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Hate Crime: Attacker of 65 years old Asian Lady arrested

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On Monday, An Asian woman was attacked by a man at midday in Manhattan, New York. The attacker was a man who brutally hit and kicked an Asian lady (65) headed to her church. The bystanders from the luxury apartment lobby refused to help her. No one called 911 but patrol police found the wounded woman at the sideroad and took her to the hospital.

In fact, one of the bystanders actually closed the apartment door when she tried to escape into the building. Only the surveillance camera recorded the attacker and the victim.

New York City police identified the suspect as Brandon Elliot (38) who was charged with two counts of assault as a hate crime and one count each of attempted assault as a hate crime, assault and attempted assault. According to the NYPD Twitter,

According to NYPD, he killed his mom in 2002 and was freed from prison in November 2019. He is on lifetime parole. If he convicted of this hate crime he will be in lifetime prison, the authority said.

Police released a video that captured a man kicking the victim in her stomach, causing her to fall to the ground. He stomped on the woman’s head multiple times while he saying that to her “You do not belong here!”

The broken Asian Woman was identified as a Philippian Immigrant, and she had serious physical injuries from head to toe.

Early Tuesday, the Brodsky Organization, which manages the luxury apartments said the company suspended the apartment building staff members who saw the brutal attack but didn’t give any help to the wounded woman.

“I don’t care who you are, I don’t care what you do, you’ve got to help your fellow New Yorker,” de Blasio said Tuesday during a news conference. “This is something where we all have to be part of the solution. We can’t just stand back and watch a heinous act happening.”

Grace Meng, a congresswoman, said in her Twitter account, ‘We’ve gone from being invisible to being seen as sub-human. We just want to be seen as American like everyone else.”

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“Love of Italian Cooking” Helps to an Arrest of Italian Mob Criminal

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An Italian mob criminal, Marc Feren Claude Biart (53) was arrested by Interpol in the Dominican Republic. According to Interpol, They tracked down Biart and his wife via their Youtube videos, where the couple engaged in Italian cooking.  Birat hides his face at all times, but he couldn’t hide his tattoos. Interpol noticed the particular tattoo on his arms and tracked him down.

Biart had been wanted on drug trafficking charges since 2014, and he and his wife lived for 5 years in this Caribean island. The authority stated Biart is a member of the ‘Ndrngheta, a powerful and notorious crime syndicate that originated in the southern region of Calabria. The Ndrngheta has expanded worldwide.

Interpol said his “love for Italian cuisine” made the arrest possible at the statement reported by NBC News. Biart is accused of trafficking cocaine into the Netherlands. He was arrested last Wednesday and arrived in Italy this week according to Interpol Twitter.

Interpol said that the two key members Biart and Francesco Pelle are now in custody. Pelle was convicted in Italy of ordering the revenge killing of a mobster’s wife and arrested Monday in Portugal at a clinic where he was reportedly being treated for COVID-19, according to AP.

The biggest Mafia in Italy, The Ndrangheta has 355 suspected mobsters and political officials who are related to this mafia face charges of murder, drug trafficking, extortion, and money laundering according to the BBC.

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Cuba : The First Country to Run Phase 3 Clinical Trials In South America

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Cuba will take the phase 3 clinical trials as the first country amongst in South American continent. Cuba kept very low Covid-19 cases compared with other South American countries before reopening to the travelers last November. At least 44,000 people will take this phase 3 trial, according to NPR.

Cuba has been independently developing the Covid-19 vaccine. Dagmar Garcia Rivera, the research director at the Finlay Vaccine Institute in Havana stated that one of five vaccine candidates, Soberana 2 is to be very effective and entering the final stage of clinical trials.

A second vaccine candidate, Abdala has entered a phase 3 trial. Cuba is a self-sustaining country that never asked for any help from WHO or multinational corporations. Normally vaccine development takes a decade or more. Eduardo Ojito, the head of the Cuban Center for Molecular Immunology proudly announced that by the end of summer, all Cuban will be immunized enough doses with the Soverana 2.

Ojito stated that “We are preparing to produce between one and two million doses each month, and the country is on track to have 1 million doses available in April.” The Cuban government has started to distribute the vaccine to Iran, Mexico, and Venezuela.

Helen Yaffe, a specialist at the University of Glasgow, wrote about the country’s pharmaceutical sector and its previous success in developing another vaccine, such as cancer vaccine. Yaffe states there’s talk about offering vaccines to the tourists who enter the country at the airport upon arrival in Havana.

The Cuban government would provide the vaccine to international tourists and be open to international tourism again if this phase 3 vaccine trials succeed.

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Beyond M87 galaxy and its Black hole

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Located between Virgo and Leo, the M87 galaxy’s secret was revealed by the international team of researchers in 2019. According to the Astrophysical Journal Letters, they’d found the polarimetric in the black hole of the M87 galaxy, which is able to “launch energetic jets from its core.”

