LOS ANGELES — A Rancho Cucamonga woman was sentenced Monday to more than 3 years in prison in a long-running case over a business that helped pregnant Chinese women travel to the United States to deliver babies who automatically became American citizens.

Phoebe Dong has been sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for running a birth tourism scheme. The scheme helped pregnant Chinese women give birth in the United States to secure citizenship for their children.

Employees at a California pho restaurant stopped a would-be thief from kidnapping their $18,000 robot coworker last Saturday as the man awkwardly struggled to load the mechanical server into his car.

A decade-old bird flu strain, H5N9, has surfaced in US poultry for the first time, detected in a California duck farm. Experts are concerned about its potential transmission to humans. While H5N1 is more common,

Released last week, the Chinese company’s website claimed its new R1 artificial intelligence model sported “performance on par with OpenAI-o1.” OpenAI is the San Francisco-based company headed by Sam Altman. Its main product is ChatGPT.

Eight suspects from throughout Southern California were arrested, and one remained a fugitive, in the alleged $200-million smuggling operation

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - China appears to be building a large laser-ignited fusion research centre in the southwestern city of Mianyang, experts at two analytical organisations say, a development that could aid nuclear weapons design and work exploring power generation.

Reports suggest he could also be planning a trip to China ahead of what many expect ... day extension for TikTok and he plans to travel to California on Friday or sometime early next week.”

By modifying 20 regions of the genome, scientists successfully bred mice with two male parents and raised them to maturity.

The Lightning are eighth in the section’s latest computer-generated power ratings, a key spot since the Open has featured eight teams the past several years.

• The La Jolla Music Society presents Evren Ozel on piano at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 2, at the Baker-Baum Concert Hall, 7600 Fay Ave. Students from Colburn School in Los Angeles will perform a musical prelude at 2 p.m. $41-$70. theconrad.org/events/evren-ozel-piano

Joe Biden made several attempts to curb Chinese AI advancement, but DeepSeek's launch has put those policies into question.