California businessman found guilty of selling faulty COVID tests, defrauding customers

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A federal jury has found a California man tied to a controversial underground biolab guilty of orchestrating a multimillion-dollar COVID-19 test fraud scheme, prosecutors said.Jia Bei Zhu, 64, a Chinese national, was convicted on all 12 counts following a two-week trial in Sacramento, including conspiracy, wire fraud, distributing misbranded medical devices and lying to the Food and Drug Administration, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.Prosecutors say Zhu used his Fresno-based company, Universal Meditech Inc. (UMI), to sell more than one million faulty COVID-19 test kits across the United States, raking in nearly…

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Prince George’s County council limits convenience store density

The Prince George’s County council in the state of Maryland recently voted 10-0 in favor of enacting a measure limiting how densely convenience stores can be packed together in the area. Council Member Krystal Oriadha said in October that there is a problem with “overconcentration” of the stores.”They call themselves…

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Best In The National League? The Surprise Team Ahead Of The Dodgers

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The top teams in MLB are already beginning to separate themselves from the pack. That gave MLB on FOX analyst Dontrelle Willis the chance to stack the National League’s elite squads, ranking the top five teams in the NL. Willis didn’t put the…

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Exclusive | Meet the Met Gala design engineer who adorned Janelle Monáe’s costume with mesmerizing robo-butterflies

Janelle Monáe’s 2026 Met Gala ensemble was more than just a pretty dress. It was a moving work of art.  And Cameron Hughes was the one who got it going.  “I made the four living butterflies and two dragonflies featured on Janelle Monáe’s Met Gala gown by Christian Siriano,” Hughes, 32, an animatronics engineer from Manhattan, exclusively told The Post of the hardwired handiwork he created for the 10-time Grammy nominee. Monáe wowed among the crème de la crème at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual fundraiser Monday, the star-studded opening ceremonies for the Costume Institute’s spring exhibition, “Costume Art.” She, alongside incandescent icons Beyoncé,…

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