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Kim Ng ready to bear the torch as baseball’s 1st female GM

November 19, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By STEVEN WINE MIAMI (AP) — The Miami Marlins’ new general manager sat at home plate in the team’s ballpark on Nov. 16, reflecting on all the times she struck out. As baseball’s first female GM, Kim Ng can bask in a breakthrough achievement that’s all the more admirable because she was turned down for […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 47 | NOVEMBER 21 - NOVEMBER 27

Kamala Harris win inspires women and girls nationwide

November 12, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By KAT STAFFORD and CHRISTINE FERNANDO DETROIT (AP) — When Ashley Richardson-George’s 5-year-old daughter saw Kamala Harris wearing a white suffragette suit during her prime-time victory speech on Nov. 7, she ran into her room and came back minutes later wearing a white dress and sweater. Not only did her daughter, Andrea, want to be […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 46 | NOVEMBER 14 - NOVEMBER 20

Biden defeats Trump for White House, says ‘time to heal’

November 10, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States on Nov. 7 and offered himself to the nation as a leader who “seeks not to divide, but to unify“ a country gripped by a historic pandemic and a confluence of economic and social turmoil.

Filed Under: National News, Politics

Asian GOP group endorses Biden

November 4, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

A national group of Asian American Republicans has endorsed Democrat Joe Biden for president.

Filed Under: National News, Politics Tagged With: VOL 39 NO 45 | NOVEMBER 7 - NOVEMBER 13

California voters reject affirmative action measure

November 4, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

A national awakening on race drove a well-funded campaign in California to reinstate affirmative action, but the measure allowing the nation’s most populated state to grant preferential treatment based on race and gender failed.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: VOL 39 NO 45 | NOVEMBER 7 - NOVEMBER 13

Too close to call— Biden leading for now

November 4, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Donald Trump and Joe Biden

The fate of the United States presidency hung in the balance in the morning after Election Day, as President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden battled for three familiar battleground states—Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania—that could prove crucial in determining who wins the White House.

Filed Under: News, National News Tagged With: VOL 39 NO 45 | NOVEMBER 7 - NOVEMBER 13

San Francisco officials let people sue over racist 911 calls

October 29, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Fed up with white people calling 911 about people of color selling water bottles, barbecuing or otherwise going about their lives, San Francisco leaders unanimously approved hate crime legislation giving the targets of those calls the ability to sue the caller. The Board of Supervisors voted […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 44 | OCTOBER 31 - NOVEMBER 6

Former roommate of accused Capital One hacker sentenced

October 22, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By MARTHA BELLISLE The Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The form.er roommate of a woman accused of hacking Capital One banking company and at least 30 other organizations has been sentenced to four years in prison for illegally possessing firearms, according to federal prosecutors. Park Quan, 67, was sentenced on Oct. 14 in U.S. District […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 43 | OCTOBER 24 - OCTOBER 30

Pence, Harris spar over COVID-19 in vice presidential debate—Indian American leaders react

October 15, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Trading barbs through plexiglass shields, Republican Mike Pence and Democrat Kamala Harris turned the only vice presidential debate of 2020 into a dissection of the Trump administration’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, with Harris labeling it “the greatest failure of any presidential administration.’’ Pence, who leads the president’s […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 42 | OCTOBER 17 - OCTOBER 23

New U.S. citizen refugees excited for first presidential vote

October 15, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — They came fleeing war and persecution in countries like Myanmar, Eritrea, and Iraq, handpicked by the United States for resettlement under longstanding humanitarian traditions. Now, tens of thousands of refugees welcomed into the U.S. during the Obama administration are American citizens, voting the first time in what […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 42 | OCTOBER 17 - OCTOBER 23

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