An assistant district attorney in Bucks County, Pa., was demoted this week after admitting he worked a second job as a delivery man for DoorDash, a food delivery app, while on the clock for the county. The man, Gregg Shore, who as first assistant district attorney was the second-highest official in the office, was demoted […]
A serial stowaway is back in jail after being arrested at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. Marilyn Hartman was subject to a court order forbidding her from going anywhere near the airport. The 69-year-old’s electronic monitor was allegedly activated when she left the facility where she was staying, prompting officers to start tracking her movements. She […]
A journalist who was about to become editor of Teen Vogue has announced she will no longer be taking the role – after a backlash over homophobic and anti-Asian tweets she wrote in 2011. In a statement, Alexi McCammond said: “I became a journalist to help lift up the stories and voices of our most […]
ANCHORAGE (BLOOMBERG) – The first high-level talks between the US and China since President Joe Biden took office descended immediately into bickering and recriminations, with each side sharply criticising the other over human rights, trade and international alliances. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken began his remarks at the meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, by vowing […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – US lawmakers, professors and actor Daniel Dae Kim said the Asian-American community was reeling from a year of heightened anti-Asian attacks in a congressional hearing held just days after the killing of six Asian women in Georgia. Thursday’s hearing (March 18), which was scheduled before the attack, aimed to examine a spike […]
NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – Alexi McCammond, who made her name as a politics reporter at the Washington news site Axios, had planned to start as the editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue next Wednesday. Now, after Teen Vogue staff members publicly condemned racist and homophobic tweets McCammond had posted a decade ago, she has resigned from the […]
The announcement came at a time when the Biden administration has been quietly pressing Mexico to ramp up its efforts to limit the flow of migrants. By Natalie Kitroeff, Maria Abi-Habib, Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Jim Tankersley The United States plans to send millions of doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Mexico and Canada, the White House said […]
NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) – Millions of Americans with disabilities are being overlooked during the pandemic recovery, stuck at home without therapy or social programmes, and struggling to book Covid-19 vaccinations. In Connecticut, a switch on March 1 to an age-based inoculation system angered advocates, who said the decision bumped special-needs residents. Disability-rights groups in Arizona […]
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — An Oregon woman who was recorded on police body camera video refusing to wear a mask at a Texas bank last week was arrested Wednesday after declining to wear a mask inside another Texas business. Terry Wright, 65, already had a warrant out for her arrest after she refused to wear […]
On a cold evening last month, a Chinese man was walking home near Manhattan’s Chinatown neighborhood when a stranger suddenly ran up behind him and plunged a knife into his back. For many Asian-Americans, the stabbing was horrifying, but not surprising. It was widely seen as just the latest example of racially targeted violence against […]