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What triggers hate and bias in Maryland?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:45 GMT

While race, sexual orientation and religion are the most likely sources of bias incidents in the state, almost three-quarters of the verified events from the 2021 Maryland Hate Bias Report were based on race, with 61 of the 101 statewide verified incidents being anti-Black or anti-African American.The next most likely group to be targeted in Maryland was gay males with 11 incidents.Third was those targeted over their religion, with six of the verified incidents focused on those of the Jewish faith.The report came from the Maryland Department of State Police in partnership with The Maryland Coordination & Analysis Center, which has been monitoring these incidents for years and collecting available information to track the circumstances.(Courtesy 2021 Maryland Hate Bias Report)Overall, there were 387 hate or bias incidents reported in Maryland in 2021. But after more in depth reviews of the reports, only 101 could be verified as hate or bias related.So, what kinds of incidents are...

Se conocieron haciendo senderismo y se enamoraron. Dos meses después a ella le diagnosticaron cáncer

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:45 GMT

(CNN) — Patricia Salazar vio por primera vez a Aaron Toro corriendo por el impresionante sendero Peekaboo en el Parque Nacional Bryce Canyon en Utah.Patricia también estaba en el sendero, junto con dos mujeres que acababa de conocer. Ardía el sol de julio y las rocas de cobre circundantes estaban bañadas en una luz cálida.El sendero Peekaboo es uno de los más extenuantes de Bryce Canyon. Patricia es una corredora empedernida y una entusiasta de los deportes extremos, pero incluso a ella le resultaba difícil, por lo que el hecho de que Aaron subiera corriendo la montaña como si nada fue bastante impresionante. Patricia no pudo evitar comentar sobre su velocidad.“¿Tratas de ser el más rápido en el camino?”, le gritó Patricia al extraño mientras pasaba.Aaron dejó de correr, contuvo el aliento y le sonrió a Patricia. Hizo caso omiso del cumplido, saludó amablemente y se ofreció a tomar una foto de Patricia y sus nuevas amigas. Las mujeres le dieron las gracias, luego s...

Antony Blinken solicita apoyo para mitigar la crisis entre Israel y Palestina

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:45 GMT

WASHINGTON – El secretario de Estado de Estados Unidos, Antony Blinken, pidió a su homólogo de Emiratos Árabes Unidos, Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, apoyo para conseguir una desescalada de la crisis entre Israel y Palestina.El jefe de la diplomacia estadounidense y el ministro de Exteriores emiratí mantuvieron una conversación telefónica el sábado tras varios días de tensión en la región, informó este domingo el Departamento de Estado en un comunicado.“El secretario Blinken instó a la calma durante las festividades religiosas en la región y subrayó la urgencia de reducir las tensiones entre israelíes y palestinos”, detalla la nota. El secretario de Estado asegura tener pruebas de que China contempla enviar armas a Rusia Ucrania: EEUU promete más armamento; Países Bajos planea enviar baterías antiaéreas Patriot Blinken también le recordó “el compromiso permanente de Estados Unidos con una solución de dos Est...

Best career season? Spoelstra says Heat’s Butler deserves All-NBA ‘without a doubt’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:45 GMT

Erik Spoelstra paused to consider the question, whether, at 33, this has been Jimmy Butler’s best season.But once Spoelstra took stock of the moment, particularly with Butler sitting out Sunday’s regular-season finale against the visiting Orlando Magic, the Heat coach had no trouble offering a fitting closing statement.“The way he’s played this year, for sure, is definitely at an All-NBA level, without a doubt,” Spoelstra said. “Like the biggest takeaway from this is he’s an All-NBA guy this season.”In his 12th season, Butler closed a career-best .539 from the field, his .560 effective field-goal percentage also a career high. And while his playing time was somewhat measured, he still finished with a career-best offensive rating and career-best scoring average per 100 possessions.Beyond that, he posted career highs in win shares per 48 minutes and box-score plus-minuses.The media vote for All-NBA and the rest of the league’s post...

Expelled Tennessee lawmakers both seeking seats again

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:45 GMT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Two former Black Democratic lawmakers who were expelled by Republican colleagues in Tennessee say they want to be reappointed, then elected back to their seats, following their ouster for a protest on the House floor urging passage of gun-control measures in the wake of a deadly school shooting.Nashville’s metro council is likely to reappoint Justin Jones to the seat during a specially called Monday meeting. The Shelby County Commission plans to announce soon when it will meet to fill the vacancy left by Justin Pearson’s expulsion. Likewise, commissioners can reinstall Pearson, who is from Memphis.Both former lawmakers told NBC’s Meet the Press that they want to return to their positions as lawmakers. Special elections for the seats, which have yet to be set, will follow in the coming months.The expulsions have made Tennessee a new front in the battle for the future of American democracy. The former lawmakers have quickly drawn prominent sup...

