Alyssa Lukpat
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Covid Protocols Violated Man’s Right to a Public Trial, Appeals Court Rules
When a U.S. District Court judge in Oakland, Calif., blocked the public from watching a man’s 2020 trial, he violated the man’s right to a public trial, an appeals court ruled in throwing out his conviction on a firearms charge. → Read More
Rand Paul holds up $40 billion in aid for Ukraine.
Mr. Paul had sought to alter the bill to include requiring that an inspector general monitor the spending. → Read More
Statue of Star Native American Ballerina Is Stolen and Sold for Scrap
The Tulsa, Okla., police are looking for whoever cut down and sold parts of a statue of Marjorie Tallchief, a celebrated performer who died last year. → Read More
Fauci clarifies that the pandemic isn’t over
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, said Wednesday that the pandemic was not yet over, after telling the “PBS NewsHour” on Tuesday that the United States was “out of the pandemic phase.” → Read More
Man charged with threatening Merriam-Webster dictionary over gender definitions
A California man was arrested this week on charges that he sent messages to Merriam-Webster, headquartered in Springfield, in which he threatened to shoot and bomb its offices because he didn’t like the company’s dictionary definitions relating to gender identity, the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts. → Read More
Suspect in sniper-style shooting in Washington, D.C., kills himself, police say
A suspect who police said had set up a tripod in an apartment along one of Washington’s busiest corridors and randomly fired more than 20 rounds, injuring four people, apparently killed himself Friday night as police prepared to enter the apartment, authorities said. → Read More
Man Charged With Threatening Merriam-Webster Over Gender Definitions
The man, Jeremy David Hanson, 34, threatened in October to shoot and bomb the company’s offices because of its definitions of “girl,” “boy,” “trans woman” and other words, federal authorities said. → Read More
Man Who Stole Dozens of Golf Carts Is Sentenced to 2 Years in Prison
For four years, the man, Nathan Rodney Nelson, 46, acted at night, stealing carts from golf courses and driving them to a getaway vehicle, prosecutors said. Then his phone number gave him away. → Read More
Americans are taking fewer precautions two years into the pandemic, a poll says.
Andrew Noymer, a public health professor at the University of California, Irvine, said the poll results reflected that the country was at a lull in the pandemic, with the U.S. caseloads at their lowest point since the winter Omicron surge. “Partly it’s fatigue,” he said, “and partly it’s that they’re being authorized to take fewer precautions by the C.D.C.” The Centers for Disease Control and… → Read More
Armed intruder prompts lockdown at Joint Base Andrews as Vice President Harris lands
The military base in Maryland where the president and the vice president depart and return on trips was put on lockdown Sunday night when two people, at least one of whom was armed, bypassed a security checkpoint at about the time that Vice President Kamala Harris and four Cabinet members landed there, military officials said. → Read More
Mark Lanegan, Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age Singer, Dies at 57
Known for his deep, world-weary voice, he was part of a generation of Seattle musicians who put grunge music on the map. → Read More
Hank the Tank, a 500-pound bear, undeterred in his quest for human food
Since summer, a black bear known as Hank the Tank has made a 500-pound nuisance of himself in South Lake Tahoe, California, breaking into more than two dozen homes to rummage for food and leaving a trail of damage behind. → Read More
Museum Security Guard Adds Eyes to Painting’s Faceless Figures
The guard at a museum in Russia has been suspended after he used a pen to draw on “Three Figures,” an avant-garde painting from the 1930s. → Read More
Mask mandates are lifting in many states, but not everywhere
America’s patchwork of COVID restrictions has begun to look more like a crazy quilt. → Read More
50 years later, some question the value of US-China ‘panda diplomacy’
Panda diplomacy, in its current form, works like this: China loans pandas to a zoo in the United States or another country, and the zoo pays an annual fee — usually $500,000 to $1 million each — to keep the pandas for at least a few years. → Read More
Manhunt Ends With Arrest After Shooting at Washington Grocery Store
A gunman left one person dead and a second critically wounded inside a supermarket in the city of Richland, prompting school lockdowns and a day-and-night search. → Read More
It’s Lunar New Year. Get ready for some fruit.
Lunar New Year traditions vary among Asian cultures, but their goal remains the same: to bring luck and prosperity. There are other traditions, too, such as exchanging red envelopes containing money and eating long noodles for a long life. → Read More
Omicron forces more cruise lines to cancel trips
Royal Caribbean International and Celebrity Cruises have canceled several trips as the omicron variant continues to wreak havoc with the cruise industry. → Read More
Malala Yousafzai Is Married in England
Ms. Yousafzai, a Pakistani activist and the youngest-ever recipient of a Nobel Peace Prize, married her partner at a small ceremony in Birmingham, England, she said on Twitter. → Read More
Pennsylvania Prosecutor Charged in Rape at Woman’s Home, Police Say
Jeffrey L. Thomas, the district attorney in Somerset County, Pa., was charged with rape, indecent and simple assault, strangulation and criminal trespass. → Read More