisfaction" out of.
  
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 Hicks to Cooperate With Democrats’ Probe Into Trump Hope Hicks, a longtime Trump confidant, has reportedly agreed to turn over information to the House as part of their wide-ranging investigation into the president.
  
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 Twitter Responds to Trump's John McCain Funeral Jab “How was John McCain supposed to thank Trump for “approving” his state funeral? He was literally dead for goodness sake,” Eugene Gu tweeted.
  
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 Ocasio-Cortez Hits Dimon Over Green New Deal Criticism The freshman New York congresswoman on Wednesday pointed out the reasons why Dimon shouldn't be commenting on the Green New Deal.
  
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 Conway Is Trump's 'Intellectual Superior': Scarborough George Conway, a conservative lawyer, frequent Trump critic and Kellyanne's husband, escalated a growing feud when he tweeted that the president is a pathological narcissist.
  
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 Romney, Weld Condemn Trump Over McCain Attacks President Donald Trump inaccurately said John McCain was "last in his class" and declared that he was "never a fan" of the late senator and "never will be."
  
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 Cavuto: Trump's Attacks Distracts From His Good News “I was never a fan of John McCain, and I never will be,” Donald Trump said of the late senator this week.
  
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 Mueller Has 'Oodles' Of Evidence On Trump: Rosenberg "It seems like in part they’re coming after Individual One—the president of the United States,” Chuck Rosenberg said.
  
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 Pavlich: America Should Get 'Credit' for Ending Slavery "If you want to start a problem and to inflame racial tension even more, start blaming people who have nothing to do with slavery, for the sin of slavery," conservative commentator Katie Pavlich said.
  
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 Suspect in Mob Boss Killing Flashes Pro-Trump Slogans Comello had scribbled “MAGA Forever” and “United We Stand MAGA” on his left palm.
  
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 Pompeo: I'm Here Until Trump 'Tweets Me Out Of Office' Pompeo’s joke about Trump firing him on Twitter was in reference to his predecessor Rex Tillerson, who the president dismissed in a tweet last March.
  
 World
 Vladimir Putin Signs Bill Banning ‘Fake News’ If a website fails to remove the material in a timely manner, the state will have the power to block the offending pages from their citizens.
  
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 Yang: Let's Give Citizens $1K Per Month Via Amazon Tax “This is the trickle-up economy, not the trickle-down economy,” Andrew Yang said.
  
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 Omar to Trump: 'You Can't #MuslimBan Us From Congress!' The freshman congresswoman responded to Trump's retweet of an article claiming that some Democrats were taking steps to remove her from Congress.
  
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 O'Rourke Responds to GOP's Tweet Of His 1998 Mugshot The official GOP Twitter account on Sunday tweeted a 1998 mugshot of O’Rourke with a leprechaun hat photoshopped over his head and the words “please drink responsibly” on a placard underneath.
  
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 Fox News Host Urges Viewers To Stock Up On AR-15s O’Rourke on Friday said that the AR-15 was “designed, engineered and sold to the United States military for the express purpose of killing people as effectively as possible, in as greater number as...
  
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 Trump Blasts Shephard Smith and Other Fox News Anchors CNN's "where they should be working, along with their lowest rated anchor, Shepard Smith!” Trump tweeted.
  
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 CNN Guests Shout At Each Other Over Trump's Border Veto CNN conservative political commentators Ben Ferguson and Tara Setmayer's discussion on President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration quickly descended into an incoherent yelling match.
  
 World
 Man Stands Outside Mosque to 'Keep Watch' For Muslims “You are my friends. I will keep watch while you pray,” Andrew Graystone's sign read.
  
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 Fox News Hosts Applauds Maher For Democrat Comments "You don’t like the questions that Fox News might ask, so you’re deciding not to take any questions at all? How very Trump of you,” Bill Maher said of Democrats on Friday.
  
 World
 Students Launch Global Climate Change Strike The demonstrations, which starkly illustrated students' frustrations with adult apathy, pushed an unsettling message: Save our planet, save our futures.
  
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 Arizona Man Accuses AMC Theatre of Racial Profiling “Do you know how embarrassing this is?” movie-goer Larry Shelton, 40, said.
  
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 Sex-Change Surgeon Shared Patients' Photos to Instagram "The University of Miami is committed to promoting and supporting diversity in its students, faculty, and staff and finds any transphobic comments unacceptable," a UHealth spokesperson told Newsweek.
  
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 Samuel J. Jackson Rips Trump: He's 'Ruining the Planet' Jackson, a frequent critic of Trump, also called on those who are too scared to voice their opposition of the president to stand up and be heard.
  
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 Manafort Lawyer Heckled Outside Courthouse: 'Liar!' "It's callous, it was hostile and totally unnecessary,” Kevin Downing said about the additional sentence, amid yells of “traitor” directed at Manafort.
  
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 Nicholas Sandmann Files $275M Lawsuit Against CNN Sandmann's lawsuit against CNN comes less than a month after he filed a similar defamation suit against the Washington Post for $250 million.
  
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 Neil Cavuto Clashes With Al Green Over Impeaching Trump “The president engaged in bigotry not only with his rhetoric, but in his policies,” Al Green said.
  
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 Greenpeace Condemns Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Criticisms "He is a paid lobbyist, not an independent source," Greenpeace warned.