A 28-year-old Asian man has fallen victim to a racist attack that threatened his life in New York City earlier this week. The incident, now under investigation as a hate crime, occurred while the victim was shopping with his non-Asian girlfriend at a Home Depot in Brooklyn around 2:30 p.m.
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People hold up signs in Columbus, Ohio, during a Dec. 11 march for Casey Goodson Jr., a 23-year-old Black man, who was shot and killed by law enforcement. Photo: Stephen Zenner/AFP via Getty Images Why it matters: The shooting of the unnamed man comes after the Dec. 4 death of Casey Goodson, Jr.

At last, heroes that fight for the rest of us. 3 minute ReadBatman isn’t the hero we deserve.I mean, think about it.

Everything is right about this 1988 campaign swag, so it’s a head-scratcher as to why Dukakis didn’t win against George H.W. Bush, unless Bush was buying votes with cartons as opposed to packs. Image from Archie McPhee CEO Mark Pahlow’s wonderful Twitter feed.

A new citizen. Small-business owners. A high-school student. In Pennsylvania, the country’s fastest-growing electorate is diverse and divided. Asian Americans are the fastest-growing group of eligible voters in the United States, increasing from 4.6 million in 2000 to 11.

PARIS (AP) — Many countries, especially in the democratic West, champion freedom of expression and allow publications that lampoon Islam’s prophet.

When Tram Nguyen, a Democratic state representative from Massachusetts, posted a Facebook video declaring support for the Black Lives Matter movement, she thought the message to her constituents was relatively uncontroversial.

The facade of the brand-new Makeup Museum is cleverly designed to beckon today’s influencers and the beauty obsessed. Across the street from the Whitney Museum, on Gansevoort Street in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, it greets passersby with a pink neon sign and a wall of plants.