A 75-year-old Asian woman says she fought back after being punched in the eye Wednesday morning in what police believe was an unprovoked assault. “He bullies old people,” Xiao Zhen Xie said in a video taken after the attack by CNN affiliate KPIX. “So I gave a punch.” The San Francisco Police Department said that
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A photo allegedly posted by Capt. Jay Baker, a public information officer at the Cherokee County, Georgia, Sheriff’s Office, shows shirts with a racist and anti-Asian message about Covid-19. “Covid 19 imported virus from Chy-na,” the racist shirt in the photo posted April 2, 2020, reads. Although the account that posted it has been deleted,
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(CNN) –– El gobierno de EE.UU. tiene actualmente más de 14.000 menores inmigrantes en su custodia, revelaron este jueves funcionarios del gobierno. Pese a lo cual insisten en que lo que sucede en la frontera con México no constituye una «crisis». Estos son los principales países de origen de los menores migrantes no acompañados que
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP tennis team has had to overcome some obstacles early in their season. A few weeks back there was a positive Covid-19 case within the team that forced the shutdown of the program for almost a week. Now the Miners are ready to get back onto the tennis court. UTEP
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Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — Isaac Dickson students have a special place to get their mindful bodies in tune before they begin their morning lessons. They listen to and notice the sights and sounds around them. The elementary school’s new outdoor learning space is designed to allow students
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A former Florida state senator who resigned in disgrace four years ago was charged Thursday with campaign finance violations related to a hotly contested state Senate race in the 2020 election, authorities said. Frank Artiles, 47, turned himself in to authorities in Miami one day after his home was searched by investigators with the Miami-Dade
Continue Reading House Democrats are taking up two separate bills on immigration Thursday, marking the first time Congress will vote on a pathway for citizenship for undocumented immigrants since Democrats won slim majorities in both chambers of Congress with President Joe Biden in the White House. In the first vote, the House passed H.R. 6, the American
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CONNECTICUT (WFSB) — Job hunters in Connecticut are dealing with a new trend they say is leaving them frustrated. In the pandemic, companies are leading people along, just to keep them interested. In the midst of the pandemic, Dan Crowley, a cost accountant, was looking for a job
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The NFL is giving Amazon Prime Video exclusive rights to Thursday Night Football — part of its new 11-year deal with TV networks valued at more than $100 billion. The new deal includes Amazon, CBS, ESPN/ABC, Fox and NBC. It covers 11 years, including a 10-year deal beginning in 2023 and a bridge year deal
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Former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao on Thursday said the string of deadly shootings at three Atlanta-area Asian spas “cut at the very core of our country” and that work to combat hate against the Asian American and Pacific Islander community “must intensify.” “My thoughts and prayers are with the families of the victims of the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LOCK HAVEN, Pennsylvania (WNEP) — 16-year NFL veteran and the current kicker for the San Francisco 49ers, Robbie Gould, is giving back to his childhood hometown in Central Pennsylvania. Earlier this week during a Zoom call with county officials, Gould pledged 200,000 dollars of his own money to
Continue Reading (CNN) — Demi Lovato no pierde tiempo en llegar a los detalles de su sobredosis de 2018 en su nueva serie documental, «Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil”. Dirigida por Michael D. Ratner, la serie de cuatro partes cubre los meses que la llevaron a su casi fatídica noche, su sobredosis y lo que sucedió después. En
Continue Reading Republican state officials are up in arms over one of the strings attached to the $350 billion in state and local aid contained in the Democrats’ massive relief package enacted last week. The restriction, which was added by Senate Democrats, prompted Ohio’s attorney general to file a lawsuit Wednesday and his GOP peers to write
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WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. House has voted to open a gateway to citizenship for young Dreamers and other immigrants who have fled war or natural disasters abroad. Thursday’s vote gives Democrats a win in the year’s first vote on immigration. The issue faces a steep uphill climb in the Senate because Republicans are demanding
Continue Reading President Joe Biden is dispatching one of his top congressional allies to Ethiopia to meet with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed amid the humanitarian crisis in that country’s Tigray region. Sen. Chris Coons “will convey President Biden’s grave concerns about the humanitarian crisis and human rights abuses in the Tigray region and the risk of broader
