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Video recorded over the weekend shows black man yell ethnic slurs and profanities at Asian-American NYPD officer ...here protesters clashed with police over new 10pm curfew..black man repeatedly calls Asian cop a 'ch**k' and argues that 'black people cannot be racist' ...He repeats the offensive ethnic slur referring to a person of Chinese descent over and over again without drawing any response from the targeted officer. Another cop tries to deescalate the situation and leads his colleagues away as the irate man continues to yell racial abuse. ...Moments later, a man passing by on a bicycle overhears the slurs and...

Brazil's Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga Monday announced players taking part in the upcoming Copa América shall not be required to be vaccinated, contrary to what had been announced last week. The South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) made a last-minute decision to reschedule the event from Colombia due to political unrest and then from Argentina due to the coronavirus pandemic. At the time of that announcement, it was also specified that athletes wishing to compete should be vaccinated against covid-19. ”If the vaccination of athletes is required at this time, they will not have been immunized until the start of the...

Nanjing University was blasted online for publishing sexually suggestive photos to recruit students, like this one that reads, “Let me be part of your youth”. Weibo One of the top universities in China is under fire for using women to lure applicants in a sexually suggestive online advertisement, with critics saying the college is objectifying women. Nanjing University (NJU) posted the advertisement on Weibo on Monday (June 7), the first day of the gaokao exams, China’s national college entrance tests. The advertisement featured six photos of current students holding up signs in front of different parts of the campus. Two...

China's May factory gate prices rose at their fastest annual pace in over 12 years due to surging commodity prices, highlighting global inflation pressures at a time when policymakers are trying to revitalise COVID-hit growth. Investors are increasingly worried pandemic-driven stimulus measures could supercharge global inflation and force central banks to tighten policy, potentially curbing the recovery. China's producer price index (PPI) increased 9.0%, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Wednesday, as prices bounced back from last year's pandemic lows. The PPI rise in May - the fastest on-year gain for any month since September 2008 - was...

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Rookie Cameron Kinley was signed by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as an undrafted free agent following the 2021 NFL Draft, but he won’t be able to suit up for the defending Super Bowl champs after the U.S. Naval Academy denied his request to delay his service. Kinley, who was a team captain for the Navy as well as a class president, participated in the Buccaneers’ rookie minicamp with the school’s permission. On Monday afternoon, Kinley released a statement regarding the ongoing situation.

A 92-year-old nun, who took a vow of silence, solitude and poverty, has died at the monastery where she lived for the past three decades - however the full story of Sister Mary Joseph's life is far from traditional. Until she dedicated herself to a life of prayer she was known as Ann Russell Miller, a wealthy San Francisco socialite who hosted lavish parties, had season tickets to the opera and was the mother of ten children. Born in 1928, Ann had dreams of becoming a nun, but she fell in love instead. At 20, she married Richard Miller, who...

More than 170 health care workers at a Houston, Texas, hospital were reportedly suspended for two weeks without pay this week for choosing to not get the coronavirus vaccine by the hospital’s Monday deadline, which the hospital requires of its workers. The employees will be fired after the two weeks if they don’t get vaccinated, FOX 4 in Dallas reported. Houston Methodist Hospital President and CEO Marc Boom said that 99% of it more than 25,000 workers had been vaccinated by the deadline. "It is unfortunate that today’s milestone of Houston Methodist becoming the safest hospital system in the country...

“All FUSD students deserve to attend schools where they are safe, respected, and supported. Continuing to have police on campus harms Black and brown students who are exhausted from seeing their families harassed by police and witnessing high profile police-killings of young people on TV and social media. We know police on campus don’t prevent mass shootings. Since Columbine we’ve dramatically increased police presence in schools, yet mass shootings have grown exponentially,” said Ashley Rojas, Executive Director of Fresno Barrios Unidos and Fresno’s Education Justice Coalition. “Police criminalize Black and brown students. We have an opportunity here in Fresno to...

The 130-year-old exploration and education non-profit marked World Oceans Day on Tuesday by declaring that the waters around Antarctica will now be known as the Southern Ocean — the planet’s fifth ocean. “The Southern Ocean has long been recognized by scientists, but because there was never agreement internationally, we never officially recognized it,” National Geographic Society Geographer Alex Tait said. “It’s sort of geographic nerdiness in some ways,” Tait said. “We’ve always labeled it, but we labeled it slightly differently (than other oceans). This change was taking the last step and saying we want to recognize it because of its...

