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On Tuesday, an undocumented Chinese immigrant to the United States was taken into custody on charges of supplying North Korea with weapons and ammunition and preparing to transfer additional technologies to the nuclear-armed pariah state. According to authorities, Shenghua Wen, 41, was engaged in the illegal activity while residing in Ontario, Southern California, east of Los Angeles, on a visa that had expired. According to court records, at least two shipments of weapons and ammunition were shipped from the port in Long Beach, California, to Hong Kong and ultimately North Korea while concealed in shipping containers. According to a statement from Akil Davis, assistant director in charge of the FBI's Los Angeles field office, the importance of this arrest and the uncovering of this plot c...

Washington Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., who has served as the head of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus for more than a dozen years, will be replaced on Wednesday by Rep. Grace Meng, D-N.Y., Chu told NBC News Tuesday night. Meng, who has been a member of Congress since 2013, is running unopposed to succeed Chu as CAPAC's chair. Later on Wednesday, there will be an internal election. Meng serves as CAPAC's "first vice chair, so basically she has been put in a position to be able to take over, and I think she'll do a great job," Chu stated. Among the three minority caucuses, which also include the Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, CAPAC is the smallest. However, it has been a significant voice on topics like immigration reform, encouraging languag...

For the first time, Telegram, which has long been known as a site for trading content about child sexual abuse, has agreed to work with a bigger global watch organization to stop this kind of stuff. The cooperation with Telegram was revealed Tuesday by the U.K.-based Internet Watch Foundation, which keeps a database of known abuse imagery and offers digital companies tools to automatically report and delete it. After being arrested in August as part of a broader investigation that included claims of the platform's involvement in other unlawful activities, including the distribution of graphic photographs depicting the abuse of kids, Telegram's mysterious co-founder and CEO, Pavel Durov, is still free on bail in France. According to a news release from the IWF, the new relationship would en...

President-elect Donald Trump's choice to head the Drug Enforcement Administration, Chad Chronister, announced on Tuesday that he will not be running for the position. Only three days after Trump announced his intention to nominate him as the next DEA administrator, Chronister, the sheriff of Hillsborough County, Florida, declared he would decline the candidacy. After former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., withdrawn his candidacy for attorney general last month, he is the second Trump administration appointee to remove his name from consideration. "To have been nominated by President-Elect@realDonaldTrumpto serve as Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration is the honor of a lifetime," Chronisterwrote on XTuesday evening. "Over the past several days, as the gravity of this very importan...

Welcome to the online edition of From the Politics Desk, an evening email that provides you with the most recent coverage and commentary from the campaign trail, Capitol Hill, and the White House by the NBC News Politics team. The national political correspondent discusses why Republicans might not be able to rely on Donald Trump's coalition in the future in today's program. Additionally, the president-elect's choice to head the Defense Department is met with skepticism from Republican senators. Register here to get this newsletter delivered to your inbox each daily. The GOP s post-election challenge: Turning Trump voters into full-fledged Republicans By Steve Kornacki The Trump coalition and the GOP coalition are not exactly the same, which presents a difficulty for Republicans movi...

According to research released on Tuesday, even tiny daily activity bursts can benefit the heart, particularly in women. According to a study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, small bursts of intense activity in daily life, like climbing stairs or lugging a bag of groceries to the car, can significantly increase the risk of heart disease in people who don't exercise. The study contributes to an expanding collection of data demonstrating the positive health effects of even little exercise. According to experts, it might be especially helpful in the United States, where the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 25% of Americans do not engage in any physical activity outside of work. Dr. Meagan Wasfy, a sports cardiologist at Mass General Brigham in Bosto...

Following a judge's decision that he was competent to be questioned regarding the alleged abuse, the 88-year-old doctor who is accused of sexually assaulting Indiana University basketball players in the 1990s will be deposed on Wednesday. Following the doctor's interrogation at the federal courthouse in Indianapolis, Magistrate Judge Mario Garcia stated in a ruling on Tuesday that Dr. Bradford Bomba Sr. was able to correctly distinguish between the truth and a falsehood. According to court documents dated November 27, Bomba's guardian, Joseph Bomba, requested that the deposition be postponed, claiming that the former IU team doctor is unable of testifying because he lacks the mental capacity to distinguish between truth and falsity. Garcia then delivered the decision. The judge didn't agre...

Washington Pete Hegseth, president-elect Donald Trump's choice to head the Defense Department, is in jeopardy as Senate Republicans become more alarmed over allegations of his drinking and mistreatment of women. According to three Republican sources with direct knowledge of Hegseth's nomination process, NBC News reports that up to six Senate Republicans, if not more, are currently uncomfortable with the former Fox News anchor's ambition to head the Pentagon as fresh information about his background keeps coming to light. Hegseth can only afford to lose three GOP votes, assuming all Democrats vote against him, because Republicans will have a tiny Senate majority in the upcoming Congress. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, who is on the Armed Services Committee, stated that she would question the fo...