Trial of suburban Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot Black motorist Daunte Wright, may proceed, judge rules washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/05…
Kimberly A. Potter, a former Minnesota police officer, has not appeared in court since April 15, the day after she was charged with second-degree manslaughter for shooting Wright during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, Minn., the previous week. washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/05…
The omnibus, or pre-trial hearing, marks the latest development in a case that drew significant national attention just as the trial of ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin played out 10 miles away. washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/05…
Potter had been a police officer for 26 years until she resigned over the shooting and has remained free on bond. washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/04…
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Food is how people show love in the Asian American Pacific Islander community: “It’s how we communicate, how we cope and find comfort,” writes @marianliu.
When Christine Ha's mother died, leaving no recipes behind, she set out to recreate her cooking from memory. Her comfort food is fried rice, a dish her mom made.
“Being able to create food with my own two hands and make other people happy ... That really sparked a joy in me.”
Sheldon Simeon's comfort food is loco moco, “the most American” dish that's still “distinguishably Hawaii.”
“I think Hawaii can be a great snapshot for what this country needs of us, respecting each other’s culture and celebrating each other.”
More than 584,000 people have died from coronavirus in the United States. The Post spoke to Americans who lost loved ones and had to have their last conversations through digital devices.
Sujata Hingorani and Supriya Das’s parents were partially vaccinated but died of covid-19 nine days apart.
The two sisters desperately tried to save their parents’ lives. But in India, many hospitals are full; crematoriums and graveyards are backlogged. wapo.st/3uKFE0Z
On April 16, Sujata found her father, Malay Kumar Chatterjee, a hospital bed after visiting seven different locations across New Delhi.
On April 18, another patient picked up the phone to tell her he had died hours earlier, “and no doctors were there to check.”
On April 19, Sujata cremated her father, without any other family there, during a cursory service at dark.
She barely had time to mourn. Her mother’s oxygen levels were dropping. wapo.st/3uKFE0Z
Turnout in the 2020 election surged to the highest level of any election in 120 years. Recently released census data shows just how broad the surge in turnout was across demographics. wapo.st/3oouQU1
For the first time, most Americans under age 30 voted.
That’s a continuation from 2018, when surging youth turnout helped fuel century-high turnout in a midterm election. But younger voters still have a long way to go to catch their elders.
Turnout rose among all racial and ethnic groups in 2020, although Asian Americans saw the largest increase, from 48 percent turnout in 2016 to 62 percent in 2020.
Hispanic turnout also reached a majority for the first time, with 53 percent voting in the 2020 election.
At least 152.8 million people have received one or both doses of the vaccine in the U.S. wapo.st/3bdJUhN
Now that the Food and Drug Administration has cleared the first coronavirus vaccine for emergency use in children as young as 12, families are sure to have questions about the Pfizer-BioNTech shot and when it will become available.
Texas businessman Russell J. Ramsland Jr. sold everything from Tex-Mex food to light-therapy technology.
Then he sold the story that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. wapo.st/33wKYZK
Beginning in late 2018, Russell J. Ramsland Jr. delivered alarming presentations on electronic voting to conservative lawmakers, activists and donors at an aircraft hangar used by his company, Allied Security Operations Group.
The ideas eventually reached allies of Trump.
In late 2019, Ramsland was repeating the idea that election software used in the U.S. originated in Venezuela and saying nefarious actors could secretly manipulate votes on a massive scale.
As the election neared, he privately briefed GOP lawmakers and met with DHS officials.