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Daughter Of Indian Immigrants Among Victims Of US Air Crash
Asra Hussain Raza, the daughter of Indian immigrants, graduated with honours in 2020 from Indiana University and married her college sweetheart in August 2023.
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American Lawmakers Warn Against China's Takeover Of 2 Military Academies
US Lawmakers have warned the Pentagon about the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) acquiring military training academies in the US, reported The Washington Free Beacon.
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Indian American Ignored Man's Catcalls. So He Killed Her: Prosecutors
Ruth George, a physical therapy student, wanted to help other people heal, her family said in the wake of her death.
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Harvard Doesn't Discriminate Against Asian-Americans In Admissions: Judge
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Harvard University does not discriminate against Asian Americans in undergraduate admissions, handing the school a victory in a lawsuit that marks one of the latest chapters in the affirmative action debate.
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North Korea Issued $2 Million Bill For Comatose US Student's Care
North Korea issued a $2 million bill for the hospital care of comatose American Otto Warmbier, insisting that a U.S. official sign a pledge to pay it before being allowed to fly the University of Virginia student from Pyongyang in 2017.
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"Why Can't You Call It Racism?": Campus Police Pin Black Student Over ID
It was 11:30 p.m. Thursday, and the Columbia University senior had just left his late-night Afro-beats dance practice. He had work to do, and his anthropology thesis was looming, so the 23-year-old pulled out his phone to check a Facebook page where students can post and find the most universally reliable staple on American college campuses: free f...
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Stan Lee, Spider-Man Co-Creater And Marvel Comics Legend, Dies At 95
Stan Lee, a writer and editor often credited with helping American comics grow up by redefining the notion of a superhero, including the self-doubting Spider-Man, the bickering Fantastic Four, the swaggering Iron Man and the raging Incredible Hulk, died Nov. 12 at a hospital in Los Angeles. He was 95.
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James Allison, Tasuku Honjo Win Nobel Prize In Medicine For Cancer Immunotherapy
The American and Japanese researchers discovered methods of removing the brakes on cells that fight invaders, paving the way for cancer immunotherapy, which has joined surgery, radiation and chemotherapy as a major weapon in the battle against cancer.
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Asian Americans Would Benefit From 'Academics-Only' Admission, Finds Harvard Study
An internal Harvard University review from five years ago suggested Asian American applicants would be let into the undergraduate college in much greater numbers if academic performance were the only criterion for admission, according to court documents made public Friday.
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Einstein Decried Racism In America But Diaries Reveal A Xenophobic Side
"There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it," he said during a commencement speech at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania.
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Starbucks' Racial Bias Training Has Another Goal
Starbucks closed 8,000 stores on Tuesday for what was widely billed as anti-bias training that focused on discrimination, racial justice and the experiences of people of color in Starbucks stores and commercial spaces nationwide.
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US Student Otto Warmbier Dies Days After Release From North Korea
Otto Warmbier, University of Virginia student who was detained in North Korea for nearly a year and a half, died Monday afternoon, his parents announced.
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A Remote Island In Canada May Be Home To Americans Who Want To Flee Trump
The first sign of what Rob Calabrese would come to think of as America's unmooring began last year, just after Donald Trump won his first presidential primary and Calabrese published a $28 website that he'd designed in 30 minutes. "Hi Americans!" it began, and what followed was a sales pitch for an island where Muslims could "roam freely," and wher...
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A Chinese Graduate Student Who Can't Get Enough U.S. Politics 'Decodes' Trump
From his perch in the Pearl River Delta in southern China, Yin Hao tries to make sense of America. Lately, that's been tough.
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Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump Battle Bitterly In St. Louis
The words "sex tape" made their debut in the solemn tradition of American presidential debates on Sunday night, as Republican nominee Donald Trump denied doing something he had actually done: Asking his Twitter followers to "check out sex tape" of a former Miss Universe with whom he was feuding.
