Tag: American
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Harris calls Trump’s tariff proposals a ‘sales tax on the American people’
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris called former President Donald Trump’s tariff proposals “a sales tax on the American people,” in an interview with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle. President Joe Biden has also backed certain tariffs and done little to roll back ones Trump put into place while president, but Harris emphasized that tariffs should not…
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American woman’s death in suicide capsule leads to arrests in Switzerland
Warning: This story contains sensitive content The death of an American woman in an assisted suicide capsule has led to criminal proceedings being launched against several people in Switzerland. The 64-year-old woman from the Midwest died Monday, in the “Sarco” device on Monday evening, according to The Last Resort, the company which developed and manages…
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The U.S. is cracking down on cheap Chinese goods loved by American shoppers
SHENZHEN, China — Chinese vendor Yin Xinwei sometimes makes close to $1,400 a day selling low-priced pill boxes, barbecue spits and other items to U.S. online consumers. The future of that business, and the bargain prices enjoyed by his American customers, is now in question amid a looming U.S. regulatory change aimed largely at two…
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Book censorship slows but remains stubbornly high in 2024, American Library Association says
Two reports released Monday provide a mixed but compelling outlook on the wave of book removals and challenges as the annual Banned Books Week begins for schools, stores and libraries nationwide. The American Library Association found a substantial drop in 2024 so far in complaints about books stocked in public, school and academic libraries, and…
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Who are the American hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza?
Nearly a year since Hamas and other militant groups kidnapped at least 251 people from Israel into Gaza, a cease-fire deal most likely to get them out alive and end the soaring death toll among Palestinians has remained elusive. Last month’s recovery of six hostages who were killed by their captors shortly before they were…
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Indiana woman faces up to 6 years in prison after repeatedly stabbing Asian American student on bus
A woman who was accused of stabbing an Asian American student at Indiana University Bloomington last year because she said she had “noticed” the victim was Chinese has pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime charge, court documents show. Billie Davis, 57, entered the plea last week after she was indicted by a federal grand…
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Polish American voters seen as key to winning by both Harris and Trump
Polish American voters are having a moment. Less than two weeks ago, Vice President Kamala Harris gave a surprise shoutout to the must-win group of voters in Pennsylvania during the presidential debate with former President Donald Trump. “Why don’t you tell the 800,000 Polish Americans right here in Pennsylvania how quickly you would give up…
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Chinese American family meets descendants of Black family who rented to them when others refused
CORONADO, Calif. — Standing on their lawn, members of the Dong family waited to meet the great-grandkids of a Black couple who rented a home to them a generation ago, when laws favored white residents. It was their first meeting on storied land. In 1939, Gus and Emma Thompson, a Black entrepreneurial couple, agreed to…
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GOP senator tells Arab American witness at hate crimes hearing to ‘hide your head in a bag’
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., repeatedly suggested a leading Arab American activist is a Hamas supporter when she testified Tuesday at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on hate crimes, and he told her she should hide her “head in a bag.” The activist, Maya Berry, said repeatedly that she did not support Hamas and was “disappointed”…
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Connie Chung talks facing doubt and being the only Asian American woman in the room
At the beginning of her decades-long career in broadcast journalism, a network executive told Connie Chung that she’d never make it in the industry. “I was not only a woman, but I was Chinese,” Chung, 78, said on the NBC’s TODAY show while promoting her new memoir, “Connie.” Chung, who broke ground as the first…