Tag: American
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NBA warns of possible South American theft rings targeting players, NFL urges stars to secure homes
The NBA warned players to safeguard valuables against “well-organized, sophisticated” transnational crime rings, according to a memo obtained by NBC News on Friday, matching a similar caution issued earlier this week by the NFL. Security officials with two of the world’s most prominent professional sports leagues are on edge following a series of brazen home…
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Passengers duct tape man who allegedly tried to open door during American Airlines flight to Texas
A group of passengers on board an American Airlines flight restrained and tied up a passenger with duct tape after he allegedly tried to open an aircraft door mid-flight. The incident happened on American Airlines flight 1915 from Milwaukee to Dallas-Fort Worth on Tuesday. Passengers jumped into help after seeing a disruptive passenger from Canada…
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Mass poisoning blamed on tainted alcohol with American among four tourists dead
An American citizen has died at a popular adventure spot in Laos where alcohol tainted with methanol has been blamed for a spate of poisonings in recent days. The State Department said the U.S. citizen died in Vang Vieng, a town popular with backpackers to the north of the South East Asian country’s capital. “We…
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Biden apologizes for forced Native American boarding school policy that caused abuse and deaths of children
PHOENIX — President Joe Biden delivered an apology Friday for a United States policy that forcibly separated generations of indigenous children from their families for more than 150 years and sent them to federally backed boarding schools for forced assimilation. “I formally apologize as president of the United States of America for what we did,”…
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Trump invokes economy, public safety and ‘China virus’ during Asian American rally in Vegas
At his first campaign rally targeting the Asian American and Pacific Islander community this election cycle, former President Donald Trump took the stage Thursday evening in Las Vegas with a speech focused on the economy, public safety and immigration to a group he says he believes he can make inroads with. Trump headlined the “Unite…
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South Carolina to build state’s first individual monument honoring an African American
BEAUFORT, S.C. — South Carolina is preparing to put up its first individual statue for an African American on its Statehouse lawn, honoring a man who put on Confederate clothes in order to steal a slaveholder’s ship and sail his family and a dozen others to freedom during the Civil War. But Robert Smalls isn’t just being…
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Trump’s reported racist insult about Mexican American soldier draws bitter backlash — and staunch denials
A racist comment former President Donald Trump is reported to have made about murdered soldier Vanessa Guillén is drawing backlash from some Hispanics, but it could be tempered by her sister’s support for Trump and the current political divide among Latinos. The Atlantic magazine reported that Trump, when he was president, complained about the cost…
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Trump to headline event targeting Asian American voters in Nevada
As part of his efforts leading up to Election Day, former President Donald Trump will be addressing the Asian American and Pacific Islander community at a rally in Nevada on Thursday. Trump will be taking the stage in Las Vegas alongside former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswami and former Hawaii representative Tulsi Gabbard in an…
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American Airlines fined $50M for allegedly violating disability laws
The U.S. Department of Transportation on Wednesday announced a $50 million fine against American Airlines for its alleged mistreatment of passengers with disabilities, which the department said in some cases caused injuries. The fine is 25 times larger than the any other fine by the department for disability related violations, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in…
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Younger Asian American women had the second-lowest breast cancer rate. Why they’re now tied for No. 1.
Chien-Chi Huang was 40 when she requested her first mammogram at the hospital, shortly after her aunt died from breast cancer. The radiologist didn’t detect a tumor because she had dense breast tissue that can hide cancer on a mammogram. Soon after the mammogram, Huang said she felt a lump under her armpit and began…