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abe71d

The Event Horizon Telescope confirmed that this black hole is approximately 55 million light-years away from Earth.

The Astrophysical Journal Letters says “We perform quantitative measurements of relevant polarimetric properties of the compact emission and find evidence for the temporal evolution of the polarized source structure over one week of EHT observations.”

This image of the polarimetric in the black hole took more than 300 EHT scientists involved after first they took the image of the black hole in the M 87 galaxy in April 2017.

This spectacular image of the polarimetric outside of the black hole in the M 87 galaxy leads to more “details of the polarimetric data reduction and calibration methodology are provided,” The Astrophysical Journal Letters explains.

Throughout this research, EHT scientists analyzed data, collected information from the polarimetric in the black hole, and reconstruct the image.

As people continue to look out to the sky, not only will we travel to Mars, someday we might get to travel to other constellations a million light-years away.

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Hundreds Line the Street to Pay Honor to Fallen Officer Eric Talley in Colorado

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Hundreds of people lined up for farewell as slain police officer Eric Talley’s body was moved from the coroner’s office to the funeral home. He had worked to save the citizens from the recent grocery store mass shooting.

Eric Talley (51) was one of 10 people killed at the grocery market in Boulder, CO. He was the first responder to arrive at the King Soopers supermarket and was killed by the gunman.

This death has brought the gun debate to the forefront, as many people are panicking about the range of guns available in the market, which can have a great impact on the number of people hurt by those abusing their guns. Officer Talley leaves his wife and 7 young children behind, aged 5 to 17. He had been a member of the Boulder police force since 2010 and is the first officer to be killed in the line of duty since 1994.

What’s even more notable is that those at the grocery stores were simple, ordinary people; some of them were essential workers performing their duties during this ongoing pandemic.

The hearse stopped by at the Boulder Police Department and headed to the funeral home in Aurora.

On March 24, President Biden praised Officer Talley’s heroism, and VP Harris brought the gun control law to the Senate floor.

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Grocery store shooting kills multiple, including A Police officer in Colorado

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The suspect of mass killing, Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa(21)

(updated 11:00 AM)

Around 2:30 pm in local time on Monday, a mass-shooting in South-Boulder, Colorado horrified the world. This event left 10 people dead and many injured. A suspect was injured but treated and in police custody.

Less than a week after the Atlanta shooting, Americans are fearing the uncertainty of safety in public space, even grocery stores.

The mass killer was arrested, but we still don’t know the motive. The first responder, a police officer, Eric Talley(51) died at the scene from gunshots being fired. He is survived by a wife and 7 children.

According to the Boulder Police Department, the victims of this massacre are Denny Stong(20), Neven Stanisic(23), Rikki Olds(25), Tralona Bartkowiak (49), Teri Leiker(51), Suzanne Fountain(59) Kevin Mahoney(61), Lynn Murray (62) and Jodi Waters(65).

The suspect is identified as Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa(21). “He was kind of scary to be around,” said Dayton Marvel, who graduated from Arvada West High School in 2018 and was on the wrestling team with Alissa. Alissa once had an outburst and threatened to kill people during an intra-team match, Marvel said.

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VA Wrong Way Accident kills 3 and injures 4

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On Thursday afternoon, A Dodge driver eluding police took the wrong way onto the express lane of I-95. At the time, the line was open for southbound travelers but this driver took a northbound route, breaking through the closed gates. According to police, the driver, Tia O. Porter (46) from Richmond, VA, and her passenger, Stephanie T. Morton (26) hit an oncoming truck. The truck hit the guardrail and turned over, killing the truck driver, Kenneth E. Crosby Jr. (61), of Dumfries at the scene.

Later the Dodge was hit by an oncoming Hyundai Tucson and a Volkswagen vehicle. When the Dodge was hit on impact by the Volkswagen vehicle, the Dodge car burst into flames. The Dodge driver and the passenger died at the scene, but two other adults and two children from Hyundai and Volkswagen drivers and passengers were injured.

According to police, the Dodge driver drove 80 mph at a 65 mph zone, and police repeatedly tried to pull her over but she refused to stop. Eventually, she took the wrong way ending 3 lives including her own, and landed four other people in hospital beds.

The Truck driver heading home from his work was a civilian with the Marine Corps and a 9-11 hero. According to his friends and family, he was a 9-11 survivor, then a recently-retired Marine Corps lieutenant when the airplane hit the Pentagon where he had come to retrieve his retirement papers. He had courageously saved many of his colleagues and people by helping them into his truck and hauling them away for their safety.

Crosby’s family and friends are mourning his death tonight.

