“We’re just tired,” Will Lex Ham of New York City tells CNN. “We’re tired of being scapegoated.” Ham’s sentiments echo the fatigue, frustration and collective trauma experienced by Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) due to recent racist attacks on their communities. For many in the AAPI community, just leaving home requires a new routine
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Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS (KVVU) — It’s a first for one major local beauty pageant: a transgender person is now the reigning titleholder. Kataluna Enriquez won Miss Silver State USA, the biggest preliminary competition for the Miss Nevada USA pageant. Enriquez has won transgender pageants before and entered other cisgender
Continue Reading Here’s a look at the Iditarod dogsled race. The event is named after the Iditarod Trail, an old mail and supply route, traveled by dogsleds from Seward and Knik to Nome, Alaska. March 15, 2021 – Dallas Seavey wins his fifth Iditarod. March 18, 2020 – Thomas Waerner wins his first Iditarod. Facts The race
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MURFREESBORO, Tennessee (WSMV) — It was in the parking lot of Parkview Flats on Bradyville Pike Monday morning in Murfreesboro when Latoya Moore’s car was stolen. She was about to drive her daughter to school when she turned the car on and noticed she forgot her wallet. So
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ONTARIO, California (KABC) — A house full of fireworks exploded in Ontario Tuesday, setting multiple structures on fire. At least two people were killed in the incident. The huge blast was felt and seen for miles. Residents as far away as Anaheim and Huntington Beach reported feeling the
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The jurors selected so far in Derek Chauvin’s trial in the death of George Floyd are unnamed and unseen on camera, but we do know basic details about them. As of Wednesday, four men and three women have been chosen to serve on the jury during the trial in Minneapolis. Of the seven jurors, four
Continue Reading Winter is on its way out. The days are getting longer, vaccinations are ramping up and an end to the pandemic could be in sight. But murder hornets don’t care about any of that. Warmer weather is when they thrive, and scientists in the US and Canada are preparing for the next Asian giant hornet
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — Thousands of pennies, dumped at Andreas Flatens house in the middle of the night as a form of payment for his final check from A OK Walker Luxury Auto shop, according to him. “Probably a thousand dollars’ worth of pennies and a little love note,”
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WABC) — A mother and father on Staten Island are showing gratitude to the New York cops who saved their baby girl when she stopped breathing. Through a hallway and down four flights of stairs, Franklin Mansari was racing for help. The frantic father’s baby girl
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A string of shootings at three spas in the Atlanta area Tuesday left eight people dead — six of them reported to be Asian women, raising concerns from some public officials that the attacks could be racially motivated. Police have not yet offered a motive in the shootings, which happened over an hour Tuesday before
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV/KSMO ) — While communities are pitted against each other a woman facing a troubling diagnosis found genuine connections through a social media app known for dancing influencers. “There’s a lot of stereotypes and negative connotations with social media in general,” said Tricia Melland. “Sure,
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Strawberries continue to lead the “Dirty Dozen” list of fruits and veggies that contain the highest levels of pesticides, followed by spinach, a trio of greens — kale, collard and mustard — nectarines, apples, and grapes, according to the Environmental Working Group’s 2021 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce. Cherries came in seventh on the
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story OMAHA, Nebraska (WOWT) — “You see it happening across the country and I didn’t expect that it would hit us so close to home,” Noah said Tuesday afternoon about an incident that involved his father-in-law, John. It was a scary moment for John, who takes a walk in
Continue Reading Here’s a look at immigration to the United States. Legal Immigration Statistics 2019 – 1,031,765 people are granted lawful permanent residence in the United States. The top countries of origin of these “green card” recipients, or LPRs: — Mexico = 153,502 — China = 60,029 — India = 51,139 — Dominican Republic = 49,815 —
Continue Reading Here’s a look at the life of writer and activist Gloria Steinem. Personal Birth date: March 25, 1934 Birth place: Toledo, Ohio Birth name: Gloria Marie Steinem Father: Leo Steinem, an antique dealer Mother: Ruth (Nuneviller) Steinem Marriage: David Bale (2000-2003, his death) Education: Smith College, B.A., 1956 Other Facts Steinem’s paternal grandmother, Pauline Perlmutter
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Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, there will be no vibrant, green parades, group celebrations, or religious coming-togethers for a second year in a row in Ireland today. The country is confined to the strictest level 5 lockdown with a 5-kilometer (3.1-mile) travel limit. And while we will still be adorned in shamrocks, and landmarks across
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St. Patrick’s Day was the first major holiday of the Covid-19 pandemic in the US, and we’ve learned sobering lessons since then. Young, healthy people who were infected around St. Patrick’s Day have suffered long-term complications. And infections have been spread by people with no symptoms. But this St. Patrick’s Day, Americans have a new
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The statistics are staggering. More than 400,000 migrant children have crossed the US border without their parents since 2003. And each time a new wave arrives, political controversy follows. The numbers are on the rise again, with some children arriving who are as young or 6 or 7. This increase is sparking fierce debate in
Continue Reading The Texas attorney general says a lawsuit he filed against the energy company Griddy will keep about 24,000 Texans from having to pay $29.1 million in unpaid bills related to last month’s winter storms. “My office sued Griddy Energy, under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, to hold them accountable for their escalation of last
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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in mid-February released guidelines for a safe return to school. The agency emphasized five ways to mitigate risk from coronavirus: requiring masks, physical distancing, handwashing, maintaining clean facilities and contract tracing. Since then, the Biden administration has also prioritized vaccination for teachers and school staff. Teachers in
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