Chinese investigators accused scientist He Jiankui, who claimed to have created the world’s first gene-edited babies, of violating national laws and falsifying documents to carry out the procedure, reports the WSJ.
The details: It's the first time China has confirmed the controversial births and the first indication that it will punish He for the experiment. State media Xinhua News Agency reports that He "will be transferred to public security authorities" and the individuals involved in the experiment will be "severely dealt with according to the law," per the WSJ.
Researchers from Beyond Parallel, a project sponsored by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, have discovered a secret ballistic missile base in North Korea ahead of a likely new U.S.-North Korea summit, NBC News reports.
Why it matters: The group estimates North Korea could have as many as 20 undisclosed missile sites. President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un agreed to hold another nuclear summit sometime in February, even though Pyongyang and Washington have not made any substantial progress on denuclearization since the first summit last summer.
Trump isn't the only senior White House official rooting for Brexit.National security adviser John Bolton talks regularly by phone with his Brexiteer friends inside Theresa May's imploding government — Cabinet ministers Liam Fox and Chris Grayling — according to a May government source.
What they're saying: "John is a strong believer in Brexit and has been encouraging the Brexiteers to keep it up," the source told me.
