Police clad in riot gear swarmed Yale University’s Connecticut campus early Monday and started arresting students who had been staging an anti-Israel protest encampment there for several days. Footage posted online showed cops arriving at the Ivy League school and blocking off entrances to a plaza at the New Haven campus‚ where roughly 200 protesters had been gathered. Cops started warning protesters they risked being arrested if they didn’t clear out‚ the Yale Daily News...

Phil Wong used to reliably back incumbents in this liberal city. But in 2022‚ he voted to recall three left-wing school board members and a progressive district attorney‚ and in November he plans to cast his ballot for a tough-on-crime challenger to the current mayor. “I have a deep love for this city‚ what it was‚” said the 46-year-old son of a Chinese immigrant. “I want to see what it can be again.” Long a reliable voting bloc for the left‚ Chinese-Americans have been important drivers...

“There are a lot of people coming into the middle class‚ and I really feel that India is at a tipping point‚ and it’s great to be there‚” Apple CEO Tim Cook said in May last year. His comments underscore one reason Apple has recently made an aggressive play to expand operations in India: the country has a huge population‚ with a growing middle class willing to splash out more on high-end phones. But it’s not just about sales for Apple. The tech giant has also boosted its...

New York City is seeing a record number of Asian-American candidates running as Republicans in 2024 – and the local GOP is hoping the high-water mark sparks new power at the polls. There are 10 Republican candidates of East Asian descent running in Queens‚ Brooklyn and Manhattan after an apparent trend of Asian-American voters going more Republican in recent years. “The Asian community is waking up to the fact that there’s another party that is more aligned to our conservative...

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and GOP Rep. Darrell Issa are on the same side of a political fight. All it took to bring them together was a homelessness crisis. On Monday the Supreme Court is taking up a case with monumental consequences for how cities in California and other states address encampments. At issue is whether local governments can remove encampments if there isn’t more permanent shelter available for homeless people. Tents pitched in parks‚ under freeways and across...

Retired teacher DonnaJean Wilde has broken the women’s plank world record with a time of 4 hr 30 min. Source: Canadian grandmother planks for 4.5 hours to break women’s record Wow&;#33;

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