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Violence against Asian Americans and Asians has grown despite increased national attention and political action against anti-Asian hate, experts said.  There was a more than 164% increase in anti-Asian hate crime reports to police in the first quarter of 2021 in 16 major cities and jurisdictions compared with last year, according to a report from the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino. More than 6,600 hate incidents have been reported in the year after the pandemic began in the United States, Stop AAPI Hate announced this week. More th...

Article bookmarked Don't show me this message again✕ A man has been arrested after he was caught on security camera footage brutally beating two Asian women with a cinder block as they were trying to close up a liquor store in Baltimore, Maryland. Daryl Doles, 50, has been charged with two counts of aggravated assault, according to police. It was not specified whether the attack is being treated as a hate crime. The employees, two women aged 66 and 67, were attacked just after midnight on Tuesday. The footage from the security camera inside the store shows the man breaking into the store ...

Declining Immigration Threatens New York’s COVID Comeback Share this story Hiram Alejandro Durán/THE CITY Leidy Jimenez and her family are a classic New York City success story — and a portrait of COVID’s toll on immigrants at a time when fewer are investing their hopes in the five boroughs. She ran a bike shop in Astoria with her “perfect team” — her sister and parents — for nearly two decades. Jimenez’s parents left Bogota, Colombia, for New York City in 1990, and later brought the rest of the family over. Now, Jimenez is a homeowner with two children. The perfect team, h...

After 150 overdoses, Pinellas detectives arrest over 30 people in Lealman drug bust operation By FOX 13 News staff Published  File image of cocaine (Courtesy: DEA) LEALMAN, Fla. - Pinellas County deputies said they made dozens of arrests during an operation targeting narcotic sales in the East Lealman area. Detectives said they learned narcotic transactions at three locations led to over 150 fatal and non-fatal overdoses between December 2020 and January 2021.  The locations were:  2524 50th Avenue North, St. Petersburg  4819 Haines Road North, St. Petersburg By the end of the investigat...

Credit: Tracy J. Lee for NPR Why So Many Asian Americans Are Learning Remotely By at 7:03 am NPR Last month, Tsong Tong Vang was walking his 5-year-old grandson to the school bus in St. Paul, Minn., when, according to local media reports, a woman pulled up in a car and started yelling anti-Asian abuse and threats at him. Reports of such incidents have been growing around the country since early last year, amid public statements by President Trump and others linking China with the coronavirus pandemic. And they may be one reason for some Asian families not to...