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Daughter Of Indian Immigrants Among Victims Of US Air Crash
Asra Hussain Raza, the daughter of Indian immigrants, graduated with honours in 2020 from Indiana University and married her college sweetheart in August 2023.
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American Lawmakers Warn Against China's Takeover Of 2 Military Academies
US Lawmakers have warned the Pentagon about the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) acquiring military training academies in the US, reported The Washington Free Beacon.
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Indian American Ignored Man's Catcalls. So He Killed Her: Prosecutors
Ruth George, a physical therapy student, wanted to help other people heal, her family said in the wake of her death.
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Harvard Doesn't Discriminate Against Asian-Americans In Admissions: Judge
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Harvard University does not discriminate against Asian Americans in undergraduate admissions, handing the school a victory in a lawsuit that marks one of the latest chapters in the affirmative action debate.
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North Korea Issued $2 Million Bill For Comatose US Student's Care
North Korea issued a $2 million bill for the hospital care of comatose American Otto Warmbier, insisting that a U.S. official sign a pledge to pay it before being allowed to fly the University of Virginia student from Pyongyang in 2017.
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"Why Can't You Call It Racism?": Campus Police Pin Black Student Over ID
It was 11:30 p.m. Thursday, and the Columbia University senior had just left his late-night Afro-beats dance practice. He had work to do, and his anthropology thesis was looming, so the 23-year-old pulled out his phone to check a Facebook page where students can post and find the most universally reliable staple on American college campuses: free f...
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Stan Lee, Spider-Man Co-Creater And Marvel Comics Legend, Dies At 95
Stan Lee, a writer and editor often credited with helping American comics grow up by redefining the notion of a superhero, including the self-doubting Spider-Man, the bickering Fantastic Four, the swaggering Iron Man and the raging Incredible Hulk, died Nov. 12 at a hospital in Los Angeles. He was 95.
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James Allison, Tasuku Honjo Win Nobel Prize In Medicine For Cancer Immunotherapy
The American and Japanese researchers discovered methods of removing the brakes on cells that fight invaders, paving the way for cancer immunotherapy, which has joined surgery, radiation and chemotherapy as a major weapon in the battle against cancer.
-
Asian Americans Would Benefit From 'Academics-Only' Admission, Finds Harvard Study
An internal Harvard University review from five years ago suggested Asian American applicants would be let into the undergraduate college in much greater numbers if academic performance were the only criterion for admission, according to court documents made public Friday.
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Einstein Decried Racism In America But Diaries Reveal A Xenophobic Side
"There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it," he said during a commencement speech at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania.
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Starbucks' Racial Bias Training Has Another Goal
Starbucks closed 8,000 stores on Tuesday for what was widely billed as anti-bias training that focused on discrimination, racial justice and the experiences of people of color in Starbucks stores and commercial spaces nationwide.
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US Student Otto Warmbier Dies Days After Release From North Korea
Otto Warmbier, University of Virginia student who was detained in North Korea for nearly a year and a half, died Monday afternoon, his parents announced.
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A Remote Island In Canada May Be Home To Americans Who Want To Flee Trump
The first sign of what Rob Calabrese would come to think of as America's unmooring began last year, just after Donald Trump won his first presidential primary and Calabrese published a $28 website that he'd designed in 30 minutes. "Hi Americans!" it began, and what followed was a sales pitch for an island where Muslims could "roam freely," and wher...
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A Chinese Graduate Student Who Can't Get Enough U.S. Politics 'Decodes' Trump
From his perch in the Pearl River Delta in southern China, Yin Hao tries to make sense of America. Lately, that's been tough.
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Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump Battle Bitterly In St. Louis
The words "sex tape" made their debut in the solemn tradition of American presidential debates on Sunday night, as Republican nominee Donald Trump denied doing something he had actually done: Asking his Twitter followers to "check out sex tape" of a former Miss Universe with whom he was feuding.
