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11 months, 1 week ago

Your guide to California’s Congressional District 45 race: Rep. Michelle Steel faces 4 challengers

LA Times

Michelle Steel, Republican, incumbent. Nguyen-Penaloza, who is the daughter of a Vietnamese refugee father and a Mexican immigrant mother, became the first Latina and the youngest politician to be elected to the Garden Grove City Council in 2016. Tran, a worker’s rights attorney making his first run for elected office, said his background as the son of Vietnamese refugees and …

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1 year, 6 months ago

People smuggler pleads guilty to manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants

The Independent

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2 years, 5 months ago

First Starbucks, then Amazon, now a Korean BBQ restaurant union. Wage workers know they deserve more

LA Times

Steven Chung, a former head waiter at Genwa Korean BBQ, poses for a portrait on the same street as the restaurant in Los Angeles in July 2019. And now, as my colleague Jeong Park reports, Genwa’s workers have created what may be the first union ever at a Korean barbecue restaurant. The only thing standing between tyranny of a workplace …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Freida Pinto shares a glimpse of her baby shower, thanks her 'awesome tribe of sisters'. See pics

Hindustan Times

Freida Pinto has shared a glimpse of her baby shower on social media. Sharing the pictures, Freida wrote, “Reminiscing about this sweet baby shower! Earlier, announcing her pregnancy, Freida posted a picture with her fiance and wrote, “Baby Tran, coming this Fall!” Freida Pinto had announced her engagement to her boyfriend, photographer Cory Tran, on his birthday in 2019. Other …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Floating cars, flooded subways: Niagara Falls-like scenes not just in Delhi, but also in New York | WATCH

India Today

Floating cars on inundated streets, people wading through knee-deep water and water gushing into airport terminals - this is not a scene from Delhi which received record rainfall in 19 years this week, but from New York and New Jersey in the US facing the wrath of Hurricane Ida. https://t.co/7k55jeXbpb — NWS New York NY September 2, 2021 Video clips …

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4 years, 8 months ago

Why oil and gas prices are rising: Cabin fever and easing social distancing

CNN

New York CNN Business — The unprecedented collapse in gasoline demand in the United States appears to have ended, for now at least. “Demand in the US has bottomed out,” said Michael Tran, RBC’s director of global energy strategy. “US gasoline demand is the single largest demand driver for global oil prices, unequivocally,” said RBC’s Tran, noting it amounts to …

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4 years, 9 months ago

If social distancing is impossible in prisons, people should be freed

Salon

In early March, Michelle Tran drove 1,500 miles from her home in Wichita, Kansas, to visit her husband Thai at California's Avenal State Prison. "Given that social distancing has been the most effective preventive measure thus far for this rapidly spreading virus for which we have no vaccine, treatment or cure, it's reasonable to believe that minimizing outside visitations can …

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5 years, 6 months ago

Taylor Swift an LGBTQI ally or not? What 'You Need To Calm Down' says about minority representation

ABC

Is Taylor Swift an LGBTQI ally or just another celebrity cashing in on a social cause? Loading YouTube content Some in the LGBTQI community, like Queer Eye's Karamo Brown, have applauded Swift for championing equal rights. "It's taken up until now to really show her support to the queer community, whereas other celebrities and singers like Lady Gaga, Katy Perry …

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5 years, 10 months ago

Anna Diop is being racially abused for playing a superhero – we need to talk about hidden bigotry in geekdom