More than 100 protesters were detained and released on Monday as hundreds gathered in Los Angeles to protest President Donald Trump’s illegal immigrant deportation operations across the country. According to CBS News, the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed that anti-deportation protesters gathered at City Hall on Monday in support of the national “A Day Without…
This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. China expressed “strong dissatisfaction and opposition” to U.S. President Donald Trump’s imposition of a 10% tariff on all Chinese imports and vowed to take “corresponding countermeasures.” Trump signed an executive order on Feb. 1, imposing the tariff on goods from China,…
South Korean actress Lee Joo-Sil, a star in the second season of “Squid Game,” has died. She was 81. The veteran actress collapsed in cardiac arrest at home in Uijeongbu, South Korea, on Sunday, three months after being diagnosed with stomach cancer, The Korea Times reported. She was brought to a hospital but could not be revived. Joo-Sil played Park…
Fantasy writer Neil Gaiman and his estranged wife were sued in a set of federal cases filed in New York, Wisconsin and Massachusetts on Monday, alleging the bestselling author violently raped and sexually abused the former nanny of his child. The suits brought by Scarlett Pavlovich come after Gaiman, 64, was recently accused in a New York Magazine cover story of sexually assaulting, abusing and forcing…
After a short reprieve earlier this month, respiratory illness levels have again moved from moderate to high in Illinois, with the flu driving much of the increase, according to the state health department. There was a “notable” increase in emergency department visits and hospital admissions for the flu during the week that ended Jan. 25, according to…
Gloucester High School’s Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps Program dates to 1888, but this year it’s undergoing a sea change. The program is transitioning from a Marine Corps unit to a Navy one under new leadership by Chief Mark Robinson of Gloucester, a Coast Guard veteran who retired last year from the service after 20 years. The program has 58 cadets in all grade…
