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Click here for updates on this story     PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Martin Yucha has so much to be thankful for. Yucha is a cancer survivor from Warren County who desperately needed a liver transplant. Anthony Cernera is a semi-pro skydiver and philanthropist from Connecticut who gives himself to complete strangers, a mission that started in 2016.

Click here for updates on this story     DALLAS (KTVT) — Hundreds of migrant teens have apparently begun arriving in North Texas and the big question is how the federal government will keep them safe. The Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in downtown Dallas is opening as a temporary shelter. Shortly after 10:00 p.m. Wednesday, March

Click here for updates on this story     CHICAGO (WBBM) — Two first dates went horribly wrong when unsuspecting men showed up to see a woman they met online but instead were beaten by masked men. One of the men was hospitalized and is in fair condition. The second man, who was punched in the face

We don’t yet know exactly what motivated the alleged killer of eight people at Atlanta area spas on Tuesday night, six of whom were Asian American women. But we do know that hate crimes against Asian Americans have been on the rise since the start of the Covid pandemic in the US. Asian Americans have

Click here for updates on this story     FITCHBURG, Massachusetts (WBZ) — A 10-year-old boy told his mother he didn’t have any friends, and that’s when his mom took action to prove him wrong. And the turnout and community support was more than his mom could ever have imagined. As JoJo Ragsdale scrambled into a chair

There has been a marked rise in anti-Asian violence across the United States, an issue that once again rattled a community on edge after the Tuesday mass shooting deaths of eight people at spas in the Atlanta area, six of whom were Asian women. Police have said it is too early to know the shooter’s

A coalition tracking reports of racism and discrimination against Asian Americans says it has received at least 3,795 firsthand complaints since last year. Stop AAPI Hate began tracking violence and harassment against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders on March 19 last year. From then through the end of 2020, Stop AAPI Hate received a total

The Kremlin has reacted angrily to US President Joe Biden‘s remarks that Russian leader Vladimir Putin is “a killer,” calling the comment unprecedented and describing the relationship between the two countries as “very bad.” Putin on Thursday nevertheless invited Biden to hold open online talks in the wake of the remarks. In an interview with

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

Click here for updates on this story     HONOLULU (KITV) — The Honolulu Police Department (HPD) raided another illegal game room, this time in Wai’anae. HPD says a dozen gambling machines were seized Tuesday afternoon. The Narcotics/Vice Division with the assistance of the District 8 Crime Reduction Unit and Specialized Services Division executed the search. To

Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has died at a hospital in Dar es Salaam, the country’s vice president announced in a televised address on Wednesday. He was 61. “President John Magufuli died of a heart ailment that he has battled for over 10 years,” Samia Suluhu Hassan said. She added that the president had been receiving

At least two of the eight people killed at Atlanta-area Asian massage spas Tuesday lived in the same spa where they worked, Georgia state Rep. Bee Nguyen said. “This one fact alone highlights the vulnerability, the invisibility, and the isolation of working-class Asian women in our country,” Nguyen said at a Thursday news conference. “When