California Mayor Resigns After Foreign Agent Charges

Eileen Wang, the 58-year-old mayor of Arcadia, California, resigned after the Department of Justice charged her with acting as an illegal foreign agent of China and announced she had agreed to plead guilty. The felony charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and is part of a broader federal push to prosecute undisclosed foreign influence operations at the local government level. Arcadia is a city of roughly 60,000 people in Los Angeles County.