A biological sample that a Chinese researcher was accused of smuggling into the United States and that prosecutors cast as a "dangerous biological pathogen" is a common type of fungus already widespread in U.

FBI chief Kash Patel announced the arrest of Yunqing Jian, a Chinese national, for allegedly smuggling the dangerous fungus Fusarium graminearum into the US. Jian, along with her boyfriend Zunyong Liu,

A Chinese national accused of smuggling a "potential agroterrorism weapon" via a noxious fungus into the U.S. appeared in a federal courtroom in Detroit Thursday afternoon for a detention hearing.