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A coalition including Amazon, Google, Facebook, Instacart, and DoorDash is using the defeat of the union drive to make their case for a future without unions.

Philip was once the prince of Denmark and Greece, before marrying Queen Elizabeth nearly 74 years ago.

The life of the Queen’s husband, who has died at 99, reflects the turbulence of the last century.

When announcing his departure from Apollo, Leon Black cited his wife's ailing health and his own but failed to mention the allegations. A recent review found he paid $158million to Epstein.

The BBC has set up a dedicated complaints page for viewers fed up with widespread coverage of the death of Prince Philip.

Prince Philip, the Queen's husband of 73 years, had recently spent time in hospital with an infection.

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Amid the disturbing rise in attacks on Asian Americans since March 2020 is a troubling category of these assaults: Black people are also attacking Asian Americans.

White people are the main perpetrators of anti-Asian racism. But in February 2021, a Black person pushed an elderly Asian man to the ground in San Francisco; the man later died from his injuries. In another video, from New York City on March 29, 2021, a Black person pushes and beats an Asian American woman on the sidewalk in front of a doorway while onlookers observe the attack, then close their door on the woman without intervening or providing aid.
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As the current president of the Association for Asian American Studies and as an ethnic studies and critical race studies professor who specializes in Asian American culture, I wanted to address the climate of anti-Asian racism I was seeing at the start of the pandemic. So in April 2020, I created a PowerPoint slide deck about anti-Asian racism that my employer, the University of Colorado Boulder, turned into a website. That led to approximately 50 interviews, workshops, talks and panel presentations that I’ve done on anti-Asian racism, specifically in the time of COVID-19.

The point I’ve made through all of those experiences is that anti-Asian racism has the same source as anti-Black racism: white supremacy. So when a Black person attacks an Asian person, the encounter is fueled perhaps by racism, but very specifically by white supremacy. White supremacy does not require a white person to perpetuate it.
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Two New York City apartment building doormen have been fired for failing to help an Asian American woman as she was brutally attacked on the sidewalk outside, according to the building's owner.
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The doormen were caught on video appearing to watch the March attack of Vilma Kari, who according to the Manhattan District Attorney's office is of Filipino descent, before flagging down a police vehicle after the assailant had left.

The Brodsky Organization, which owns apartment buildings across the city, said it completed an investigation into the response of the doormen.

"While the full lobby video shows that once the assailant had departed, the doormen emerged to assist the victim and flag down an NYPD vehicle, it is clear that required emergency and safety protocols were not followed," according to a statement from the Brodsky Organization.

The organization is retraining all building staff on "proper emergency response protocols as well as anti-bias awareness and upstander-bystander interventions," according to the statement.
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Megan Ellison spared Scott Rudin no quarter today.

“This piece barely scratches the surface of Scott Rudin’s abusive, racist, and sexist behavior”, the Annapurna CEO said online after a scathing Hollywood Reporter cover story published today on alleged misconduct by the volatile EGOT producer.
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“Similarly to Harvey, too many are afraid to speak out,” the Bombshell EP added in the mid-morning tweet. “ I support and applaud those who did. There’s good reason to be afraid because he’s vindictive and has no qualms about lying.”

In regards to both Rudin and Weinstein, this is no second hand insight by Ellison.
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Charles' family announced her death in a statement posted to her Twitter account Tuesday night. They did not disclose the cause of death.

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How the myth of the overburdened white taxpayer was made.

A group calling itself White Lies Matter has taken responsibility, and has made some demands.

The one-tonne model was struck with a hurricane-like gust in the Siberian Russian city of Yakutsk. There were no casualties as the massive replica, which cost £7,300 to build, was torn apart.

Satellite images showing Russia beefing up its military presence in the Arctic have emerged days after three of Moscow's nuclear ballistic missile submarines smashed through the region.

Dozens of people at a popular Northern California coastal overlook watched as an SUV drove through a parking lot without braking and then plunged off a cliff into the rocks below, killing two women, investigators said Monday.

Authorities identified the driver as Maria Teixeira, 64, and the passenger as her daughter, Elizabeth Correia, 41, both of the San Francisco Bay Area city of Dublin, about 100 miles south of the crash.
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The cause of the weekend crash is still under investigation, California Highway Patrol Officer David de Rutte said.
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James Woolsey, CIA director under Bill Clinton, on Friday said that he had a new "openness" to the possibility of alien life, and told how a source he respected said his plane was stopped at 40,000ft.