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3 days ago | 
nextshark.com | Carl Samson
President Donald Trump’s tariff on Chinese imports continues to impact small businesses in Chinatowns across major cities, threatening their survival and the cultural fabric of communities that have persevered for generations. Catch up: Trump has slapped sweeping tariffs on all Chinese imports since “Liberation Day” on April 2, with the latest levy at 145%.
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3 days ago | 
nextshark.com | Carl Samson
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has embarked on a media blitz promoting his vision of artificial intelligence companions as a solution to the U.S.’ loneliness epidemic, claiming the average American has “fewer than three friends” but desires “meaningfully more.”What he’s saying: Zuckerberg believes AI will transform social interactions, with chatbots functioning as friends, therapists and business agents.
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6 days ago | 
yahoo.com | Carl Samson
[Source]Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents raided a couple’s home in Irvine, California, last week as part of an investigation into posters that allegedly revealed personal information of federal officers that appeared in Los Angeles months earlier. The agents, along with Secret Service personnel, executed the search warrant at the residence of Annie Yang and Yuzong Chang at around 6 a.m. on May 1. The couple said they were awakened by the officials’ bullhorn.
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6 days ago | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Carl Samson
The U.S. and Vietnam have kicked off critical trade negotiations as the Southeast Asian nation faces a potential 46% tariff that could significantly impact its export-driven economy. Today’s negotiations in Hanoi mark the first substantive talks between the U.S. and Vietnam since President Donald Trump unveiled his reciprocal tariffs on “Liberation Day” on April 2.
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6 days ago | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Carl Samson
Philadelphia’s $160 million “Chinatown Stitch” project, designed to heal the neighborhood divided decades ago by the Vine Street Expressway, now faces uncertainty as House Republicans propose eliminating billions in federal infrastructure funding.
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6 days ago | 
yahoo.com | Carl Samson
[Source]The U.S. and Vietnam have kicked off critical trade negotiations as the Southeast Asian nation faces a potential 46% tariff that could significantly impact its export-driven economy. State of playToday’s negotiations in Hanoi mark the first substantive talks between the U.S. and Vietnam since President Donald Trump unveiled his reciprocal tariffs on “Liberation Day” on April 2.
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6 days ago | 
nextshark.com | Carl Samson
The Trump administration has suspended funding for clearing thousands of unexploded mines in Vietnam, threatening reconciliation efforts five decades after the Vietnam War ended. What you need to knowAmid sweeping foreign aid cuts, the State Department announced a three-month suspension of mine clearance in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia in January. The freeze temporarily left 1,000 Vietnamese deminers jobless in Quang Tri province, which has the highest concentration of unexploded ordnance (UXO).
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6 days ago | 
yahoo.com | Carl Samson
[Source]Philadelphia’s $160 million “Chinatown Stitch” project, designed to heal the neighborhood divided decades ago by the Vine Street Expressway, now faces uncertainty as House Republicans propose eliminating billions in federal infrastructure funding.
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1 week ago | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Carl Samson
A 55-year-old Vietnamese refugee with dementia reportedly died of natural causes while in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody at the Long Term Acute Care Hospital in El Paso, Texas on April 16. Nhon Ngoc Nguyen, who came to the U.S. in July 1983 and was granted legal status under the Refugee Act of 1980, was detained during a Feb. 24 appointment with ICE in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he had been living since 2018.
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1 week ago | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Carl Samson
A Washington State University (WSU) electrical engineering student was reportedly assaulted by a graduate student and a staff member while wearing a pro-Donald Trump hat near campus in February. Jay Sani, a 25-year-old junior, was attacked outside The Coug, a popular bar near campus on Feb. 28. Patrick Mahoney, a 34-year-old graduate student, allegedly grabbed Sani’s “Trump 2024 TAKE AMERICA BACK” hat and threw it into the road.
