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The massacres at three massage parlors in the Atlanta area this week, leaving eight human beings dead, others injured, and their families scarred, were horrifying. Read this deeply moving story about the son of one of the women killed to remind yourself of this. It’s brutal. The grief will spread and resonate some more. But this story has also been deeply instructive about our national discourse and the state of the American mainstream and elite media. This story’s coverage is proof, it seems to me, that American journalists have officially abandoned the habit of attempting any kind of “objectivity” in...

Despite the fact that the massage parlor massacre, in which six Asian women were killed, was not officially declared a hate crime by the authorities, public outrage over anti-Asian sentiments remains high all across the nation. New York mayor, Democrat Bill de Blasio, had to leave the anti-racism rally due to the outraged participants, which on Friday have taken to the city streets to protest the Georgia massacre and the possible racial motive behind it. In the very beginning of the video shared on social media, the mayor is being escorted away from the protest, while someone in the crowd...

A manhunt for two suspects was underway in Seattle late Thursday night after a shooting during a robbery at a massage parlor, according to reports. The shooting left a male of Asian descent with non-life-threatening wounds, the reports said.

Six of the eight victims were Asian women, raising concerns among the already alarmed Asian American community, which has faced a recent spike in anti-Asian hate crimes around the country.(RNS) — A Woodstock, Georgia, resident has been arrested after a killing spree left eight dead in spas around the greater Atlanta area Tuesday (March 16). Robert Aaron Long, 21, has been arrested in connection with the killings of four women at a spa in Cherokee County, Georgia, and four additional women in two other spas in northeast Atlanta, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. According to police, the suspect told them...

Atlanta massage parlor shooting suspect Robert Aaron Long took "full responsibility" for the string of Tuesday night attacks that left eight people dead and another person injured, authorities said Wednesday. Police officials said the events were not believed to have been racially motivated, and Long instead allegedly opened fire because he saw the locations as "an outlet for him" to succumb to purported sex-addiction temptations, police and officials said during a news conference. Long, 21, was allegedly on his way to Florida at the time of his Tuesday night arrest and indicated he was potentially going "to carry out additional...

ATLANTA—A Georgia man who professed a passion for guns and God was in custody on Tuesday night after a string of shootings that police said appeared to target Asian women at massage parlors and left eight people dead. Aaron Long, 21, of Woodstock, Georgia, was caught on video at the crime scenes and later nabbed on a highway two hours south of Atlanta following a police chase, authorities said. Police stressed that it was still much too early to announce a motive, but the horrific attacks come amid a wave of targeted violence against the Asian-American community. Details about the...

A Georgia man is suspected of gunning down eight people in three mass shootings at massage parlors that are primarily staffed by Asian women in Atlanta and a nearby suburb on Tuesday evening, police said. The suspected gunman, Robert Aaron Long, 21, of Woodstock, GA, was captured Tuesday night about 150 miles south of Atlanta following a statewide police manhunt. Authorities believe Long opened fire on five people shortly before 5 p.m. in Young’s Asian Massage Parlor near Acworth in Georgia’s Cherokee County, officials said. Four of the victims of that shooting died, according to the local sheriff’s office. Less...

Soon, everyone will be allowed to get a haircut in San Francisco. San Francisco hair salons and gyms will reopen next week as the city enters its second phase of reopening. Everyone who isn't Nancy Pelosi will finally be allowed to visit indoor places like hair salons, barbershops, and massage parlors. But unlike the Speaker of the House, San Franciscans will still be required to wear a face mask indoors. ... Pelosi was captured on leak surveillance footage walking around the establishment without a face mask. Perhaps it was Pelosi's illegal visit to the hair salon that has now prompted...

From an Unhinged Liberal: More deaths from Coronavirus in the US than many wars - and of course that’s with lots of remediation in place. You do realize that’s more Americans (in just 3 months) than were lost in the Vietnam War (58,200), the First World War (53,402), the Korean War (36,574), the 2003 Iraq conflict (4,431) and the Afghanistan misadventure, the longest armed conflict in American history (2,445).

A recent report by the Polaris Project, an anti-human trafficking organization, found that there are over 3,300 massage parlors in California that are posing fronts for sex trafficking.

“Yediot Ahronot”: Income Tax to go after drug dealers, fortune-tellers, prostitutes Income Tax Commission: It is inconceivable that dentists pay tax, while drug dealers do not. Globes’ correspondent 25 Feb 03 14:17Hebrew daily “Yediot Ahronot” reports that fortune-tellers, unlicensed healers, black-market money-changers, massage parlors, traffickers in women and illegal gambling den owners will be some of the key targets of the Income Tax Commission investigations branch in 2003. Deputy Income Tax Commissioner Jackie Matza decided that investigator will stress discovering tax evasion by sectors that evade tens or even hundreds of millions of shekels in taxes in the 2003 working...