Continue Reading US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told senior Chinese officials on Thursday that he and national security adviser Jake Sullivan intend to discuss their “deep concerns” about some of China’s actions and make clear the US does not seek conflict with Beijing. Blinken made the remarks before the two top national security officials sat down
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was visiting El Paso on Friday for a tour of the U.S.-Mexico border and migrant processing facilities, officials confirmed to ABC-7. U.S. Sens. Gary Peters (D-Michigan) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio), the chairman and ranking member of the Senate’s Homeland Security Committee are touring with Mayorkas, sources
Continue Reading (CNN) – La estrella del Paris Saint-Germain, Ángel Di María, se retiró intempestivamente del partido que su equipo jugaba ante el Nantes el domingo, después de recibir la noticia de que su casa había sido robada, informó AFP. El PSG dijo a la AFP que Di María fue uno de los dos jugadores que fueron
Continue Reading Nota del editor: John Avlon es analista político senior de CNN. Las opiniones expresadas en este comentario pertenecen al autor. Ver más opiniones en CNN. (CNN) — Todavía no sabemos exactamente qué motivó al presunto asesino de ocho personas en los spas del área de Atlanta el martes por la noche, seis de las cuales
Continue Reading (CNN) – Una coalición que rastrea informes de racismo y discriminación contra los asiáticos-estadounidenses dice que recibió al menos 3.795 reportes de primera mano desde el año pasado. Stop AAPI Hate, una organización social sin fines de lucro, comenzó a rastrear la violencia y el acoso contra los estadounidenses de origen asiático y los isleños
Continue Reading The United Arab Emirates has publicly distanced itself from Benjamin Netanyahu over concerns the Israeli Prime Minister was using Abu Dhabi to boost his prospects in upcoming Israeli elections. The diplomatic spat comes just six months after a historic normalization agreement, known as the Abraham Accords, was signed between the two countries. “The UAE signed
Continue Reading As the third round of stimulus payments goes out, many Americans are obsessively checking their bank accounts. But more than half a million people in the US might not have a bank account to eye or a mailbox to open — or even a check on the way. People experiencing homelessness are at risk of
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EL PASO, Texas — University Medical Center of El Paso said it would hold online appointment registration Thursday at 6 p.m. for more than 1,000 first doses of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccination. Registration will open at 6 p.m. at UMCelpaso.org for those in state vaccination categories 1B and 1C, which includes school and childcare personnel along with
Continue Reading (CNN) — Estados Unidos puede estar en la cúspide de otro aumento de casos de covid-19, dice una experta, pero la vacunación masiva de los estadounidenses más vulnerables probablemente limitará la pérdida de vidas. «Creo que vamos a ver un aumento en la cantidad de infecciones», dijo a CNN la doctora de emergencias Leana Wen
Continue Reading The federal government currently has more than 14,000 migrant children in its custody, administration officials said on Thursday, even as they insist that what is happening on the southern border does not constitute a “crisis.” The latest update comes as President Joe Biden and his top advisers work urgently to devise solutions to the border
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story AQUEBOGUE, New York (WCBS) — When hugging isn’t allowed during the pandemic, what can you do? A Long Island kindergartener and his teacher came up with an extraordinary way to connect. “We made a hugging machine … so now she can hug everyone in the world,” 5-year-old Avery
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The NFL is giving Amazon Prime Video exclusive rights to Thursday Night Football — part of its new 11-year deal with various networks. The new deal includes Amazon, CBS, ESPN/ABC, Fox and NBC, and goes into effect for the 2023 season. The Amazon partnership underscores the league’s dive into streaming. This story is developing.
Continue Reading Tran Wills couldn’t talk Wednesday about the shootings at Atlanta spas a day earlier without breaking down sobbing. “I saw myself in these women,” she said. “I feel I have been screaming about hate crimes and violence against Asian Americans from the beginning of the pandemic, and no one was listening.” Many Asian-American and Asian
Continue Reading Londres (CNN) — El regulador de medicamentos de la Unión Europea llegó a la conclusión de que la vacuna de Oxford-AstraZeneca contra el covid-19 es segura de usar después de que varios países del bloque suspendieran su administración tras informes de que podría estar relacionada con coágulos de sangre. La presidenta ejecutiva de la Agencia
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BOYNTON BEACH, Florida (WFOR) — A retired Boynton Beach firefighter and paramedic is giving back to the community in a big way. Luis Garcia, along with volunteers from USA Opioid Crisis Mortality Reduction with Narcan, passed out blankets, air mattresses, toiletries, clothing, PPE and disinfectants, in addition to
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