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22日下午，《人民日报》的官方认证账户发布推文：“当地时间6月22日，美国纽约市著名的华人聚居地法拉盛，人们在公园里晨练。”推文附上了30秒的视频，显示人们在一个背后有秋千和居民楼的公园场地，播放歌曲《没有共产党就没有新中国》，跳舞的动作和舞步带有激昂的意味。 这个视频很快被更多的大陆媒体转载，有的在介绍中干脆写成“据外媒报导”，也加入了歌名，吸引眼球。 《人民日报》的官方认证推特22日下午发布了30秒的视频，没...
Office of Congressman Gregory Meeks Rep. Gregory Meeks started off the year with a new role on the world stage. Just weeks before 2020 ended, he was elected to chair the House Foreign Affairs Committee – the first Black man ever to hold the position. Since then, Meeks has opposed a constitutional referendum in Haiti, passed a resolution condemning China’s actions in Hong Kong and proposed strengthening economic ties between Africa and the U.S., all while managing local politics back in the world’s borough in his continued role as chair of the Queens County Democratic Party. 4. Alexandri...
iStock.com/Jacob Ammentorp Lund There may be no greater repository of analog information than the library, a glorious assembly of printed pages that can take us on adventures, educate us, and fill our days and nights with details of worlds beyond our own—all free of charge. Today, there are roughly 116,867 public and academic libraries dotting the country. To celebrate National Library Week, we've rounded up 25 fascinating facts about these irreplaceable institutions. 1. Benjamin Franklin started up a lending library in 1731. Hulton Archive/Getty Images One of the oldest public libraries in...
Snowstorm 2021: What’s closed on Monday? Updated Jan 31, 2021; Posted Jan 31, 2021 Staten Island is guaranteed to see more than 12 inches of snow, the National Weather Service forecasts. Facebook Share Monday’s forecast promises to not only blanket Staten Island under almost two feet of snow, it comes with heavy wind gusts and a strong potential for coastal flooding, said Bob Smerbeck, senior meteorologist with Accuweather.com on Sunday afternoon. “Everything starts to ramp up tomorrow. The storm will be developing off the South Jersey Coast. We will be bombed by a nor’easter. ... W...
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