Wag the Finger: The US has issued a warning to China about its agents in the United States who have been pressuring Chinese expatriots to return home, some of whom are wanted on corruption charges, according to a report in the NY Times. In a national crackdown on corruption, the Chinese government is going after people who have fled the country, sometimes threatening to harm family members back home.

One of their biggest targets is a man named Ling Wancheng, whose brother was a high government official charged with corruption last month and removed from the communist party. Ling had been living in a gated community outside Sacramento, but has disappeared.

The American protest comes at a time of deteriorating relations with China over government-sponsored computer hacking, territorial encroachment, and the recent devaluation of the Chinese currency.

Permawar: At least 80 civilians were killed yesterday when the Syrian air force attacked a busy market area in a Damascus suburb. It’s believed to be one of the deadliest attacks in Syria’s four-year civil war. Fighting has picked up in the Damascus area in recent days. Opposition leaders say the government acted in revenge for the rebel takeover of a nearby military base.

Tianjin: As the search for bodies continues, people who live near the chemical explosion site in Tianjin, China are demanding compensation for damage to their homes. They say that large chemical storage warehouses were built close to their homes illegally.

World: Searchers have found the wreckage of an Indonesian airliner that crashed in the mountainous region of Papua. The plane was carrying 54 people and nearly half a million dollars in cash intended for remote villages.

Nation: The step-grand daughter of actor Morgan Freeman was killed in a gruesome knife attack in New York by her boyfriend in what may have been a drug-induced psychotic break. A witness told the NY Post that the boyfriend Lamar Davenport was shouting “Get out, devils! I cast you out, devils! In the name of Jesus Christ, I cast you out!” as he repeatedly stabbed 33-year-old E’Dena Hines with a hunting knife.

A witness said Davenport was still making a stabbing motion with his empty hand when police arrived. The knife was sticking in Hines’s chest. Hines had been an aspiring actress.

Making America Great: Speaking on NBC yesterday, Donald Trump said he would crack down on illegal immigration and reform the way people enter the country. “We have to make a whole new set of standards,” Trump said. “And when people come in, they have to come in legally.” Trump said he would build an impenetrable wall, end “birthright citizenship” for the children of illegal immigrants, and deport illegal immigrants, of which there are millions. “We’re going to keep the families together … but they have to go,” he said.

Trump is taking a break from the campaign as he reports for jury duty in New York today.

You’ve Got Mail: State Department investigators combing over Hillary Clinton’s email have already found 60 messages containing classified information that were sent over her private email server while she was secretary of state, according to the Washington Post.

Clinton split hairs of definition yesterday in her denial that she had done anything wrong. “The State Department has confirmed that I did not send nor receive material marked classified or send material marked classified,” she said yesterday. She didn’t say none of the information was classified.

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