Stop AAPI Hate Launches a Nonprofit to Mobilize Voters Before Midterms

Stop AAPI Hate, the organization that rose to national prominence for its meticulous report on anti-Asian hate at the height of the pandemic, is channeling its resources into an initiative to rock the vote. The new nonprofit, Stop AAPI Hate Action, will be a political and advocacy arm dedicated to getting more Asian Americans and …

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Fire at girls school in Kenya kills unknown number of people, police say

Gilgil, Kenya — A fire at a school for girls in central Kenya has caused an unknown number of deaths, according to police, who said search teams have been deployed. The Reuters news service reported that police said at least 15 students were killed. Reuters said broadcaster Citizen Television quoted county police official Masoud Mwinyi …

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Think It’s Hot Now? the Next Five Years Will Smash Records, UN Says

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the next five years, the Earth is overwhelmingly likely to surge again and again past the international climate threshold set as safe and shatter its hottest-year record along the way, according to new United Nations climate projections. The World Meteorological Organization also forecasts an overheating Arctic that warms nearly 3 degrees …

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Thai Court Acquits Opposition Politician Accused of Royal Insult

BANGKOK, May 28 (Reuters) – A Thai ⁠criminal ⁠court has acquitted ⁠a prominent Thai opposition political figure ​charged with cybercrimes and insulting the royal family during ‌a 2021 Facebook livestream, ‌his lawyer said on Thursday. Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, the ⁠47-year-old ⁠founder of the progressive political movement aligned with ​the current opposition People’s Party, had been accused …

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Verdict Due in Trial of Man Who Admits Plot to Attack a Taylor Swift Concert in Vienna

The plot was thwarted, but Austrian authorities still canceled Swift’s three performances in August 2024. The defendant, a 21-year-old Austrian citizen known only as Beran A. in line with Austrian privacy rules, faces charges including terrorist offenses and membership in a terrorist organization. His defense attorney said he pleaded guilty to the charges related to …

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Inside an African Hotel Where Asylum Seekers Deported by the US Are Imprisoned

MALABO, Equatorial Guinea (AP) — At first glance, the hotel looks like any other on this tropical island off the Central African coast, with its palm tree-lined driveway, marble-floored foyer and portrait of the oil-rich country’s president hanging behind a mahogany reception desk. Yet the eerily empty Bamy Hotel is not a refuge for adventure-seeking …

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