Journalists due to accompany Joe Biden on his first overseas trip as president were delayed on their outbound flight to England on Tuesday night - because of cicadas. A swarm of the noisy flying insects - part of the billions-strong Brood X which appears across the United States every 17 years - filled the engines of the White House press plane as it was on the runway at Dulles International Airport, reported The New York Times. The pilots were forced to turn the aircraft back to the departure gate. The insects were responsible for the delay, a spokesperson for Delta...

Former President Trump, perhaps trying to divert attention from his own disastrous handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, is now lashing out against Dr. Anthony Fauci for allegedly failing to seriously consider that the virus might have originated from China’s Wuhan lab, rather than from an animal’s transmission to humans. But judging from what Fauci told me in a June 4 interview, the most respected U.S. infectious diseases expert has not yet seen any convincing evidence that the virus may have escaped from a Chinese lab. Fauci, who heads the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and is a...

Here's an example: 'He'll run and he'll fall/ And he'll take it in stride'.........That just about sums up the skill-level involved here...... Only those with zero knowledge of the art of writing for children think they can knock off a picture book and thus add to their dazzling truth as a human being, a 'mother, wife, feminist and activist'. Or whatever. So only those with zero knowledge of how increasingly hard it is nowadays for truly talented authors to get published will be able to read Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex's contribution without weeping – either with mirth or despair....

One gifted 12-year-old is way ahead of the game when it comes to schooling. Mike Wimmer, from Salisbury, North Carolina, graduated from Rowan-Cabarrus Community College on May 21 with a 4.0 GPA and an associate degree. A week later, he graduated from Concord Academy High School with a 5.45 GPA as valedictorian.... ...Mike describes himself as a well-rounded person with an interest in all subjects, though he's always leaned more toward STEM fields. He calls himself the "math and science guy." "Technology in particular I like because it's limitless, and I can do whatever I want to with it," he...

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Cambridge University researchers claimed people were more likely to look down on others or react with disgust at questionable actions if they were afraid of Covid. The findings support earlier research which linked health threats with harsher moral judgment, and the idea that right and wrong are not based on rational thought alone. A study by researchers at the University of Nottingham earlier this year found that people's adherence to Covid restrictions is more heavily influenced by what their friends and family do than their own principles.

A former Olympian has been charged with defrauding the Small Business Administration over a pandemic loan. Luka Klasinc, a Slovenian figure skater, competed in the men's singles event at the 1992 Winter Olympics. ... ...Beginning last July, Klasinc's company received more than $1.5 million in Economic Injury Disaster Loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration. When accounts that controlled the money started making suspicious wire transfers, Klasinc's bank froze the funds, according to the criminal complaint....

Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam was locked down for hours because of a bomb threat. Play Video: https://www.kitv.com/clip/15223704/bomb-threat-locks-down-joint-base-pearl-harborhickam A bomb threat forced military officials to lock down Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. By the afternoon, it was back to normal for the busy Oahu base, after its gates were closed for four hours. The ripple effects of the bomb threat were also felt around Pearl Harbor. A line of traffic stretched out from Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam after its gates were closed at 9:39 a.m. Drivers not only waited to get in, but also were unable to leave because of a security...

BUCHAREST, Romania — Government ministers in the former Soviet and communist countries along the Black Sea basin are bracing for President Joe Biden’s meeting with Vladimir Putin of Russia next Wednesday in Geneva. But, analysts are warning them to keep their expectations low. They hope the American president will stand for democratic ideals and support their security, but regional analysts say they may be pawns in a broader geopolitical chess match between great power rivals. From Kyiv to Bucharest, government leaders are attempting to influence Biden ahead of the meeting, underscoring that their democracy depends on the United States and...

Five Republican senators wrote a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to discuss their concern of "unequal justice" for the prosecution of Capitol rioters in comparison to some demonstrators during the social justice protests in 2020.Signed by Senators Ron Johnson, Tommy Tuberville, Mike Lee, Rick Scott and Ted Cruz, the letter highlighted a few instances of disruption by protests that may have resulted in unequal justice in the prosecution of those involved. They requested "information about our concerns regarding potential unequal justice administered in response to other recent instances of mass unrest, destruction, and loss of life throughout the...