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GWA Today : 12 high-schoolers of COVID-19 Positive, A man possesses Long gun with unregistered ammunition detained at the VP’s Mansion in DC

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Loudoun County, VA – A dozen high school students tested positive for COVID-19 after attending a cheerleading competition in Richmond, VA, according to NBC.

Dr. David Goodfriend, health director for Loudoun County stated the risk increases for young people and parents involved in club sports that aren’t following the social distancing and mask guidelines imposed during in-school activities.

Of course, many students and families are very careful to minimize possible exposures, but when in-school activities are involved, it can be much more difficult to stay vigilant. Loudoun County Public Schools said close contacts were quarantined, and the students who tested positive are staying home until they recover.

Washington, D.C.- A man in possession of a long gun with high-capacity ammunition magazines was arrested outside the vice president’s mansion in Washington, DC, on Wednesday.

Secret Service detained Paul Murray (31) from San Antonio, Texas around 12:15 p.m., and charge him for carrying a rifle or shotgun outside of a business, possession of unregistered ammunition, and possession of a large capacity ammunition feeding device.

Cops in Texas tipped off DC area authorities that a suspicious person was at the Naval Observatory mansion at 3400 block of Massachusetts Avenue.

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Washington D.C. Fires: Lower Humidity Causes Havoc

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On March 15, fires from U street, I street, to R street in Downtown DC, EMS and fire trucks wailed all day long as heavy winds and dry conditions in the Greater Washington Area created conditions suitable for fire.

According to weather news, from today to Friday we have chances of rain. However, in one day, EMS received 477 emergency calls with 144 calls being critical and 251 calls being non-critical dispatches. Luckily no one was seriously injured except a firefighter who got away with a minor injury.

Some of the fires occurred in construction buildings and renovation housing, thus no one occupied these sites, and they were not hurt. However, 82 incidents being fire-related were noted to be significant, with many residents in danger due to high-density living.

The area might get some relief on Friday from possible snow, but the conditions are not pleasant for anyone living in DC at the moment.

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Korea and Japan: Too close to be Forever Friends or Forever Enemies

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Throughout East Asian history, Japan has worked hard to gain its power over the Asian continent for centuries. Granted, East Asian history has spanned thousands of years, with power shifts between many different parties. However, the last villain has been Japan. During World War II, Japan forced many women into sexual slavery, including those from Choson (the last dynasty in the Korean peninsula), China, Russia, Mongolia, and even Europeans like the Dutch, to fund its imperialist military. Japan has taken many artifacts from various cultures it invaded during this time as well.

Due to its proximity and the strategic placement of Korea as a peninsula to the great Asian continent, Japan often sought to invade Asia through Korea. It seems that whenever Japanese governments needed to reorganize themselves and repress dissent, they’d use Korea as a tactic, engaging in war. However, ultimately, Japan has maintained its “victimhood,” refusing to accept that they were defeated in the last war, and maintaining their “innocence” in all matters, even though Japanese citizens that participated in the war had repeatedly revealed the truth of the sexual slavery Japanese government forced on the women of its colonized empire.

A few weeks ago, a Harvard professor and a Mitsubishi scholar John Mark Ramseyer argued that “comfort women” were actually contracted prostitutes rather than sex slaves. It brought outrage amongst the academic community. To add to his lack of credible assertion is the absolute lack of evidence to support his assertion. For example, if these sex slaves were actually contracted prostitutes with the government, where were the documents? He had none.

Yet Japan is a major player in East Asian politics, and they are also heavily invested in the economy of ASEAN countries. Korea and Japan are currently allies and maintain an amicable international relationship. For example, in 2011 Japan was devastated by a massive earthquake, and South Koreans collected funds and sent it over to Japan.

At the time, the Japanese media said, “We don’t need help from a lesser country,” infuriating the Koreans who vowed never to help Japan again.

However, in 2021, as Japan seeks to get the Olympics moving, Korea is one of the biggest walls against Japan. South Korea questions the safety of holding Olympics in a country that is currently storing a large amount of radioactive waste (Fukushima) as well as during the Pandemic. It seems many countries agree with South Korea.

Recently, the Japanese government has thanked South Korea for its kind donations during 2011, which they rejected 10 years ago. It is a political ploy to get South Korea to loosen up on its opposition to Japan holding the Olympics this year.

Korea and Japan can never be fully friends, and they can never be fully enemies. They’re too close to each other and hold a lot of emotions against each other. However, South Korea might wise up to Japan’s behaviors and learn to play against Japan’s passive-aggressive tendencies and play frenemy just as well, instead of continuing to reach out like a friend and getting used up every time until it gets too emotionally angry to be a “friend.”

This dynamic will probably go for a very long time, and because of its roots in history, it is doubtful as to whether it will ever go away.

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