Quebec police watchdog investigating after head-on collision on provincial highway

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:45 GMT

MONTREAL — Quebec’s police watchdog is investigating after a driver travelling the wrong way on a provincial highway while being chased by police struck another vehicle Friday night, killing its occupant.The agency, known as the Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes, says police received multiple calls around 10 p.m. that night reporting a vehicle travelling in the wrong lane on Highway 55 near Trois-Rivières, Que., northeast of Montreal.It issued a news release saying a pair of provincial police officers activated their cruiser’s lights and siren before heading towards the area where the suspect vehicle was spotted.It says the officers saw the vehicle’s lights coming towards them and pulled into a lane designated for emergency vehicles.The agency says the officers reported the vehicle passed them without slowing down and they heard a crash immediately afterwards.It offered no details about the person killed in the collision, but said the driver of the suspect vehicle ...

Tiger Woods withdraws before completing third round of Masters

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:45 GMT

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Tiger Woods withdrew from the Masters before the resumption of the third round because of an injury Sunday, ending his streak of completing all 72 holes of every tournament he has played at Augusta National as a professional.The tournament announced about 90 minutes before play began that Woods, who is still hobbled by the effects of the 2021 car accident that nearly cost him his right leg, had withdrawn. He’d limped through practice rounds early in the week and again during the first and second rounds, but the limp had become more pronounced as the weather worsened.“I am disappointed to have to WD this morning due to reaggravating my plantar fasciitis,” Woods said on Twitter. “Thank you to the fans and to (at)TheMasters who have shown me so much love and support. Good luck to the players today!”The five-time champion finished his second round in cold, driving rain Saturday to make the cut on the number at 3-over. Woods extended his Masters streak to 23 str...

Health secretary slams abortion pill ruling as ‘not America’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:45 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s top health official said Sunday that a court ruling threatening the availability of a main drug used in medication abortion was “not America” and he did not rule out defying the judge’s order if necessary. “We want the courts to overturn this reckless decision,” Xavier Becerra, President Joe Biden’s health secretary, told CNN’s “State of the Union.” “We want, yes, that women continue to have access to a drug that’s proven itself safe. Millions of women have used this drug around the world.”He stressed that for now, women do have access to the abortion medication mifepristone after a federal judge in Texas, Donald Trump-appointee Matthew Kacsmaryk, put his ruling from Friday on hold for a week so federal officials could file a challenge. The drug was approved in 2000 by the Food and Drug Administration, which is overseen by the Health and Human Services Department headed by Becerra.Biden said his administration would fight ...

Cubans seek solutions and solace in Santería amid crises

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:45 GMT

HAVANA (AP) — From a two-room concrete home on the fringes of Cuba’s capital, the rumble of wooden drums spills out onto the streets.Neighbors gather at the door and kids climb a fence to peer inside. They watch as dozens of Cubans wearing white and African beads make offerings at a bright blue altar consuming half a room, asking for luck, protection and good health.While nearly 70% of Latin America’s 670 million people consider themselves Catholic, in Cuba, Santería is the name of the game. A fusion of African religions and Catholicism, Santería was one of the few religious practices to quietly endure through decades of prohibitions and stigma by the communist government.Now, as that stigma gradually fades and the country enters a moment of compounding economic, political and migratory crises, the religion is growing in popularity and expanding to new demographics.“Every day the religion grows a little more,” Mandy Arrazcaeta, 30, said among the throngs of people in his home dancin...

France: Marseille building collapses, fire stymies rescue

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:45 GMT

MARSEILLE, France (AP) — More than 100 firefighters worked against a ticking clock to extinguish flames deep within debris to save up to 10 people possibly buried after a building exploded and collapsed early Sunday in the French port city of Marseille.Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said at least four people were known to live in the collapsed building and as many as 10 may have been there, though persistent flames and fears of further collapse prevented rescuers from being able to search for victims some 15 hours after the explosion.“We cannot intervene in a very classic way,” Darmanin said during a visit to the site, about 11 hours after the five-story building collapsed shortly before 1 a.m. He said the fire was burning a few meters under the mounds of debris and that both water and foam represent a danger to victims’ survival. It was not known if anyone was killed, or what triggered the blast, he said.Firefighters, with the help of urban rescue experts, worked through the nig...