Bystander chases down stranger who randomly punched Asian American woman in DC Chinatown

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World Central Kitchen workers killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza will be honored at memorial
A memorial at the National Cathedral in Washington on Thursday will honor the seven World Central Kitchen aid workers killed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza earlier this month. José Andrés, the celebrity chef and philanthropist behind the Washington-based World Central Kitchen disaster relief group, is expected to speak at the celebration of life service, and famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma will perform, organizers said. The Biden administration said Thursday that Douglas Emhoff, husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, and U.S. Assistant Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell would be among senior administration figures attending.
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Reuters
Apple loses top spot in China market with shipments down 6.6% in Q1, data shows
Honor and Huawei were tied for the top spot, with Honor's market share rising to 17.1% and Huawei's share climbing to 17%, IDC said, while the iPhone maker's market share fell to 15.6%. The IDC declares a statistical tie when the difference between the share of revenue or shipments between two or more vendors is 0.1% or less. "Apple's price promotions in the quarter were unable to mitigate the impact of the intense competition from Android players," Arthur Guo, senior research analyst at IDC China said in the report.
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Associated Press
US abortion battle rages on with moves to repeal Arizona ban and a Supreme Court case
Action in courts and state capitals around the U.S. this week have made it clear again: The overturning of Roe v. Wade and the nationwide right to abortion did not settle the issue. One iteration of the issue was back before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday for the second time in a month. Meanwhile, Arizona lawmakers took a step toward repealing a near-total ban before enforcement can begin; California's governor pitched providing an outlet to abortion providers and patients from neighboring Arizona if that ban takes take effect; and Tennessee moved closer to criminalizing helping a minor go out of state for an abortion without parental consent.
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Associated Press
Trump will be in NY for the hush money trial while the Supreme Court hears his immunity case in DC
A reluctant Donald Trump will be back in a New York City courtroom Thursday as his hush money trial resumes at the same time that the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in Washington over whether he should be immune from prosecution for actions he took during his time as president. Jurors will hear more witness testimony from a veteran tabloid publisher, and Trump faces a looming decision over whether he violated a gag order imposed by the judge.
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Associated Press
Venice launches experiment to charge day-trippers an access fee in bid to combat over-tourism
Under the gaze of the world’s media, the fragile lagoon city of Venice launches a pilot program Thursday to charge day-trippers a 5-euro (around $5.35) entry fee that authorities hope will discourage visitors from arriving on peak days and make the city more livable for its dwindling residents. Signs advising arriving visitors of the new requirement for a test phase of 29 days through July have been erected outside the main train station and other points of arrival. Once past designated entry ports, officials will carry out random checks for QR codes that show the day-tripper tax has been paid or that the bearer is exempt.
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Associated Press
US births fell last year, marking an end to the late pandemic rebound, experts say
U.S. births fell last year, resuming a long national slide. A little under 3.6 million babies were born in 2023, according to provisional statistics released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. U.S. births were slipping for more than a decade before COVID-19 hit, then dropped 4% from 2019 to 2020.
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Associated Press
No one is above the law. Supreme Court will decide if that includes Trump while he was president
On the left and right, Supreme Court justices seem to agree on a basic truth about the American system of government: No one is above the law, not even the president. “The law applies equally to all persons, including a person who happens for a period of time to occupy the Presidency,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote in 2020. Less than a year earlier, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, then a federal trial judge, wrote, “Stated simply, the primary takeaway from the past 250 years of recorded American history is that Presidents are not kings.”
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Reuters
US births retreat after pandemic-era growth
The number of births in the United States fell by 2% in 2023 from the previous year, driven in part by a marked birth rate decline among older teenagers and women aged 20-24, according to a report from the CDC released on Thursday. The number of births in the U.S. fell to 3,591,328 in 2023 from 3,667,758 the year prior, according to provisional National Centers for Health Statistics (NCHS) data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The birth rate in 2022 was flat with the prior year.
