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At a Democratic caucus meeting Tuesday, Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vt.) watched as colleagues approached and offered their support to Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-Del.), who will soon be sworn in as the first out transgender member of Congress. “We have your back,” Balint recalled her fellow representatives telling McBride. “We stand with you.” At a Thursday […]
Welcome to another episode of Japan This Week, your weekly roundup of trending news stories from Japan Today. In this week’s episode: (0:58 – 5:36) CRIME: Tourist vandalism at shrines Arrest of a 65-year-old American man for carving letters into a sacred torii gate at Meiji Jingu Shrine. Discussion on rising vandalism, public drunkenness, and […]
Gang Beasts is one of the games I think of when I recall the golden days of video game expos, before Covid rolled up and nuked the business model. It casts you as one of several jellybaby pugilists, fighting for dominance over such locations as Ferris wheels and the tops of speeding vans. All of […]
New York City stabbing spree suspect Ramon Rivera is escorted out of the 10th precinct in New York City, US. (Picture credit: Reuters) A stabbing spree unfolded in Manhattan on Monday, leaving three people dead. The suspect, Ramon Rivera, a 51-year-old homeless man with a history of mental illness and arrests, was apprehended after an […]
The Philippine defense sector must prepare the country’s first responders against chemical attacks, Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada said Tuesday, as he pushed for allocating a budget for countering weapons of mass destruction operations. Estrada made the recommendation as the Senate approved the P265.98 billion proposed budget of the Department of National Defense […]
A vehicle plowed into students and pedestrians outside a primary school in China’s Hunan province on Tuesday morning and several people were injured, state media said, as worries spread over a spate of violent attacks in the country over the past week. CCTV and other state media reported the vehicle hit people outside the Yongan […]
Pope Francis has called for an investigation to determine if Israel’s attacks in Gaza constitute genocide, according to excerpts released on Sunday from a new book ahead of the pontiff’s jubilee year. It’s the first time that Francis has openly urged for an investigation of genocide allegations over Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip. In […]
In perhaps the largest swatting case to ever be prosecuted, an 18-year-old from Lancaster, California, has pleaded guilty to federal charges stemming from a nationwide spree of hundreds of shooting and bomb threat hoaxes that sent police scrambling to high schools, courthouses, and the homes of law enforcement officials. Alan Winston Filion now faces a […]
Covering your surfboard in bright lights sounds like an open invitation to great white sharks, but research released Tuesday by Australian scientists found it might actually stave off attacks. Biologist Laura Ryan said the predator often attacked its prey from underneath, occasionally mistaking a surfer’s silhouette for the outline of a seal. Ryan and her […]