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Associated Press
Portugal marks the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution army coup that brought democracy
Military vehicles and red carnations return to the streets and squares of downtown Lisbon on Thursday as Portugal reenacts dramatic moments from the army coup that brought democracy 50 years ago. Thousands of people are expected to attend celebrations of the so-called Carnation Revolution, which ended a stifling four-decade dictatorship established by Antonio Salazar. It also paved the way for Portugal’s 1986 entry into the European Union, then called the European Economic Community.
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Burkina Faso's army massacred over 200 civilians in a village raid, Human Rights Watch says
Military forces in Burkina Faso killed 223 civilians, including babies and many children, in attacks on two villages accused of cooperating with militants, Human Rights Watch said in a report published Thursday. The mass killings took place on Feb. 25 in the country's northern villages of Nondin and Soro, and some 56 children were among the dead, according to the report. The human rights organization called on the United Nations and the African Union to provide investigators and to support local efforts to bring those responsible to justice.
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Associated Press
A high-profile murder trial in Kazakhstan boosts awareness of domestic violence
The CCTV footage shown at the domestic abuse trial was disturbing: The defendant is seen dragging his wife by her hair, and then punching and kicking her. The trial of businessman Kuandyk Bishimbayev, Kazakhstan's former economy minister, in the death of his wife, Saltanat Nukenova, has touched a nerve in the Central Asian country. Tens of thousands of people have signed petitions calling for harsher penalties for domestic violence.
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Associated Press
Army reservist who warned about Maine killer before shootings to testify before investigators
A U.S. Army reservist who sounded the clearest warning ahead of Maine’s deadliest mass shooting is expected to answer questions Thursday from the commission investigating the tragedy. Six weeks before Robert Card killed 18 people at a bar and bowling alley in Lewiston, his best friend and fellow reservist Sean Hodgson texted their supervisors, telling them to change the passcode to the gate at their Army Reserve training facility and arm themselves if Card showed up. “I believe he’s going to snap and do a mass shooting,” Hodgson wrote on Sept. 15.
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CNN
Sanders launches Senate investigation into ‘outrageously high’ pricing of Ozempic, Wegovy
Sen. Bernie Sanders is taking aim at the high prices of the blockbuster drugs Ozempic and Wegovy.
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NBC News
How the Columbia protests sparked campus demonstrations across the country
The decision by Columbia University’s president to call in the New York Police Department to clear pro-Palestinian protesters from the campus last week appears to have sparked the spate of increasingly strident demonstrations.
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TODAY
Foxtrot and Dom’s Kitchen & Market suddenly close all locations, leaving employees scrambling
Employees of Foxtrot and Dom’s Kitchen & Market are filing a class action lawsuit after sudden layoffs. Here's what we know.
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Time
Nemonte Nenquimo Says We Need to Listen to Mother Earth
Ecuadorian Indigenous environmental activist and TIME Earth Award honoree Nemonte Nenquimo spoke about collective responsibility toward the climate crisis.
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CNN
Meadows, Giuliani among indicted in Arizona in latest 2020 election subversion case
A grand jury in Arizona has handed up an indictment against former President Donald Trump’s allies over their efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, including the fake electors from that state and several individuals connected to his campaign.
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NBC News
Search ongoing for man who may have taken homemade raft down Colorado River
Authorities are searching for a man and his corgi after they went missing at the Grand Canyon National Park while possibly trying to travel the Colorado River on a homemade wooden raft.
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CNN
US secretly sent long-range missiles to Ukraine after months of resistance
The US delivered long-range missiles to Ukraine earlier this month that the Biden administration had previously refused to send following a directive from President Joe Biden, the Pentagon said Wednesday.
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USA TODAY
Hamas and Iran celebrate anti-Gaza war protests taking US colleges by storm
Palestinian militant group Hamas and Iran's supreme leader are throwing their support behind the growing number of anti-Gaza war protests in colleges.
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